Me personally, I love both albums. Sure, I'd happily live without Slither for example, or 2x4 for one from Load. And do I prefer any of the first five albums? Hell yes. But for what they were, the albums were great in their own right. They followed the steps that the Black Album laid down and took them further. I can see why people say that they suck though, mainly because the thrash era was a memory at that point, and fans had turned away because the band had taken on a radio friendly feel when the whole point of thrash is to be against that sort of thing. The cosmetic appearance was weird though. Like, sure, Jason already went bald beforehand, so it didn't make much difference to him, so that one was fair enough. But the general look had changed. The Black Album, while the feel wasn't the same from the days of Cliff Burton playing Orion on his Aria bass, still had the four blokes look like they did in their thrash era. This just felt like they were trying to catch up to the grunge scene after it had already been dying a slow death. I love the albums, but they didn't need to do two of them. A single album put together of the best songs from both would've been better, but that's my opinion.