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St. Anger

#21
As others have said, it is clearly not their best work. With that being said, it's better than a lot of other bands "best work". Every now and then a band throws out a crap album or two. It happens sometimes. St. Anger wasn't there best, but if you watch their documentary "Some Kind of Monster" it really is amazing that they got an album out and are still a band in my opinion.

So yea, I like it and I take it for what it is.
 
#22
AndyLES said:
I also enjoy the album....criminally underrated. If any other band name was on the album, we'd all be raving how awesome it is.
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I would completely disagree with this. If it DIDN'T say "Metallica" on the cover no one would have ever even heard it because the band that made it would probably still be playing all-ages shows at their local fraternal lodge to 75 highschool kids... just like pretty much everything they've done after the black album. Their discography after the black album is probably the most OVERrated discography in existence.

IMO of course.
 
#23
i thought it was a joke thread.. i was laughing before i even opening it.

i really think they just need to st*u and make music. they are thinking too hard. they thought too hard about trying to be versatile and incorporate blues and stuff, and re get (a big steaming) load and reload.

they set out to make an "angry" metal album with "positive energy".. documentary and therapist in hand, make the biggest pile of crap ive ever heard. then in order to make up for it, they make death magnetic, which is mediocre aside from the disgusting production.

seems like they just need to cut the politics and BS, shut up, and play ******** fast palm mute riffs. and james needs to forget how to "sing" and go back to just yelling $*** and growling at people.
 
#27
I'm not a Metallica fan in the first place, but I'm especially irked by St. Anger. Aside from the aforementioned snare, there's some poor production choices (in my opinion) and bob rock deserved to be fired after this album. Plus, it really feels like everyone in the band is really phoning it in as a whole.
 
#28
Is it a good album, yes, its not that bad when you listen to it as an album. However, listen to every other Metallica album, then listen to St Anger, and you will see why it is their 2nd worse album (reload being the worst).
 
#29
I think Metallica ends on Master of Puppets. I can't stand their newer albums ( "no bass guitar" :/ )But I do like "guitar hero version" of death magnetic, and fan version of st. anger ( somebody got solos into it ... dunno if they were really recorded by metallica but hey, who cares? ;)
 
#31
AndyLES said:
I also enjoy the album....criminally underrated. If any other band name was on the album, we'd all be raving how awesome it is.
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+1

I think more than any other band, people have their little idea of what Metallica should be doing. They'd be happier if the band had never evolved since the 80's (despite the fact that MOP and AJFA was as far as they could take their proggy thrash metal). I think Kirk Hammett said it best when he talked about how people got mad whem Metallica became a band they "couldn't fit in their back pocket anymore".

I think St Anger is just too much for a lot of people. It's frightening and intense, much more intense than anything Metallica have done before or since. I just love it. I only wish it had Jason playing bass on it!
 
#32
I like the album. It's not something I can listen to for long periods of time as the recording technique wears on you pretty quickly, but it does give the album an edge to it like none other. In a day of cookie-cutter engineering and producing, I'll never fault a band for stretching out in an unconventional direction. I'd rather see Metallica do what they did than put together a bunch of cheesey "best of" albums with one or two new songs and then head out on a tour. Some folks need to keep all that in perspective.
 

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