I've already heard clips from the new CD. Don't get your hopes up and expect a return to their roots........... from what I've heard, not even close. Posted by: JCF Admin, http://www.jcfonline.com on April 9, 2003 12:36 AM

from what i have heard metallica is going to be kicking everyones ass again, and all you skeptics that think load and reload sucked...what was a better metal album out at the time? metallica gets criticized for putting outa good album only because its not great.....there new stuff is gonna go back to their prime when they were great watch out Posted by: jimmy, http://dsl on May 4, 2003 09:48 PM

ST ANGER RULES!!!! PURE RETURN TO THE ROOTS!!!! SOME SOUNDCLIPS SOUNDS LIKE JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!!!! METALLICAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! BEWARE HATERS!!!! ST ANGEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Posted by: Greek, http://www.station-eleven.run.to on May 16, 2003 07:07 PM

I agree with Jimmy, at the time of Load and reload what was better out there, So they went a little soft, they had to change with the times, and now it`s time to change back to there older and heavier stuff, and they are aware of that, so any people not satisfied with there stuff, go fuckin listen to some rap or something, cause obviously your not a metal lover! †Metallica† is the greatest heavy metal band ever to exist, and after this album everyone will see that they`ll be that forever! They started heavy metal! Posted by: †Lestat†, on May 20, 2003 10:33 AM

LOAD and RELOAD served as filters for the Metal Militia. It weeded out all the groupies and the followers and the posers and the rejects that do not have a sense of depth perception when it comes to Pure & Unadulterated Metal. The result of that weed-out was that only the true dedicated soldiers of the militia stuck around......and that is the way it should be. We don't need any I-Like-Metallica_cuz-they-have-long-hair people around. We need I-Like-Metallica-Because-They-Are-MetallicA. I have not heard anything from St. Anger, so I can't cast an indictment. MetallicA - keep up the good work. See you guys @ Giants Stadium on July 8th 2003. Keep it real guys Posted by: Ray Arvand, on May 30, 2003 10:37 PM

I agree with you, long life for Metallica! Posted by: Paul Young, on June 4, 2003 05:57 PM

I just purchased and listened to St. Anger, and am left a little disappointed. It sounds like Metallica doing their best impression of Down or somebody like that. There's not a single guitar solo, and the guitars sound muddy on quite a bit of it. I know that Metallica is into copying trends here lately, but come on. Master of Puppets this ain't!!!! I've been a Metallica fan since I got my first copy of Ride The Lightning in '85, not like most others since the black album. But, I'll listen to it some more and maybe it'll get better after a couple of more spins. Enjoy. Posted by: Mike, on June 5, 2003 05:26 PM

With much anticipation I just purchased St. Anger. Sadly it is NOT the "Metallica of old" that the buzz has been. Many of you may be thinking..."she's a chick, what does she know?" I will tell you...I know that St. Anger (or Load, or Reload or sorry...even the Black album) come NOWHERE close to the kick ass days of Justice, Masters, Lightning or the ever classic Kill em all. I miss my boys! Every time a new album comes out I cross my fingers hoping to once again be blown away by shredding guitar solos and James' signature growls. There are NO guitar solo and I wouldn't even call whatever James is doing singing. Which he CAN do. This album sounds like a combination of Linkin Park meets Primus meets Slayer meets...I don't know who! All may be good bands on their own but really WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! I hear that James shared writing privileges for the first time in their career. It shows! BIG mistake. The drums sound terrible, the lyrics are repetitive and really, it is all just a sloppy mess. Too much going on. I am disappointed to put it lightly. Yet, I still and always will love my boys. I am one of those fans who will bitch and moan about "the good old days" but who will continue to support them. Can't help it...once a fan always a fan. I will MOST DEFINITELY be at the SF show, fists in the air showin my love. But PLEASE...Kirk...plan on putting on a show would ya! Humor us old fans and bring out the old school metal! You kicked ass on MTV's "Icon" so we know you've still got it in you. LET IT OUT! Posted by: Kim Spicer, on June 6, 2003 04:50 AM

