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- Regretting The Past: Metallica - St. Anger
St. Anger is the patron saint of sucking.
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One time my dad bought a used car and he found a St Anger CD in the CD player and before he left he asked the seller if he wanted it back and he said "nah you can keep that" I'm not even kidding and I still have that CD
Jackson The Epic lucky . I fucken love this album man.
Why would y’all keep it
I can see why he didn't want it back
Ol' dude straight up bought the album, put it in his car's CD player... made it 30 seconds... stopped... pulled over and sold the car 😂
@@iniquityofsymmetry Cannot argue with his decision.
I worked in a music store when this album came out. We had so many copies of this CD returned that we had to change our policy on refunds
@@rastas_4221 this was around the time pcs we're more accessible, we couldn't give refunds on opened CDs because people would buy the cd, copy it, then try to return it. It was actually a copyright protection order within the industry
No way! 😂😂
Wow.
Talk about selling like uneaten hotcakes.
You still took returns once opened?
@@sing151you either worked in Tower Records or fye.
When you were playing the pans I thought it was real. That's a problem
Hilarious.
Also a problem that you couldn't tell how it was a totally different tempo than the actual song, idk how that fooled anyone tbh
haha 😂
@@sebastianlindon8992 Because nobody would listen to anything from that piece of shit album. Lol. Why the hell would any of us know what the actual tempo is???
Oh my god I laughed so hard
Fun Fact: Even Lars Ulrich himself detests the snare drum in this album. During a Meet and Greet in 2004, Lars was jokingly demonstrating how he got the snare sound, while calling it an "abortion".
And he is allegedly responsible for Jason being mixed away on Justice...SMH
Fuck this piece of shit
Yeah he also acts like it was someone else's fault.
lol none of this is true. He admitted he never turned the snare on, liked the sound, and stands by the decision to this day. easier to just lie though!
F Ulrich. The Bono of heavy metal.
"Fuck it all and no regrets!" This basically what they were saying during the recording of this album,literally.
MegaSparkster The funny thing is that the following line "I hit the lights on these dark sets" is from Damage Inc. (or Battery, can't remember).
DarthUno Yep you're right,its a reference to Damage Inc.(and Hit the Lights) Although I appropriate the references in the song,it really only reminds me of how I could be listening to those songs instead of this.
Yep as you can see from the documentary Some Kind of Monster
They weren't saying "fuck it all" when they were making this album. They were saying "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK."
That line is originally from Damage Inc.
Wanna hear something funny? St. Anger went double Platinum. While Slayer, Anthrax, Dream Theater, and Motörhead don't have a platinum album in the U.S
Some Guy That's because those bands have integrity.
MelanicDisaster Well yeah.
Some Guy Dream Theater has one, Bro xD
Yes, but not in the U.S. Like I said previously with my original comment
The U.S. is also the same country where Barbara Streisand has sold more albums than Jimi Hendrix. But to your point, that's probably because magazines like Rolling Stone are so widespread that the blind sheep fan bases of those garbage rags automatically just buy up anything that they're told to. I believe RS is the main reason the White Stripes endure.
“It’s like a Rush album where they take Neil Peart, stick him in the back with a set of bongos and tell him to keep it down a bit!”
My lungs can’t handle this laughter dude
R.I.P. Neil Peart 😥🥁
One of the Greatest Drummers in Rock and Roll
The unnamed feelings rocks
I agree...would be better with a solo and dropping that stupid ass cringey...get the fuck out part
Free Parking There’s a guy on CZcams that’s basically re-recorded the entirety of the album and even that part when we sings it straight and not like Hetfield “going insane” works.
@@freeparking301 get the FUCK out part is the best moment of the song lol
@@Faks.09 exactly.
@@freeparking301 meh. Frantic is one of the only good songs on this album imo.
Listening to this album: "Shoot me again I ain't dead yet."
aim for the head,but seriously james is strong person from rehab
Alright (click) BANG!
Dempsey: shoot em’ in the head, that seems to work
8:21 I think the Grammy committee were still trying to apologize to Metallica for giving one to Jethro Tull instead of AJFA.
The Grammys need to apologize for cutting off Josh Homme, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl, and Lindsey Buckingham's grand finale in 2014.
all the big 4 had like an experimental slump album, Metallica had St Anger, Megadeth had Risk, Anthrax had Volume 8, and Slayer had Diabolus in Musica
IDK, until Death Magnetic, they've felt like they've been slumping those albums since the Black Album, problem is Metallica's attempt to go back is so boring and lacking in soul.
John Stahlman they’re also all the eighth album by each of them and we’re both released around the late 90s and early 00s.
What's wrong with volume 8 and diabolus in musica?
@@Spartan322 st. Anger is boring and lacking of soul?
dude are you okay?
@@Faks.09 Have you never heard Master of Puppets, And Justice For All..., or Ride the Lightning? You compare anything after The Black Album to anything before it, its way more bland, repetitive, (both of rock and metal, and the genres they were emulating at that point) generic, souless, and just so less dynamic in atmosphere, soundscape, and headspace. Hell they absolutely butchered the tones so bad that its only effective at giving you a test subject for asprin. The drums on St. Anger aren't even able to be mitigated then and freaking Lars is abusing his snares so bad I feel like someone should call the cops for a domestic dispute. And that's before the snare tone being so muddled and ripped that its like he's trying to induce a headache in every fan that gives it a passing listen. Anything on St. Anger or later is not worth listening to when you have The Black Album and everything before it, not even to mention that if you're still hungry for thrash you've got the rest of the catalog of the others in the Big 4 and other big names like Venom who outdo modern Metallica still. I mean freaking Anthrax is doing some kind of progressive thrash metal in For All Kings, Megadeth has been just as effective and aggressive in production as Metallica, and Slayer is...well, Slayer, not much more can be said. There just is no reason to put on St. Anger or anything after The Black Album in comparison to that.
I always thought the st. Anger album sounded like a demo tape from an early 90s rock band
to me it sounded like a garage band just having fun, not really caring about what anyone thinks
It just doesn't sound like Metallica at all.
Garage bands usually dont have 8 minute long songs like wtf
Apparently you dont listen to many demos
@@randygreengrass6252 that’s technically what it is..
"It is difficult to say there wasn't some value in the Black album" - I think that's an understatement. The black album was amazing, and it's easy to say so.
