For me, St anger is bad. But I have to say, it is an album I can come back to and just play along to, just to release emotions. Alot of songs aren't well rounded. But Frantic, Sweet Amber and Unnamed Feeling definitely were the better songs on the album. Before people attack me with YOU DONT KNOW METALLICA My dad played their old stuff from cassettes when I was a toddler. It is a big dissappointment, but taking into consideration what was happening, it is a good effort. But that is my opinion, I know alot of people will disagree with me.
I look at it like this. Without St. Anger, Metallica would've probably broken up. And I'm sure many people who hate St. Anger would rather put up with the albums existence then have Metallica break up.
Mosh Sigit I'm depressed asf rn and it sucks bc music almost has no feel to it at all. St. Anger? I can't feel angry i can't feel anything whatsoever. I guess i just listen to it to keep my head busy.
To me, this album is opening up a raw wound. It was what it's supposed to be, raw, angry and unpolished. It truly reflected where the band was at that point of their history. Also, this guy takes forever to get to his review, just get to the fucking point, dude. No need to explain what you're going to do, just do it.
Load and ReLoad didn't have great lyrics? Did I hear that right? Load and ReLoad have some of their most deep, personal, and well thought out lyrics. See Bleeding Me, Until It Sleeps, Outlaw Torn, Fixxxer, Unforgiven II, Low Man's Lyric, etc.
I agree. I can relate to a ton of the lyrical content in load and reload. They aren't "prototypical" metallica songs but they weren't angsty 20 year old kids writing about the government and shit like a lot of their early stuff
It's like ...And Justice for All, just nowhere near as good, but even that's pretty good considering ...AJFA is fucking amazing in nearly every possible way.
St. Anger is a personal album for me.This album was released in my final year of secondary school. I didn't enjoy school because I simply didn't fit in,didn't have many friends and was frustrated that I couldn't be my own person in the way I wanted to. St Anger spoke to me in volumes where despite naff lines like "motherfuckers got in my head,tried to make me someone else instead", enabled me to embrace my inner blues in retrospect at the end of a long journey just as they did.I salute St Anger.
The prison music video got me into them though, won't lie. Then I looked everything up, but started with this, then black, then the load era, and the big 4 albums while waiting for Death Magnetic (which I found ok).
Thanks :) It was never so bad that I was suicidal or anything. I was strong enough to keep studying and not fake sickness to avoid school.From that,I got into University, currently sitting my second degree,Law. My relation to S.A refers to that "emotional genius" as outlined by CKN."It comes alive and I die a little more" (Unnamed Feeling) sums the moments where I felt secure to suddenly feel cold again."Shoot Me Again" was the light at the end of the tunnel surviving was inevitable -and I did.
Excellent review, coverkillernation. I like your analysis of St Anger, and how you really went into the music itself, as well as the circumstances surrounding it. Honestly, this may be off topic, but I would LOVE to see coverkillernation do reviews of the Cure & R.E.M.
I started out disliking St. Anger, couldn't get through 2 or 3 songs. Then I entered a period in my life of being chronically pissed off, and St. Anger returned to my CD player. It started to embody my emotional state at the time, and it really helped me get through those tough periods. The raw, acute, chronic and lingering reflections of anger really do the album's title justice, and truly reflect a variety of emotional states of anger. Now I think it is simply superb, perhaps Metallica's best.
One thing I think many people don't talk about with St. Anger is that it was recorded and released during a time when the nu-metal genre was very prevalent. It became common place for the later bands to have a lead guitarist who's knowledge didn't expand beyond a handful of chords. This is talked about in the Some Kind of Monster movie when deciding about guitar solos. Do not get me wrong, there were many other problems that made the album a flop. But they had a concept for St. Anger, it wasn't the worst idea especially with fans spending most of the decade trashing their direction. But I consider St. Anger to be Metallica's attempt at trying to be a nu-metal band--giving into the times and straying away from the identity they established Metallica with, of which includes solos.
I do agree with him in saying its a lot better than the shit bands we have today, the fact its a record by a band called Metallica immediately raises expectations from fans to something that has to be good... I didn't really like this album when it came out but now I do find time for it, I even prefer it to Death Magnetic
Most of the people don't like St.Anger they may have their opinion but this album is beautiful. Maybe people haven't understood it yet, but every song in this album is full of emotions, of anger, and, of course, it's full of really cool riffs, when i listened this first time, inderstood, that every song in St. Anger is better than any song i've ever heard.This album is the best thing in me life. I love it.
Very personnal album for me. When I got this album I was in a darker stage in my life. I got made fun of at school just for liking metal instead of that Lil Wayne/Drake Bullshit. I didnt have many friends and I didnt talk very much. But for some reason when I listened to this album,(espeacally "The Unnamed Feeling") It always made me feel better. This eventually made me pick my life back up and get a girlfriend. This album really is an emotional genius and holds a special spot in my heart.
