they were even ahead of the curve looks-wise

>>126691488 (OP)
nightman looking ahh

>>126691488 (OP)
Weezer - The Gay Album

>>126691488 (OP)
What were they even going for here? It certainly wasn't a grunge look.

>>126692126
Maybe like industrial but even gayer

>>126691488 (OP)
James and jason look semi normal, lars and kirk look zesty as fuck.

>>126692126
Sprinting away from 80's metal aesthetics in any way they could because gayrunge and chug rock made it "uncool".

>>126691488 (OP)
Kirk is gay
Robert's gay
Lars is gay
But the gayest is James

>>126691488 (OP)
his pants are unzipped so far that they cast a shadow onto him.

>all the other members retroactively crying that this was all Lars' idea

Why didn’t James just say no?

>>126691698
Geezer.

>>126691488 (OP)
kirks belly button is too much

>>126691488 (OP)
>they were even ahead of the curve looks-wise
Hardly. They probably saw Depeche Mode in a magazine and tried to copy that look

those fucking eyebrows

>>126691488 (OP)
That's just the Velvet Underground with eyeliner bro

>>126692573
You're right, it's basically DM sans bondage gear. Maybe some Sisters of Mercy thrown in.

Scrumptious little tummy, imaginge kissing his cute, sexy belly button before unloading a load of cum all over this little puerto rican boy slut

>>126692415
He threatened to drum worse than they ever thought possible and tank their ticket sales.

>>126692415
The conspiracry theory is that lars is the eugene landy to james's brian wilson.

>>126692586
That's not the worst they've looked.

*listens to Corrosion of Conformity once*

>>126693206
Yeah no kidding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwHh2mtTxNUm

Stupid sexy Lars

Why couldn’t they just go on an extended break. Let everyone get their shit out of their system. Let James do his country album. Let Jason do Echobrain or whatever. Let Kirk and Lars be gay and then come back and do a proper follow-up to the Black album.

>>126693252
James' extreme opposition to anyone in the band having side projects is so strange.

>>126691488 (OP)
Is that the funniest a band has ever looked?

>>126693347
James looks like a gay biker

>>126693319
I think most of that was just aimed at jason. James was really struggling with his alcohol addiction at the time and had no proper way of dealing with his problems other than to take it out on newsted.

>>126691488 (OP)
fuck
marry (sexooo every day and night uwu)
kill
kill

(not gay and not a woman btw)

>>126693319
He's right though. It gets confusing for the fans when everyone starts pulling in different directions and doing other bands. People's egos get all out of whack. Takes twice as long to get a new album done too.

Bands need to stay focused and stay on brand. Keep it simple. Streamlined. Or else you're fired. Based Hetfield.

>>126693468
>HE FOCKING LEFT THE BAND
>LIKE HELLO?

How good could they have been/how different does their discography look if Dave wasnt such an alcoholic piece of shit at the time?

>>126694048
>alcoholic piece of shit
They were just pissed dave was able to outdrink them and beat their asses in a fight.

>>126693846
Ah yes, the focused and sharp albums such as Load, Reload and St. Anger

>>126694092
I agree I just wanted to pad the question since its implied that he's the best songwriter they ever had. I didnt want to completely suck him off

I received the Load remastered boxset early and went through the book that's included, there's a letter from the photographer in there. He basically said that it was Lars's idea to change up their image, and wanted him to do the photos for the album because of his work with bands like U2.

New tallica' just dropped.

>>126694179
Could lars and rob really not be bothered to dress up properly for the event?

They definitely went overboard with the makeup... with that said still a solid era, some of my favorite Mets songs are on Load. They also released some damn good live footage not too long ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxLIt3cp2s4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9DMt3JXgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qFeURAfItU

Looking forward to more riffs, demos, outtakes and the Irvine '96 and Donington '95 live gigs in the Load boxset.
Bitch with the bass intro, Mouldy instrumental, FOBD, Streamline, The Red The Blue The Grey, Jack rehearsals

This was the best era of the band, apart from the raging homosexuality.