With much anticipation I just purchased St. Anger. Sadly it is NOT the "Metallica of old" that the buzz has been. Many of you may be thinking..."she's a chick, what does she know?" I will tell you...I know that St. Anger (or Load, or Reload or sorry...even the Black album) come NOWHERE close to the kick ass days of Justice, Masters, Lightning or the ever classic Kill em all. I miss my boys! Every time a new album comes out I cross my fingers hoping to once again be blown away by shredding guitar solos and James' signature growls. There are NO guitar solo and I wouldn't even call whatever James is doing singing. Which he CAN do. This album sounds like a combination of Linkin Park meets Primus meets Slayer meets...I don't know who! All may be good bands on their own but really WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! I hear that James shared writing privileges for the first time in their career. It shows! BIG mistake. The drums sound terrible, the lyrics are repetitive and really, it is all just a sloppy mess. Too much going on. I am disappointed to put it lightly. Yet, I still and always will love my boys. I am one of those fans who will bitch and moan about "the good old days" but who will continue to support them. Can't help it...once a fan always a fan. I will MOST DEFINITELY be at the SF show, fists in the air showin my love. But PLEASE...Kirk...plan on putting on a show would ya! Humor us old fans and bring out the old school metal! You kicked ass on MTV's "Icon" so we know you've still got it in you. LET IT OUT! Posted by: Kim Spicer, on June 6, 2003 04:53 AM

Dammit!!! I wanna strangle Bob Rock. There's a really good album in there somewhere... but the production SUCKS!!! The guitars are mixed down to the point of barely being there at all, the vocals are so out front it's annoying, and the DRUMS... my GOD... they are fast, and hard, but who told Lars to flip the lever on his snare drum and to pound on it repetitively until the listener is given the urge to choke the crap out of the little dude. Thank God for the DVD, which actually rocks pretty hard, and has better guitar sounds, etc, or I would have tried to return the whole thing. Why did they have to make the music sound like it was recorded in a kleenex box, and that damned snare-off snare drum sound gave me a Fsckin HEADACHE!!! Yes, it's fast, yes it's brutal and those are good things! But it's almost unlistenable without a dedicated many-band graphic EQ to take the painful oil-can snare drum thing down to the point where you wouldn't be chomping aspirin like candy to stop the headache and to bring the guitars up out of the mud a lot. Hammet spinning out a couple of guitar solos would be nice too! Jim Posted by: Jim Slattery, on June 6, 2003 01:02 PM

Kim Spicer needs to listen to the album again. Why do bands have to sound the same on every record. That seems to be what you want. The album rocks, really listen to it sometime. It may be different but being the same all the time can be boring. Posted by: Nora, on June 7, 2003 02:15 AM

I agree w/ Kim Spicer, and NORA you can suck it, you dont have a clue about metallica if you think this crap is good.. the album blows. We OLD fans arent looking for every album to sound the same, where in the WORLD do you get that from? what we are looking for is that classic metallica "sound" on new shit just like how the sound has evolved from kill em all to the black album. didnt sound the same but you KNEW it was metallica and you could listen thru every single song and not hear a bad part. the original 4 albums sound NOTHING alike at all.... black album is when they started to change it up to more of a mainstream but it was still kick ass. i like the black album, it was better than the shit they are laying down since load. what makes me cringe is the pure and simple fact that there is ABSOLUTLY NO SOLOS and the arrangement/timing is GOD AWEFUL. its a complete dissappointment and an embarressment. they sound like they are trying really hard to be hardcore again but they need to face it.. they CAN NOT write anymore. what kills me is if you go to a show (which ive been to about 10 metallica shows in my life so far) they still play all of thier old shit and barely ever touch a new songs b/c they KNOW that is what the fans what. why put out crap? who ever told them this album "is the best effort from the band ever" is obviously not a fan and has no prior experience to metallica. i actually did see that in a review, it made me laugh. all of thier albums prior to load all had thier own unique, ass kicking sound to them. no one song sounded alike at all from any of those albums.. this pile of hot steamy shit all sounds the same, fast/unarranged/fucked up timing/pussy vocals/mud. in my opinion, and the opinion of a REAL metallca fan..... please guys...... quite while you are ahead. no new music until you either get rid of bob rock or learn how to write a kick ass tune with vocals that GROWL. this pussy singing has got to go. james is capable of SO much more, obviously we have seen it in the past..... put out some new live shit to show us you guys still got it. only tour for a while, get your roots back, go back to being to ulitmate roaddogs and see whats its like again. im still going to see you live but i will be damned if i WASTE anymore of my hard earned money on an album that is going to sit on the shelf and never get played. the only reason i would buy it is basically to say that i have all thier albums, other than that reason, i have none. AHHHH im just so fuckin PISSED off at this HOT MESS they call an album. IT'S CRAP! Posted by: James, on June 7, 2003 10:56 AM