Honestly I think that recording in that military base was what set off the negative and violent energies on the album. There's a lot of pent up aggressions in the military and it seemed to influence the guys in Metallica. They stopped recording there and moved to a different studio where things seemed to settle down. I actually like the album because its fun to listen to while pissed off and afterwards I feel better. Yes Lars does need a different snare sound and TBH I think that they should have waited until they got Rob into the band and had him finish the bass tracks.
I loved this album, not their best, but definitely not their worst. It has some great songs like "shoot me again", "some kind of monster", "st anger", "sweet amber", and "all within my hate". It helps me calm down if I'm pissed, and I love the sound of it. Good album \m/ \m/
Mainly because i'm not a metal fan (apart from Zeppelin and Metallica), never have been and never will be to the extent other fans are. I hated nu metal especially. During that time I wasn't listening to any of the music that was popular at the time (techno and nu-metal). The music I listened to at the time was my escape and "rebellion" because I genuinely liked it, no one else did. They're still my favourite artists to this day: Beatles, Stones, Oasis, Crowded House, REM, Weezer to name a few.
"Kinda tastes good" is still an exaggeration, man. I just listened to it, a huge Metallica fan, going through their discography again in this lockdown, and, well, I couldn't give it more than a 2/10 rating. I have 0 songs downloaded from this album but it does have moments or snippets that I liked which is why it isn't a total 0/10 but still, this is pretty shit.
For me, my "metal" back in the day was Pearl Jam. Yield, Binaural, Vitalogy, Lost Dogs and Riot Act were on high rotation back in the day. They were the soundtrack for my darker moods.
Until recently I never gave this album a chance. I heard about the drum sound lack of solos and figured it had to suck. Then I realized how much I loved AJFA (BAss add of course) despite its tin can drum sound and how Vitalogy is a great Pearl Jam album despite having no solos. If you trim the song's down a bit then this would be a great album
If the album was just Frantic, St Anger, Dirty Window, Unnamed Feeling and All Within My Hands minus the KILL KILL KILL part, and if it had better snare tone and some guitar solos here and there, it would be okay.
you must admit though, as much as you may hate this album, St.Anger really does have some really heavy riffs such as the main riff to Some kind of monster, the intro in My World, and basically the entirety of Sweet Amber.
I'm just listening to this album for more or less the first time because I had been avoiding it for a while but I honestly don't think it's as bad as how much everyone has shit on it. I honestly like it as something different from other Metallica albums. Metal heads are very close minded.
I feel like if the snare was better sounding, I really think that it would sound really good. I've been replacing all the snares with a better sounding snare and I must say, it's actually a very good album. I really like it. Definitely not the best Metallica album for sure. If you think of it as a Metallica album, it's a really bad album, but if you see it as it's own album, it's fairly good.
I get the crap it gets by people. But I like it, it captured the theme of anger throughout the album. Has a grunge way about it. Always holding a grudge and angry throughout. With some melodic parts thrown in to show the anger and helplessness of the tone of the songs.
I much prefer the DVD that came with the album of them jamming all the songs out in the rehearsal space over the actual album. The sound is better and they just have more vibe that way.
The strange thing about this album was the lyrics and song structures. James an Lars ditched the traditional Metallica way of writing. A result of all the weirdness with Psychotherapist, Rehab, members leaving.
Ofcourse it isn't like their older stuff, but it feels to me that they wrote this album purely for themselves. All of the songs are about different emotions, would that anxiety, anger, fear or whatever. At first i kinda disliked the album, but after i listened to it from beginning to end watched the studio performance of the entire album, i really started to like it. And to me The Unnamed feeling is such a powerful song and i can almost feel James's anxiety through that song. I think it's an awesome album, but i don't quite like the album sound, i like the studio sound more.
I actually love this album more than all the other one's. I love the trash can sounding snare. I hated this album for a year or two, but the more I listened to it the more I liked it. Before I knew it I was listening to it every day! I still love it ten years later....
yeah there is some really crushing riffs on this album - the songwriting was the main issue and feels like lots of awesome song ideas just thrown together. As a drummer though i just cant stand the drums. Overall I like the raw lo-fi feel to the album and i do listen to this record.
While it might be Metallica’s weakest album, I don’t dislike St. Anger at all. I like it. Frantic, St. Anger, Dirty Window, Invisible Kid, Sweet Amber, The Unnamed Feeling, and All Within My Hands are great songs. Some Kind of Monster isn’t bad, but it’s a bit too long. If the album was better produced and if the songs weren’t overly long, the album would be amazing. I enjoy St. Anger for what it is: Metallica were going through a difficult time, so they couldn’t be at their best.
I think the lack of solos is a huge problem. This album needed something to break up the monotonous sound, guitar solos would have taken care of that. Not saying every song needed one, but 3 or 4 would have made the album a little more dynamic.
