Finally Get Some Release with the Limited Edition and Remastered Version of Metallica’s ‘Load’
For a while now, Metallica‘s been slowly remastering and re-releasing their back catalog. Of course we already got the O.G. masterpieces like Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning done up in special remastered versions, but for fans of their 90s output, there’s been a bit of a wait.
Well, that long wait is finally coming to an end, as the band’s 1997 album Load is getting the limited edition deluxe box set treatment and I for one can’t wait to check it out. Set for release on June 13 via Blackened Recordings, this newly reissued version of Load sure sounds like the definitive version.
Remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, the album will have never sounded as good as it will in this version. It will be available in a wide range of formats, including standard 180g 2LP, CD, cassette and digital (including a Spatial Audio mix using Atmos). For the first time ever, this reissue will also feature the extended cut of “The Outlaw Torn”, which was cut down to fit onto the CD.
If you go full bore and get the Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set, you’re going to get a metric fuckton of 90s Metallica goodies. Those include:
“The remastered Load album on 180g double vinyl, a “Mama Said” picture disc, and Loadapalooza ’96, a 140G triple album recorded live during Metallica’s Lollapalooza headlining run at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre on August 4, 1996. The set’s 15 CDs range from the remastered Load album to never-before-released collected riffs, demos and rough mixes, B-Sides and rarities, and a wealth of live material, while its 4 DVDs offer a plethora of behind the scenes, in-studio and live footage, on-air and television appearances, the band’s Polar Beach Party visit to Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, and more. Rounding out the box’s content are memorabilia including a pack of 14 Rorschach Test cards, a Pushead patch, an 11×17 Lollapalooza poster, an Rolling Stone cover reproduction, a 5-pack of guitar/bass picks, lyric sheets, two laminated tour passes and a deluxe 128-page book.”
You’re not gonna want to miss out on this if you’re looking for the deluxe box set in particular, because that’s apparently getting a single pressing and that’s it. Anyone interested in reliving this part of Metallica’s history can get their pre-orders in right now.
