Hey just a heads up, if you hear a stutter in the audio or see a jump cut at around a minute, just know that the copyright holder of that Metallica in Moscow video is pretty stringent (it’s not Metallica smartasses lol), and I was forced to cut the clip out to keep monetization. Of course, the small section briefly discusses the massive success of the Black Album and the change of course they took after Justice, nothing you haven’t heard before.

@SockFullOfCatLitter

7 ай бұрын

Cover Death Magnetic (They tried too hard)

@Tobaaarr

7 ай бұрын

Man, props on this review. St Anger is definitely the red-headed stepchild of the Metallica albums, but there's some validity to it all the same. I just watched this after watching your Load/ReLoad doc. Dude, *superb* job on that one. I haven't watched anything else from you, but I can easily tell how much better you got at reviewing/making docs after watching the Load one. Looking forward to watching more of your stuff. I hope the later Metallica albums are on your radar for another doc.

@shacktime

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely EVERYONE who used and defended Napster is a TOTAL piece of shit. And you helped to COMPLETELY fuck over ALL creative professionals and the millions of jobs they helped create globally. So, pretty please, with sugar on top, GFYS🖕🏼

@ssdavengames

6 ай бұрын

Hey man out of curiosity why doesn't this video have anything in the description?

I don’t hate St Anger in the same way a lot of die hard fans do, and I really loved the documentary film. But one thing is clear - bands do their best work when it comes from within. The fact that they entered the studio with a therapist, a film crew, and no sense of musical direction, can be heard in the music..

@CMTUK

6 ай бұрын

What I find interesting is that whilst I didn't think St. Anger was a bad album, it wasn't their best work. Once the documentary came out it actually made the album BETTER because you knew the hardships and tremendous effort it took just to get the album out.

@j.r.huffnstuff3549

5 ай бұрын

St. Anger is a potential 7 bogged down by being too long, bad mixing, and the horrible drum. That said, if it was cut down to 40 minutes, remastered and re-recorded drums, it would be on the level of Machinehead's less nu-metal early stuff. In fact, there's some hacked up versions on KZread that sound pretty good.

@85priesty

5 ай бұрын

You're a sick human. The snare is horrendous and always will be. St. Anger is so horrendous, that they had to release Lulu, just to make St Anger sound like it had been created by a total retard....yes I realise that is not an appropriate term. They sounded absolutely shit. In every way.

@85priesty

5 ай бұрын

St Anger is woeful, the guitars are horrendous, the drums are incredibly woeful. They were amazing on Load and Reload compared to this absolute piece of crap that I like to forget.

@LarsHammet-rm8ic

5 ай бұрын

Actually die hard Metallica fans don’t hate St.Anger

this couldve been their short, super agressive, tight garage album. every song would be a thousand times better if literally cut in half.

@gslinger19

6 ай бұрын

Some great fan versions where they shorten and put solos in are out there.

@ashlandstationmusic

6 ай бұрын

I was gonna say, let's cut it up and make a better album, but I'll go look for those fan versions now

@tilaman2438

4 ай бұрын

I've always said the same. It should have been their punk album. 8 minute songs cut right down to 2 or 3 minutes. Every song. Easily. It would have been more like the artistic statement they seemed to be aiming for.

@zoltanszigeti5658

3 ай бұрын

Some Kind Of Monster on the album is a long and boring song, but the clip version of it is so freakin' good. Exactly what you guys say. It's cut in half, they just cut the essence of it into that 4 minutes.

@brunocampos8640

2 ай бұрын

​@@tilaman2438 Todd Barriages' version of Dirty Window his for me the definitive version of that song and he barelly changed much, what he did was essentially cut it to a 2min song and remove the whole "cup of denial" section and it became a cool Hardcore song

That Playboy interview was rough. They were at each others throats and the part where Kirk laughs about being abused is like wtf?

@TimTowe

11 күн бұрын

Kirk has always been that androgynous bisexual guy. He was a great lead player but got lazy and stopped learning.

@dopey473

9 күн бұрын

​@@TimTowewhat does his sexuality have to do with that

@paulmallon9292

8 күн бұрын

​​@@dopey473absolutely nothing. It must be absolutely exhausting to hang out with people who speak in that way.

Dong dong dong bong Dong dong dong bong Dong b-b-bong dong bong Dong dong bonggity dong -Lar’s snare

@Billiamwoods

7 ай бұрын

Who the fuck is Lar?

