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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Paul Brannigan

"People should get off their asses to topple us. Here’s a guitar – blow us away if you think you can." The track-by-track guide to Metallica's Load

Metallica backstage NEC Birmingham 1996.

It’s the spring of 1996, and I’m in Right Track Recording studios in New York, where Metallica are putting the finishing touches to what will become Load.

Listening to the playback, I somewhat ungraciously suggest to Lars Ulrich that it sounds like Metallica have become the sort of mainstream rock band that their younger selves would have despised. The drummer gives an exaggerated and prolonged yawn.

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