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First off, let me say that what this myTake is labeled as(sexual behavior), i think its due to what i say about an album artwork. I kept changing the category to to Entertainment and Arts but it keeps changing back to this. Maybe eventually itll change to what I want it to be after this is reviewed.
So in this myTake, I wanted to acknowledge the top 3 Metallica albums that I find to get most complaints about: Load, Reload, and St. Anger. There are still some people who are into all or most of these albums though. All of you are entitled to you opinions about the albums, but don't go bashing opposing views on me as some people have before man..
OK, the Load album. First off, that album cover... *facepalm*
I'm not doing the facepalm because of what this looks like. To be honest I always thought it looked pretty cool, but its what the picture actually is that makes us hear the record needle scratch in awkwardness. If you don't know what it is, well, its semen and blood. It isn't from any of the guys in the band, this picture came from a book Kirk Hammett owned called "Body and Soul" which was filled with weird art like this. The artist (Andres Serrano) supposedly made some art that was controversial, such as one that kirk himself explained in a video (attached further down on this myTake) of Serrano putting a crucifix in a vat of urine and calling the picture "Piss Christ". Don't think thought that this album name has to do with the picture, it actually wasn't an intended pun. For more of an explanation of what the band's thoughts and Ideas were about this album, watch the video below.
I will say though that one of the things that I do actually consider stupid that was said here was Lars saying that Load is heavier than the Black album. When I first heard that I literally started to laugh cause I couldn't believe what I heard. And yeah yeahh I'm sure some of you will point out the kiss between Kirk and Lars at the end, for some reason they had a phase of acting gay during this Metallica era.
Before Load ever came to be, the Black album was the current thing. It had slower music, but was still heavy and bad ass. Once Load was created, it was quite different. It was still surely slower than music in even earlier years such as Kill 'em All, but Load was a little less heavy than the Black album. It has the influences of blues and southern rock within. The track list on Load is:
1. "Ain't My Bitch"
2. "2 X 4"
3. The House That Jack Built"
4. "Until It Sleeps"
5. "King Nothing"
6. "Hero of the Day"
7. "Bleeding Me"
8. "Cure"
9. "Poor Twisted Me"
10. "Wasting My Hate
11. "Mama Said"
12. "Thorn Within"
13. "Ronnie"
14. "The Outlaw Torn"
The band's look had obviously changed too. Everyone cut their hair and changed clothing styles (most of them did). Kirk got tattoos and piercings, and started wearing eyeliner and black nails.
The use of the wah pedal seemed to stand out even more in this album (to me), such as in "2X4". It is surely used heavily in that one. Its one of the songs I like that's on the album. "Mama Said" is truly different than any heavy Metallica song. Its a country rock song they created that has to do with a boy trying to live life without his mother. This is a thing James Hetfield dealt with when his mother passed away from cancer when he was 16. Before it, they already had a difficult relationship. Music at times can affect how I feel, and that song truly has a lot of emotion infused into it, to the point where I really cannot listen to it without fighting any tears. Other songs on there, such as "Ain't My Bitch", "2X4", "King Nothing" and "Cure" I think are pretty bad ass. I don't really mean bad ass in a heavy metal sense, but a hard rock sense. I mean I do hear some elements of metal still, such as in "The House Jack Built" (before the song starts sounding more upbeat) but its less metal than the albums before it.
Reload was a continuation of Load, they were both supposed to be one album. But the band's deadline came before they could have all the music in one thing, so all the music had to be put into separate albums.
The album art for this one is of piss and blood this time. I actually don't know if the picture came from the same artist as the other one, but I have the feeling it did, its got a similar thing to each other.
The track list on this one is:
1."Fuel"
2. "The Memory Remains" (featuring Marianne Faithfull)
3."Devil's Dance"
4."The Unforgiven II"
5. "Better than You"
6."Slither"
7. "Carpe Diem Baby"
8. "Bad Seed"
9."Where the Wild Things Are"
10. "Prince Charming"
11. "Low Man's Lyric"
12."Attitude"
13. "Fixxxer
Some people say that this album was heavier than the last one. I think that certain songs are, such as "Fuel" and "Better Than You". Most of the other ones still got that Load thing to it. Obviously the album art has a similarity to Load too. Reload also comes with a song similar to "Mama Said", which is "Low Man's Lyric". Really this one is more depressing than the other, again, one I try staying away from. "The Unforgiven II" as you can tell is like a second version of "The Unforgiven" on Black, and this trend continued on into Death Magnetic. There's even been a theory that "Here Comes Revenge" on "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct" is still a continuation with a different name. The band's look didn't really change, since this was released shortly after Load.
In 2003, Metallica broke away from the Load era sound and created St. Anger.
This one stirred up a lot of trouble within each of the band members. James was dealing with getting over alcoholism, and all the bandmembers kept arguing over stuff with music and other things going on in their life. It was almost a miracle that they didn't split. But with the music they made, they wanted to make music having to do with the hard things they've dealt with, and clearly experimented production wise. Many people think that the snare used here sounds like a garbage can lid. Kirk grew his hair back, James started to for a short time. But they grew away from the Load era look in other ways. Jason Newsted left the band and Robert Trujillo joined. Bob Rock was a temporary replacement before Trujillo came along. The track list in this album is:
1."Frantic"
2. "St. Anger"
3. "Some Kind of Monster"
4. "Dirty Window"
5. "Invisible Kid"
6. "My World"
7. "Shoot Me Again"
8. "Sweet Amber"
9. "The Unnamed Feeling"
10. "Purify"
11. "All Within My Hands"
Vocal style is also used a little differently. Like "...And Justice For All", they put in some songs that are pretty long. In "The Unnamed Feeling" there's a part in the guitar playing that kinda reminds me of early Slipknot. Really "Frantic" was a song that helped pull me out of hard times. Especially current times, as I have been dealing with depression but music has been helping me get out of it. The first song I ever heard from this one was "St. Anger" itself, but I hated it. It starts off bad ass, but then I'm like "uhh" when the vocals come in. However the first one I found to really like was this (yes this is the short version):
As of right now the only songs I like are "Frantic", "Some Kind Of Monster", and MAYBE "The Unnamed Feeling" though I'm picky with vocals on it.
Really in my opinion, out of all these albums, I'm into Load the most. St. Anger I'm pretty picky with. Reload has its good songs too however. Plenty of people hated in the 90s and even now how Metallica changed, but I never considered it a bad thing for the band to go a different direction, because in some cases its not always too good to constantly sound the same. They're surely not thrash metal anymore, but its good to explore different variations of music. Even with St.Anger, though its one I'm least crazy about, I respect the meaning behind it all, from what Metallica was dealing with at the time.
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