@itookallthenames

6 ай бұрын

@orphanedapostropheshome we got a stray

I really used to hate this album back in the days. But actually now when I listen to it it’s even WORSE than ever.

@ally11488

8 ай бұрын

I used to really hate it, but after repeated listens it's still fucking shit.

@OHBJJ9634

6 ай бұрын

St Anger is a 8/10 for me

@FatDadFieldy

6 ай бұрын

Lmao

@bjornedling4142

6 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more. Total shit from start to finish.

@tribunation

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Completely awful.

This album came out at during a rough period in my life my dad died in an accident abruptly, i was 12 and this album really spoke to me. Metallica and Alice in chains are my two favorite bands since i can remember lol

@aguy2735

3 ай бұрын

My dad loved some parts of this album and he passed recently and listening to it again brings back good memories. Much love man.

I couldn't get over how St. Anger sounds like it was recorded In a subway bathroom.

@Frankfoot986

4 ай бұрын

The fucking snare really irks me!

@froggore52

2 ай бұрын

Sounds more like a Quiznos.

Im just amazed that there wasn’t a single person in the room while recording this album that listened to them playing this and had the balls to say “Lars, put your fucking snares on dude.”

@XakTerrible

6 ай бұрын

Or someone in the room who didn't tell them to immediately throw all of this in the trash 😆.

@BraveBunnyCat

5 ай бұрын

Lars's dad did It's in SKoM

@mgrey24

3 ай бұрын

Same thing happened with Jason’s bass in And Justice

@brunocampos8640

2 ай бұрын

By that time and stull to this day they were surrounded by "Yes Men" nobody would dare say a thing. Even Bob Rock a guy that was confrontational during the Black Album sessions, became a "Yes Man" during the recording of St. Anger.

@AnnoyingOrange420

26 күн бұрын

Supposedly it started because he set up the old white Tama kit that fans love, but it was in bad shape and had no snare wire. Why Lars latched onto that sound and used it for like 3 years, and no one stopped him though, I have no idea

When you're running through really hard times in your life, this album makes sense and you connect with it. The Unnamed Feeling is a masterpiece, despite doesn't sound like a Metallica song.

@DrywallMuncher_

6 ай бұрын

agreed

@megaduck7965

6 ай бұрын

I’d argue that the unnamed feeling , with a bit of tweaking would have fit quite nicely on load or reload

@HateProximity

5 ай бұрын

After me and my wife had our 2nd miscarriage, i got so low and depressed i really clung to this album, first time ive really let an album get all my aggression and sadness and confusion out

@stevus23

2 ай бұрын

Unnamed feeling is the only decent track on it for me

@sebabuffa7741

9 күн бұрын

same, years ago i heard that song for the first time and it felt like it was talking to me

Heard Dirty Window live in Phoenix this year and it was freaking awesome. James before the song said “here is one of your guy’s favorite album” which was kind of funny. There is a live version of the song St. Anger that I really dig. This album needs to be re recorded or remastered without the trashcan.

@OneDayOfPiece

8 ай бұрын

I was there as well! I felt like I was the only one signing the song 🥲

@yankee8seven

8 ай бұрын

With song "Temptation" added.

@spaceace5621

7 ай бұрын

There is one, not done by Metallica though. It's called "St Anger 2015" on KZread, it's really good

@Mndudecollects

7 ай бұрын

@@spaceace5621yeah the cover recording? Sounded better lol

@andresdetrell7117

6 ай бұрын

I was there!!! And I was singing!

I will never forget arriving at Target at 8:55am so that as soon as they opened their doors at 9am I could buy Metallica's new release St. Anger (in an era where I rarely woke up before 11am). I bought the album at 9am and had it in my cars cd player by 9:05am. By 10:15am, St Anger would find a home in my extra large cd storage book, where it would remain for years. I've gone back and listened to it over the years, and still don't care for the album. Props to the band for trying something different, it just wasn't for me.