I am a OLD SCHOOL fan of metallica I actually own a vinyl Kill 'em All that I bought houw amy of you can say that? I bought the cd and I must say I was taken aback I wasnt what I expected at all but that is the essence of metallica....Keep things changing and dont stagnate...hell thats the essence of METAL!!! I admit that lars should have toned donw that snare (wonder how many heads he broke on that one) and the mixing isnt the best but all in all I like the album. YEs it is VERY different than anything else they have done but thats the point and if you all "real fans", and I use the term loosley for somef you, then take St. Anger back to the store and forget about metallica because the rest of us dont need you. Posted by: Jerry, on June 8, 2003 12:14 AM

First - I started listening to Metallica when Ride the Lightning came out and had Mandatory Metallica every day for around 10 years before the term Mandatory Metallica came about. I must agree that the new album is not worth your time. It is Metallica but, the CD sounds rushed. It feels like they said "We are so friggin famous that anything we make will sell a lot of money." People were pissed about napster. Why? Because, one of the other endearing things about Metallica in the early days is they "Killed all the poserS" and did not give a damn about music videos... they just played their music. Having a crap load of money changed them... People have suggested Bob Rock may be part of the downfall because, I too do not care too much for the albums after And Justice... Which I will explain more. Bob Rock also screwed up Joe Satriani's CD he produced on... it had fantasitc guitar of course but, it was kind of dull... I love Satriani as a guitar player though. So, maybe Bob Rock is part of the problem. Another major thing noone seemed to have noted here. Cliff Burton dies on the Master of Puppets tour but, did help make some of the stuff that appeared on And Justice. He was the most musically knowledgable person in the band and influenced a lot of decisions. Jason probably could have done some things too but, it appears he was more or less not given the front seat decision making opportunities Cliff had. Cliff dies... And Justice comes out. They release the first MTV video "One" when they were resistant to MTV before that (was it Cliff's Charisma that kept the other guys from doing the media B.S.?) Then the next album Metallica went from putting out songs that took me a week to master on Guitar to songs that I mastered most of while listening to them the first time.... Black album had better vocals and some of the balad stuff is cool but, the rest was just way simplified from Metallica in the past. I liked some of the stuff they did with S&M but, that is honestly the only thing I have really thought much of since And Justice For All. You say they went hard... Sure it is more distorted but, this music is a piece of cake... not much to it. Most of it is not that catchy and sounds like the rest of the stuff. I liked Track #7 the best off the album simply because, it sounded the most different from the other tracks. I'd say Invisible Kid was different too but, how many times do I have to listen to the words "Invisible Kid" in one song? Lars... What the hell? He went from complicated broken drum beats in songs like Harvester of Sorrow, and One... to extremely repetitive drum patterns.... sure they are fast at times... but, it is the same damn thing over and over. I will have to agree with the rest of the people who have said they have SOLD OUT. They went from an attitude of not caring about the money, and the media and focusing on their music to caring about the money and the media more than they do their music. I am not talking about their hair style... who cares... I don't care what a band looks like... all I care about is their music. St. Anger is not what we have come to expect from Metallica. Some parts made me think of a crappy band trying to imitate bands like Disturbed and sucking. There are a lot of bands that are so far beyond this album it is not funny: Opeth (though not for everyone), Nevermore (kicks ass), Dream Theater (if you want technical), and many more.... For those of you that have listed other bands... thanks I'll check them out. P.S. I got sun burned as hell on And Justice tour getting front row.... I listened to a lot of Metallica. They were my favorite band for about a decade. They have not been the same yet. Metallica was not liked because, they were hardest or fastest. They never were the hardest... Slayer and other bands were much harder. They wrote the best songs and all of them were catchy and all of them were musically well put together. When they did something it sounded fresh and new. St. Anger sounds like regurgitated crap from other people that have been making music the last few years... the people they copied did it better though. If Lars was playing drums on this album then he has seriously back slid into the realm of mediocre drummers.... In fact... I saw Lars and James do a drum duel with two drum sets on the Black Album tour (which I saw 4 times). I wouldn't doubt if this was not Lars but, was someone like James playing... We're rich... lets have someone play drums by proxy. Kirk? Didn't hear him.... All that would have been required to make this album was for James to go into a studio by himself. I did not taste any flavor of all the other band members.... Listen yourself and tell me if you hear anything that sounds like Lars or Kirks signature flavoring of playing anywhere... I sure didn't. I don't like the album. For those of you that do. Good for you. For those of you stomaching it just because, it is Metallica... do yourself a favor and trust your ears not your loyalty to a band you have loved for years. Posted by: Deva, on June 8, 2003 08:04 PM

