Album · Metallica
Reload by Metallica
Reload is an album by Metallica, released in 1997. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 61 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Fuel”, on 36 lists with a best position of #2.
Reload, Metallica's seventh studio album, landed in November 1997 on Elektra in the States and Vertigo everywhere else, 17 months after Load and cut largely in the same Bob Rock sessions. The band had toyed with a double album, split the pile in two and went back in after the Load tour to finish this half. It was the last studio record with bassist Jason Newsted beside James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett.
Like Load, it trades thrash for hard-rock swagger with blues, country and grunge stains, and it gets weird in places: hurdy-gurdy and violin on "Low Man's Lyric", Marianne Faithfull as the band's first guest singer on "The Memory Remains", and "The Unforgiven II" picking up the thread of the 1991 original. Hetfield mined a tormented childhood for anger to burn. Critics split, but it debuted at number one in America and topped the charts in seven countries.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Reload on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fuel | 36 | #2 | – | 1997–2026 | |
| 2 | The Memory Remains | 25 | #22 | – | 1997–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.