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seventy-five minutes of peace uninterrupted predictable quiet this is exactly what I need because for the next 75 minutes I have to listen to my great inducing audio diarrhea hundreds of you requested this hundreds of you wanted me to listen to one of the worst metal albums of all time and the worst part this has the name of what are the big four on it this is coming from one of the greatest metal icons of all time it's time to regret one of the worst metal albums coming from one of the biggest names ever and it's time to regret the past after covering the Triforce of suckage and a negate with the comment that I was open for suggestions on the next episode of regretting the past I was blown away by just how many people wanted me to cover Saint anger over a decade later and this album is still a scourge on anyone in the rock and metal world who have to know it exists most metal fans that were born before the year 2000 are more than familiar with Metallica and most of these people know that Metallica were once the sword and voice of metal in the 80s kill them all ride the lightning Master of Puppets and justice for all these albums stood is a new standard for what metal would be measured up to it wasn't until the late 80s and early 90s that things started to change after an unfortunate lineup change in the decision to go in a new direction a self-titled album was released that would become the most played album in their discography seriously I defy you to find Wan rock or metal fan who hasn't heard Enter Sandman or say it but true on the radio in the last three months it's impossible well at the time this album may have left the true classic metalheads feeling betrayed it is difficult to say that there wasn't some value in the black album it is still a testament to the time frame it still feels much like a king for Metallica then the legends dropped to big loads on us load and reload hit and people started getting confused it wasn't to the point of wishing for the glory days of battery in one yet but it left many people scratching their head and hearing the new radio friendly tunes of Italica dominating radio and television keep in mind this was back in the day when MTV really was music television and they were supporting all genres of music including rock and metal kids I know that sounds ridiculous but the EM actually stands for music in MTV so after releasing their cover album Garage Inc and live S&M album which both have some gems on them the departure of bassist Jason Newsted in 2001 and the merciless pursuit of Napster by Lars Ulrich it was time once again for Metallica to come out with new materialand thus same anger is the project of over 2 years of delays and work when asked about the writing and creation of the album Bob Rock producer of the album and filming basis until Metallica picked up Robert for Hugh stated that I wanted to do something to shake up radio and away everything else sounds to me this album sounds like four guys in a garage getting together in writing rock songs there was really no time to get amazing performances out of James we liked the raw performances Bob Rock is a legendary producer and has done a massive amount of work for music but that statement is very telling on the Koala an album this was in a time period when James Hetfield was getting out of rehab and going through a rough time but when the hype of the album includes there was no time to give an amazing performance out of James then it doesn't speak well for the effort put into the product top that with the fact that guitar solos are almost non-existent on a 75 minute album for Metallica and it really feels like this is some type of bizarro world formation replicating a once amazing band so to clarify st. anger the eighth full original album for Metallica includes no guitar solos snare drums and an emitted light performance from James Hetfield I don't like this that being said it's time to go track by track and find out why most people consider Saint anger to be one of the worst metal albums of all time your prayers are greatly appreciated at this point for me this this is goes on ding-ding from the opening track of this album you can tell that this is something very unfamiliar when you expect Metallica if the starting pace would have been kept up and then this song may have had some potential but I feel like frantic goes in five different directions throughout the almost six-minute track time it starts with a brutal rhythm but then it's changed to a slow ballad style rock song and then picks back up to a rhythm spasm and then goes into the lyrical genius of frantic tick tick tick tick tick tock when you would expect a good solo or guitar string the song plummets to a soft chord progression just go right back into the chorus and that leads to the most infamous problem of Saint anger the drums I remember in 2003 hearing Saint anger on the radio in st. Louis and then hearing the drum track stripped out just so they can mock it so instead of me just explaining how bad it is and the reasons why I don't like it here's the script out track from frantic if you enjoy the use of snare drums as the main rhythm that you have come to the right place this entire album is filled with more snares than a hunting trip we know that Lars Ulrich knows how to play very well but the talent means nothing when all you can hear is the echo ring of snares and cymbals for minutes on end there are some industrial metal bands who know how to use the snare drum and pipe work effects extremely well like Fear Factory for example but they know how to space it out and have it add to a song here it just becomes an overbearing static over an already problematic song that can't stay in the same gear and that was only one song let's keep moving so I don't start crying over how much I have to do this is the song that most rock fans associate with this album as it was the first track to hit radio