When will they learn and get rid of Bob (cock rock) Rock. Oh come on, every since Metallica hired Bob rock to produce the Black Album, Metallica have went from bad to worse. St Anger is the biggest load of S**t I've ever had the discomfort to listen to. It's weak to add art work from Pushead on the album, it's the only connection to the old Matellica we all love and knew.... Metallica RIP Posted by: Kernboy, on June 9, 2003 05:08 AM

Deva, I've never heard it put so well. You really articulated how I felt about this new CD. We were all attracted to the music of Metallica because it was hard and edgey, but melodic and sometimes downright beautiful. That breakdown in the middle of Master of Puppets can make you cry. But those days are gone. Everyone thinks we want another Lightning, Justice, Puppets. That's not true. It's the style, the sound....f**kin' move me for crissakes! St. Anger is just crap. It has potential, but it's like it's not finished. Kirk can forget about any 'guitar player of the year' awards from this one. Metallica are just about moving units now. So they can suck my unit. Posted by: Jagermeister, on June 10, 2003 12:41 AM

What can I say? I not sure I know what to think! To go from what I would call a 'sophisticated' level of hard rock to such a raw sound is quite a brave move. No way are they reproducing the classic old school sound and I think we can all agree on that! Not really impressed from a personal perspective. I know the reasons why I like Metallica and have kept this in mind for all previous albums but this to me is not what I expect from such a talented band. Definitely not work the years of waiting but interesting never-the-less. Posted by: Simon, http://www.metalmayhem.com/ on June 10, 2003 10:16 AM

St Anger sucks poop. Its terrible. Crappy production, crappy riffs, crappy playing, crappy crappy crappy lyrics. I do not know why anyone in their right mind would want to listen to BS like this when Master of Puppets, Ride The Lightning, Justice, Kill Em All and even the Black Album BLOW THIS OUT OF THE WATER. Hell..even Load and Reload have better songs then this grungy, sludgey bullslop. This album sounds like a wet fart on a microphone the whole way through...and the lack of solos is UNFORGIVABLE. This is METALLICA. METALLICA HAS SOLOS. Metallica for our sake give up, you sellouts. Listen to Opeth, or Ephel Duath, or TestAmenT or Disarmonia Mundi and give this crap the passover. Posted by: Tim, on June 10, 2003 11:09 AM

kernboy , when you mention about pushead to be the only connection to old metallica........ damn sh*t , have you ever heard Septic Death , pushead's band ! , that mean metallica st anger is closer to pushead than ever ! There alot of hardcore roots in st anger ! Remerber Discharge t shirt Kirk was wearing ! WE can hear Discharge's influences to metallica in st anger , like into Dirty Window "chickachick" riff we hear remains the beginning of the song Ignorance from Discharge .... and so on and on ! The fucking snair is for the firts times of Suicidal Tendencies ....oups more for the Septic death album "now that i have the attention.... " EVER HEARD THAT ONE ! that is snair killer for pure headache ! St anger is more near from metallicas influences i think . there is solid songs on this album , frantic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic toc ! st anger is bombing .....bombing on us all , it dont let you indifferent ........... i am a french canadian dude of 33 y o that came from the hard roots..... did i mentionned that i am , i was a big fan of Discharge, oh , its when you came from the undergroud punk hardcore roots that we can see wath is behind st anger , thats an independant ( musically ) album made by a rich band ! :o) how funny i mean independant musically from what you want metallica to be at this time..... oh and dont remember , Cliff burton was the soul of metallica, Lars told that............ Cliff was the real independant iconoclast soul in metallica hope i m ok , cuz im french speaking first language Posted by: effeks, http://www.metallica.com on June 10, 2003 07:48 PM

