Metallica - St. Anger CD (album) cover     Prog Related  1.61 |
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rock music website  Time Signature 3 stars Some kind of
monster....  I know that a lot of people hate this album for its
grittiness and ugliness. I'm not of of them. To me "St. Anger"
marks Metallica's return from what I think was a creatively
uninspired era to more interesting music. Sure, the songs on
"St. Anger" are a bit longwinded, the lack of guitar solos
equalled a lack of Metallica-soul, the snare drum sounds
terrible, and the overall production is strange to put it
mildly. But this album is characterized by something that's been
missing from Metallica ever since the black album - namely,
energy. What drew me to "St. Anger" was simply the raw
unprocessed energy it seemed to contain which was sorely lacking
from the boring "Load" and even more boring "Reload" albums
(ironically, "St. Anger" turned out to have been Pro Tooled into
being, which makes it all the more impressing that