Wow.I'm actually very surprised how well and calmly this review went. I like this one much better than the "redone" one. That one made you look idiotic and imature. This one is much more mature and sofisticated. The "redone" st anger review was actually the 1st review i saw from you and since i actually like st anger i was not much of a fan right away, but then saw your 80s reviews and this one, and my opinion is changed.and i agree st anger sounds a lot better than most stuff nowadays.
I really like the song Some Kind of Monster. The thing that really bothered my with St. Anger is the mixing. I Like the Metallic sound of the Drums, but did they really have to turn down the guitars to where its barely audible.
Popular opinion said in june of 2003 this album went #1 selling multi million.popular opinion said Metallica toured stadiums in america that summer. So you can take it either way you want it. Did i get this album the day it came out? yes. did i listen to it alot that summer ? Yes. Have i listened to it recently? No. is it as good as master of puppets? No. was the band going to break up? Yes. does this album show that? Yes. Does this album suck? No.
Nothing memorable of this piece of shit album. Oh wait, I do remember something memorable: Klonk klonk, klonk klonk klonk, klonk klonk.... Nicely done Lars. And yes, literally, this album has a thick layer of dust on the shelve. Thank fuck I didn't buy Lulu for that matter...
If the band had delayed the release and fixed things up this could have been okay. (cut down lengths, add solos, fix drums, make things less repetitive)
They use Half a step down tuning live now, there's plenty of bands that use standard and switch to drop C or even C standard and are fine, it's nothing to do with that.
The "movie" was Metallica just jamming and recording for 2 hours which was fine for the first 1/2 hour but after that it was boring. Oh, and Rick Rubin is not to be seen throughout the clip. Admittedly, Some Kind Of Monster I found cringe-worthy at times thinking, "this is so childish". But watch it again and I would agree with you saying they look more human. The thing is if I compare it to "The Wretched Spawn" clip, there is no drama, just funny stuff happens and you learn more about the band.
I didn't like this album back in 2003 but I gave it another listen today and even tho it's still nothing great I actually liked it alittle more now I'm 2021
St. Anger is an underrated and over-hated album. Yes, the production quality is terrible. Yes, some of the songs are awful. Yes, it sucks that there are no solos. However, in my opinion, Metallica really captured the raw and aggressive sound they wanted very well. Songs like; Frantic, St. Anger, Some Kind of Monster, Sweet Amber, and the Unnamed Feeling are decent/good songs. As a result of their experimentation with standard C tuning, the riffs are heavy! I personally believe that Load and ReLoad are the weakest Metallica albums.
I really like St Anger! And I'm not a big Metallica fan at all. The albums after St Anger I have heard like one or two times and I didn't like them at all. St Anger was different and wierd but I think it was a really kind of good different and wierd.
Unfortunately that's a stigma you get in the Metallica fanbase where because the album didn't reflect who they were in the 1980s,it wasn't noteworthy when at the end of the day they were dismissing Metallica's most honest,sincere work to date.St Anger is no masterpiece when it comes to creativity,but they were more in tune with their art form on this album than they were Death Magnetic which was just an exercise in revisiting the safe formula they established for themselves decades ago.
i agee with you. st. anger is meh, but i do like two songs on this album and those are Invisible Kid and The Unnamed Feeling. i'm not sure why but those sound kind of cool to me.
Idk y people hate on this album so much...its the most dark album they had...isn't metal supposed to he dark and angry? This is a great catharsis album. Not everything has to be pretty people
The lyrics to "Invisible Kid" make me laugh out loud every time. I don't think even the cheesiest unicorns and fairies pseudo-power metal band could even write lyrics that vomit-worthy. I mean, the entire album is awful, awful, awful, but "Invisible Kid" takes it to another level of comedy. (Not the laugh riot that is "Lulu," but "Lulu" is spectacularly and bizarrely funny-bad, and in a league of its own.) "Raw sound" and "jamming in the garage" is great, but you still have to have decent songs, decent musicianship, and decent sound. And if you're trying to be angry, don't write lyrics like "Invisible Kid."
+Anon Man It definitely is hysterical. Sad, but hysterical. There are few things in the history of music as awful as "The View" (and the rest of "Lulu."
St Anger is not bad example St Amber , St Anger, The Unnamed felling, Shoot Me Again , My World, Some Kind of Monster and Frantic and it is also there heaviest album
If Metallica re-recorded this album, added solos, and tightened the lyrics, this album could be great. It is a heavy album, but it's just sloppy shit. It has the ingredients to be great, though.
As Adam D of KSE says, "Home boy's [Lars] drums sound like they were recorded in a racquetball court!" Regardless of who says that statement, the drums remark is so true. But man, didn't Metallica look like idiots with "Some Kind of Monster". But the funny thing is, they did the 2 hour film for Death Magnetic, and that film made "Some Kind of Monster" look amazing!!