The Black Album at least in my opinion was generational setting! As alot of kids and young adults who had no clue who these guys were or before The Black Album wasn't a fan but after The Black Album blew up those same kids and young adults (myself included) became huge Metallica fans! One of the best metal albums ever!!
I don't think so. Nothing Else Matters sounds like it was made for ladies' ice skating. Beyond that, the sound is commercial and disappointing.
@@redduklak9192 me too. its sad but true (pun intended)
@@hotdogwater7037 It was a watered down artistic compromise, their talent replaced with P.T. Barnum aka Bob Rock studio trickery.
@@paradoxofepicurus i wouldn't call the black album a total loss. holier than thou, through the never, of wolf and men, struggle within, and my friend of misery are very good songs
To be fair, I would listen to Neil Peart play a bongo for an hour.
not you that would be awesome!
He would kill on the bongos tho
I'd happily listen to Neil Peart farting for an hour.
He will be able to play the entire piano range on a single bongo. He's that good XD
@@MsJersy Are you sure that _we're_ the trolls here?
Olivia Newton John’s “Physical” has not one but two guitar solos and this album has none.
I know somebody found a solo in Some Kind of Monster
😂😂😂😂😂
I'm stealing this to troll Nightwish fans.
Everyone: "St Anger is the worst Metalica album of all time"
Me: Nah,Lulu is waaaay worse
Hugh Mungus
Lulu is a Lou Reed album, not a Metallica album.
@@StephenRahrig its a collab
I kinda like it
I AM THE TABLE
Eh. It was weird and quirky,but not bad at all. Not great, but much better than St. Anger.
Somehow I'm not shocked that St.Anger won a Grammy. I mean the Grammies kind of suck.
+MrFlipperInvader782 mobscene probably
Good suggestion although I hate nu metal
***** I love Deftones and... yeah thats about it but its better than 90% of the other shit that comes out these days lol
Metallica deserved it for St. Anger though
@@iplyrunescape305 Yes indeed. Remember folks, the award was given to St. Anger THE SONG, not the album as a whole.
So I bought that album, without having heard it. Just... "OH SHIT, new Metallica." Bought it. Paid money.
You're welcome, Lars.
***** Oh to be young and stupid again =(
Liars, All-rich.
Same here dude plus almost everyone else who bought the record. But I do know more than a few people who liked and loved st anger. I however, do not. Frantic and the unnamed feeling are the two songs that I liked from it
Well that was stupid then. I bought it 13 years after hearing it for the first time. Because it grew on me and I actually like it. Probably the most brutal album Metallica even written.
@@MrMOGHammer You must be high. St. Anger was sooo awful!!!
Fun fact: All Within My Hands is also the name of Metallica's charity organization. Yes. Look it up.
KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL, KILL, KILL !
Let's name a charity organization after this song !
The acoustic version is killer
Take the KILL part out and it’s actually a pretty good song.
Who's watching this again after seeing the new Todd in the Shadows video cover the same album?
I love the quote he mentioned at the end from the producer, saying he went into the studio with them "not as a producer, but as a friend." that says a lot about how St Anger turned out. he just wanted them to work together as a band so they wouldn't emplode. end result be damned, just don't break up!
(breathes in) Load is really underrated (braces for impact)
I liked both Load and Reload alot.
Some of the tracks were a tad corny, and it wasn't necessarily heavy in either sound or topics a lot of the time, but overall I agree, Load was decent.
EDIT: Also the covers looked like orange tang soda.
I love em' both.
Didn't care for Load that much, but it had a few decent tracks, and really, ReLoad has Fuel, which is the only track I can really listen to on that one, so I have no beef with Load and ReLoad.
TET - COM I liked Reload too.
You can hear them going through an identity crisis.
Definitely James' journey and interactions with sobriety. Lots of talk about metaphorical demons.
My thoughts exactly. Like they were trying to go in a new direction, but instead of looking inward as a band, they just looked out and tried to copy nu-metal acts like Slipknot and Korn, or heavier alt-rock acts like A Perfect Circle and Godsmack
I actually like the track "Some Kind of Monster" quite a bit. The song has a 4-minute radio edit with some better sounding drums.
God... I remember when my ex-girlfriend bought me this album as a birthday present when it came out. I even said back then that, if it was ANYBODY but Metallica that put St. Anger out, it would've been received a lot better, but Metallica had a higher standard applied to them because of their previous discography.
I forget what magazine it was but I remember St. Anger being voted both Best Metal Album of the Year and Most Disappointing Metal Album of the Year.
...You could have been an abusive drunk and we would still gladly blame her for the break up. I can only imagine what you went through in that relationship. Thoughts and prayers.
if literally anybody else that isn’t Metallica had released the album, it wouldn’t have even come close to any sort of charting, and probably would’ve been a even bigger disaster in terms of sales and reception
There is a decent remake available on CZcams by permission of Metallica; search for St Anger Remastered 2015. A dedicated fan re-recorded all the parts himself.
It doesn't make it St Anger a great album, but it becomes listenable. No solos were added as the man behind the project felt that that was outside his scope, but it eliminates the godawful and hated snare drums, and re-engineers it.
Yeah that remake was pretty good, I mean the same guy did the drums, bass, and Guitar
Guitar tone on Invisible Kid from St.Anger 2015 sucks ass. And also - wrong tuning used on The Unnamed Feeling.
The whole album just sounds unfinished. Like songs are just skeletons that need to be fleshed out, if that makes sense.
That's because the band members couldn't even be bothered to tune their guitars. Lars, James, and Kirk all hated each other at the time.
FLESH IT OUT, not flush it James!
After Jason “fOkInG LeFt ThE bAnD” Lars “little danish friend “ Ulrich became some kind of monster and he prays to st anger to this day
Holy shit😂😂😂 u went hard on that one
This is the most Metallica Fan sentence I have ever read
I think Lars father said it best in some kind of monster "I think you should just press delete" 😂🤣
*delete that*
𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕥
Mr Ulrich Sr we appreciate you attempt
Delet dat
@@wahpedalabuser3495 obviously my memory of what was said, is clouded by the pain and misery I endured while watching that pile of shit 🤣
Thankfully, we got Death Magnetic a few years after this album.
Then Lulu after death magnetic
+A Fire Inside Hopefully their next Album will be good (Lords Of Summer). Well, if it's anything like Death Magnetic then We should be lucky.
+A Fire Inside ...We don't speak of Lulu...
