METALLICA — St. Anger (review)

METALLICA — St. Anger album cover Album · 2003 · Alternative Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
bonnek
St. Anger is everybody's favorite "let's bash-Metallica" album. Well, it's certainly not good and has plenty of reasons to serve as an ideal album to sharpen you vitriol-drenched review writing skills, but Metallica has worse albums so I'll try to support them for a change.

A first reason for the criticism is obvious, the damn sound of the thing. Especially the snare drum is downright ridiculous. But apparently it is the way they wanted it to sound. A second reason is also obvious. All songs are waaaaay too long. Also, half of the songs fail to add anything and make the album wear out, long before it's completed.

That is all true but there are good thing here and well. Most of all this album signals a welcome return of energy and anger into Metallica's sound. Each new album in the 90's had only been topping the previous in lackluster song writing and sloppy performance. St. Anger is a welcome return to aggression and simple & sharp metal riffs. Even if they don't come near to past excellence, it's still an improvement over all the deflated unload disasters.

If Metallica had not only opted for a garage sound, but also for garage song writing and attitude, they could have trimmed down the fat on each of these songs and could have created a very powerful scourging 40 minute album. Well, they didn’t and they even continued to make the exact same mistake on the overhyped Death Magnetic.
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