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Metallica - St. Anger Audio CD

A fair review of the Metallica "St. Anger" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Metallica reviews here, or go back to the Metallica tabs.

Metallica Band: Metallica
Title: St. Anger
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Release Date: 2003-06-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Frantic 2: St. Anger 3: Some Kind Of Monster 4: Dirty Window 5: Invisible Kid 6: My World 7: Shoot Me Again 8: Sweet Amber 9: Unnamed Feeling 10: Purify 11: All Within My Hands

Therapy Session Lyrics
If you keep that in mind the songs are really kind of interesting. This is the album Metallica was working on when they were filming Metallica: Some Kind of Monster(DVD). Especially "The Unnamed Feeling". Metallica - Some Kind of Monster.


Excellent
I saw Some Kind Of Monster and thought these four were pretty smart, funny, down to earth guys. I am not a big Metalica guy: nothing personal. I just don't like modern production, areana rock, or mainstreem metal that much. No sneering here, just a taste issue.

But I gotta tell you, I really like St. Anger, and maybe for a lot of reasons a lot of hardcore Matallica fans don't. It is the flatness of the sound, the way the drums are dampered, the lack of eccho or processing that I enjoy. You can hear the cymbals ressonating, Hatfield breathing before the next phrase, that almost inperceptable hiss that happens when a live band stops. You don't get all this with a huge digital sheen and big production.

This is no spontainous jam record, and when I saw the movie, I saw the work that goes into making a Matallica album. But this does FEEL more off the cuff than most of their work. \

Plus, there is something about watching a band work--in this case in their film--that makes you want to get into them

I am not going to collect the other albums, but for a one night stand with a band, I love this. .


While It's can not even compare to their first four, it's not that bad.
Anger. St. . . . . . hmmm. . . . . . . what to say about this album? Well it definately isn't horrible, it's also not great. I truly enjoyed it pretty well. Although it can not even begin to compare with the masterpeices of their first four thrash monuments, it's still alright. Now I know the lyrics are downright horrible, cheesy in all sense of the word, immature(don't even get me started about FRANTIC with its TIC TIC TOC and so on), and take away from the music itself, but hey I don't really put a big emphisis on lyrics. I just want to listen to the music itself. And the music is good in my opinion; I love how raw and aggressive it is, it sounds as if a garage band is playing out their frustrations, which hey, I have no problem with that. But, I do hate the drums, they're all over the place, and since I have minor ADD that distracts me a little bit, and confuses me and makes me really wonder WTF!!! But, good thing you can't hear them in some the songs, which makes me able to enjoy it alot more.
Another complaint is the length. Now while these songs maybe somewhat good they are pushing with their length, now I'm usually not one to complain about the length of a song, considering I love FUNERAL DOOM, and doom in general, and OPETH!!! But, they at least change it up and make it intersting, St. Anger does not, and it gets a little annoying when you're listening to the same repetive riff and chorus for a full seven minutes.
So all in all, bad lyrics, good music, a tad to long. Good for a workout CD, not so great for a CD to just sit down and listen to, and enjoy, because just listening to the @#$%ing thing closely gets one confused and angry. So hey while it's not great, it's not horrible, so just enjoy.


Give this album a try, you might change your mind.
This CD by Metallica is by all accounts raw, unpolished, angry, and most of all. . REAL. Looking at all the band was going through, I look at this album as therapy and it is good. Nobody can churn out such precise rhythm riffage as James Hetfield, and while as raw as the open wounds spilling from the band members, the album has some great songs here. Is it Master of Puppets? Black Album? No, thankfully Metallica is a band that grows and so we get to hear them through the process, rather than them cranking out the same album over and over. Give the album a try, rip off the band-aids that cover you and bleed as St. Anger hits you like a freight train!.


jearl3
I like the black album as well. This is my favorite Metallica cd. Saint Anger is the best though. There is so much energy in this cd.


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