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Metallica, portrait, Berlin, Germany, 9th October 1996. (Photo by Niels van Iperen/Getty Images) Getty Images Metallica has finally announced the deluxe remaster for their notorious 1996 LP, Load. The news comes from the band’s social media pages, where they announced pre-orders for the remaster and its release date which is slated for June 13th. Since 2016, Metallica has been going through the process of reissuing and remastering their studio albums. For every remaster the band has done an intricate ‘deluxe boxset’ which often contains tons of memorabilia from the album-tour cycle and sometimes bonus tracks or live recordings from the time. What’s In The Load Deluxe Boxset Sitting at a steep $275 price tag, the boxset for Load is just as ambitious as all previous deluxe edition boxsets Metallica has released. Here’s what’s inside the box: Load (Remastered) on 180-gram double LP and CD “Mama Said” picture disc Three live LPs 15 CDs Four DVDs featuring unreleased content (live shows, rough mixes, demos, etc) MP3 download card of all audio Two tour laminates 11″ x 17″ Lollapalooza poster Pushead patch 8″ x 10″ Rolling Stone Magazine cover print Five-pack of guitar/bass picks Pack of 14 Rorschach Test cards Lyric folder and sheets 128-page hardcover book with never-before-seen photos + stories from those who were there The History Polarizing History of Load It’s amazing the effect that time can have on the perception of art, specifically music. Metallica’s 1996 album Load was one of the most polarizing albums to ever grace the metal scene back in the 90s, and for many fans it was considered band’s worst album at the time. If 1991’s the Black Album was Metallica experimenting with hard-rock and arena-metal, then Load was the band adopting slow groovy melodic songwriting and completely abandoning their metal aesthetics. Of course,…

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