St. Anger | 
 enlarge | Artist: Metallica
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  4183 reviews
Sales Rank: 8108
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 62853
UPC: 075596285322
EAN: 0075596285322
ASIN: B00008OWZG
Release Date: June 5, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Frantic | | • | St. Anger | | • | Some Kind Of Monster | | • | Dirty Window | | • | Invisible Kid | | • | My World | | • | Shoot Me Again | | • | Sweet Amber | | • | Unnamed Feeling | | • | Purify | | • | All Within My Hands |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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
Album Description
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.
Album Description
Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this album from the Bay-Area Metal legends, originally released in 2003. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008.
Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Metallica album! November 8, 2008
Kelsey
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is what you'd call an "epic album". Who cares for Ride The Lightning or Master Of Puppets? St. Anger is better than all of Metallica's albums combined. The impressive, crazy drumming in odd time signatures, the face-melting bass, thought-provoking lyrics and deep lyrical themes make this album a true winner. Who can't give this album five stars? Anything lower and I'll accuse you of blasphemy! I'm madly in anger with you! I'm madly in anger with you!
 Bad Music is still Bad Music November 1, 2008
Daniel Wynn (Bay Area, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Exceptional bands have there own style and creativity which they are known for. That's why they are exceptional. Metallica clearly has these qualities. Death Magnetic clearly has these qualities. St. Anger clearly does not have these qualities.
For people who defend this album, be rest assured you absolutely would of never heard of the band Metallica if there CD's were low-quality, misguided attempts at rock music such as St. Anger. No question. Metallica would be another generic heavy rock band that didn't make it. And no one would care.
Fortunately, there are people who appreciate exceptional music. That is why a large amount of Metallica/music fans are so upset by the lack of any quality control on this record.
The CD just sounds horrible. It's painful to listen to. There's plenty of potential on the album, but it is lost in the myriad of poor musical decisions, and/or lack of musical direction. St. Anger sounds exactly like a chaotic, disorganized, jam session recorded in a garage.
The sound quality on St. Anger is atrocious. Atrocious. It was PURPOSELY decided to not use quality production. Hard rock & metal CD's are typically highly produced. This is for a reason. Everyone playing loud and doing there own thing = noise pollution. On top of this, the songs with potential are extended and dragged out so long it makes them impotent.
Furthermore, the vocals are inconsistent, whiny, and forced. The drums are so horrendous that the album would be drastically improved by completely removing the percussion. They actually sound like a young child learning how to play drums. The guitar work is all over the place; the problem is that it's constantly happens within the same song. Also, there's a complete lack of solos which could have added some depth and cohesion to the music.
The experiment flopped.
Hey it's not too bad as some people say. October 16, 2008
Rey Diaz (Montgomery, IL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
St. Anger might not be one of the best albums but there is some good rythym although the solos have to be there. The drums also need to be a bit louder. St. Anger, Frantic, Purify, are the best tracks!
 Madly in Anger at this Album October 7, 2008
William M. Adams
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When this album came out it was the most anticipated album of the year. But people seem to forget that this album was probably not going to be great. First you lose Jason Newstead on bass, a guy you have relied on for years. Sure you've lost people like Cliff and Dave Mustaine before, but the four of them were family and not unlike the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Then James and the gang start to really fight amongst themselves, and James leaves and goes to rehab. The pressure is on to constantly outdo yourselves and Bob Rock on bass, coupled with a group therapist is not the most productive and "metal" solution. This album turned into a throwaway and should have been recorded and stored in the vault. James and gang seemed to make a theraputic feel good, love me recrd exposing all the things that were tearing this group apart. And they should have just stepped in and said, well we got it out of our system, let's melt some faces now. I haven't listened to the new album yet, but I will give it a listen and decide if they need to stop making records, and show up on the VH1, Where Are They Now program in a few years.
Heavier then the Loads September 27, 2008
Steven Wilson (Belmont, MI)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this when it came out and I just listened to it the other day. I still think this album is really good. It is raw and has it's mistakes and that they were going for. This album comes with a dvd of the whole album performed live in the studio with at the time there new bassist. This album isn't as bad as everybody has said.
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