Artist: METALLICA
Album: RELOAD (CD)

Release date: 1997
EAN/UPS: 0731453640924
Media type: CD

The album consists of material originally written during the writing sessions for the band's previous album, Load. 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 (Load uses Andres Serrano's Blood and Semen III while Reload uses his Piss and Blood) and a similarly distinctive blues-rock feel in many of the songs.

The cover of the album is original artwork depicting urine and blood. It is one of three photographic studies by Andres Serrano created in 1990 by mingling the artist's own urine and bovine blood between two sheets of Plexiglas. As with Load, ReLoad included a booklet containing band photos and select lyrics for each song. ReLoad is the last original studio album with Jason Newsted.

All songs written by James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Lars Ulrich except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

"Fuel" – 4:31
"The Memory Remains" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 4:39
"Devil's Dance" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 5:19
"The Unforgiven II" – 6:37
"Better Than You" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 5:21
"Slither" – 5:13
"Carpe Diem Baby" – 6:12
"Bad Seed" – 4:05
"Where the Wild Things Are" (Hetfield, Ulrich, Jason Newsted) – 6:54
"Prince Charming" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 6:05
"Low Man's Lyric" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 7:37
"Attitude" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 5:16
"Fixxxer" – 8:15

LINE-UP:

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

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Bernardo Bigalli – violin on "Low Man's Lyric"
Marianne Faithfull – backing vocals on "The Memory Remains"
Jim McGillveray – percussion
David Miles – hurdy gurdy on "Low Man's Lyric"