Written by Stalker on 06.12.2007 at 21:34

I dont know really, Ive heard max 3 songs from this album, and it is 3 songs too much. I will never manage to understand why the hell do they needed this , but.... I wouldnt score it more than 5, no way... And becaue it is by an acomplished band, it deserves no more than 2......

if you wanna know why they needed this, you should watch the movie Some Kind Of Monster, it opened my eyes. and made me enjoy St. Anger a whole lot more. now i dont compare it to the earlier albums anymore, cause whats the point, then it will be always the worst and so on. i have to say that now, i like the album, it has the best lyrics (i.m.o.) that they have ever written(aaargh Im comparing it to earlier stuff), and ok, the music is not the best they have ever done but so what??

Written by stygian on 26.03.2008 at 17:53

Written by Stalker on 06.12.2007 at 21:34

I dont know really, Ive heard max 3 songs from this album, and it is 3 songs too much. I will never manage to understand why the hell do they needed this , but.... I wouldnt score it more than 5, no way... And becaue it is by an acomplished band, it deserves no more than 2......

if you wanna know why they needed this, you should watch the movie Some Kind Of Monster, it opened my eyes. and made me enjoy St. Anger a whole lot more. now i dont compare it to the earlier albums anymore, cause whats the point, then it will be always the worst and so on. i have to say that now, i like the album, it has the best lyrics (i.m.o.) that they have ever written(aaargh Im comparing it to earlier stuff), and ok, the music is not the best they have ever done but so what??

Whatever they wanted with it, that kind of music is waste of time. I dont see why I would listen to such thing, only because it's done by (once) great band. Id rather go listen some death metal from an unknown band than that...

Written by stygian on 26.03.2008 at 17:53
it has the best lyrics (i.m.o.) that they have ever written

FRAN-TIC TIC TIC TIC TIC TIC TOCK

I'm madly in anger with you!

etc.

I really don't see how that position is defensible at all. I mean, Metallica were never that advanced lyrically but this is bad stuff compared to anything.

Written by totaliteraliter on 27.03.2008 at 05:03

Written by stygian on 26.03.2008 at 17:53
it has the best lyrics (i.m.o.) that they have ever written

FRAN-TIC TIC TIC TIC TIC TIC TOCK

I'm madly in anger with you!

etc.

I really don't see how that position is defensible at all. I mean, Metallica were never that advanced lyrically but this is bad stuff compared to anything.

I was just thinking the same thing

I give this a 7.2 as well. A Negative 7.2

+8+

I really like Metallica (My first metal albums were "Kill 'Em All" and "...And Justice For All" when I was 15), and before I heard ST. Anger I thought "It can't be that bad" but after I listened the whole thing I realized that it was something that even a new unknown garage american band could play, just nothing memorable. I Just can't listen to it completely because It is just a torture for me (really!!!), I know that many people here think that Load and Reload are too boring (myself included), but come on, Nu-metal? Nu freaking metal???

This album has only 1 nice song. St anger. Nothing else. Music like that can also my grandmother play. I believe that... <5...

This is probably their most hated album because:

- The Napster trial. The fans thought the band turned on them, so everything the band did was criticized. Since it was cool to hate the band , if you hated them you'd be cool! Especially if you say Megadeth is better.

- The production. Lars had never taken the snare off before and it didn't sound right coming from Metallica, a band that had great production on their last 3 albums and were known for it.

- No guitar solos? In a Metallica album? Blasphemy!

I look at the user ratings for St. Anger and see it's the second-worst album ever apparently. Has anyone listened to Megadeth's Risk album? That is by far worse than any Metallica album. Ask any metalhead what their least favorite genre of music is, and an answer you're likely to get a lot of is country. Then ask them what their least favorite Metallica album is and they'll probably say St. Anger. That's funny, because Load and ReLoad (their actual worst albums) are rooted in country but they're somehow better than this album.

Oh wait, the Napster trial somehow made their music worse so of course St. Anger is the worst! How could I be so stupid? Never mind that they're playing with energy again, never mind that the riffs and song structures are more complex than their last 3 albums, and never mind that it isn't another country-influenced ablum. It will be the worst, always and forever.

I liked this review.

A note on napster, a band eventually had to step up and do SOMETHING about free DL music. And now we have stuff like itunes where people pay because of it. There's always the smarter crowd that still gets stuff for free but we still pay for albums we respect to support the bands. It had to be done...and there was a lot of retarded hate and bandwagon against Metallica for it. I say fuck the ones who jumped on that bandwagon. But I digress...that's the past.

St. Anger was definitely Metallica's weakest album but it was also an experimental album, with the lack of solo's and the aim for a "garage" feel. Despite it being their weakest, it was absolutely better than anything else out at the time. And some of the songs are actually pretty damn good on the album, even if not up to Metallica par. Unnamed feeling is an increadible track worthy of even older stuff imo. But they've redeemed themselves with Death Magnetic so it's all good =D

Written by Sephiros7 on 16.08.2010 at 21:16
Despite it being their weakest, it was absolutely better than anything else out at the time.

F**K NO.