When you mentioned the playboy interview, I paused this video to read a bit of it, and I ended up reading the entire thing and holy shit - that was insane. It's definitely a must-read just for how uncomfortable things get. As for the actual album itself, St. Anger has always been special to me. Is it their best album? Hell no. The production isn't very great, it's sometimes very difficult to hear what's happening because of it, the fact that Kirk Hammett doesn't play a single solo on the entire album, and the seemingly endless length of the songs. However, I do believe it's one of the most genuine things they've ever recorded. Watching the documentary Some Kind Of Monster definitely helped me understand better why the album sounds like it does, but there was something else that really drove me to love it. I suffer from having panic attacks and nonverbal episodes, and I've had them throughout all my life. About a year ago (at the time of me typing this), I was in the middle of one, and my iPhone for some reason detected my AirPod hit play, and the first song to play in the shuffle was The Unnamed Feeling. It hit me like a freight train. I then decided to listen to other songs on the album during that episode I was having, and it honestly helped calm me down and get perspective on myself. Overall, if you're listening to the album in just a normal mood, you're probably not going to enjoy it - but if you're ever feeling down, having a panic attack, or just feuding with someone, St. Anger makes a whole lot more sense, and it hits a lot harder than you may have thought before.

@adarkerstandard

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously - when I read that interview my head exploded. Clearly they couldn’t stand each other. I agree completely. I think, despite the songs being written in a really stiff and uncreative way (I can’t judge, I write my songs piece by piece in Pro Tools too), it’s a very real album.

@Tornado1994

2 жыл бұрын

St Anger isn't BAD per say, its just a Misfire.

@trevorstevenson4038

9 ай бұрын

Yes! Haha man one of the best things I have read on KZread. Yeah exactly, you have to be in the right mood to listen to st anger but when that happens, it's a surprisingly good time to ride out some terrible emotions and thoughts you know you shouldn't be indulging in. And then you naturally wear out and calm down. Shit it's almost like exercise haha. Amazingly unique album.

@MiKeMiDNiTe-77

8 ай бұрын

Yes Unamed Feeling is my fav track

@buenapilapil5513

8 ай бұрын

No joke, I'm glad the album helped you get through a tough time✊️

As a fan born in the year of Metallica’s conception, I’m perplexed when younger fans hold this album dear. However, evidence of its connection with fans like you is testament to why we all love Metallica: they make artistic choices to appease their own creativity.

@adarkerstandard

8 ай бұрын

Very interesting of you to say. Commenters seem to be split between me being a St. Anger fanboy or a complete St. Anger hater. With the Load review, I’m getting people telling me I hate AJFA or that I hate Load, which I don’t, so I’m mostly just gonna let people think what they think. I wouldn’t say I love or hate St. Anger, the album’s pretty bad at times, but there are good, interesting moments on this record that connect with me, I just wish they had figured out a better way to flesh these songs out and make the guitars sound better.

@adarkerstandard

8 ай бұрын

Metallica, despite what people seem to think about “selling out” or whatever, have always followed their artistic instincts, and I will always respect that. Their instincts aren’t always great, but being insulated in the world’s biggest rock/metal band will do that to you. These guys have had Cotton-Ear for decades, unable to know for sure if what they’re releasing is good or bad. As an artist, I can relate somewhat. It’s hard to know if what you’re creating sucks until you’ve released it and disconnected yourself from the process of creating it.

@TimTowe

11 күн бұрын

I was there at the beginning just 4 years younger and in the area! It was incredible! Sorry but when Cliff died, Metallica died too! What is left is just the bones.

So glad people are realizing that Lars was in the right about Napster.

@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517

Ай бұрын

No he wasn't

@tak-pa3134

Ай бұрын

He really wasn't. Your taste is built upon an industry that favors money and appeal over art. Music is a lot more diverse and liberated now that it's free from the stress of money, lots of new artists that would be deemed "weird cult classics" (back then) are finding mainstream appeal now -- and when they're not: underground success.

This was the album that got me into saxophone

@DaddySafety

6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah me too!

If they hadn't gone into this thinking they're Metallica and they MUST have Metallica length songs and just done each of these as a solid 3 to 5 minutes, this album would have been soooooo much better.

@jonstiffer4994

8 ай бұрын

Metallica length songs should have Metallica level of variation, not just endless repetition.

Now that I'm in my late 20's and am way more into bluesier sounding bands, I better understand why load and reload needed to happen.

@H.E.M.

7 ай бұрын

So you’re saying it was just a phase?

@MrOctober44

7 ай бұрын

Needed to happen? I have no idea what that means. A natural progression for a Metal band is to go into a Blues rock direction?