Firstly, Metallica are the most kick-ass band to ever live, and I have been a fan ever since i was about 10. Just think of all the sick albums that they have released, and how musically talented they are. Just because they bring out one shit album (not saying that it is shit, its just different) we can still be just as bigger fans as we were before, because we see how good they can be. At least it is doing its part to destroy all the crap materialised pop and rap, that i hate with a passion.Go the 'tallica boys. Posted by: Dane, on June 11, 2003 02:08 AM

Deva, you make a good point: "They went from an attitude of not caring about the money ... focusing on their music to caring about the money and the media more than they do their music." I was struck upon listening to this, that the musical style has none of the edge and dexterity evident on early metallica and that they seem to have lost much focus and thereby skill. After reading you analysis, i was also struck by the truth: Metallica brought forward the release date by 5 days because of piracy concerns. Someone who is not concerned about the money and concerns themselves with the music to a greater degree than anything else, will not go to the trouble of spending tens of thousands of $ prosecuting napster, nor will they rush out an album to maximise $ made from CD sales... The same group that is unconcerned with money will have NO ISSUES WITH PIRACY as they are not going to hold with the whole intellectual property argument: I made this music, it is now in the public domain and hence i have to let go. Lets change the music business model and make money from merchandising and touring the crap out of the music we release... Hell no, metallica and almost all bands in the big-time music business are struggling to come to terms with piracy, local law enforcement making small busts where they can for ISPs allowing users to store MP3s on their web hosting servers, bands pushing behind these authorities, while all the time we (and i assume i am referring to most users of this chat) are more and more resorting to Peer to Peer for our musical satisfaction. I'll admit, when I believe enough in a band and want them to get the stardom they deserve, ill go and purchase their sh1t. Kyuss / QueensoftheStoneAge / Unida, i own probably 3-5 copies of each of their albums, either to support them, or for my own fanaticism. In any case, as hypocritical as it may sound - i do give my money gladly when i deem it is deserved. if the business model changes to be more focussed on touring and merch, ill do the same. use some method that i am presented with in order to pass on funds to the artist (and perhaps gleefully cutting out the middle man - the label) But i digress... My point is this, the music business is evolving. It is clear that metallica do care about the $ (as I'm sure we all would were it our living) and so neither they nor their label are seriously looking to work out alternative methods of generating income. Methods that do not assume the legal right to own the music which is in the public domain. Far from saying that there is no future in CD (my girlfriend and i went out and bought 2 copies of "st anger" on the day of release) they have to let go. Perhaps then they will be able to concentrate less on the business and start once more to focus on making the music that we have been hanging out to hear for a number of years now. opined. P.S. you think 6 years is long enough to develop quality music? i think they need more time! QOTSA (and kyuss before them) took 1 to 2 years between each of their releases, and each release has (arguably) been a gem. Posted by: ky-ass, on June 11, 2003 06:43 AM

mannnnnnnnnnnn im so dissapointed, i bought st anger yesterday and i listened to the first six songs and theres no solos at all. my friend says the reason they put it in a cardboard case was because they were ashamed of it. i dont know, maybe. i think im gonna be depressed. all my bands are going down... led zeppelin let eminem use their song, metallicas new album sounds like a train, and pete townshend got caught using child porn... Posted by: jon, on June 11, 2003 12:42 PM

Today's my 31st birthday! Hmm what "nice" present from Metallica. I don't know what is more interesting...reading to comments from you all or listening to St. Anger. At least, you all reminds me of Metallica at their best. This compared to ...and Justice for All is like heaven and earth. What a dissapointment:( Nevertheless, I hope after a few listens, it would sound a lot better. Like Silverchair's Diorama. Oh, btw, I need to buy a DVD now. Cya guys!!! Posted by: Rosmi, on June 11, 2003 01:49 PM

