Metallica's 'ReLoad' Box Set Review: Reappraising the Band's Alt-Rock Nineties Experiment
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Kory Grow
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Rolling Stone reviews Metallica's 'ReLoad' super deluxe edition box set, arguing that the band's controversial 1990s alt-rock experimentation — particularly on the Load and ReLoad albums — was a bold and underappreciated creative pivot. The piece examines how Metallica, alongside other 80s rock giants, responded to the alt-rock explosion by getting weird, and makes the case that these albums deserve reappraisal as adventurous rather than misguided.
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· 3 pulledAfter the early-Nineties alt-rock explosion, bands that had made it big in the Eighties largely pulled their hair out trying to fit in.
Metallica? Well, they just got weird — and, contrary to popular belief, that wasn't a bad thing.
Neither of the quartet's Load albums, released in 1996 and 1997, sound overtly 'alt,' since James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett's riffs owed a greater debt to the blues and Lynyrd Skynyrd
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