St. Anger - Metallica

2003 was marked with the reappearance of a Metallica studio album after 6 years wait from the previous album Reload. Now as you can expect like any good fan I winged my little way down to the record store on the day of release to pick up my copy and rushed home to see just how loud my new stereo could play this album without causing any major damage to it, me, or the surrounding area. Even though the familiar Metallica sound didn't burst out at me straight away certainly I could still hear a lot of potential in the opening track and as the album progressed I found myself more initially liking the album rather than outright loving it, but then again the same could be said ...  Read the complete review

Metallica formed back in 1981 and have to date released a grand total of eight studio albums. 'St. Anger' is the latest of which and was given its release upon the world in June 2003. It took them from May 2002 until April 2003 to record, and all I can say of this matter is that it took them far too long to record such a disappointing album in my opinion. You'd think that James Hetfield would have been able to put down much better vocals in a year than this. Starting with 'Frantic', Metallica don't exactly make the best of first impressions here. The track is in fact really quite awful, and containing lyrics of 'Frantic tick tick, tick tick tick tock' it ...  Read the complete review

In the summer of 2003, one of the world?s most successful and well-known rock bands released their much-anticipated St. Anger, their first original studio release in six years. Sales were not as high as the band would have hoped, however their constant re-writing and re-awakened camaraderie ensured that this would be an album they hold dear much more than some of their previous releases. Besides, they?re obviously loaded by now anyway, and it?s great to see them continuing to make music they love. BACKGROUND Metallica?s current line-up has remained almost identical since the ...  Read the complete review

I?ve been a Metallica fan for pretty much half my life. The first band that ever really mattered to me when I reached my teens were these four black clad men. Infact they still do matter, but in minimal doses these days. Metallica?s eponymous black album is the ?coffee table? record that nearly every household has: Immediately accessible, but by no means an un-metal album. It remains to date one of the more modern great hard rock records, and is one of Metallica?s two peaks, the other being Master Of Puppets five years previously. Since then Metallica ?lost the plot?, or so it seems. In ...  Read the complete review

My oh my, it has been 6 years in the waiting, has involved the loss of Jason Newstead, the induction of Bob Rock as the 5th horseman, albeit temporarily, and has just recently seen ex Suicidal Tendencies, and Ozzy’s band’s bassist Robert Trujillo drafted into the band as Newstead’s replacement, and is finally here, ST Anger was unexpectedly unleashed on music stores around the globe on the earlier than originally planned date of June 5th 2003, a day that I feel will remain memorable for a good few years to come, for one, it is the first Metallica album in 6 years to be released, and for 2, in many ways I suppose it is the first “true” ...  Read the complete review