>>126691488 (OP)
Has anyone ever listened to a single song Metallica released after the black album? I know they've put out a bunch of albums like Load and Death Magnetic, but I don't know anybody who's listened to them.
It could be white noise for all we know

>>126694179
Jason looks terrible

>>126697255
I love mid-to-late '90s Metallica. It's not high art, but it's the last time they wrote actual songs. Everything after Jason left just feels like a desperate LARP on their end.

>>126694765
That Bleeding Me absolutely cooks.

>>126697011
I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't put the Polar Beach Party show on the streaming set, that's such a fun snapshot of an era flush with silly money. A lot of other neat stuff on there though, I wonder what they've got lined up for Reload.

>>126697448
>I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't put the Polar Beach Party show on the streaming set
Which streaming service are you using? Even YT have begun region limiting some of this stuff.
>that's such a fun snapshot of an era flush with silly money.
95-00 was so much fun being a fan. No stadiums, meet & greet lotteries, cheaper tickets ($50!) they were still kind of approachable. Hetfield playing super mario with fans.
>I wonder what they've got lined up for Reload.
At least the riff tapes & demos, early takes/works in progress of songs like Wild Things, Carpe, Fixxxer, UnII. Probably live shows Brisbane '98, Ministry of Sound '97, tons of pro shots from the '98 ampitheatre tour. Musically not as interesting as Load but it'll be a fun romp.

>>126697616
>Which streaming service are you using?
Spotify
>Musically not as interesting as Load but it'll be a fun romp.
Yeah, I'm happy that they've been so generous with these sets. Some people complain about the scale/redundancy but I'm always in favor of big dumps. Let the diehards sort 'em out.

Didn't they do a sorta-but-not-quite-MTV Unplugged in '98-ish? Matt Pinfield hosting. I downloaded a very grainy rip of that from eMule back in the day. Plus whatever radio show they plucked Tuesday's Gone from.

>>126693846
I tend to think that Jaymz’ heart was in the right place. Sideprojects is beneath Metallica, but he should’ve reached a compromise with Jason where he let him write and produce other music so long as he’s not a member.

>>126691488 (OP)
jason the only one that doesn't look like a gay fag, no wonder they bullied him

>>126697947
>Didn't they do a sorta-but-not-quite-MTV Unplugged in '98-ish? Matt Pinfield hosting. I downloaded a very grainy rip of that from eMule back in the day. Plus whatever radio show they plucked Tuesday's Gone from.
Yes, Reload Rehearse Request, c.March 1998 iirc. I received a murky dub on VHS back in '99. Good fun.
The other one can be found on YT here (pic rel):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfHwK_917eg
The 90s for Met was peak era, more big dumps to look forward to.

>>126694179
why do i still think of rob as the new guy that will last like 2 albums

>>126698680
James made a joke about that at the show in tampa.

>>126698363
That's it.

Crazy how much Metallica toured in the '90s. Shows every year!

>>126692586
He has Sid Vicious' rat face here

>

>>126694048
They would've been the best band ever and I'm not even kidding. All the problems both bands had would never happen. Cliff wouldn't have died, James wouldn't be an alcoholic, Dave would never get hooked on heroin or become a diva. They'd be four guys in a band, not just two leaders and two yes men and the combined musical genius of the four of them would have created some of the best music ever recorded.

Looking gayer than most boy bands, what was happening?

>>126702374
It was the 90's and metallica was trying to fit in.

>>126702440
IDC if it was the 90s
a "man" should never have a bellybutton piercing

>>126701825
yo wtf lmao

>>126701825
James looking like pre-meth Tiger King

>>126701825
Holy kek

>>126693846
Hi lars

>>126693846
This is literally what killed Pantera, Phil doing 600 bands

>>126701825
Wut!?