+A Fire Inside lulu wasn't a metallica album they did it just to work with what's his fuck
+ViciousViridian What the heck is the difference? They're the same basic style.
Im really happy “The Unnamed Feeling” is actually seen as good by people. One of my favorite Metallica songs and favorite songs in general
TheBoricuaWookie same
There’s a few good ones on there. Shoot me again, some kind of monster, frantic.
A little longer, but they’re heavy and funky.
Amazing song for sure
True gem
Metallica was *this* close to breaking up while they made this album with Newstead having enough of the juvenile hazing, James' addiction issues, and the Napster blowback. I wonder what Mr. Rocked thinks about the Echobrain album that came out around this time--the band that Newstead joined. I remember buying it and digging some of it, but losing the disc somewhere.
There's a copy of the demo on CZcams, mate!
No One:
Metallica:KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL
Cmon, Why do people hate The Unforgiven II?
People felt that The Unforgiven never needed a sequel. I felt it was a ok song, it gave a small twist on the original.
Peter Ross
The Unforgiven was an awesome composition but The Unforgiven II is just full of Jame's over voicing country-like singing and isn't near the amount of soul The Unforgiven had
DZAP 194 imagine if unforgiven 3 was on st anger… oh god...
It's one of my favourite Metallica songs
Unforgiven 2 is the best and love the twangy sound. Mettalica likes country music
Even Sabaton took a small jab at this in one of their metal tribute songs
'Is this St Anger the Ultimate Sin'
- Sabaton: Metal Machine
gunmunz Hahaha that's funny
gunmunz Funny.
This album sounds like Metallica got no sleep, been Drunk since noon and did all of this over a Skype call with little editing.
I've got a fever and the only cure is more snare drum.
Oh god. This album is so bad that I've seen Metallica "complete discography" torrents that don't include it. That's right, people who pirate all their music don't want this album FOR FREE.
I bought this album the same week I bought "Hotel Paper" by Michelle Branch. That album is an infinitely better rock album. And for those who don't know who she is, she's one of those female singer-songwriters who's work balances on the edge of where pop and rock meet.
That album was mostly meant to appeal to teenage girls, and you know what? I still listen to it. I haven't bothered listening to anything from St. Anger in years. Someone played "Frantic" at work and it pissed me off for like half an hour.
I have admittedly broad and weird musical tastes. :P
Brad Duke i love me some metallica and michelle branch too
I don't hate this album at all, yeah it's not the best metallica album by any means but it's not the worst thing I've heard. My main critique id that the album is too long, most of the songs go nowhere and offer no more variety after 2 or 3 minutes, if they would've shaved off like 20 minutes it would've been better (and they could've rearranged the songs so that Kirk could put his solos in). The drum sound has never really bothered me, even though that is the main reason why people hate this album, I think Lars' drumming was pretty awesome on this record.
In my opinion I don't think this album is bad, I still like to blast it through my speakers once in a while.
+ajmaroudas You stole the words from my mouth.
St. Anger is Metallica's worst album but it's not as bad as most Nickelback albums.
+ajmaroudas Couldn't agree more
+kenterminatedbygoogle I like Nickelback's earlier albums.
AJ the Marauder I respect your opinion, and that's good so. But just saying, they were in no condition for solos. Just what was in their hearts. It just so happened no solos were to be included. This album is something special to Metallica, and personally, me too. Metallica has said before that they don't care if it's hated. They know the majority wouldn't understand the album. They did what they did, and that's that
I knew a guy in college whose favorite song of all time was St. Anger. Needless to say I haven't spoken to him in YEARS
I can't understand how that was the snare sound they went with. They could at least have tuned it to a
pitch that would complement the rest of the instrumentation. No damping, gating or anything, just:
PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING!
It's like they layered the snare with a propane tank. Disgusting.
I’m hank hill and I sell propane and Lars’s snare drum
Boy I tell ya hwut.
It's the slam snare. It's a beautifully ridiculous sound, although far more amusing in its native habitat of palm-muted slowdowns and basso profondo gurgles.
People have to understand that Anger isn't pretty.
No, but it could at least sound decent. Just saying.
Coy Leigh True, but ever heard someone pissed off that acutally sounds decent?
Yeah but it isn't repulsive
@@Pluh88 how about james hetfield up to ajfa?
But yeah I get what ur saying
Still music that transmits amthe feeling of anger is totally acceptable and it actually need to be music, as opposed to what slayer think
Slipknot managed to translate this well, and they doesn't sound like: "kill kill kill kill"
To each their own opinion, I guess. I heard James say with sadness in his voice, after performing St. Anger live by request, that it is a "misunderstood album." I couldn't agree more!
What is wrong with Load and ReLoad ? C'mon , man. Those two albums actualy got me into Metallica back in a days. And I still love them
I like those albums too. Yeah they could’ve possibly cut some of the weaker tracks and made one album but those albums got a 12 year old me into the band as well. And then my brain melted the first time I heard Puppets and had a proper introduction to the “Major Rager on the four string motherfucker!!!”
What's wrong with them? They are pure shit! And what's worse, a betrayal.
I hate Load more than Reload, even though Reload is probably even worse musically, because of what I associate it with. True story: I was hospitalized when Load came out and I asked my mother to buy the new Metallica album for me to have something to listen to in my sick bed. I was so excited before I got it, because I really needed something to cheer me up. My mother came back with the album, I looked at it and thought: "What the hell is this?" But never mind, it's the music that counts, right? Well, I put it on and my heart sank. The metal was nowhere to be found, and instead my ears filled up with mediocre boogie rock. I was devastated. And that's why I still to this day see Load as a betrayal.
@@roaringviking5693
Oh Lord a band wanting to change direction... How horrible. Nobody likes elitists btw.
I love load and reload
I love Load more than reload
I actually like this album, its not my favorite but i liked it alot
I don't
The album sucks. It’s just MetalliStans trying to convince themselves it’s good.
I actually enjoyed your Pots and Pans drumming.
same here
Full album of Pot drumming and Cheese wire strumming
Still better than the trash cans.
Same here.
Load and Reload are great albums it's just too bad there's too much filler in them. If you had some songs from Load and some from Reload in one album it would have been amazing. Load having King Nothing, Poor Twisted Me, The House Jack Built, Hero of the Day, Bleeding Me, Until It Sleeps, Mama Said, The Outlaw Torn, and Ain't My Bitch and Reload having Fuel, Better Than You, Devil's Dance, Where the Wild Things Are, The Memory Remains, The Unforgiven II, Low Man's Lyric, and Fixxxer
Ctxx24 load has no filler.
