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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Elektra / Wea
Salesrank: 6279
Released: June 5, 2003 |
| Our Price: $11.94 |
| Used Price: $3.28 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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St. Anger Track Listing:
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
Editorial Review:
Also included is a bonus DVD featuring a down n’ dirty live-in-the-studio performance of every track on the album. Never before has an artist designated a live DVD performance of a new album to simultaneously accompany its new studio release. CD produced by Bob Rock.
Description of St. Anger:
Never underestimate the regenerative powers of Metallica. Following the stripped-down Load and Re-Load, they've returned to the raw, vitriolic savagery of their earlier canon, using 1984's Ride the Lightning as a template for St. Anger. The title track provides the psychic lynchpin of the album by combining the bombast and defiance of the band's earliest high-water marks with more deliberate lyrics and emotional nakedness. Equally cathartic is "Some Kind of Monster," a lumbering beast of a song that declares, "This is the voice of silence no more." Despite that claim, there's an economy to these lyrics; James Hetfield's raw-toothed growl only occasionally punctuates the menacing soundscapes. In fact, "Dirty Windows," the standout track here, is a shimmering five-minute instrumental that's free of the baroque trappings that sometimes clutter the Metallica landscape. --Jaan Uhelszki
St. Anger Reviews:
You guys need to shut up. 
2009-12-19 - Metallica sold out blah, blah. Ok, a music lover of many different genres from hardcore to old school rock & I listen to a wide variety of music. When I heard that Metallica dropped a new album called St. Anger I was stoked. Now there has been already a lot of controversy over the band between the Black album and the Load album. Metallica cut their hair and changed from heavy metal to alternative rock. Some fans screamed they sold out and abandoned them. Stupid. What, bands are not aloud to grow, evolve and change? Let me ask this question. If your favorite band put a new cd every year with new songs, but it always sounded like the album released the year before wouldn't you grow tired of them and move on to something else? Every band will have there gold or platinum albums that will be cherished, but they will also have their underrated albums that still contain talent and ground breaking versatility. This album is very different from what they have released before. It has a very grungy, in your face, raw alternative sound to it. The drums have been changed up, plus there isn't very many guitar solos on this album compared to past albums. All in all, the album is raw and in you face. If you like hardcore or alternative music I think you'll enjoy this. If you don't like change, stay at home and play your old Metallica songs over and over until you die of boredom, and let your tombstone read "The One Who Could Never Evolve". Sucka.
Almost as bad as metalcore 
2009-12-19 - Epic Fail. The title track is the only thing that is not completely terrible, but the song is literally one verse repeated about six times, everything else about it is completely terrible. Buy their older stuff or check out Death Magnetic but stay away from this garbage.
The Anger Isn't In the Album, It's What Comes Out of It 
2009-12-17 - St. Anger has one of the worst bandwagon of haters, many supposed 'fans' along with critics never really listened to it. They could make there opinions sound credible by simply bashing it, and why not when it was this easy. To be honest I'm not very fond of the album, though I will say it's not the absolute worst album as some have come to believe. Compared to past Metallica albums though it does rub off as lackluster. The production wasn't lacking they definitely had the budget, just the production went off key.
It sounded as though Metallica almost unwillingly set out to mimic that of the nu-metal bands, forcing many of the typical traits the sub genre had acquired. Noticeably Metallica decided to down tune, emphasizing a thicker sound, but the trash can like drums took away from that experience. If they were going for atmosphere, the lack of progression in the songs really killed it. The songs sprawled out to massive lengths' for such repetitive songs (and of course the lack of classic Kirk solos). The vocals were far different then any of there past works, and for all that many disliked it. On its own merits aside from who made, it could be worse.
Therapy Session Lyrics
2009-11-08 - This is the album Metallica was working on when they were filming Metallica: Some Kind of Monster(DVD). If you keep that in mind the songs are really kind of interesting. Especially "The Unnamed Feeling".Metallica - Some Kind of Monster
Excellent
2009-10-28 - I am not a big Metalica guy: nothing personal. I saw Some Kind Of Monster and thought these four were pretty smart, funny, down to earth guys. 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.