Even though this album, musically, might be one of the worse ones made by metallica.. Though, I really like it and I think it is the MOST PERSONAL one out there.. So even though, musically it doesnt seem like Metallica, its a GREAT album and I think that if it havent been done by metallica it would be considered a good album .. My 2 cents
I can't say I hate St. Anger. I feel like it was their first time since Burton's death they actually gave a shit about the music they were putting out. Fix the snare and to me, St. Anger is a 6/10 album.
I think another reason they dont play the songs besides the hate and being to long is most metallica guitar is in standard tuning, and the title track alone is drop c. Which is very wierd for metallica
I enjoy the album. Yes it's noisy, but I enjoy it. Metallica was not in good shape as a band, let alone as people. The band almost broke apart when James and Jason were gone. The record was pretty much doomed from the start. Whether or not you like the album, it was an album that needed to be made, for the band's sake. The process of making the album made them a better stronger band, and better, stronger people. If St. Anger hadn't happened, we probably wouldn't have Metallica now. Is it their best? Not even close. Is it their worst? I don't think so. It's honestly one of the most important albums the band has ever made, along with The Black Album and Kill Em' All.
And the album was a huge shock to people, so they either accepted it immediately, or hated it immediately. But after ten years, people cooled down and had a hell of a lot of time to actually think about it.
This album was terrible. Some Kind of Monster and Invisible Kid are the worst songs I ever heard. However, there was one shining light on the album, even though it was only an ok song. That song is Dirty Window.
This album was a disappointment then... It's actually worse now... I dug it out and listened again after watching this to see for myself. I really dislike this album. Not one I will return to again, maybe ever. I do own it as I am a Metallica fan, but this single album seems completely lazy and rushed and more like a form of therapy for the band then an actual artistic venture. St. Anger stays where it belongs, at the bottom of the heap.
Unfortunately, due to St. Anger Metallica will be remembered not only as the greatest metal band ever but as the band who completely lost it in their later years. For me personally, their 80s stuff is so great that I give them a pass for everything that followed.
It's not that bad. Easily in my top 20 Metallica albums.
For real tho it's my 10th favorite
Even though I adore this album this dude does bring up some valid points and has earned a subscription from me. Good job man.
I have to admit, I really quite like St. Anger. I like how raw it sounds, lyrics could do with some polishing but I quite like it, snare and all.
For me, St anger is bad. But I have to say, it is an album I can come back to and just play along to, just to release emotions.
Alot of songs aren't well rounded. But Frantic, Sweet Amber and Unnamed Feeling definitely were the better songs on the album.
Before people attack me with YOU DONT KNOW METALLICA
My dad played their old stuff from cassettes when I was a toddler.
It is a big dissappointment, but taking into consideration what was happening, it is a good effort.
But that is my opinion, I know alot of people will disagree with me.
When I was under the age of 5 my dad used to never play music.
I look at it like this. Without St. Anger, Metallica would've probably broken up. And I'm sure many people who hate St. Anger would rather put up with the albums existence then have Metallica break up.
SneakyQbone I love it all
Whatever anyone says, Some Kind of Monster, The Unnamed Feeling, Sweet Amber, St. Anger and Shoot Me Again are all fantastic songs.
and that is your opinion
+Based Clarkson you just wanna believe in those songs like that. LIKE A PRAYING MAN IN A DISGUSTING RELIGION.
if you like the sound of garbage cans
+Based Clarkson Agree - even Frantic if you could only ignore the stupid "tick-tock" part
If I made a top 10 list, I'd definitely be throwing Unnamed Feeling on there
St Anger was way ahead of its time and innovative , in my view. I used to hate it, but learned to understand it. It's raw and amazing.
The snare is fucking awful and there's no solos
I love st anger. this album helped me through a lot from depression back when i was in highschool. 2003 fucking emotional era.
Mosh Sigit I'm depressed asf rn and it sucks bc music almost has no feel to it at all. St. Anger? I can't feel angry i can't feel anything whatsoever. I guess i just listen to it to keep my head busy.
To me, this album is opening up a raw wound. It was what it's supposed to be, raw, angry and unpolished. It truly reflected where the band was at that point of their history. Also, this guy takes forever to get to his review, just get to the fucking point, dude. No need to explain what you're going to do, just do it.
Load and ReLoad didn't have great lyrics? Did I hear that right? Load and ReLoad have some of their most deep, personal, and well thought out lyrics. See Bleeding Me, Until It Sleeps, Outlaw Torn, Fixxxer, Unforgiven II, Low Man's Lyric, etc.
LOL
Red Vendetta Remasters good joke
I agree. I can relate to a ton of the lyrical content in load and reload. They aren't "prototypical" metallica songs but they weren't angsty 20 year old kids writing about the government and shit like a lot of their early stuff
I agree with you. My most favorite song is Bleeding Me it's not any song on their fisrt 4 albums, kinda strange
you absolutely nailed it with the point about "good idea, bad execution" very well said
It's like ...And Justice for All, just nowhere near as good, but even that's pretty good considering ...AJFA is fucking amazing in nearly every possible way.