This isn't an album for metalliwoman or metallilosers. It is for metalheads and moshers. Do you remember the first time you had a beer? You probably didn't like it, but now you love it....and like a fine wine this album will just get better with age. When I heard the St. Anger single for the first time, I thought oh no.... not again, This sux, too repetitive. Jamez is wailing again like a country bumpkin. What a disappointment. Funny thing happened. I couldn’t get the son out of my head. I had to listen to it again. The second time I could really get into the music, the tempo changes the heaviness of the guitar and drums. I then downloaded the MTV frantic video and was hooked. As far the no solos and tinny drums complaints go, I love em. It adds to the heaviness of the riffs and rhythms. It almost sounds like a snake you can’t get back inside a jar. Instead of waiting the whole song just to hear one solo and saying ‘that’s why I like Metallica’, I dig the whole song front to back. There are some seriously cool jams on this album too. Its like they learned how to have fun again. Like garage days? You’ll probably like this. I would love to see a live show where they just played this album in a small venue. That’s a good time! As far not being polished. Good for them, I've been sick of polished metal since 1989. This is raw and good. Bottom line, this album is heavy and it rips. To hear James scream Kill Kill Kill is really refreshing and something I didn't think I would ever hear. Don’t take it too seriously…. the lyrics… all around a Good ol’ blutestompin good time. Good job boys. Posted by: Thraxnox, on June 11, 2003 10:08 PM

This album is so bad I hear they are now using it at Guantanomo Bay, Cuba to torture the Taliban prisoners with. After plunking down $17 for this I feel like the japanese chick in a Bukkake video, except all the men are Metallica members. Holy Smokes Hetfield, do you hate your fans that much? Keep it up and you will be in Steven Smith's band (former drummer for Journey) playing Blues/Jazz, or is it Jazz/Blues. The only thing St. Anger wanted me to do was pick up a rifle at a gun store and then find a tall tower. Posted by: Steve Savage, on June 12, 2003 11:29 AM

Metallica sounds like a Garage Band that has potential talent on this album, but needs someone who knows how to write music. Their No Life Til Leather Demo has more polish then this album. I guess this is what happens when you create your own album without input from the studio. For those of you who think this is a great album and those who would like to hear what this album should have been like if they truly went back to their basics, listen to the cuts from this band: http://www.manditory.com/media.html Posted by: wolf, on June 12, 2003 02:53 PM

1. Ordered CD On-line - BEFORE Release Date. 2. Opened UPS Envelope - Cool New Metallica! 3. Inserted CD into player - turned volume tro 11. 4. Conclusion - This sucks. 5. Repeated Step 3 5 times - got same result - This sucks. Now here I am trying to confirm that I haven't lost my mind after 41 years of jamming including a front row seat on the puppets tour in different 3 cities. Thanx to the internet I've convinced that I haven't lost my mind. St. Anger really does suck. Posted by: Old School Metal Head, on June 13, 2003 02:54 PM

I just bought the new Metallica CD, St. Anger, and I've gotta say that I'm pretty disappointed. I'm arguing with myself on whether I wanna take it to a Videogame and CD buy/sell/trader or keep it just because it's Metallica and part of my Metallica collection and just never listen to it again. First of all, I agree with some of you that say that Metallica is trying to assimilate the styles of other bands it has no business trying to imitate. This CD doesn't sound like Metallica at all. The Metallica I grew up listening to had screaming guitars, awesome guitar solos, hard and heavy drums that DIDN'T sound like something from Slipknot or Godsmack, and awesome lyrics. It honestly sounds like Metallica, in St. Anger, are trying to be a hybrid of Slipknot, Godsmack, Disturbed, Mudvayne, Audioslave, Rage against the Machine, and System of a Down. Sure, they travelled back to their roots to an extent. It sounds like they started making their old music of Ride the Lightning and Kill'em All... minus the cool guitar solos, screaming guitars, actual GOOD drums and, good lyrics. I'll be the first to admit, Load is what got me into Metallica as I'm pretty young... but from that point on, I started checking out their older stuff... some of which I knew but didn't realize it was them. After I heard Kill'em All and Ride the Lightning and ...And Justice for All I was hooked. I own, currently, most of their major albums... but this is the only one that I own that I regret ever buying. Even though I only paid $10.00 at FYE, I feel that I overpaid. I feel that I only paid the $10.00 for the DVD and got the CD for free. Metallica needs to go back to the style that is rightfully theirs and stop trying to be everybody else. I can only hope that they decide to really do a good job on the next CD they put out... and the reason I say they need to make another CD after this bombed out craphole they just put out... Honestly... if YOU were a member of Metallica... would YOU wanna go out putting out a crappy album like St. Anger? Posted by: Lovin' Metallica, http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling2/wolfchildsartwork/Home.html on June 16, 2003 08:43 AM

