Metallica - Load

This is where Metallica started to fall apart.  Load was part one of a two part double album (Re-load follows in 1997) and it is probably all you’d expect it to be.  Rare is the double album that couldn’t be trimmed into one really good single album and that’s what happens here.  Good songs, mixed with too much filler.  Could you make a really great 10 song album from the selection of songs on Load and Re-load?  Of course you could.  That’s what they should have done.