St. Anger - Metallica

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...