People, people,people.. everything that I`ve read here is the same shit i hear or read everytime a new Metallica album is realeased merges from tiny little brains. Yes St. anger is extremly diferent of what has been done before by the horesemen , but that doesnt mean its bad or crappy, bet you bunch of metallicas wannabes who are complaining right now and trying to reach fame and fortune with yours pathetic garage bands coudnt manage to get even close to the music in st. anger..and dont make me start with the lyrics...and for those who are realy talented (wich I suppose there are) It seems every time there is a new Metallica album you tink you are so great and virtuous musicans that you belive you can say anything you want because you can do better riffs than that, you can use more complex scales, your sanre is better tunned.. and you rach the 64/64 cleaner and faster .and the worst of all the pseudo fans wich are always crying like baibes: if not because they got a hair cut, because they made a video, because the song is to short, because is to long because doesnt have solo, because thy sold, because they play with a symphonic etcetera, etcetera etcetera.....F**K YOU BASTARDS...you are forgeting two important things..first music Industry is not just art...is money....you dont make money ....you have no next album.. any way this is a bussines no? wont you do anything to keep yor bussines afloat? and you (how ihate you loosers) mediocre little bands dont you dream on that getting a record firm to by your ferraries and put the most poular girl in the school on her knees with her girlfriends...Ok please dont missunderstand this...I love art..good music and good lyrics too, I wont say this is the best of Metallica at all but is not THAT BAD, you just have to listen more close and pay attention realize that tis is a new process in the road of becoming a legend..and beleve me metallica has a place assured next to pink floyd, the stones and greatfull dead not just because they sell, becuase they are good to damn good and because they can carry with all the shit you lames are throwing at them like this band did in their times. Posted by: Raven, on June 16, 2003 06:26 PM

When i grew up i became friends with a guy named tom, and his big brother influenced him with music. By the age of 10 i had heard metallica. I only heard one song that song was "BLACKENED". Blackened being one of the most fast, hardcore metallica songs, I practiaclly shat myself cos i never knew you could play shit that fast and i never knew you could make a guitar scream and wail (hence the solos). Metallica are the main reason i picked up a guitar, writing songs and making a band. I devoured each metallica album i bought (all of them), and eagerly awaited them to come to Australia, where i live. Because i am 14yo I have been waiting sooo long for metallica to have a new album and finally it comes. I had on cash so i borrowed it off some kid at school. Never in my life have i been as dissapointed. I mean metallica waste something like 7 years making new material, that sucks! Kirk, the person who showed me you can play a million miles an hour has no solos. they make up some lame excuse like "OH there were no solos cos we practically recorded it live in the studio. I had no time" or some shit like that. Back in the kill em all days kirk had a solo whenever the fuck he wanted. NOT GOOD ENOUGH. What happend to the riffs that took you ages to learn like Master of puppets, trapped under ice, and whiplash, where you hand almost breaks off cos your picking so fast. The riffs on this album are plain shit. They are mostly chuggga chugga riffs on low E string tuned down a thousand steps. It is a fucking joke! Metallica you once were gods of metal, but you have gone along with trends. Kirk I am ashamed, and so is any guitarist that used to admire you. James what the fuck happened? Lars you sellout with your bleached haid get a friggin life you mid life crisis pricks! -SEAN Posted by: , on June 27, 2003 09:20 AM

St. Anger... where to begin... VERY fast and chugging guitars. Lars snare is kinda annoying, but thats not what my biggest disappointment was. Ok metallica has one of the best guitarists in the world in Kirk hammett. When i heard that St anger was going back to its roots i expected to hear some sick shredding by Kirk like in Damage Inc and some stuff of Ride the lightning and Master of puppets. but not one lead on st. anger... WHAT ROOTS ARE THEY GOING BACK TO!! nothing IVE heard and I own every metalica album..kill em all trough St anger. Posted by: Tim, on October 3, 2003 08:48 PM