@@H.E.M. Thorn Within, Poor Twisted Me. I would be perfectly happy never hearing those songs again.
I have actually thought the exact same thing for a long time
Wasting My Hate, Thorn Within and Poor Twisted Me are the weakest songs on Load,
and Slither, Fixxxer, Carpe Diem Baby, Devil's Dance, Bad Seed on Reload, IMO.
They could be albums if they were under a different band name
Me who actually really enjoys St. Anger:
*ok then*
And also Load and Reload is good too
I understand where all 3 albums can be criticized, but at the same time I still enjoy them.
I mean I think if St Anger had more work, redone drums, and a lot more solo work and such, it would be considered as good as AJFA
@@sunrise5494 and if death magnetic wasnt mixed like shit it would be one of their best albums xd
I honestly like Frantic, Sweet Amber, and Shoot Me Again. I Just wish the album had better production
Why does everyone hate St.Anger it is one of their best albums with some awesome sounding songs like The unnamed feeling sweet amber and dirty window
Eric Whicker because of the snare apocalypse
Because it's fucking terrible? Did you not hear any of that? If this were some 18 year olds' garage band, it'd be killer.
Because its made by Metallica. You know, the guys who made MoP, RTL, KEA, AJFA and so on. They went from god tier stuff to this shit
St. Anger is undoubtedly the worst album in Metallica's catalogue, but it's still got some decent songs on it. It's amazing that they went with such raw, underproduced sound, when Bob Rock's biggest strength was (quite frankly) amazing production values and album sound. In fact I wish Death Magnetic, as great an album as it is, would have had Bob Rock's, NOT Rick Rubin's finishing touches on it, because it would have sounded a lot better.
There are some very good songs on St. Anger, most specifically Frantic, The Unnamed Feeling, and Sweet Amber. All Within My Hands also would have been a great song, IF they had recorded the acoustic arrangement they did live at one of their charity shows. THAT version of the song is amazing. All in all, it was a letdown of an album, but for me, as a Metallica fan, it oddly came along at the "right time" in my life, as well. Something in James' lyrical themes of the time seemed to fit where I was in my own life. Regardless, even fans of the album would be hard-pressed to argue against the fact that it should have been better.
Also, I'd like to point out that, at least in my own fan estimation, the rhetoric that Metallica got "bad" in the 90s, is both false and unwarranted. Yes, they did shed their 80s thrash sound. But the thing is, they DID the thrash thing, four epic, bad ass albums' worth. They arguably did thrash better than anyone else on the planet, they wrote the "book" on thrash metal. So, one could easily argue (as I'm sure they themselves would and did), that as artists they did not want to repeat themselves, and wanted to venture into other territory. The "Black Album" is one of the best metal albums ever recorded, period. My personal favorite is "...And Justice For All", but Black is right up there. It's still incredibly heavy, and one thing about 90s Metallica, is that James ventures into some very dark, more intense and sometimes personal lyrical content. Some of his best lyrics are from the 90s albums, and songs like "The Unforgiven", "Sad But True" and "Nothing Else Matters" exemplify that.
As for the infamous Load and Reload? Yeah, people claimed they "sold out", they cried because the band cut their hair, and once against shifted styles. But the thing is.....those are STILL heavy metal albums, and what's more, they STILL feature some really incredible music. The thing many thrash purists ignore, is that those albums really hearken back to the kind of music that Metallica themselves grew up listening to, 70s arena rock, southern rock, prog rock, and heavy metal bands. There is a LOT of that in there, as well as Kirk's growing blues influences (he was learning from Satriania for a bi there). They aren't Thrash, no, and they DO have dumb names/covers, granted. But Load and Reload still have a LOT of really great music on them.
Right! That's not what Bob Rock does..He's a big glossy, slick, production guy..He was the guy that they needed to achieve what they wanted for the Black Album..Bob purposefully wanted to make it sound 'Cheap' and it backfired and came across as some contrived bullshit..
I agree, if they were trying to step back from that high production then they needed a different type of producer..Hell, they should've called up Flemming Rasmussen then..😅😅
I agree with you 100 percent. I would die to hear Death Magnetic with Load/Reloads mixing. The new single Hardwired sounds just as shitty as DM, super bummed.
Nah man, ReLoad is the worst. I like St. Anger, so many killer riffs, I'm big on riffs, and Kirk's solos are all predictable anyway, James brings the thunder with his riffage :P
+Charlie Burns Reload was my first Metallica CD so I might have a soft spot for it but it blows St. Anger away! Fixxxer alone is better than that whole album!
James Bayly
Agreed. Load and ReLoad get shit from "hardcore" metal fans. But that shit is still heavy metal, just not THRASH metal. And both albums have some really great songs. BOTH of them blow St. Anger right out of the water.
Meh... Load and ReLoad are great rock albums. Metalheads hate them, because they are traditionally genre-racist, but i know several people who mostly listen to blues and soul, and they all love those albums. Especially songs like Bleeding Me, Fixxxer and Low man's lyric.
I also love St.Anger. I can see why many people don't, i really do, but at the same time all those reasons are included in the ones that make me love it. I used to play drums, and the album is full of songs that i just loved to play. I can remember playing St.Anger countless times with my friends, and shouting out the vocals from behind the drums while giving them an absolute trashing. Also the best album ever to have on as workout music.
I know my opinions might be in the minority, but im sure not alone with them.
Bleeding Me, Fixxxer, The Outlaw Torn... those songs are freaking brilliant.
Nakke144 gotta leave out 2x4 and Ain't My Bitch? Hell even Devil's Dance really sounds heavy
Nakke144 I agree. St. Anger is fucking beast. I love it. I wish to play it with some friends one day. I'm fucking itching to. In fact, going to listen to the whole album all over again. I cannot get tired of it
“If snare city would calm it down it the back” - that line killed me! 🤣
I like St. Anger. I don't give a shit what anybody says about it.
Lmao it ain't as bad as lulu
Anything is not as bad as Lulu.
+Timliu92 Saying St. Anger isn't as bad as Lulu is like saying that a toothache isn't as bad as complete tooth decay: It's true, but that still isn't saying much.