St. Anger is a personal album for me.This album was released in my final year of secondary school. I didn't enjoy school because I simply didn't fit in,didn't have many friends and was frustrated that I couldn't be my own person in the way I wanted to. St Anger spoke to me in volumes where despite naff lines like "motherfuckers got in my head,tried to make me someone else instead", enabled me to embrace my inner blues in retrospect at the end of a long journey just as they did.I salute St Anger.
This period of Metallica is like the Glam Metal period of Discharge (dark times, lets put it that way)
Napster Baaaaaaaad, Beer Goooood
Drink and destroy!!
FIRE BAAAAAADDDD! camp chaos GOOOOD
Panda160 Metallica gooooood, megadeth baaaaad
St Anger is ok
pshhh
The prison music video got me into them though, won't lie. Then I looked everything up, but started with this, then black, then the load era, and the big 4 albums while waiting for Death Magnetic (which I found ok).
Just like the paradox you talked about, walking in circles, St. Anger is back!! They started playing it live now.
St. Anger is an album that I personally enjoy very much. I'm in no mood to analyze why, but I feel allone on liking this.
Thanks :) It was never so bad that I was suicidal or anything. I was strong enough to keep studying and not fake sickness to avoid school.From that,I got into University, currently sitting my second degree,Law. My relation to S.A refers to that "emotional genius" as outlined by CKN."It comes alive and I die a little more" (Unnamed Feeling) sums the moments where I felt secure to suddenly feel cold again."Shoot Me Again" was the light at the end of the tunnel surviving was inevitable -and I did.
Excellent review, coverkillernation. I like your analysis of St Anger, and how you really went into the music itself, as well as the circumstances surrounding it. Honestly, this may be off topic, but I would LOVE to see coverkillernation do reviews of the Cure & R.E.M.
I started out disliking St. Anger, couldn't get through 2 or 3 songs. Then I entered a period in my life of being chronically pissed off, and St. Anger returned to my CD player. It started to embody my emotional state at the time, and it really helped me get through those tough periods. The raw, acute, chronic and lingering reflections of anger really do the album's title justice, and truly reflect a variety of emotional states of anger. Now I think it is simply superb, perhaps Metallica's best.
One thing I think many people don't talk about with St. Anger is that it was recorded and released during a time when the nu-metal genre was very prevalent. It became common place for the later bands to have a lead guitarist who's knowledge didn't expand beyond a handful of chords. This is talked about in the Some Kind of Monster movie when deciding about guitar solos. Do not get me wrong, there were many other problems that made the album a flop. But they had a concept for St. Anger, it wasn't the worst idea especially with fans spending most of the decade trashing their direction. But I consider St. Anger to be Metallica's attempt at trying to be a nu-metal band--giving into the times and straying away from the identity they established Metallica with, of which includes solos.
I thought I Disapear was a good song better than anything on st anger thats for damn sure
anyone else noticed how Metallica's lyrics turned to fire desire ever since Cliff Burton's passing?
I do agree with him in saying its a lot better than the shit bands we have today, the fact its a record by a band called Metallica immediately raises expectations from fans to something that has to be good... I didn't really like this album when it came out but now I do find time for it, I even prefer it to Death Magnetic
Most of the people don't like St.Anger they may have their opinion but this album is beautiful. Maybe people haven't understood it yet, but every song in this album is full of emotions, of anger, and, of course, it's full of really cool riffs, when i listened this first time, inderstood, that every song in St. Anger is better than any song i've ever heard.This album is the best thing in me life. I love it.
St.Anger is the worst album in rock History,i give it (1/10)
A 1/10 is to high
Very personnal album for me. When I got this album I was in a darker stage in my life. I got made fun of at school just for liking metal instead of that Lil Wayne/Drake Bullshit. I didnt have many friends and I didnt talk very much. But for some reason when I listened to this album,(espeacally "The Unnamed Feeling") It always made me feel better. This eventually made me pick my life back up and get a girlfriend. This album really is an emotional genius and holds a special spot in my heart.
Honestly I think that recording in that military base was what set off the negative and violent energies on the album. There's a lot of pent up aggressions in the military and it seemed to influence the guys in Metallica. They stopped recording there and moved to a different studio where things seemed to settle down. I actually like the album because its fun to listen to while pissed off and afterwards I feel better. Yes Lars does need a different snare sound and TBH I think that they should have waited until they got Rob into the band and had him finish the bass tracks.
