150g Double Vinyl Reissue on Metallica's Own Blackened Recordings Label!
Cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios from the Original Analog Master Tapes!
Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on June 4, 1996 through Elektra Records, it sold 680,000 units in its first week (making it the biggest opening week for Metallica) and the biggest debut of 1996. Load debuted (and spent four consecutive weeks) at #1 on Billboard 200. The album has sold over five million copies in United States and is certified 5x platinum by the RIAA. Four singles were released in part of the marketing campaign of the album: "Until It Sleeps," "Hero of the Day," "Mama Said," and "King Nothing."
Released approximately five years after the international smash, Metallica, their sixth studio album, Load found the group moving toward a more traditional heavy metal sound. Rolling Stone gave the album 4 stars upon its release.
Features:
Cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios
Mastered from the Original Analog Tapes!
150g Vinyl
Double LP
33 1/3rpm Vinyl
Pressed at Furnace
Stoughton gatefold jacket with 2 inserts
Produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield & Ulrich
Selections:
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. Ain't My Bitch
2. 2 X 4
3. The House Jack Built
4. Until It Sleeps
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. King Nothing
2. Hero of the Day
3. Bleeding Me
LP 2 - Side 3:
1. Cure
2. Poor Twisted Me
3. Wasting My Hate
4. Mama Said
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. Thorn Within
2. Ronnie
3. The Outlaw Torn
Cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios from the Original Analog Master Tapes!
Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on June 4, 1996 through Elektra Records, it sold 680,000 units in its first week (making it the biggest opening week for Metallica) and the biggest debut of 1996. Load debuted (and spent four consecutive weeks) at #1 on Billboard 200. The album has sold over five million copies in United States and is certified 5x platinum by the RIAA. Four singles were released in part of the marketing campaign of the album: "Until It Sleeps," "Hero of the Day," "Mama Said," and "King Nothing."
Released approximately five years after the international smash, Metallica, their sixth studio album, Load found the group moving toward a more traditional heavy metal sound. Rolling Stone gave the album 4 stars upon its release.
Features:
Cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios
Mastered from the Original Analog Tapes!
150g Vinyl
Double LP
33 1/3rpm Vinyl
Pressed at Furnace
Stoughton gatefold jacket with 2 inserts
Produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield & Ulrich
Selections:
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. Ain't My Bitch
2. 2 X 4
3. The House Jack Built
4. Until It Sleeps
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. King Nothing
2. Hero of the Day
3. Bleeding Me
LP 2 - Side 3:
1. Cure
2. Poor Twisted Me
3. Wasting My Hate
4. Mama Said
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. Thorn Within
2. Ronnie
3. The Outlaw Torn
