Metallica: 10 Awesome Songs NO ONE Talks About

10. Cure - Load

It's hard not to look at the Load/Reload era of Metallica as a bit of a mess. Despite having some great ideas coming up at this time, their explorations into alternative and hard rock music felt like an outright betrayal compared to their thrashy roots. Every so often though, you do get that one experimental song that actually works.

For all of its weird tracks, Cure may be the single weirdest that Metallica had ever released off of Load. Hearing James Hetfield take a spoken word approach to the verses is certainly strange, considering the only other time it happened was on the tail end of To Live is To Die.

On the other hand, the lyrics on this one are actually pretty solid, with the supposed cure being a placeholder for anything from consumerism to fame which tantalizes us all every day.

This is also the only known Metallica track to actually feature slap bass, with Jason Newsted showing his funkier side in the breakdown of this song. Considering they have funk metal legend Robert Trujillo in their ranks now, it's almost a crime that this was the only time any kind of slap actually turned up on any other Metallica track.

Though people may be anticipating a lot out of Metallica's next move, it wouldn't be that bad to see something like this come back for another go-around.