+KingCheshireZorua To be honest the songs in St. Anger actually grow on me. I quite enjoy listening to Frantic, St. Anger or The Unnamed Feeling once in a while. The tunes in Lulu, however, are just that bad that until now I have a hard time trying to appreciate it.
+Kyle Schneid (pulls your shirt) DON'T MENTION THAT ALBUM! :)
I like St. Anger over Kill em All, Ride The Lightning, the boring Reload, and the bad sounding Death Magnetic, chaotic Hardwired and esspecially Lulu. I like Black, Load and the covers they did in the 90s over St. Anger, it was a a good change of pace from the thrash metal in the 80s.
From the 80's albums the songs from MOP and AJFA are great. Kill em All misses something for me, although a good album. Ride The Lightning too, although For Whom The Bell Tolls is very unique and stand out big time... The best they did in the 80s are the garage covers IMO, along with hand full standout tracks: For Whom The Bell Tolls, One, Master of Puppets, Orion, Welcome Home, Battery, Disposible Heroes, The Thing That Should Not Be, Damage, Inc, Leper Messiah, Blackened, ...
The main reason I think this album turns people off is because it is essentially just a grown man throwing his emotions onto record, unfiltered and unrestrained. I don't enjoy the musical aspect of this album (Lars' drumming, man...) but lyrically it resonates with me. You never really hear fully grown men spurting all this stuff onto record in such a raw and uncontrolled way. I think if it had good song writing it could well have been their best album conceptually (probably not musically, but I can't say). Certainly some of the lyrics are god awful, but James wasn't really going for a fan pleaser with this record (and we know that only too well). Watching Some Kind of Monster helped to show me that there's a lot of context behind this album that we forget about as fans, even if it is Metallica's weakest effort.
Other than that, I agree with what you said. The songwriting is not up to par and Lars needed a proper kit.
Freaky Niki I totally agree with you. Except the part with Lars' drumming. Watch the live in studio version of the album they filmed. Lars is an absolute monster. I wish he would do that in live shows though.
I love St. Anger. My #1 album in all that I've listened to. I can listen the album all day everyday. And for a long time, I actually have.
It turns me off because its shitty music 😂
@@DE-GEN-ART how? yeah about 40% of the album is bad, but it has good songs
Same thoughts with you man. Initially I hated this album so much, but as I grow up, those lyrics really resonate to me now as badly written as they were, although musically it still did not sound good to me.
"Feeeeeel thee world shakeee!
Liiiiiiiiike an earthquake!!"
If the drums weren’t so damn bad this would’ve been halfway decent
I agree and more guitar solos.
Look up “St Anger with good drums” you won’t be as disappointed.
I’ve always had a soft spot for this album. Are there problems with it? Absolutely. The crushing length, the lack of solos, and the sub-par production. Funny enough, I’m in the minority of people that actually enjoyed the sound of the snare a lot on this record, but the reason why everyone hates it, is because of how poorly the snare drum is mixed. There are definitely some underrated and under-appreciated riffs and songs on here, and it’s criminal to me that they get overlooked. Frantic, Sweet Amber, and Dirty Window all are solid tracks on their own, and then we get to The Unnamed Feeling. The Unnamed Feeling is easily one of my favorite songs that Metallica has ever released simply because of how raw and genuine it comes off. Hell, I’d even argue that it’s one of the most genuine songs that James Hetfield has ever wrote in his entire career. As someone that suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, and all of the anxiety that comes with it, whenever I’m at a rough point in my life, I listen to The Unnamed Feeling, and it captures mental anxiety and stress perfectly. I’d strongly recommend giving it a listen whenever you’re going through a bad situation. That said, this album makes a lot more sense when you watch the documentary, Some Kind Of Monster. It shows everything that the band was going through at the time, and how they were on the verge of collapse. After seeing that, and THEN listening to this album in it’s entirety, it starts to make more sense. In conclusion, as a subscriber of Rocked since I was in 8th grade, and I just recently graduated high school. I do have some criticisms of this review, but I overall enjoyed it and Luke’s comedy definitely gave me a quite a few laughs. Although this is a comment that’s almost five years late, I’m hoping someone takes the time to read this. Cheers.
Oh, Metallica. They went from Master of Puppets to this. Well, at least we had Death Magnetic and Hardwired...to Self Destruct.
Here's what I think about St. Anger.
1: Okay, not too bad. Just a little overkill on the snare drum.
2: Meh, it's alright. Not the worst thing I've ever heard, but it's just really mediocre.
3: Um, no comment.
4: Alright, this is only getting worse.
5: Wow. That song name alone just made me facepalm.
6: Yeah, I'm getting a headache to this, too.
7: Shit.
8: Again, this was ruined by the snare drum.
9: This is the part where I nearly gave up, then I realized how it's one of the better songs of this album....
10:....and it shoots itself in the foot, again.
11: Wow, that ended darkly.
So, yeah. Metallica's St. Anger is a bad album. While I do really like Metallica, this album just wasn't clicking to me. And yes, I do think they overdid it with the snare drums.
On the plus side, we have albums such as Death Magnetic and Hardwired...to Self Destruct, which managed to be pretty good. So, there's that.
@@aikoyumi4014 st.anger is an okay album, it's not bad
@@aikoyumi4014 The Unnamed Feeling is an amazing song. I even somewhat like the snare, but not in most of the songs.
Can I ask an honest/weird question?:
Why do people hate Load/ReLoad so much? I mean, I get that there's a clear difference between 80s & 90s Metallica sounds, but those albums definitely have some gems. I get there's also a lot of filler, but King Nothing, Fuel, Memory Remains, Cure & Fixxxer I all remember pretty fondly (I also liked how weird/unique Where the Wild Things Are was, and a solo could've really made it a sleeper hit).
Are they really considered terrible albums? Or are they just sub-par? Or is it just a 80s/90s Metallica sound split-type thing? Or a mix the 3 lol
+CNightmare072 Yeah, King Nothing is my favorite song atm.
Imagine if Lamb of God put out a country album
courgeonaute They would really be desperate.
They just don't sound interesting. I hope you get what I mean.
+CNightmare072 Because they listened first to an ...and justice for all
Only a metallica Fanatic would think was a good album. People who know music realize the band just mailed it in with this effort.
Metallica is literally my favorite band and even I would say this album is shit
I stopped after the Black album
As a recent fan (finally took the plunge after decades of ignoring), it was good to watch "Some Kind of Monster" documentary to understand the story behind this album.