is the title track and it's also the only one I really remember to ever hit radio from this album it feels like yesterday I was listening to this song on the radio at 1:05 7 the point and then DJ's at the time were mocking it after the track was over lyrically this is one of the few songs on the album that could have worked but it falls into the same issue with going in different speeds and directions it's like a car with a really bad transmission that can't shift gears smoothly and it just stalls and jumps around it starts out generic and fun and then progresses into a snare drum roll and then hits the brakes for Hetfield to sing a slow dirge and then goes back to a bridge that sounds like a April Fool's Day joke where you hear Hetfield sing Saint anger well he just speaks sings flush it out I would love to flush this album right now and then it goes back to a bland chorus with no real guitar impression and the same snare drum pounding and if you thought the drum work was bad in this last song just listen to this gotcha ha ha it was me but the first track really wasn't that cracking drumming I didn't make that I'm sorry I tricked all of you for a laugh here let me tell you something interesting to take your mind off it this song won a Grammy yep in 2004 Sanger the song won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance now I know what you're thinking when I say the word Grammy I'm sure there are many people who like this song but for me there is zero feel just like the opening track frantic and I'm afraid that's what will be a continuing theme for this album some kind of monster was one of the few songs I had heard from st. anger before making this video and before listening to the full album in entirety I remember because it had an extremely simple lyric writing scheme that follows the same description style pattern it goes on and on and on what really wears on the listener is that the song is over eight minutes long and it takes over two minutes of basic filler instrumentation just to get to the song it's not even an interesting build-up it just kind of exists laughs the way now and this is the four and now does that sound like it resembles Metallica in any way if you want to grab any random rocker metal fan and not tell them who the song was by or the name of the song and just play it for them do you really think they would get Metallica out of it just by hearing what it sounds like it truly feels like an eight-minute vacuum of nothing the vocals feel uninspired and phoned in the guitar and bass are staticky and a side notes and the consistent metallic drum ringing is starting to make my eardrums throb moving on reduction dirty window is the first time so far that I have perked up a bit and started to get excited listening to this you can hear the pickup and head fields voice which helps but the drums are so loud they cover the rhythm of both guitars and all you can hear is a pounding rhythm to what could have been something salvageable as you listen through this song you can tell if they were having a little fun with it but the lack of Eddy guitar expression and the drop in the songs pace it a little laughter form and it's ruins everything it's a shame because for whatever reason it is I feel the dirty window could have been something if not made in style as the rest of the songs that st. anger has tarnished I know that the men in Metallica are extremely talented musicians but the consistently cantankerous snare bashing is starting to wear haunt me come on this can't go on for 75 minutes right this can't consistently happen they haveto go back to a real drum set and start to actually play to resemble something that they did before right alright then I'm gonna need a minute to go get ready for the rest of this all right it is so weird to think of a song by Metallica as singsong E but the invisible kid repeated line and many other lyric stanzas feel like they were meant for kids to sing along to this is another track where the guitar and bass feel like they were just background accompaniment and the drum pounding is done to help keep the rhythm very poorly I might add these metal nursery rhyme lyrics and repeated rhythms along with largest snare begging goes on here for over eight minutes I'll again we have credits ahead filled as it does feel like he has a little more energy in this tracks performance but it still is eight minutes of music that has no real appeal to make anyone want to listen again and that pattern just keeps continuing with same anger I know how you feel I want this out of my head also everything about this song my world just bores me vocally it feels like Hetfield is losing that zest he had in the last two tracks the guitar sounds a little more plowed and present in the song but it still doesn't mesh it all with the snare apocalypse everything feels disjointed and like a bad junior high practice session at band class lyrically this song doesn't offer much and it's becoming more and more difficult to last the marathon that is Saint anger this doesn't continue for the rest right I mean there's at least one light of hope and the rest of this album right this song is awful there is no flow to the track outside of the first 60 seconds and the vocal line is ridiculous this honestly sounds like someone is mocking Metallica in the studio by pretending to play one of their songs but in reality it's them just jamming out in the studio this is another song that falls into the category of barely resembling Metallica Hetfield's noise comes in clear but it sounds like he's ready to leave the studio for the day and this was the last performance so he just wanted to perform this one clean and go home Lars snares say shit is still in an all ring and glory and this along with many other tracks waste the talent of Kirk Hammonds I mean I honestly don't know if he's in this album or not at this point above the problems with the snare drum and everything else I think it's a travesty that