Track Listing

1. Frantic
2. St. Anger
3. Some Kind Of Monster
4. Dirty Window
5. Invisible Kid
6. My World
7. Shoot Me Again
8. Sweet Amber
9. Unnamed Feeling
10. Purify
11. All Within My Hands

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4066 in Music
• Brand: Metallica
• Released on: 2003-06-05
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
Also included is a bonus DVD featuring a down n’ dirty live-in-the-studio performance of every track on the album. Never before has an artist designated a live DVD performance of a new album to simultaneously accompany its new studio release. CD produced by Bob Rock.

Amazon.com
Never underestimate the regenerative powers of Metallica. Following the stripped-down Load and Re-Load, they've returned to the raw, vitriolic savagery of their earlier canon, using 1984's Ride the Lightning as a template for St. Anger. The title track provides the psychic lynchpin of the album by combining the bombast and defiance of the band's earliest high-water marks with more deliberate lyrics and emotional nakedness. Equally cathartic is "Some Kind of Monster," a lumbering beast of a song that declares, "This is the voice of silence no more." Despite that claim, there's an economy to these lyrics; James Hetfield's raw-toothed growl only occasionally punctuates the menacing soundscapes. In fact, "Dirty Windows," the standout track here, is a shimmering five-minute instrumental that's free of the baroque trappings that sometimes clutter the Metallica landscape. --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews

The Patron Saint Of Anger
St Anger is the 'Jar Jar Binks' of metal albums.

ANGER ANGER ROOOOOOAR!!!!!
Hmm, where to begin? Ok, how about this? The new Metallica CD, "St. Anger", is nothing short of awful. Yeah, that works. If Metallica weren't finished before, they most certainly are now. Having listened to the whole thing, I can say that there is not a single moment of the CD that doesn't make me want to do horrible evil things to it. Metallica are trying desperately to be heavy and scary, and somehow trying to start some kind of revolution. Guess what? Metal has been doing just fine for the last 10 years without Metallica, and it will continue to do so for many years to come. Why do I want to hear Lars trying to do blast beats, when I can hear dozens of competent drummers do it successfully? For that matter, why do I want to listen to this in the first place? Answer: I don't.

Oh, and as if the music and lyrics weren't bad enough, the production is even worse. Even "Justice" had better production than this (and production still didn't stop it from being their best album). This sounds like it was recorded in the men's room at Burger King.

Yep, this is just bad. I won't say I'm disappointed, because I really didn't expect much in the first place. I have no use for Metallica anymore. They may have influenced loads of other metal bands, but most of those metal bands have surpassed them in quality by far, and I think I'll just stick to those.

Oh, and this does not sound like Slipknot. Slipknot may not be the best band ever, but they're way better than this.

Go buy something else, like a pizza. Mmmm, pizza.

moderation is for sissies
Let me just begin by saying that I am an avid music fan. I like some examples of most types of music. Metal, Rock, Pop, Punk, Country, Classical, Rap, Blues, Folk, you name it, I've got some. So I hate this album not because I wanted "old Metallica", and don't like nu-metal or punk, so much as because it emits an odor worse than a 3 week dead skunk. Musically, it's not good. Doesn't matter what genre you try to fit it in; it's simply not good. It's not pleasant, or thought provoking, or exciting, or relaxing, or stimulative of any of the emotions music is supposed to evoke. I can take unskilled music, if it acheives something worthwhile. St. Anger achieves pretty much nothing. Apathy, maybe. So I dislkie it strongly, got rid of the album, occasionally shed a tear over the precipitous decline of a great band, and get on with my life. I hope the guys don't put out anything else, because they're only making fools of themselves, but that doesn't detract from all the very good music they've given us over the years.

Also, it makes a much greater impression, people, if you don't rant and rave and call people posers...excessive use of the word is one of the symptoms, you know. As in, it takes one to know one, eh? Also, knowing how to spell, and the rudimentary use of grammer, helps to get your point across without sounding like uneducated scum.