Jason Newstead leaving in 2001 felt like the ill-fated tragedy of Cliff, forcing the three to face the grief that was not fully healed.
James Hetfield seems distant and uninterested. He took indefinite vacations, further extended by his rehab. When he returned, he had a strict 8am-5pm work sked.
Kirk Hammett grudgingly accepted the no-guitar solo policy during recording. That was a lot of character especially as one of the greatest axemen of his time.
The docu exposed the ego and power tripping of Lars Ulrich, and a huge reason the album was dominated by repetitive snare drumming, putting two great guitarists into the backseat.
When I first saw the album on the record store, I told myself "Oh, they're still around." Sorry James, but it is their version of Bon Jovi's "Crush." The inevitable decline (especially artistic creativity), losing Jason, reopened wounds caused by Cliff's death, loss of fire and urgency, and already achieving fame and money are perhaps contributing factors St. Anger ain't that fun. Intentional or not, the album's music was seemed influenced by rap metal dominance of early 2000s, instead as antithesis like what they did in the 80s.
This is Bob Rock's final collaboration. In retrospect, this album served as glue (or reason) to soldier on and acquire Rob Trujillo as Metallica's current and longest-tenured bassist.
Otherwise, according "To Live is To Die" book, Lars said he sees himself producing films, James playing country music in Tennessee, and Kirk joining mentor Joe Satriani's touring band.
Well now that you covered Metallica's bad album, you could review Megadeth's bad album: Risk
+Epic-Fran! *shudder*
TheTundraTerror Meh, both albums suck. But I guess for the show called "Regretting the Past", Risk would fit more
+Epic-Fran! Yes that was really bad.
Metallica has more than 1 bad album. Megadeth too.
Risk is worse than St Anger
While I consider St. Anger one of my favorites lyrically, I can say I honestly agree with this review. You really hit the nail on the head on why this album is worth regretting. I listened to Dirty Window the other day and I had to turn the volume down on my phone to the first bar just to get through it, and I still felt my head hurting. However, I still somehow to manage to find pleasure in listening to Frantic, St. Anger, and Shoot Me Again. The Unnamed Feeling is definitely the gem of this album. I did enjoy this review though, and other reviews you have done. Keep doing what you do man. As a small request, I'm hoping you could review Life Screams from Lacey Sturm. Other than that, your videos rock. :)
Same here but this would have sounded better as a Slipknot or Mudvayne album
Stereotypicalize_Metal ikr
Thunder Gives Me Glee great album
Unnamed Feeling is good. But it drags with that repetitive riff, over, and over, and over. The closest thing to a "song" on this album is "Sweet Amber". It still sounds like it was recorded inside a metal trash can, but it's cohesive and it moves and it kinda rocks.
+terracottapie
Invisible kid its the most complex song in the album for me. Still digging it
All Within My Hands is dope acoustically.
The Unnamed Feeling is the best track.
Dirty Window is fun to sing.
The rest can go away.
Sweet Amber fucking rules until you remember it was written because they were being spoilt babies about having to record a "We're Metallica and you're listening to KD-105 in the morning!"-style promo and then you can't love it any more.
Invisible Kid has a sick riff, but the snare ruins it.
Hot take: Frantic could have worked as a System of a Down song. They know how to make weird and wacky shit that goes in several different directions
St. anger was the first metallica album i ever owned and I loved it. I guess it's because i didnt have any expectations that I wasn't dissapointed.
I still remember listening to Jason Ellis on Sirius one day, back when he was on Faction, and had to play music at his breaks. This one show, he played "Invisible Kid" in a break, and about half way through the song, cut it off and started ripping it to shreds. And he's a total Metallica fan too, which made it even funnier
Here's my opinion on St. Anger's songs:
-Frantic: It's okay I guess, not bad at all.
-St. Anger: Cool riffs, but I feel like the main riff was overused around the end of the song.
-Some Kind of Monster: Not really a great song, but again, it has some nice riffs, specially near the end.
-Dirty Window: It's got a really cool rhythm and the drum patter, althought it's very basic, it has its charm. I personally don't mind the change of pace in the ''I'm Judge and I'm Jury'' part
-Invisible Kid: First, I got blown away by the tuning of this song, it's in Drop G#. Second, the riff is also good but simple. The lyrics are good aswell.
-My World: Again (and this is a recurring theme in this album) it's got a nice bunch of riffs, however the lyrics are kind of confusing (maybe it's about not letting yourself be manipulated by other people?)
-Shoot me Again: It's got a fairly simple riff but I personally like it, it also has a groovy feeling to it.
-Sweet Amber: Personally one of my favorites of this album, it's got a nice riff aswell and the drums really seem to match the songs feeling.
-The Unnamed Feeling: This song, it's honestly one of my favorite Metallica songs ever. It matches the overall feeling of the album, and it takes it to a whole new level, it's got everything, cool riffs, meaningful lyrics, nice drums, it's an overall extremely good structured song.
-Purify: I think Metallica slipped on this one, it's not really a good song, it's a complete mess.
-All Within My Hands: Metallica also slipped on this one, although it's intentional (because of the ending, no one would ever end an album like that if it's not intentional) pretty dark feeling to this song.
St. Anger is overall an okay album, but it's definitely got some gems. One could say it's a very misunderstood album. When you feel like shit, like you want to kill someone (pun intended) this album really helps to calm down. In my opinion, it's a therapy album, both for Metallica themselves and for other people.
St. Anger as a song is truly awesome!! The album St. Anger is well not so awesome.
Lyrically and emotionally this album is my favourite one.
You TRULY get the album man. Anyone who treats this album like its in a vacuum, and not compare it to early Metallica, can appreciate a true gem. But, then again, only Metallica would have the balls (and credibility) to be able to release such an album, simply because they can.
Honestly one of my only real problems with the album is the snare drum sound, I would love it if the snare didn’t sound like a garbage can lid.
It was a mediocre album but they havent released anything better since. Metallica peaked with the black album - though not in terms of thrash because it wasn't thrash- Hardwired to Self Destruct has the old style but everything about it is boring. Death Magnetic is just crappy with distorted sound. Metallica haven't released anything worth listening since Load. They should have called it quits after Reload and the only reason they're continuuing is to support their decadent lifestyles.
Ah yes, the album where Metallica and sellouts were always in the same sentence. Bad times....
