Here, there is the echo

As its name suggests, is a Reload bis repetita. Load was supposed to mark the triumphant return of the metal gods. If the project has not convinced, nevertheless point out that the thing would have been more attractive if it had been completed.
In 1995, Metallica thirty compositions, and intends to make a double album, so there is good things about the bands. Unfortunately, contract obliges, record company will not leave them time. Former Metallica have selected the Top 12 or 14 and have thrown the rest to oblivion or B-sides. But the group prefers to "split the difference" and release two different albums (or rather identical).
Reload starts strong with 4 excellent songs. Fuel is very good hard rock, if not of metal; the Memory Remains is very successful, slow, heavy, well operator melodic potential Hetfield; Devil's Dance is dark desire, and The Unforgiven II worth it too, even if radio too.
Then it's up to the rider and to everyone's taste. I admit a lot like Prince Charming, which perfectly blends the epic of the old Metallica, with the delicacy and sensitivity of the new musical. Low Man's Lyric, although criticized, is very good too, for those not allergic to countrisantes sounding. We also have the enormous Fixxxer brilliant final 8 minutes where the period Load-Reload Metallica makes sense. For the rest, well: Better than you, Bad Seed are clearly filling, Attitude is successful but is ultra-classic when we know the past of the group. Then come Slither, Carpe Diem Baby and Where the Wild Things Are, which are eminently interesting, as they contrast with the band's discography. Metallica rubs by pieces atmospheres, disturbing, suggestive, into "light and shadow". I must say I rather hooked, although it must be recognized that it is not there that the group is actually effective.
Difficult to decide in the end, we are obviously disappointed by the commercial approach of old pieces assign us two years (battery parties had already been registered at the time), and the lack of novelty over Load. Load was actually much further in the logic Blues / Country as Reload. The record gives the impression that Metallica wants to Alice in Chains. Reload probably remain a very unremarkable album of Metallica discography, however, do not spit in the soup, it's still 75 minutes (very?) Good music, and that's not so bad ...