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Metallica - St. Anger



4.4 | 2252 votes |
Release date: 5 June 2003
Style: Alternative metal

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Disc I
01. Frantic
02. St. Anger
03. Some Kind Of Monster
04. Dirty Window
05. Invisible Kid
06. My World
07. Shoot Me Again
08. Sweet Amber
09. The Unnamed Feeling
10. Purify
11. All Within My Hands

Disc II [Live in the studio at Metallica HQ DVD - digipack bonus]
01. Frantic
02. St. Anger
03. Some Kind Of Monster
04. Dirty Window
05. Invisible Kid
06. My World
07. Shoot Me Again
08. Sweet Amber
09. The Unnamed Feeling
10. Purify
11. All Within My Hands

Guest review by
The Silent Man
Rating:
5.0
Six long years after the release of ReLoad, Metallica come back on the scene to show their 8th studio album, St. Anger. Many of you have almost lost all the respect for this band since the release of the black album, many others hate them because of Load and ReLoad and some others have now lost every interest in their music. Actually, what can you all expect from the band who left its early amazing style to get fame and glory on MTV?

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published 22.09.2003 | Comments (145)

Guest review by
Powerslave16
Rating:
7.2
Metallica's 2003 release, St. Anger, will most likely always be considered the low point of the bands discography. I'm not sure if I can completely agree with this. I personally believe Load and Reload are worse albums. Mind you, St. Anger is absolutely not a fantastic release. It rambles, has some bad tracks, and sometimes you wonder "what are they doing?" (listen to Hetfield's moans in Invisible Kid). But the album does have energy, something the band has had on about 3 tracks on the last 2 studio discs.

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published 10.09.2007 | Comments (61)

18.01.2011
So the biggest metal band on the planet is turning 30 this year.

As the story goes, back in 1981, some dude called James Hetfield answered a newspaper ad by a certain Lars Ulrich... and the legend was born. 30 years later, the success story that is Metallica still remains unequaled.

Happy 30th birthday, Metallica!

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14.02.2020 - 23:34
Rating: 5
qlacs
"The Quaker"
The moment I let go of the image of Metallica, I started enjoying some of this album. Still not great but I don't mind playing "The Unnamed Feeling" for example.
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19.06.2020 - 05:43
Rating: 9
Sonic MrSumo

I just don't get the hate on this album. Sure, it's totally different to anything else they've done, but damn it's still so good. I love the rawer sound, and the riffs and drums are just rocking!
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All the bridges in the world won't save you, if there's no other side to cross to.
- Rock poetry from Silverchair.
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09.12.2020 - 06:54
Rating: 7
Gothic Metalhead
Pro Introvert
Am I the only person who thinks this album is so bad is good?
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09.12.2020 - 21:23
Rating: 1
Redel

Written by Gothic Metalhead on 09.12.2020 at 06:54

Am I the only person who thinks this album is so bad is good?


I havent heard of anybody yet who thinks this album "is so bad is good". So, yes, I guess so.
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09.12.2020 - 23:14
Rating: 7
Gothic Metalhead
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I havent heard of anybody yet who thinks this album "is so bad is good". So, yes, I guess so.



I think it's a bad album but I gave it a 7 because it still entertaining in an ironic way. For laughter
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28.03.2021 - 13:28
Rating: 3
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
This was the first Metallica album I ever listened to back when it was released, and I'm still just in shock now, as I was back in the day by it. After all these years just thinking about this album makes me cringe, it's not the Metallica that once was for sure. I understand bands eventually need change, but this was not for the better.

I found the lyrics to the title song embarrassing to listen to, the chorus was annoying and cheesy as hell, and "Frantic" was a total shocker! In fact all the songs on this album are pretty bad imo.

Thankfully I discovered their earlier material and I wasn't put off by the band completely, it's hard to think the same band had released Ride The Lightning, but not many bands can produce masterpiece after masterpiece.
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17.05.2021 - 12:52
Rating: 3
Mehrad

Best of the 'bottom 20' !
I give it a 3 just because of "FRANTIC TIC TIC TIC TIC TIC TOC" and "PURIFAAA-YEEEEEEEEEE"
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Ride a horse that's cleaving through the air and space of dreams.
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17.05.2021 - 13:54
gavdann

I don't think I ever made it through a full listen tbh. Horrible sound, horrible production, terrible lyrically. Awful.
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26.06.2021 - 20:05
WizardSlayer99

Immaculate production, that snare reminded me why I love metal music.
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29.01.2022 - 17:56
Rating: 2
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Fran-tic-tic-tic-tic-toc!

I appreciate the raw anger on this album and the messy instrumentation actually adds to that rawness. This was probably Metallica's way of emulating their earliest garage days.

However, the execution is really bad. It's just not enjoyable to listen to. The vocals are very weak, the drumming sounds like some hobo hitting a trashcan, the riffs can be ok but other times they make simply annoying sounds.
This album sounds like how non-metalheads think all metal sounds like

Like others have said here, it's actually kind of impressive how such talented musicians could have fallen from the musical genius of Ride the Lightning to... this.
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02.05.2022 - 05:15
Rating: 7
pope.88

I've always been afraid to listen to Load, Reload and this album, since all I ever heard were bad things, expecially regarding St. Anger, that was pretty known to be the worst one.
Finally, I have recently decided to go for it, and I want to talk expecially about this one.
I hated Load and Reload at first, it took me about 4 or 5 complete listens to start to appreciate them a little, so I was going into this expecting completely awful shit, something more pop than metal, something unlistenable.
Was i wrong? Yes, I was wrong af. The album is not bad at all. Yes, it is totally different from their previous works, but it has energy and (some) originality and it surly is a metal album. I can understand how someone could be bothered from the drum sound, or the lack of solos, but that's not my case. I enjoyed it first listen, and was hoocked by some songs on the second one.
Sure, they are not Ride the Lightning Metallica's, but we already knew that. Their worst curse and their best blessing at the same time, is to be the band that have given us some of the best music of all time, so that they are always compared to themselves, but if you can avoid it and judge this album for just what it is, I think it's a pretty enjoyable listen...
It's at least better than Load and Reload, and their mostly uninspired hard rock radio formula...
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23.04.2023 - 10:41
Rating: 3
franksamuel0209

Frantic and St Anger are fun songs. Everything else is just a garbled mess. It’s not accessible music for just about anybody
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