Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is open to making another Load-style album: “We might just say, ‘OK, let’s go back to the ’90s again.’ It’s not a bad idea.”

Metallica in 1996.

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is open to revisiting the band’s controversial mid-90s era.

During an interview with the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, the lead guitarist is asked whether he’d want to make music similar to the band’s 90s albums Load and Reload. Despite how divisive those albums were among the more diehard metalheads in Metallica’s fanbase, he answers that more releases in that style aren’t off the table.