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“They just do what they feel is right for them. They don’t take into account what people think”: How Metallica rewrote their script (and irritated countless metalheads) with Load and Reload

When the former thrashers cut their hair and took influence from the blues, they didn’t emerge unscathed, but they remained heavy music’s biggest band all the same

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"God bless America’s judicial system. It proves that even Metallica can get a fair hearing!" How the world's biggest metal band put on a chaotic gig in a car park - and infuriated politicians, a stadium and half a city in the process

As Metallica prepare to reissue 1997’s Reload, we look back on the calamitous free gig that launched the album 29 years ago

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Metallica announce remastered reissue of 1997 album Reload, featuring never-before-heard demos, live recordings and more

The US metal titans gave 1996’s Load a similar treatment last summer

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The real reason Fortnite missed Esports World Cup 2025

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“I don’t follow the rules of metal, which is probably wrong, and I’m sorry”: Metallica producer Bob Rock looks back on controversial Load and Reload albums

Rock is “glad” he and Metallica didn’t imitate the metal stars’ blockbuster Black Album when making its divisive follow-ups

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“We might just say, 'OK, let's go back to the '90s again.' It's not a bad idea”: Kirk Hammett says the next Metallica album could be a throwback to the Load and Reload era

And he has 767 new riffs ready to go!

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“I like to push some of those buttons. I like the fact that people have a problem with what we’re doing”: How Metallica kicked back against the 1990s haters with Reload

Haters gonna hate – but with 1997’s Reload album, Metallica just didn’t care

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“On Load and ReLoad we tried to get a little looser, a little bluesier. Greasy is the word”: Watch James Hetfield lead Metallica in a swampy blues version of Fuel with a Danelectro 58 Longhorn Baritone

In 2009, Hetfield told us that the Fuel era was all about loosening up and on Friday night at the Helping Hands charity gig he made good on it as Metallica reimagined Fuel, slower and lower

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Persona 3 Reload producer apologizes for the third time for excluding Portable's female protagonist, reiterates it's "likely never" happening for the JRPG remake

Sorry, Kotone fans

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Four years after its rescue, Reload's Tardis seeks new home

The blue box on Northbourne Ave has developed a cult following.

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Persona 3 Reload finally gets Portable's beloved and missing female protagonist thanks to some very dedicated modders

'Femc-Reloaded-Project' is up on GitHub

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Enter player two: After 10 years, Reload Bar and Games is up for sale

Owners say they are now focusing on expanding their other venture.

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Persona 3 Reload is the series' biggest Steam launch ever, but there's still no critical consensus on which version of the JRPG is best

Reload just hit 42,112 concurrent players

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Atlus didn't make any significant story changes in Persona 3 Reload out of 'respect' for the original

Atlus has confirmed that there are no major story changes in Persona 3 Reload.

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Persona 3 Reload's opening cinematic pays homage to the original's iconic theme song

Atlus reveals Persona 3 Reload's gorgeous opening cinematic, showing off its cast of Persona-wielding characters.

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Metallica's Reload gets an underwhelming score from Classic Rock's readers in the Album Of The Week Club

When Metallica tried to follow The Black Album, the results were mixed. Then the leftovers arrived

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Persona 3 fans really hope the dumbest character portrait makes it into Reload

Fuuka's back, not quite as you knew her

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Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan once told Pantera to "shut the f**k up" when they kept moaning about Metallica not being metal

Billy Corgan once interrupted Pantera lamenting over Metallica's lighter sound during their Reload era, with surprising results

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