Metallica will release a massive box set edition of its sixth studio album, “Load,” on June 13, 2025, via its own Blackened Recordings.
Remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, the “Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set” is available for pre-order at https://www.metallica.com/store/load-remastered/, where full package details and track listings can be viewed. Pre-orders of the vox set will receive instant grat tracks “Until It Sleeps (Remastered),” “Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix),” “F.O.B.D. (“Until It Sleeps” Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix)” and “Until It Sleeps (Live at Slim’s, San Francisco, CA – June 10th, 1996).”
“Load (Remastered)” will be released in formats including standard 180g 2LP, CD, cassette and digital (including a Spatial Audio mix using Atmos). Standard pre-orders receive “Until It Sleeps (Remastered)” IG, and Expanded Edition pre-orders receive “Until It Sleeps (Remastered)” and “F.O.B.D. (“Until It Sleeps” Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix)” IGs. The 2LP, 3CD Expanded and Deluxe digital versions for the first time ever feature the extended version of “The Outlaw Torn,” originally edited for release due to time constraints of the CD format.
The “Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set” is a comprehensive time capsule of 1995-97 era Metallica, packed with exclusives including previously unreleased demos, rough mixes, live performances, on-air and television appearances and much more. The one-time pressing will include the remastered “Load” album on 180g double vinyl, a “Mama Said” picture disc and “Loadapalooza ’96,” a 140G triple album recorded live during Metallica’s Lollapalooza headlining run at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre on Aug. 4, 1996. The set’s 15 CDs range from the remastered “Load” album to never-before-released collected riffs, demos and rough mixes, B-Sides and rarities, and a wealth of live material, while its four DVDs offer a plethora of behind-the-scenes, in-studio and live footage, on-air and TV appearances, the band’s Polar Beach Party visit to Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, and more. Rounding out the box’s content are memorabilia including a pack of 14 Rorschach Test cards, a Pushead patch, an 11-by-17 Lollapalooza poster, a Rolling Stone cover reproduction, a fiv-pack of guitar/bass picks, lyric sheets, two laminated tour passes and a deluxe 128-page book.
Originally released June 4, 1996, “Load” was the second Metallica album to debut at number 1 on the Billboard 200, where it remained for four straight weeks. The 1995 sessions at The Plant in Sausalito, California, that resulted in “Load” (as well as 1997’s “ReLoad”) found James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Jason Newsted creating yet another landmark of the Metallica catalog. Currently, two of the album’s four singles—“Until It Sleeps” and “King Nothing”—have been lighting up crowds the world over in regular rotation on the setl ists of the band’s M72 World Tour.
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