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Reception Professional ratings Review scoresĪllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine thought the record was worthwhile and noted it was heavily influenced by Southern rock. All the photos in the liner notes were taken from the 1997 Cunning Stunts concert. Hence, the artwork is titled " Piss and Blood XXVI". Like Load, the album artwork was again created by Andres Serrano, which is a mix of bovine blood and his own urine. Songs that have not been played live in their entirety are "Better than You", "Slither", "Bad Seed", "Where the Wild Things Are", "Prince Charming", "Attitude", and "Fixxxer".
"Carpe Diem Baby" premiered at Metallica's 30th anniversary concert in 2011. There were occasional jam sessions of songs such as " Better Than You", "Bad Seed", "Where the Wild Things Are", and "Fixxxer". Six songs from the album have been played live, including " Fuel", " The Memory Remains", "Devil's Dance", " The Unforgiven II", "Carpe Diem Baby", and "Low Man's Lyric". D tuning was earlier used for "The Thing That Should Not Be" on Master of Puppets, " Sad but True" on Metallica and later used for " Sabbra Cadabra", and " Whiskey in the Jar" from Garage Inc. This was the second album to feature most songs in E♭ tuning, with "Bad Seed" being played in drop D♭ tuning and "Devil's Dance" in D tuning. Reload marks the first album to feature a guest singer ( Marianne Faithfull in " The Memory Remains"). And Justice for All-era lineup with bassist Jason Newsted leaving the band in January 2001, though it was not his last release with the band. Also, if we did a double album, it would have been a lot more material for people to digest, and some of it might have gotten lost in the shuffle." It was the final Metallica studio album to feature the. Speaking about the recording sessions in an interview for Guitar World, guitarist Kirk Hammett stated that "We were gonna do them both as a double album, but we didn't want to spend that long in the studio.
However, with problems recording so many songs at one time, the band decided that half of the songs were to be released and the band would continue to work on the remaining songs and release them the following year. The original idea was to release Load and Reload as a double album. The session was produced by Bob Rock, who also produced Metallica's previous two albums. Reload was recorded at The Plant, a wood-panelled studio in Sausalito, California.