I am a Metallica fan, but I do have a soft spot for St. Anger.
I can see why people dislike the album, but there are those, like me, who like it. I don't find it a big deal that people hate it. Like you said, not everything our favorite band is going to release is going to be guaranteed to be amazing. I look at St. Anger as somewhat of an experiment. It wasn't the biggest success ever, but hey, they tried something.
I did laugh a bit at this, keep up the good work and you have earned a subscriber.
Pretty good analysis
I really like st anger as well dude!
I like 4 2/3 songs
Grilmour This wasn't them trying something new for just the sake of it. They did it because it's what was in their hearts. Anger. Anxiety. Depression. All of the above. I love every single song on that album. I respect others opinions, and it's fine I don't get that respect back, but for me. St. Anger is my heart itself. I wouldn't be alive had it not existed.
This album is basically an exorcism in 'music' form. Raw, and Primal. Not necessarily a good thing, but something that had to happen. St. Anger is one of the few songs that gets me amped for some reason. Lately The Unnamed Feeling has been getting a lot of play though.
As much as the flack for this album is deserved, i did grow a much deeper appreciation for this album while i was going through some really tough times myself and battled a lot with depression and anxiety. This album is great for when you're in such a mood because it perfectly displays those emotions in the songwriting. It's imperfect, aggressive, raw, angry and has a lot of pent up emotions inside it just like what i was going through at the time. Songs like Frantic, St. Anger, Dirty Window, Sweet Amber & The Unnamed Feeling are great highlights of this album. Especially live with much better audio quality.
Nu metal captures that, but better
100% agree. the day I bought this Album I was travelling home. leaving my home and job - working on my girlfriends farm after finding out my girlfriend wasn't as faithful as I'd have hoped.
bad time in life and too immature to know how/what to be angry with. This albums raw energy and basic Sinplicity just opened me up to the next stage...not the greatest Metallica album, but Severly underrated in my eyes.
I heard the world premiere of St. Anger on KROQ in LA. I thought they had played a demo and thought, “that’s cool of Metallica to pre-release a demo.” 15-year-old me was in for a rude awakening
"We all know that Lars knows how to play very well"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
no
you should review Weezer's Raditude. Fucking horrible garbage.
I agree. At least Ewbaite was a great album :D
***** WOAH youre right. Each album review is over an hour long. I might have to marathon this on a weekend on something. Thanks for the info.
+2D's Incarnate yes
Rych3rInLyf3 isnt all Weezer garbage
"in 2004, St Anger the song won a Grammy for best metal performance"
Hum, I wonder if in 2004, some albums with better songs came out...
Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
Dio - Master of the Moon
DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Motörhead - Inferno
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Maybe...
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME AMERICA ?
Montjoie To be nominated in the 2004 Grammys, the song has to have come out between October 2002 to September 2003.
@@prometheustv6558 ahaha you ruined it)
Poor guy
Load and ReLoad I’m just saying, none of those albums could have won a Grammy that year since they came out in 2004.
@@prometheustv6558 I know, and I agree with you
I just making fun of first guy)
Load and ReLoad oh
I believe that the reason the album is bad is because Metallica needed to stop people from illegally downloading their music, and making a bad album was seen as a way to do exactly that.
80s, 90s and 2008 Metallica: Thrash Metal and Heavy Metal
2003 Metallica: System Of a Down
2003 Metallica: 2000s racing videogame background noise
I like System of a Down, well mainly their first two albums.
Metallica is good too (at least in their first five albums).
If you haven't checked out the fairly recent "re-record" from #STANGER2015, you should. They kept every riff and piece of St. Anger, but completely re-recorded it with more conventional production values and they trimmed a lot of the repeats on the riffs, making the album 15 minutes shorter. Cleaned up like this, it's become one of my favorites!
I couldn't even get through this review of the album, let alone get through the album.
No offense taken. Trust me...I understand...
+Rocked Reviews No lie, this albums give me a headache
It's not your fault...
It's not your fault...
When I first heard this album I was like a Star Wars fan after seeing The Phantom Menace for the first time, in other words very deluded in a very sad way. How can a Metallica Album suck? I opened my eyes and ears, eventually and realised the truth St. Anger sucks.
Funny that Todd in The Shadow also compared the Lars' snare to Jar Jar Binks.
@@musyarofah1 Thanks for pointing that out, it's hilarious and very true.
Should have expected it. The two albums before it sucked too.
@@vladimirbathory1125 load and reload weren’t awful. they weren’t nearly as good as the first 5, but they had their moments. st. anger does not have its moments.
This album is real-life satire. I remember back in the day when a colleague at work played me a song from this album and told me how much he liked the album, and me laughing heartily for almost half an hour. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt.
"Shoot Me Again" Sounds like James is doing his best Les Claypool impression
Huge fan of Metallica, and I like St. Anger (big surprise). But I enjoyed it more after I saw Some Kind of Monster documentary and read the book one of the directors of that movie wrote about the production. It's important to remember the rough times they went through (yeah yeah, I know, boo hoo, poor multi-millionairs and their problems). I see it as a phase, and we got something out of it. We got a refreshed Metallica ready for the road with a new, amazingly talented bassist. They got rid of Bob Rock, for better and for worse (mostly better). And we got Death Magnetic down the (end of the) line, which is a kick-ass, back-to-the-roots album with the guys we know from the 80's.
But a good review, I agree about the terrible drums, they are aweful. But there exists a version of some kind of monster with regular drums, if you haven't heard it, check it out! I think it's the single-version of the song.
My 11 year old self was even dissapointed at this, it came out on my birthday that year, it blew chunks
St. Anger has some of Lars' best and most complex drum tracks. He wouldn't be able to play them now.
You must be trolling
I gotta say, I really love Sweet Amber. It's a good song.
Pretty much the only good part of this album.
You're forgetting Frantic, St. Anger, Some Kind of Monster, Dirty Window, and Shoot Me Again.
the only song that I would really like to forget of this album would be shoot me again as it had nothing. SKOM, Frantinc, UF, AWMH, DW were kinda ok
What about purify
Purify is audible cancer
You can mock me with everything you have and can get but
I like this album, like all songs
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The snare drum killed it for me. About the only song I listen to off St. Anger is The Unnamed Feeling. It's cool if you like it though. Fuck anyone who gives you shit over it. I wouldn't give it a second thought.
i know right, the persons who judge your opinion just need to get a life, a brain, and most importantly sense of life
Why would anyone mock you, when you are mocking yourself? That would be cruel.