I loved this album, not their best, but definitely not their worst. It has some great songs like "shoot me again", "some kind of monster", "st anger", "sweet amber", and "all within my hate". It helps me calm down if I'm pissed, and I love the sound of it. Good album \m/ \m/
Mainly because i'm not a metal fan (apart from Zeppelin and Metallica), never have been and never will be to the extent other fans are. I hated nu metal especially. During that time I wasn't listening to any of the music that was popular at the time (techno and nu-metal). The music I listened to at the time was my escape and "rebellion" because I genuinely liked it, no one else did. They're still my favourite artists to this day: Beatles, Stones, Oasis, Crowded House, REM, Weezer to name a few.
Nice timing, the St Anger review for your 888 video!
"Kinda tastes good" is still an exaggeration, man. I just listened to it, a huge Metallica fan, going through their discography again in this lockdown, and, well, I couldn't give it more than a 2/10 rating. I have 0 songs downloaded from this album but it does have moments or snippets that I liked which is why it isn't a total 0/10 but still, this is pretty shit.
For me, my "metal" back in the day was Pearl Jam. Yield, Binaural, Vitalogy, Lost Dogs and Riot Act were on high rotation back in the day. They were the soundtrack for my darker moods.
Until recently I never gave this album a chance. I heard about the drum sound lack of solos and figured it had to suck. Then I realized how much I loved AJFA (BAss add of course) despite its tin can drum sound and how Vitalogy is a great Pearl Jam album despite having no solos.
If you trim the song's down a bit then this would be a great album
I think Sweet Amber, Dirty Window and Frantic were the best on St. Anger. Who cares what anyone else thinks
THIS HOUSE IS CLEAN BAAAAAAABBYYYY
+Tye Hulm ha ha lol
I enjoy invisible kid and some kind of monster
If the album was just Frantic, St Anger, Dirty Window, Unnamed Feeling and All Within My Hands minus the KILL KILL KILL part, and if it had better snare tone and some guitar solos here and there, it would be okay.
you must admit though, as much as you may hate this album, St.Anger really does have some really heavy riffs such as the main riff to Some kind of monster, the intro in My World, and basically the entirety of Sweet Amber.
I Think we need a Testament Discography, and especially, and Overkill discography. Both deserve it.
Such a brilliant point about the music from today vs 10 years ago when the album released. Very well thought out.
I'm just listening to this album for more or less the first time because I had been avoiding it for a while but I honestly don't think it's as bad as how much everyone has shit on it. I honestly like it as something different from other Metallica albums. Metal heads are very close minded.
Yup. That's pretty much my opinion too. When I'm pissed or depressed it works great for me.
I feel like if the snare was better sounding, I really think that it would sound really good. I've been replacing all the snares with a better sounding snare and I must say, it's actually a very good album. I really like it. Definitely not the best Metallica album for sure. If you think of it as a Metallica album, it's a really bad album, but if you see it as it's own album, it's fairly good.
Coverkiller... Your St. Anger review is what i mostly remember you for. I remember having a good laugh during that video review. Hilarious...
I get the crap it gets by people. But I like it, it captured the theme of anger throughout the album. Has a grunge way about it. Always holding a grudge and angry throughout. With some melodic parts thrown in to show the anger and helplessness of the tone of the songs.
I much prefer the DVD that came with the album of them jamming all the songs out in the rehearsal space over the actual album. The sound is better and they just have more vibe that way.
The strange thing about this album was the lyrics and song structures. James an Lars ditched the traditional Metallica way of writing. A result of all the weirdness with Psychotherapist, Rehab, members leaving.
Ofcourse it isn't like their older stuff, but it feels to me that they wrote this album purely for themselves. All of the songs are about different emotions, would that anxiety, anger, fear or whatever. At first i kinda disliked the album, but after i listened to it from beginning to end watched the studio performance of the entire album, i really started to like it. And to me The Unnamed feeling is such a powerful song and i can almost feel James's anxiety through that song. I think it's an awesome album, but i don't quite like the album sound, i like the studio sound more.
I actually love this album more than all the other one's. I love the trash can sounding snare. I hated this album for a year or two, but the more I listened to it the more I liked it. Before I knew it I was listening to it every day! I still love it ten years later....
ITS A GOOD ALBUM WHY DOES IT GET SO MUCH HATE!
Christian Whitmore idk
Drogon you are the table
Bad production, the snare, no guitar solos, repetition, horrid lyrics, and songs are longer than they need to be
yeah there is some really crushing riffs on this album - the songwriting was the main issue and feels like lots of awesome song ideas just thrown together. As a drummer though i just cant stand the drums. Overall I like the raw lo-fi feel to the album and i do listen to this record.
Some kind of Monster was easily the best song on this album
THIS HOUSE IS CLEAN BABY! THIS HOUSE IS CLEAN
Ill never forget your freak out during the 1st SA review. Epic & funny as shit!!!!!
While it might be Metallica’s weakest album, I don’t dislike St. Anger at all. I like it. Frantic, St. Anger, Dirty Window, Invisible Kid, Sweet Amber, The Unnamed Feeling, and All Within My Hands are great songs. Some Kind of Monster isn’t bad, but it’s a bit too long. If the album was better produced and if the songs weren’t overly long, the album would be amazing. I enjoy St. Anger for what it is: Metallica were going through a difficult time, so they couldn’t be at their best.