>>126694765
wtf lars used to be good?

>>126703152
Pantera killed itself, everyone just liked to point the finger at phil because the documentaries and journalists needed a scapegoat for the turmoil leading up to when dimebag got shot. And it didn't help that vinnie was being incredibly petty about the whole situation.

>>126701825
Anton Corbijn is the biggest one trick pony hack there is lmao

>>126691488 (OP)
>>126694179
>>126701825
There is NO WAY Kirk isn't super faggot with a beard wife. Impossible. This goes way beyond eccentric, it's straight up fruitcake poofter behavior.

>>126698363
ffs that bootleg cover is an ancient meme.

>>126701825
Jaymz, the fuck you doing?

>>126697255
Every Metallica album since Black has had a couple good songs on them. Ignore the haters and give them a try. "Bleeding Me" "Hero of the Day" "Fixxxer" "St Anger" "All Nightmare Long" "Unforgiven 3" "Spit Out the Bone" "Room of Mirrors" are some bangers I can remember off the top of my head.

>>126701825
God forbid somebody try something new.

>>126692415
>>126693247
>>126701825
>Damn you Lars
He truly looks like he wasn't into it

>>126691488 (OP)
>turn on MTV in 1996
>"Where do I take this pain of mine?"

>>126692126
backstreet's back, alright?

Full Deluxe boxset stream available on the official channel, 233 tracks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dLNm973lhE&list=OLAK5uy_mDbYS-7ygsRcy0BdvwAoWyHZsMkHVtYZs

Honestly doesn't look any more stupid than the usual metal get-up.

It’s funny how after all the selling out and the turning their backs on metal fans their early stuff still remains the most liked and the reason why people still go to see them. Also weird how James has gone back to wearing band patches and looking metal.

GUESS WHOS REALLY FUCKING GAY
ROBERT KIRK AND LARS AND JAMES

Imagine Jason joining Metallica at their peak and then having to roll with Lars’s faggy style changes

>>126709274
>turning their backs on metal fans
kwab. metalfags are truly no better than kpopers

>>126709351
why is there such a dedicated amount of people on mu who love to troll metalheads, I can only assume its metalheads themselves because I cant imagine anyone else caring so much about us

>>126701825
Gaytallica.

>>126709274
James is just going through his second midlife crisis and enjoying every second of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQGLpOKTkI

>>126694048
They would have either stayed making the same 80s thrash shit forever even after it became stale like the other big 3 or imploded if a sound change was attempted

>>126701825
Kek

>>126692126
Late 90s alternative rock look. The Grunge look was dead by then.

>>126693252
>a proper follow-up to the Black album

Are you trolling?

>>126705213
What? We're just booked for this gig.

>>126712442
>The Grunge look was dead by then
i dressed like that before grunge and continued to dress like that after grunge

>>126713198
You were dressing like that in the 80s?

>>126694048
>if Dave wasnt such an alcoholic piece of shit at the time
don't fall for Lars propaganda

If Dave wasn't kicked out this gay ass shit would never have happened.

>>126709844
Another movie? Guys, face it, you'll never top Some Kind of Monster.

God they look like they can't stand each other
>>126701825
This one actually looks cool

>>126701825
I can imagine the group talk they had before this
>James, can you... I don't know, crouch a bit or something? It's just that every time we do one of these, we end up looking really short.

>>126691488 (OP)
>>126694179
>>126701825
>>126703223

>>126691488 (OP)
Humiliation ritual

>>126692201
But they looked more 90s back in the 80s. This was them going backwards by a decade.

>>126691488 (OP)
Bump

>>126692415
and Kirk's

>>126697255
until it sleeps is pure gothic rock canto

>>126691488 (OP)
>>126701825
look at the album booklet art of U2's Achtung Baby. The same photographer did Load and Reload. It's like Metallica (probably Lars and Kirk) thought "this album is going to be our Achtung Baby....lets get the same guy!"