ReLoad (album)

Reload is the seventh album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1997. (See 1997 in music). The album consists of material originally written during the writing sessions for the band's previous album, Load. Indeed, Metallica had initially hoped to release the Load & Reload songs as a double album, but that idea proved untenable for a variety of reasons. Aside from the album title, Reload also shares similar artwork with Load (both use pictures from Andres Serrano's Blood and Semen series) and a similarly distinctive blues rock feel in many of the songs. Finally, Reload was just as implicated as Load in Metallica's "selling out" controversy during the 1990s.

Track listing

1. "Fuel" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 4:29
2. "The Memory Remains" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 4:39
3. "Devil's Dance" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 5:18
4. "The Unforgiven II" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 6:36
5. "Better Than You" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 5:21
6. "Slither" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 5:13
7. "Carpe Diem Baby" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 6:12
8. "Bad Seed" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 4:05
9. "Where the Wild Things Are" (Hetfield, Newsted, Ulrich) – 6:52
10. "Prince Charming" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 6:04
11. "Low Man's Lyric" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 7:36
12. "Attitude" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 5:16
13. "Fixxxer" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 8:15

Personnel

Metallica

• Kirk Hammett – guitar
• James Hetfield – guitar, vocals
• Jason Newsted – bass
• Lars Ulrich – drums

Additional personnel

• Bernardo Bigalli – violin
• Marianne Faithfull – vocals
• Jim McGillveray – percussion
• David Miles – hurdygurdy

Production

• Producers: Bob Rock, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
• Engineers: Brian Dobbs, Randy Staub
• Assistant engineers: Bernardo Bigalli, Darren Grahn, Kent Matcke, Gary Winger
• Mixing: Michael Fraser, Randy Staub
• Mastering: George Marino
• Digital editing: Paul DeCarli, Mike Gillies, Darren Grahn
• Design: Andie Airfix
• Photography: Anton Corbijn
• Artwork: Andres Serrano

Charts

Album

Singles

Awards

Grammy Awards