I'm just a straight up Metallica fan (Everything from Kill 'Em All to Lulu I enjoy with absolute passion)
I think the lack of solos is a huge problem. This album needed something to break up the monotonous sound, guitar solos would have taken care of that. Not saying every song needed one, but 3 or 4 would have made the album a little more dynamic.
Wow.I'm actually very surprised how well and calmly this review went. I like this one much better than the "redone" one. That one made you look idiotic and imature. This one is much more mature and sofisticated. The "redone" st anger review was actually the 1st review i saw from you and since i actually like st anger i was not much of a fan right away, but then saw your 80s reviews and this one, and my opinion is changed.and i agree st anger sounds a lot better than most stuff nowadays.
Metallica Greatest Hits double disc set is my favorite, includes ballads and instrumentals, and includes Nothing from St Anger.
I really hate that there are no solos but that's the best rationale,and the only one that makes sense I've ever heard defending that
Will you be waiting until Hail to the King is officially released before reviewing it? Can't wait to hear your thoughts on Death Magnetic too!
I really like the song Some Kind of Monster. The thing that really bothered my with St. Anger is the mixing. I Like the Metallic sound of the Drums, but did they really have to turn down the guitars to where its barely audible.
Popular opinion said in june of 2003 this album went #1 selling multi million.popular opinion said Metallica toured stadiums in america that summer. So you can take it either way you want it. Did i get this album the day it came out? yes. did i listen to it alot that summer ? Yes. Have i listened to it recently? No. is it as good as master of puppets? No. was the band going to break up? Yes. does this album show that? Yes. Does this album suck? No.
St. Anger is a strange album for me: I think it's awful. BUT has a lot of a potential. A few tweaks and I think this album would be really solid.
What if Metallica re-recorded St. Anger with a different snare? It would probably be an instant classic!
With a standard snare it would be called st happy 😈
The snare is absolutely not the only horrible thing about this album
+Matt White hahaha I fucking lold
And better lyrics. Better EVERYTHING. lol
They are still very basic songs, no solos? what where they thinking
Nothing memorable of this piece of shit album. Oh wait, I do remember something memorable:
Klonk klonk, klonk klonk klonk, klonk klonk....
Nicely done Lars. And yes, literally, this album has a thick layer of dust on the shelve. Thank fuck I didn't buy Lulu for that matter...
@ Barend: lol. how true.
Barend Vermaak Lulu wasn't a Metallica album. It was a Lou Reeds album with Metallica guest starring.
Barend Vermaak So it is completely off topic here.
If the band had delayed the release and fixed things up this could have been okay. (cut down lengths, add solos, fix drums, make things less repetitive)
They use Half a step down tuning live now, there's plenty of bands that use standard and switch to drop C or even C standard and are fine, it's nothing to do with that.
I really really like this album. It fits great within their discography.
The "movie" was Metallica just jamming and recording for 2 hours which was fine for the first 1/2 hour but after that it was boring. Oh, and Rick Rubin is not to be seen throughout the clip.
Admittedly, Some Kind Of Monster I found cringe-worthy at times thinking, "this is so childish". But watch it again and I would agree with you saying they look more human. The thing is if I compare it to "The Wretched Spawn" clip, there is no drama, just funny stuff happens and you learn more about the band.
I get why it’s called st anger It’s because a lot of people are angry about the album it all makes sense now
I didn't like this album back in 2003 but I gave it another listen today and even tho it's still nothing great I actually liked it alittle more now I'm 2021
St. Anger is an underrated and over-hated album. Yes, the production quality is terrible. Yes, some of the songs are awful. Yes, it sucks that there are no solos. However, in my opinion, Metallica really captured the raw and aggressive sound they wanted very well. Songs like; Frantic, St. Anger, Some Kind of Monster, Sweet Amber, and the Unnamed Feeling are decent/good songs. As a result of their experimentation with standard C tuning, the riffs are heavy! I personally believe that Load and ReLoad are the weakest Metallica albums.
I really like St Anger! And I'm not a big Metallica fan at all. The albums after St Anger I have heard like one or two times and I didn't like them at all. St Anger was different and wierd but I think it was a really kind of good different and wierd.
Unfortunately that's a stigma you get in the Metallica fanbase where because the album didn't reflect who they were in the 1980s,it wasn't noteworthy when at the end of the day they were dismissing Metallica's most honest,sincere work to date.St Anger is no masterpiece when it comes to creativity,but they were more in tune with their art form on this album than they were Death Magnetic which was just an exercise in revisiting the safe formula they established for themselves decades ago.
Totally agree, even the "kill kill kill kill kill" is better than "i am the table"...
i agee with you. st. anger is meh, but i do like two songs on this album and those are Invisible Kid and The Unnamed Feeling. i'm not sure why but those sound kind of cool to me.