Written by Sephiros7 on 16.08.2010 at 21:16

it was absolutely better than anything else out at the time.

let me see in 2003 (I have limited my self to full lengths of stuff featured here on MS and I own as original cd):

1349 - Liberation
2 Ton Predator - Demon Dealer
Aborted - Goremageddon - The Saw And The Carnage Done
Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Adagio - Underworld
Agent Steel - Order Of The Illuminati
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States Of America
Ajattara - Kuolema
Akercocke - Choronzon
Alchemist - Austral Alien
Amorphis - Far From The Sun
Anaal Nathrakh - When Fire Rains Down From The Sky, Mankind Will Reap As It Has Sown
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Anthrax - We've Come For You All
Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion
Atrox - Orgasm
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Burst - Prey On Life
Cult Of Luna - The Beyond
Deadsoul Tribe - A Murder Of Crows
Detonation - An Epic Defiance
Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Have A Nice Trip
DoomSword - Let Battle Commence
Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
Enslaved - Below The Lights
Ephel Duath - The Painters Palette
Extol - Synergy
Falkenbach - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
Farmakon - A Warm Glimpse
Forest Stream - Tears Of Mortal Solitude
Forgotten Tomb - Springtime Depression
Funeral Mist - Salvation
God Dethroned - Into The Lungs Of Hell
Gojira - The Link
How Like A Winter - ...Beyond My Grey Wake
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
Kalmah - Swampsong
Kamelot - Epica
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Kekal - 1000 Thoughts Of Violence
Khanate - Things Viral
King Diamond - The Puppet Master
Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn
Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level Of Suicide
Månegarm - Dödsfärd
Mörk Gryning - Pieces Of Primal Expressionism
Macabre - Murder Metal
Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
Melechesh - Sphynx
Mithras - Worlds Beyond The Veil
Monolithe - Monolithe I
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Morbid Angel - Heretic
Nevermore - Enemies Of Reality
Nortt - Gudsforladt
Old Man's Child - In Defiance Of Existence
Ondskapt - Draco Sit Mihi Dux
Opeth - Damnation
Overkill - Killbox 13
Pantheist - O Solitude
Place Of Skulls - With Vision
Prostitute Disfigurement - Deeds Of Derangement
Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients
Reverend Bizarre - Harbinger Of Metal
Rudra - Kurukshetra
Sepultura - Roorback
Skepticism - Farmakon
Slough Feg - Traveller
Soilwork - Figure Number Five
Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
Strapping Young Lad - SYL
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures
The Funeral Orchestra - Feeding The Abyss
The Monolith Deathcult - The Apotheosis
The Old Dead Tree - The Nameless Disease
The Rotted - Only Tools And Corpses
Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
Until Death Overtakes Me - Prelude To Monolith
Voivod - Voivod
Watain - Casus Luciferi
Wayd - Decadance
While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
Wyrd - Vargtimmen Pt. 1: The Inmost Night
Xasthur - Suicide In Dark Serenity
Xasthur - The Funeral Of Being
Yob - Catharsis
Zyklon - Aeon


ALL are superior to St. Anger

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 16.08.2010 at 22:13

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...
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[yadda yadda albums later]

Sepultura - Roorback

ALL are superior to St. Anger

Even Roorback. And that's saying a lot.

Rofl I was just going to quote roorback lol beat me to it. Ya I have to disagree with everything on the list except Train of Thought, but that's just fact that DT owns everyone. (my fav band hehe)

Written by Sephiros7 on 23.08.2010 at 21:14

but that's just fact that DT owns everyone.

It's opinion, not fact.

Written by RavenKing on 24.08.2010 at 00:23

Written by Sephiros7 on 23.08.2010 at 21:14

but that's just fact that DT owns everyone.

It's opinion, not fact.

Opinion is fact (unless that opinion sucks).

And since his opinion sucks, it isn't fact. See how easy it is to resolve a problem?

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 16.08.2010 at 22:13




let me see in 2003 (I have limited my self to full lengths of stuff featured here on MS and I own as original cd):