Well, I listen to this album more often than Kill'em All or Death Magnetic. And all this BS about the snare, come on, I can record "great" snares at home, so what? I like the unique sound, I am bored to death of all those ultra compressed "powerful" drum sounds your hear from every metal band these days
Like I said it's cool if you like St. Anger, but for me switching those mental things off on the snare sounds like a bongo drum or something. I'm of the opinion that bongos have no place in metal...
I love St. Anger. To me it's a matter of appreciating the artists personal development as opposed to wanting the artists to stay addicited and depressed, just so they can make the same music over and over again. People need to understand that the artists aren't pets and they can do whatever they feel like, and if you feel the vibe of the album (every element included) it's an album where Metallica and James in particular gets very real.
Exactly. The documentary perfectly shows what the band was going through. Sometimes context matters
Context doesn't make St Anger good, regardless. It's no different from Aerosmith getting clean and churning out shitty pop, it may be a sign of personal growth or something but it doesn't make the music good
I'm sorry, but the fact that they have the right to do whatever they feel like doesn't mean that what they decide to do is good. St. Anger is not a personal development, it's musical regression, it's already bad for a new band, imagine for a band as experienced and old as Metallica
That album was so bad someone was trying to give it away and no one wanted it ,dude ended up throwing the CD out a car window .he did the right thing.
I can probably play drums like that.
***** Anyone hitting kitchen utensils or a trash can lid can play the drums as well as Lars did on this album.
MegaSparkster Hence the demonstration in the video when he was covering the second track.
The pot & pan drum rhythm sounded better than anything on st. anger.
True.
I actually thought that was like a bell intro or something to a song on there, and not pots and pans.
The drums sounds more like garbage cans, oil drums and kegs tbh
Honestly, that moment made me want a song with pots and pans in the percussion.
Load and reload have some good stuff, and are starting to get some more appreciation. Not sure if st. Anger will
We all shit on St Anger when it came out, but you know what?
After all these years, its the one i listen to most.
Not saying it's good, just saying the songs aged well for me i guess.
....I am sorry to hear that 😂
Just kidding, everyones got a different taste
Honestly, Grammys aren't the best for metal. "Blood in My Eyes" by Sum 41 was nominated for "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" in 2012. Sum 41. In 2012. For Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance.
Roddor FJ BTW, I actually like Sum 41 (You need to listen to Does This Look Infected? and Chuck, those are great albums, not kidding), but nominating them for a Hard Rock/Metal award in 2012 is just comical.
@@roddorfj Well, punk is a part of a heaver sub-genre of rock.
I think ReLoad actually has my favorite Metallica song as of now, and that's King Nothing.
King Nothing is on Load , not reload
Chris Holian Dammit! Well, give me an F- in Metali-class.
+Hotrodjman Official hahaha just trying to help you find your favorite track , love the bass intro on that one
Chris Holian Same.
So I understand why this album gets a lot of hate. It's understandable. But there was a very dark time in my life where I battled alcoholism. My GF died and I witnessed it happen, I turned to drinking and I literally lost everything. My life savings, my house, friends, family and the business I was trying to start up. This album as a whole helped me. The music is ugly and dirty sounding. That's how I felt everyday. The lyrics were like my entire life being told to me. This album made me realize I needed help and it helped me to get help. So yeah it sounded bad but for me it may have saved my life as well as a few other albums from other artists but this one in particular holds a huge spot in my heart.
It was an amazing album for what it was, which it was all about healing. You healed. Keep pushing man.
I admit I really didn't like St Anger, but it wasn't that bad. It was just different. And I loved Load and Reload. But come on, if Metallica just kept putting out Master of Puppets, you would've hated that too.
I was 5 when this came out in 2003, my dad being a huge Metallica fan he bought it and hated it, but as a kid I didn't know any better, and hell I liked it then and still do. But Justice is my favorite album by them.
The problem with the snare is not the over-usage of it. It is the tone of the snare. Actually, the thing is, this album doesn't even use an actual "snare". It uses the snare drum with the snare turned off and this is why the drums sound the way they do (well, I'm sure it also has to do with the way the drums are tuned). Somebody posted St. Anger with "normal" drum sounds and it sounded just fine. So the problem is not in the drumming, it's in the sounds.
I think the drum sound actually fits some of the songs, but it just gets tiring when you hear it all the time in every single song. And it's not just the drum sounds, it's pretty much the overall sound quality that I don't like. But the drum sound is the most obvious part of the overall sound that sucks.
I like Frantic. I think it's the strongest track on the album. I didn't get the same feeling from it as you. I actually think it's a bit too repetitive for a 6 minute song. It doesn't progress enough to justify the length. I think it sounds like a coherent song.
I really don't even remember many things from this album. There are three songs that I think were pretty good and memorable - Frantic, The Unnamed Feeling and the title track. But the problem with the title track is the same as the problem with Frantic - it's too long and doesn't progress enough. If they were a bit shorter, they would actually be pretty good songs. I still think they are decent tracks and I don't think they even need guitar solos (then again, a whole album lacking guitar solos from a band that is known for having guitar solos on every track is a bit too much).
I don't understand why you feel that Frantic and the title track are going to different directions all the time. I think they are pretty coherent songs and as I said, they actually progress too little to justify the length of the songs. I feel more like there's no direction. The songs start just fine but after a couple of minutes they don't really go anywhere. They could have taken some of the ideas a bit further or maybe shortened the songs. When it comes to the double tempo vs half tempo thing, that's just contrast. Listen to Disposable Heroes and it's basically the same thing (changing between double tempo and half tempo).
I think if they had released the album a couple of years later, it would have been better. To me it just felt unfinished. It was like garage demos/jams released as a full album. Well, maybe that's the feeling they were after? But yeah Metallica has made some other strange choices too - the mixing on AJFA, the change of style on Load, the sounds on Death Magnetic, Lulu as a whole, and the movie they made a couple of years ago.
the snare with out the snare actually turned on sounds like $10 timbale
This would be a decent album if it were from, let's say, some up and coming younger band. I could be fine with it.
But coming from Metallica, it raises sooo many questions that it gets in the way of me fully enjoying it.
How to make St Anger better
1.Tune the snare drum and drumset
2.Have more guitar solos
3.Have your singer feel better before entering the studio