Metallica reissues its 5x platinum sixth studio album Load, with premiere on June 13. Load includes the singles “Until It Sleeps”, “Hero Of The Day”, “Mama Said” and “King Nothing” and is fully remastered and released in a standard 1CD format, a 3CD expanded edition containing a bonus disc with demo recordings and outtakes, and a live recordings disc, as well as a cassette.
The above formats are in addition to a standard black vinyl record, a limited colour vinyl in the colour “Poor Twisted Orange”, as well as an extensive deluxe box set. It is an ambitious and detailed time capsule of Metallica from 1995-97, full of exclusive material. The single edition includes the remastered album Load on 180-gram double vinyl, the picture disc “Mama Said” and Loadapalooza '96, a 140-gram triple album recorded live during the headlining performance of Metallica at Lollapalooza at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre on August 4, 1996. The 15 compact discs in the set range from the remastered album Load to previously unreleased compiled riffs, demo recordings and mixes, B-Sides and rarities, as well as rich concert material, while the 4 DVDs offer numerous behind-the-scenes footage, studio and live clips, broadcast and television appearances, the band's visit to the Polar Beach Party in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, and more.
Originally released on June 4, 1996, Load is the second album by Metallica, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, where it remained for four consecutive weeks. During the 1995 sessions at The Plant in Sausalito, California, which resulted in the creation of Load (as well as ReLoad from 1997), James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted created another of the emblems in Metallica's catalogue. Currently, two of the four singles from Load - “Until It Sleeps” and “King Nothing” - ignite crowds around the world in regular rotation in the setlist of the world tour M72.
CD contents:
1. Ain't My Bitch (Remastered)
2. 2 x 4 (Remastered)
3. The House Jack Built (Remastered)
4. Until It Sleeps (Remastered)
5. King Nothing (Remastered)
6. Hero of the Day (Remastered)
7. Bleeding Me (Remastered)
8. Cure (Remastered)
9. Poor Twisted Me (Remastered)
10. Wasting My Hate (Remastered)
11. Mama Said (Remastered)
12. Thorn Within (Remastered)
13. Ronnie (Remastered)
14. The Outlaw Torn (Remastered)
