"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.viri2yp3eav...@localhost.localdomain... > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:05:45 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote: > >> "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message >> news:i69fr8$2cb...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> In introducing such subtle distortion, Metallica runs the risk of being >>> labeled a band with lousy sound. >> >> IIRC, A lot of Metallica fans felt they had started putting out "lousy >> sound" back around the "Load" and "Reload" albums. And that was before CD >> DRM. > > Load was the beginning of the downhill slide. There are a couple alright > songs, but all albums before that were filled with good songs. Reload was > utter crap (Unforgiven 2? Really!???). St. Anger I never really liked, > although I've heard that some people like it.
I was avoiding stating my own Metallica opinions, but now that you mention it, that's exactly how I feel (and yea, I have heard a lot of other people say Load was the start of a downfall). I did kind of like "Until it Sleeps" and maybe one other (forget what), but yea, most of Load/Reload I just never got into. "Black album" was filed with good stuff, and I never understood people that said "St. Anger" was a return to Metallica's former glory. Just sounded like noise to me, and I'm a big metal fan! Speaking of all this, am I correct in my understanding that Load was right after Megadeth split off? (And that "black album" was right before?)