1349 - Liberation
2 Ton Predator - Demon Dealer
Aborted - Goremageddon - The Saw And The Carnage Done
Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Adagio - Underworld
Agent Steel - Order Of The Illuminati
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States Of America
Ajattara - Kuolema
Akercocke - Choronzon
Alchemist - Austral Alien
Amorphis - Far From The Sun
Anaal Nathrakh - When Fire Rains Down From The Sky, Mankind Will Reap As It Has Sown
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Anthrax - We've Come For You All
Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion
Atrox - Orgasm
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Burst - Prey On Life
Cult Of Luna - The Beyond
Deadsoul Tribe - A Murder Of Crows
Detonation - An Epic Defiance
Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Have A Nice Trip
DoomSword - Let Battle Commence
Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
Enslaved - Below The Lights
Ephel Duath - The Painters Palette
Extol - Synergy
Falkenbach - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
Farmakon - A Warm Glimpse
Forest Stream - Tears Of Mortal Solitude
Forgotten Tomb - Springtime Depression
Funeral Mist - Salvation
God Dethroned - Into The Lungs Of Hell
Gojira - The Link
How Like A Winter - ...Beyond My Grey Wake
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
Kalmah - Swampsong
Kamelot - Epica
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Kekal - 1000 Thoughts Of Violence
Khanate - Things Viral
King Diamond - The Puppet Master
Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn
Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level Of Suicide
Månegarm - Dödsfärd
Mörk Gryning - Pieces Of Primal Expressionism
Macabre - Murder Metal
Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
Melechesh - Sphynx
Mithras - Worlds Beyond The Veil
Monolithe - Monolithe I
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Morbid Angel - Heretic
Nevermore - Enemies Of Reality
Nortt - Gudsforladt
Old Man's Child - In Defiance Of Existence
Ondskapt - Draco Sit Mihi Dux
Opeth - Damnation
Overkill - Killbox 13
Pantheist - O Solitude
Place Of Skulls - With Vision
Prostitute Disfigurement - Deeds Of Derangement
Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients
Reverend Bizarre - Harbinger Of Metal
Rudra - Kurukshetra
Sepultura - Roorback
Skepticism - Farmakon
Slough Feg - Traveller
Soilwork - Figure Number Five
Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
Strapping Young Lad - SYL
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures
The Funeral Orchestra - Feeding The Abyss
The Monolith Deathcult - The Apotheosis
The Old Dead Tree - The Nameless Disease
The Rotted - Only Tools And Corpses
Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
Until Death Overtakes Me - Prelude To Monolith
Voivod - Voivod
Watain - Casus Luciferi
Wayd - Decadance
While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
Wyrd - Vargtimmen Pt. 1: The Inmost Night
Xasthur - Suicide In Dark Serenity
Xasthur - The Funeral Of Being
Yob - Catharsis
Zyklon - Aeon


ALL are superior to St. Anger

hahahahahahahaahahah, wait... hahahahahahahhahahahhahahahah, wait wait, ahahaihiaihihahiaihhiahiahihhoaohahoa

No te lo crees ni tú (You don´t even believe that yourself).

What don't I believe? that those albums are better than St. Anger?

Like I said ALL those are way better than that abomination called St. Anger. and the albums I listed aren't the only ones that beat the crap out of that waste of time.

Many Metallica haters here, and fanboys too ... Let's face it many people jus bash St.anger , many times even without hearing, because it's a Nu metal album, they heard others saying is sucks so much or they are simple tired of hearing about Metallica.
But, even if you hate it or love, st anger IS just as bad as Load and Reaload. Those albums are nothing speacial and they suck compared to the high standars of Kill, Ride, Master and Justice. ENOUGH SAID.

OH MY GOOOOD! Retardnation.

Men they've sold out, and just one more thing to add, not what are the doing but yes what have they done???

Written by John Shock on 24.03.2011 at 01:13

Men they've sold out, and just one more thing to add, not what are the doing but yes what have they done???

The sold out with the self-titeld fifth album not with this one.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.03.2011 at 08:20

Written by John Shock on 24.03.2011 at 01:13

Men they've sold out, and just one more thing to add, not what are the doing but yes what have they done???

The sold out with the self-titeld fifth album not with this one.

Exactly.

Written by RavenKing on 24.03.2011 at 13:33

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.03.2011 at 08:20

Written by John Shock on 24.03.2011 at 01:13

Men they've sold out, and just one more thing to add, not what are the doing but yes what have they done???

The sold out with the self-titeld fifth album not with this one.

Exactly.

Men, why such excelent band like this from the 80's Thrash Metal, has sold out so quickly? ...I mean, have you guys ever seen The Big 4 concert? They've totally show their faces of sold out guys, ..."Is the Metallica Family Here?"...what a guys men! Why the fuck they've done such thing as sold out to MTV or whatever that was? ...fuck men...I had to confess metallica was one of my favorites...and i'm a young guy, but since i've heard load, reload and st. anger, men...

I've tried to listen to the title track of this album. I couldn't make it past the first chorus, it was too painful to do so. The vocals were honestly the worst I've heard on any CD (except maybe from The Sex Pistols and most 70's punk bands, who were more into providing raw energy than music talent, so I guess they have a bit of a reason), which just rubs salt into the wounds you have if you are aware of Hetfield's previous performances. If this was supposed to be the best song on the album, I don't want to guess what the worst sounded like...

EDIT: I've recently purchased the album just to make sure I wasn't being harsh on it unnecessarily. I've not finished listening to it (can't make it past "Sweet Amber" without putting on something else), but my original opinion of it hasn't really changed (although "St. Anger" is better than it was when I first heard it). There is only one song I actually like ("Frantic") and one with a pretty cool chorus ("Shoot Me Again"), but the rest is a real test of willpower to not give up and turn it off.

This album is way better than than piece of shit called reload. The title track is a decent track, but the rest sucks. Still, there are some memorable moments, like some parts of Frantic and Dirty Window.

And then came Lulu...

Written by Boxcar Willy on 08.01.2012 at 18:43
And then came Lulu...

Actually Death Magnetic came first.

It's better to make bad album then copy/paste album ( without fresh ideas ).