Metallica fans started flocking into stores on June 4, 1996 to buy the band's newest album, Load – to the tune of 680,000 units sold in America during that first week alone. Others despaired, however, ...

Looking back on the vaguely depressing history of Metallica, there’s a clear distinction between the band’s best album and its ultimate album. Their best album is probably Master of Puppets because ...

Saturday night was the group's fourth show at the high-tech Las Vegas venue. They performed the Load single "Until It Sleeps" ...

What’s everyone’s favorite era of Metallica? Why, whatever era it was in which they became fans – check that, rabid, know-it-all fans of the most successful and polarizing heavy metal band of all time ...

Metallica’s Load reissue sends the decades-old album back onto the charts, soaring 6,900% in sales and reentering the Top Album Sales chart at No. 4. (MANDATORY CREDIT Ebet Roberts/Getty Images) James ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's the spring of 1996, and I'm in Right Track Recording studios in New York, where Metallica are putting the finishing touches ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Metallica's Load returns to No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Rock & ...

Metallica released their sixth album, Load, in June 1996. It was a massive hit, topping charts in countries around the globe. Earlier today (April 29), the band announced a remastered version of the ...

Here it is - your chance to win a Metallica Load Deluxe Box set. This contest comes to you courtesy of the folks at Loudwire Nights and Ultimate Classic Rock Nights radio shows. Metallica are in the ...

Watch below as METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett becomes the first to unbox the long-awaited remastered deluxe box set of METALLICA's "Load" album. Dubbed "The Whole Kitchen Sink", the box includes ...

Towards the end of the '90s, with their cover of Bob Seger's Turn The Page, Metallica dealt with the mundane, often ...