Reload is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on November 18, 1997,[9] via Elektra Records. The album is a follow-up to Load, released the previous year, and Metallica's last studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted. Reload debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 436,000 copies in its first week. It was certified 3× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping three million copies in the United States.
^"Reload | Metallica.com". metallica.com. Archived from the original on September 16, 2024. Retrieved September 3, 2020. Recorded & Mixed at The Plant Studios, Sausalito, CA at various points in time between May 1995 and February 1996 and July and October 1997