Former PANTERA and current DOWN frontman Philip Anselmo talked about some of the records that have had an impact on his life for the "Discs Of Doom" article in the latest issue of U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine. Asked which album should never have seen the light of day, Anselmo replied: "I would have to say [1996's] 'Load' by METALLICA. I mean, it's a terrible record, man. I just don't get it. If you're gonna put out a record like that, just do a fucking side project or something, ya know?"In a 2013 interview with Revolver magazine, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich was asked what he felt was METALLICA's most underappreciated release. "I think 'Load' and 'Reload' [1997] are great records," he replied. "They are creatively on par with every other record we've made. Obviously, they're bluesier records, and at that time, we were listening to a lot of LED ZEPPELIN, DEEP PURPLE and AC/DC, and we had a different kind of foundation than records before or after. And I understand that there are people who couldn't quite figure out what was going on with the haircuts and the rest of it, and that's fine. But musically, if you strip all that other stuff away, if you just listen to the 27 songs 'Load' and 'Reload' were intended as one double-record it's a great collection of songs that is on par with everything else that we've done creatively. But, I mean, who needs another person to sit there and argue about, you know, fucking 'Carpe Diem Baby'? They are different records, but that was the intention. [Laughs] It's not like we sat there and thought we were remaking '
And Justice For All'. [Laughs] We are obviously aware of that. But I think personally there's great songs on both of those records and I'm very proud of those records."Asked in an interview this past May if the huge backlog of material will result in the next METALLICA album being released in separate installments, like "Load" and "Reload", METALLICA frontman James Hetfield said: "No, I don't think so. 'Load'/'Reload' was
it was more like overload. [Laughs] It was a lot of songs. And what do we do with all these? We can make a lot of songs pretty good. But I think we learned a little bit of a lesson from that. Why not focus on eight to ten really good ones instead of
? It's quality over quantity. Not that they weren't great songs, but it seemed a little much to bite off and chew. And making the fans wait even longer, and ourselves, frankly
waiting longer to release something. So we're gonna be focusing on a single album."METALLICA recently completed a tour where the band played a nearly all-request set, with 17 songs chosen online by fans prior to each gig and the last slot filled by a new track, "Lords Of Summer".
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