Metallica - St. Anger (Bonus DVD)
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Album Details: St. Anger (Bonus DVD)
- Release Date:
- 06/05/2003
- Label:
- Elektra / Wea
- UPC:
- 075596285322
User Reviews: St. Anger (Bonus DVD)
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I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up
, June 13, 2003Reviewer: sjsutton911 - See all sjsutton911's reviews8 of 9 Yahoo! Users found this St. Anger (Bonus DVD) review helpful After the late 90's disappointment of Load and Reload, I was really hoping for the best regarding Metallica's first album of the 21st century. After years of waiting for this new and supposedly "days of old" release, I was "rewarded" with utter and complete disappointment. I honestly tried to give it a chance, hoping for each track to be a little better, maniacally tapping my foot to get into it, but to no avail. The lyrics are thoughtless and contrived. The riffs, although sometimes chunky, are rarely developed and often repeated, not to mention there are NO GUITAR SOLOS on the entire album. I was excited when I picked up the package and saw song lengths of 6, 7, and even 8 minutes, but the grim reality is that each track is merely a 3 minute "pop song" repeated to achieve these durations. I usually expect good production value from Bob Rock, but this album seems to have been mixed by a high school A-V club. Hetfield's vocals are way too hot, and resembles mumbled whining rather than singing. There's also a high-pitched drum noise that persists the whole way through that was apparently ignored. Nu-Metal, you have nothing to worry about. This release is nothing more than a group of old guys trying to make a dent in today's "top-40" market. I wouldn't "steal" it online even if you paid me. (You're welcome Lars) If you still want to buy this album, my only advice is to try to buy it used at CD Warehouse first. Real metalheads should be dropping off their copies of St. Anger anytime now. ... -
Sellout album from former rockers.
, June 14, 2003Reviewer: Steve White - See all Steve White's reviews11 of 16 Yahoo! Users found this St. Anger (Bonus DVD) review helpful As always, these reviews are just opinions. I've read several saying that anyone who doesn't like this album must be crazy, or that we expect more Sandman type stuff. Not true. I've been listening to Metallica since the Cliff days and in fact the Black album was kind of a let down. Not nearly as much as this album, though. Yes, its different, but I'm not basing my opinion on a comparison to other Metallica albums. St. Anger lacks cohesion in music, each song seems to be a congolmeration of items they thought were good, but when put together, they aren't. The lyrics are the worst James has ever written, just read invisible kid or any of the others, poor. And James voice borders on a whine instead of a snarl. Severly disappointing considering the hype. No wonder they wanted Napster out of the picture, if people would have had access to this album earlier, they wouldn't have sold nearly as many copies. Most of all, they foregt to do the one thing they have always done on their albums. They done't thank the FANS. ...
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Pro Reviews: St. Anger (Bonus DVD)
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Metallica's first new material in over five years arrives after a flurry of non-musical activity that included a much-publicized spat over Internet file sharing, the departure of bassist Jason Newsted, and a lengthy stay in rehab for James Hetfield that suspended the recording of a new album indefinitely. Hetfield returned to the fold in late 2001. Still without a bass player, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and their newly sober frontman recruited longtime producer Bob Rock to man Newsted's spot, and creation of the album commenced in May 2002. St. Anger arrived a year later as a punishing, unflinching document of internal struggle -- taking listeners inside the bruised yet vital body of Metallica, but ultimately revealing the alternately torturous and defiant demons that wrestle inside Hetfield's brain. St. Anger is an immediate record. Written largely in the first person, it never warns of impending doom, doesn't struggle with claustrophobia, and has care neither for religion's safety nor its hypocrisy. (The religious symbolism of its title and artwork seems only to function as a metaphorical device.) Lacking the heavy metal baggage of these past themes, Metallica is left to ponder only itself and its singer's psychosis, and delivers its diagnosis on slabs of speed metal informed with years of innovation and texture. The record exists as it ends. As the lockstep thrash of the eight-plus minute "All Within My Hands" tumbles toward its final gasp, Hetfield is explicit in his aims. "I will only let you breathe my air that you receive," he seethes. "Then we'll see if I let you love me." Ulrich's drums sputter in fits and starts, but the guitars are already dying, shutting down as Hetfield stabs at the microphone. "Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill," he screams, and you have to check the wall for a splatter radius. It's a brutal, ugly end to an album that switches on like a bare light bulb in an underground cave. It blasts each corner with harsh, unfiltered light for 75 minutes, until the bulb is shattered with a combat boot, leaving disquieting after-images exploding on the backs of your eyelids.Hammett and Hetfield's guitars eschewing separate parts in favor of a roaring tag-team approach. A hint of the band's mid-'90s nod to alternative drifts in during a bridge, but it's quickly swallowed alive by the song's muscular groove, never to be heard from again. "St. Anger," the single, marks the first appearance of a vocal technique that lurks in the shadows throughout the album. As Hetfield groans, "I feel my world shake/It's hard to see clear," he seems manipulated by an unseen force, flickering like bad reception. It's unsettling, and startlingly effective. Hetfield's psyche is on trial throughout, and though he often expresses confusion and anger over his struggle ("Some Kind of Monster" and especially "Dirty Window," in which he becomes both judge and jury), the mechanistic rhythms of the band seem to give him strength. "Shoot Me Again" -- another seven-minute epic -- becomes Hetfield's sneering answer to himself. It lurches into gear, juxtaposing a deceptively soothing verse with a dirty guitar line that explodes in the song's titular money shot. The resonating cymbal cracks during its stops and starts are particularly satisfying, as you can imagine the members of Metallica facing each other in a circle, jamming the song's jagged melody down the throat of a solitary microphone. (The image comes to life in St. Anger's bonus DVD edition, which captures Hetfield, Hammett, Ulrich, and new bassist Robert Trujillo in their headquarters compound, shredding through each song on the album in its entirety.) St. Anger isn't a comeback, and it's not a throwback. The album is exactly what Metallica needed to make at this point in its career, after clawing its way to the top of the metal scrap heap, reeducating a generation of bands, and popularizing its genre beyond anyone's expectations. St. Anger looks inward with a hard eye, and while it finds some grinning demons in that pit, it also unearths some of the sickest grooves of Metallica's 20-plus year lifespan. - Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide |
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