they waste the potential of two great guitarists and just set them in the back why well how do they think that was a good idea it's like a rush album would they take Neil Kurtz and just stick him in the back with a bongo and told to keep it down a little bit in vain back again sweet amber definitely has that garage feel to it I can definitely see a group of people just jamming out and playing together with the song and about 30 seconds in with a guitar bass it's finally starts to feel like in Teleco are really going for it but there's a problem Lars can't lay off the snare drum really think about it if this song had a good bass drum and a standard variety drum kit then you can imagine how much cleaner and impressive this would sound I mean the chorus isn't exactly doing the song any favors here either but if snare City would calm it down in the back that I think this song could have been a good addition to an album in previous albums on regretting the past I've spoken about how they get worse as that go on with Saint anger it gets more horrifying as it goes on it's beyond disappointment I mean I am legitimately worried about what's gonna happen next and how much more it's gonna devolve name this song isn't that bad as for stepping out of the comfort zone and trying something different it feels like the unnamed feeling works much better than any other song off of Saint anger the pace feels natural for the vocals and guitar riffs and the snare while still present isn't as obnoxious or loud I really feel like if this song was placed on load or reload especially in the place of the Unforgiven - then it would have given one of those albums a little more substance and credibility it's a shame because I feel that this song is the only flicker of light and an extremely harsh album to be honest that letting up of the snare drum is very welcome and refreshing if the rest of the album is kind of light on the snare I think I'll be okay I'll talk about a cold shower feeling if you like this song then more power to you but this track resembles more noiseand less music to me the instruments feel out of sync with each other and the lyrics are horribly weak sometimes it's good to just rock out here's the volume in metal but is it too much to ask the song be something pleasant to listen to from beginning to end the branch of the song is obnoxious and the course is embarrassing I feel like purify is the song music teacher should play for children so they know what not to do with their instruments I swear there has to be more to say neighbor than the cerebellum nomming that I've just received there has to be like some subliminal message metalic was putting in there just a messwith people like to get them to do whatever they wanted there has to be another reason for this album to exist Oh that's a good dark turn it ends with snare bashing and the word kill repeated over and over not really sure what else I can say that I haven't already said about the other songs that doesn't apply here it all has finally just started to blur together instead of going into detail on this final track I want to point out why st. anger is worth regretting if so many people know it's bad then why regret it at all as it wasn't a fad album or even finally remembered for nostalgia reasons because say taker sold over 2 million copies in the US alone and it sold millions more outside of the United States people were literally throwing money at music stores to get Saint anger the album we were warned about before its release and that we could audibly hear what's going to be rough from just the title track sold millions of copies this wasn't just like an opening week either it continued to gradually sell millions throughout the next couple months after release Metallica is not only a band it's a brand name that name plastered on anything will sell for better or worse I'm not saying they haven't earned that significance but is that really a good thing for the music scene if we know that a band is going to release something that doesn't sound up to par but we will still purchase it as soon as possible is it really helping the rock and metal scene don't misunderstand I love Metallica and the music world is a better place for what they have contributed but that does not mean that everything they created we have to instantly support and buy that again this does happen for every type of media when fallout 4 was announced people were already begging to preorder a game that isn't even going to be out for months when Jurassic world came out it had the biggest box opening weekend ever even though people have been burned by the last two sequels it's just how we're programmed it's good to support the bands we love but if we've already been one something is going to be bad and then we continue to throw our money at it just because of the brand name it may be worth regretting it's a shame that nasara didn't exist in 2003 because that way maybe people could have checked it out beforehand and something's adding up the Metallica versus Napster case resulted in a filter being placed on Napster in all Metallica songs being removed in 2001 Saint anger came out in 2003 and the album took at least two years on and off to create if nap sure wasn't shut down or had the injunction place for specific artists thence Metallica steinhager could have been searched and leaked that way people would have known what it sounded like before release does that mean Lars and the rest of Metallica knew that sane anger was going to suck out loud so they had to shut down Napster in order to have a chance at people buying it it wasn't about an artist being able to not have his music stolen they were just worried Cienega was going to sell so they had to go after a 19 year old software just so they could get a profit out of this album that's the reason why they went after Napster so bad because seiniger would have sold otherwise lors is an 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