More like Reload
Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Reload came out of the same recording block as Load, a sprawling set of sessions that accumulated enough material for two albums. It marks a first for the band — a guest vocalist appearing on a studio record — and a last: bassist Jason Newsted's final appearance before his eventual departure. For listeners, it signals an appetite for heavy music in flux: a band stretching its sound, sitting with abundance rather than forcing a single statement, and letting the contradictions stand.
About Reload
Reload is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on November 18, 1997, through Elektra Records in the United States and Vertigo Records internationally. The follow-up to Load (1996), the album was recorded during the same sessions as that album with producer Bob Rock. While a double album was considered, the band decided to split the material into two albums. Additional sessions for Reload took place in 1997 after Load's supporting tour. Reload was Metallica's first studio album to feature a guest singer and last studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted.
From the Wikipedia article Reload_(Metallica_album), available under CC BY-SA.
Films like Reload
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Metallica: Through the Never
A roadie sent on an urgent mission during a Metallica show descends into a surreal adventure.
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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Documents Metallica hiring a group therapist after Jason Newsted's departure, capturing conflict and creative reckoning.
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Metalhead
A grieving young woman finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.
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Heavy Metal 2000
Heavy-metal-scored animation built around power, possession, and a miner's hunger for immortality.
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Heavy Metal
A glowing orb terrorizes a girl with anthology tales of dark fantasy, eroticism, and horror.
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Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar
Dethklok's Nathan Explosion must fulfill a prophecy while navigating professional and personal collapse.
Books to read after Reload
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Slash
Slash's memoir covering sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll from one of the genre's defining guitarists.
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Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose
Chronicles Black Sabbath's rise as the quintessential heavy metal band.
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Black metal
Twins with a penchant for extreme metal uncover a grim destiny hidden in a Frost Axe album.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after getting into Metallica's Reload?
The documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster goes deep behind the scenes with the band — including the departure of bassist Jason Newsted, who played on Reload. Metallica: Through the Never pairs their live show with a surreal short film.
Are there any books for fans of Metallica and heavy metal?
The Slash memoir captures the raw excess of the same hard-rock era from a guitarist's perspective, while Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose chronicles the band widely credited with inventing heavy metal.
What films capture the spirit of heavy metal music?
The animated cult classic Heavy Metal (1981) weaves dark fantasy and hard-rock energy into one anarchic anthology, and Metalhead follows a grief-stricken young woman in 1990s Iceland who finds identity and solace in the genre.