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SKU: REMRELOADDLX
Metallica’s ReLoad (Remastered) Super Deluxe Box Set is due out on 26 June 2026 through Blackened Recordings / Metallica, as part of the band’s ongoing remaster campaign. The official Metallica announcement describes it as a limited-edition, numbered deluxe box set built around the remastered 1997 album and loaded with unreleased demos, rough mixes, live recordings, TV appearances, and other archival material.
This is the kind of reissue that makes sense because ReLoad has always been one of Metallica’s more divisive albums. It came out in 1997 as the follow-up to Load, and for a lot of people it represented the band digging even deeper into hard rock, southern grooves, bluesy weight, and late-90s arena scale instead of returning to their thrash roots. That split reaction is exactly why this box is interesting now. Time has been kinder to ReLoad than a lot of people expected. When you strip away the old arguments about haircuts and image changes, there is a solid, often underrated record underneath it, with “Fuel,” “The Memory Remains,” “The Unforgiven II,” and “Fixxxer” still carrying real weight.
As a review, ReLoad works best when you stop treating it like failed thrash and hear it as Metallica pushing their 90s identity as far as it could go. It is not as sharp as Master Of Puppets, obviously, and it is not as cohesive as the very best of their catalogue, but it does have atmosphere, confidence, and a kind of widescreen swagger that suits the era. The riffs are slower and more groove-driven, James Hetfield sounds huge, and the band clearly knew how to make this material fill a room. Some of it still feels overlong, and not every experiment lands, but the best songs absolutely do. This is a record with more personality than its reputation sometimes allows. The box set helps that case because it gives the album context instead of just asking you to accept it in isolation.
The Super Deluxe set itself is massive. According to Metallica’s official store, it includes the remastered album on 180g 2LP and CD, “The Memory Remains” 7-inch, three live LPs, 15 CDs, four DVDs, an MP3 download card, three tour laminates, an 11×17 Gimme Fuel poster, a Pushead print, a sticker, 10 picks, 13 Rorschach Test cards, lyric sheets, and a 128-page hardcover book with photos and new stories. That is not a cosmetic cash-in. It is a serious archive piece aimed at collectors and completists.
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