Ive never been a "diehard" fan but Ive of course listened and owned (purchase or download) almost all their albums (not so much the last 2 or 3)....Load stands out as one of my favs but it seems I'm in a minority. I've always wondered why...
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I actually liked the S&M (with San Francisco Symphony) release
"Diehards" probably aren't a fan because it's more of a hard rock album as opposed to the thrash or heavy metal albums before. I'm a pretty big Metallica fan but I've always liked the earlier stuff much more too.
Load sucked because it wasn't Metallica. Metallica is, unanimously, regarded as one of the founders of American thrash metal, not American power ballads.