Idk y people hate on this album so much...its the most dark album they had...isn't metal supposed to he dark and angry? This is a great catharsis album. Not everything has to be pretty people
The lyrics to "Invisible Kid" make me laugh out loud every time. I don't think even the cheesiest unicorns and fairies pseudo-power metal band could even write lyrics that vomit-worthy. I mean, the entire album is awful, awful, awful, but "Invisible Kid" takes it to another level of comedy. (Not the laugh riot that is "Lulu," but "Lulu" is spectacularly and bizarrely funny-bad, and in a league of its own.)
"Raw sound" and "jamming in the garage" is great, but you still have to have decent songs, decent musicianship, and decent sound. And if you're trying to be angry, don't write lyrics like "Invisible Kid."
+Anon Man It definitely is hysterical. Sad, but hysterical.
There are few things in the history of music as awful as "The View" (and the rest of "Lulu."
P.s if you haven't done it already id like to see you do both the entire black sabbath discography
St Anger is not bad example St Amber , St Anger, The Unnamed felling, Shoot Me Again , My World, Some Kind of Monster and Frantic and it is also there heaviest album
Define heavy? personally i think AJFA is easily their heaviest album.
Well, if heavy refers to how impactful it is soundwise, then yes, it is by far their heaviest album, followed by the Black album.
Wtf?
If Metallica re-recorded this album, added solos, and tightened the lyrics, this album could be great. It is a heavy album, but it's just sloppy shit. It has the ingredients to be great, though.
While I love The Unnamed Feeling, St. Anger was a pretty bad album.
The unnamed feeling was the best song on the album. Not saying a lot but it was better than the other songs
As Adam D of KSE says, "Home boy's [Lars] drums sound like they were recorded in a racquetball court!"
Regardless of who says that statement, the drums remark is so true.
But man, didn't Metallica look like idiots with "Some Kind of Monster". But the funny thing is, they did the 2 hour film for Death Magnetic, and that film made "Some Kind of Monster" look amazing!!
Even though this album, musically, might be one of the worse ones made by metallica.. Though, I really like it and I think it is the MOST PERSONAL one out there.. So even though, musically it doesnt seem like Metallica, its a GREAT album and I think that if it havent been done by metallica it would be considered a good album .. My 2 cents
you forgot to mention that the whole napster thing which what caused fans to part and was the main upset of the band at the time -
i like Kill Em All, the raw and wild nature of it is just amazing
i even had to switch the speakers off :D.... and would like to see you in 10 years
I can't say I hate St. Anger. I feel like it was their first time since Burton's death they actually gave a shit about the music they were putting out. Fix the snare and to me, St. Anger is a 6/10 album.
I think another reason they dont play the songs besides the hate and being to long is most metallica guitar is in standard tuning, and the title track alone is drop c. Which is very wierd for metallica
i love st anger i play it all the time they should re release it with better production and have rob actually do the bass on it
I enjoy the album. Yes it's noisy, but I enjoy it. Metallica was not in good shape as a band, let alone as people. The band almost broke apart when James and Jason were gone. The record was pretty much doomed from the start. Whether or not you like the album, it was an album that needed to be made, for the band's sake. The process of making the album made them a better stronger band, and better, stronger people. If St. Anger hadn't happened, we probably wouldn't have Metallica now. Is it their best? Not even close. Is it their worst? I don't think so. It's honestly one of the most important albums the band has ever made, along with The Black Album and Kill Em' All.
Plus, this was their most inclusive album. Literally everyone wrote lyrics and had input.
And the album was a huge shock to people, so they either accepted it immediately, or hated it immediately. But after ten years, people cooled down and had a hell of a lot of time to actually think about it.
This album was terrible. Some Kind of Monster and Invisible Kid are the worst songs I ever heard. However, there was one shining light on the album, even though it was only an ok song. That song is Dirty Window.
And 20 years later it sounds even better.
Reload is pretty good. Some great musicallity in that record.
oh yeah, the lyrics are deep, especially "shoot me again, I ain't dead yet" true poetry ladies and gentlemen!
This album was a disappointment then... It's actually worse now... I dug it out and listened again after watching this to see for myself. I really dislike this album. Not one I will return to again, maybe ever. I do own it as I am a Metallica fan, but this single album seems completely lazy and rushed and more like a form of therapy for the band then an actual artistic venture.
St. Anger stays where it belongs, at the bottom of the heap.
Napster BAD!!!!! Beer GOOD!!!!!
Napster Napster who are you going to call? The Napster Police
Unfortunately, due to St. Anger Metallica will be remembered not only as the greatest metal band ever but as the band who completely lost it in their later years. For me personally, their 80s stuff is so great that I give them a pass for everything that followed.
st.anger has definitely got to be the most repetitive straight forward track in the album you can learn the lyrics instantly too