Metallica's Reviews
St. Anger (Average Rating: 5.74 out of 10)
Metallica returns to Metal (Rated this album with 10 out of 10)
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from Washington, DC United States
People bashing this album seem to miss the point. There are several reviews that say there are three worthwhile songs on this disc. They all seem to disagree on what the songs are, which indicates to me that there is some worth in all of them. Fans of Black-Reload are probably not going to dig this album, which is a good thing, because that period of Metallica was depressingly awful, where they went from producing music to producing "product." At least this album has some balls, some real metal (they aren't called HardRockica), some more of the lyrical meaning that was at the heart of Metallica's music when they were making the immortal music of their pre-Black album period. While there are a few songs that I don't really dig on here (Invisible Kid in particular...at forty and beyond it's probably time to drop the alienated youth angle, but it does have a catchy chorus), and the sound of the album is unapologetically raw, at least Metallica woke up and remembered who they were before they started believing their own hype and making watered down top-forty rock. I love that alternative stations had to rock the double-bass on St. Anger. That kind of music never got on the radio before One, but Metallica has become such a presence over that last ten years that they had to play it. I guess the Black album was good for something. This can either be the beginning of a Metallica that reclaims its former glory as a band that outrocks everything else on the market, uncompromisingly creating its music, or a failure that sends them crawling right back to "Modern Rock" radio with idiot-friendly garbage like "I Disappear." Mad props on the return of Pushead. Where is Flemming Rasmussen?
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