@AndI0td763

7 ай бұрын

@@MrOctober44 Yeah I don’t understand a lot of these comments. People keep saying they needed to do this or that or that they were following their true artistic goals. I don’t really buy it, stuff like load, reload, and St. anger seem more like them trying to fit in with the current landscape of rock and metal. A lot of it sounds forced or try hard to me.

@MrOctober44

7 ай бұрын

@@AndI0td763 Absolutely. Metal had fallen out of favor and they were trying to stay relevant. As silly as them cutting of their hair, It did seem awfully coincidental that they just happened to all cut off their hair within a couple months of each other. Lars even said that they didn't think of themselves as a metal band around the Load/Reload era.

@TheSteinbitt

6 ай бұрын

Age gets to us all

Man, I actually fucking love your Metallica analysis videos. I'd love it if you'd do an entire series covering all their albums, or at least most of them.

@Ashfold_Eberesche

7 ай бұрын

God I fucking hate that snare though. It's so absolutely awful. I've genuinely never made it through this entire album and your comments on the length and repetition is so true. Oh and I despise the way that Rob crab walks everywhere while playing. I just hate it. What are your thoughts on Death Magnetic by the way? I haven't listened for a good while but I genuinely loved that album when it came out - but that's probably at least partially because of how awful I thought St Anger was and the fact I could actually listen to Magnetic made it seem amazing by comparison. But I think, from memory at least, that it's a good album.

@adarkerstandard

7 ай бұрын

Hey man, thanks so much! The next video will be an exploration of Jason’s years with Metallica, and will be the last Metallica-related video for a little while. I think I’ll end up doing a Death Magnetic video at some point. I loved it when it first came out, but these days I actually find it LESS listenable than St. Anger. There’s a few reasons for this that I can try to sum up: Pandering - I, for one, never needed them to reiterate on the RTL, MoP, AJFA formula. To go back to that sound almost seems influenced by the backlash they received on their previous three records. James’ voice was starting to suffer a bit at this point and they shouldn’t have returned to E standard tuning. Unforgiven 3 is ill-conceived, and doesn’t share the musical connection to the original, which was what made Unforgiven 2 such a cool track and justified its existence in my mind. Audio quality - Lars’ snare is, at least in my opinion, worse on DM. I know that sounds extreme, but hear me out. It’s insanely loud and tears through the mix at all times. It doesn’t sound like a pop or a crack, but more of a deep, out of tune pounding sound. Guitars feel thin and not very weighty to me. Of course there’s also the fact that the mastering was brick walled, creating this distorted, fuzzy, headache-inducing effect on the sonics of the album. This is just my personal opinion on the matter, and is a bit of a hot take, I’m sure.

When I start making videos, my first video will be on St. Anger. For the first few minutes, I thought my video might be superfluous. You make so many points about “Frantic” that I would say myself. St. Anger was the first album of original Metallica material to be released while I was aware of them. I continue to believe it is 1. an extremely hard listen and 2. one of their best. You got chills listening to the end of “All Within My Hands” preparing for this review and I came close to tears for the same reason. It’s the most misunderstood album of all time. Thank you for recognizing something beautiful in it.

Man I used to HATE St. Anger, but it’s really grown on me, even the snare. I love practically everything about this album. I know it’s bad, but idc.

@Zanstorm

Жыл бұрын

You a cool cat. But I don't like Invisible Kid. The rest I think is cool :)

@gansior4744

Жыл бұрын

That's the attitude I like

@beastmerc84

Жыл бұрын

If you like it, then it's not bad to you. I like the snare too. It reminds me of NY Hardcore.

@jtramelli5464

Жыл бұрын

it's not bad at all

@trevorstevenson4038

9 ай бұрын

Yeah it's a solid album, just tough to listen to it's entirety. I think the only objectively bad element on this album is the song structuring. As stated, the songs repeat riffs too many times, and some entire song parts are repeated too many times.

this was a brilliant video, along with your 'Load & Reload' ones. subscribed!

Gotta give Lars a little credit… as an artist he’s always strived to deliver something new and different on every era of Metallica, whether off timings, unexpected cymbal crashes, almost prog era of justice, swing of the black album, etc… it just wasn’t terribly successful on st anger, unfortunately the band seemed forced into a genre of music that they simply just don’t fit. But I will say the song “ I disappear” for the mission impossible movie sounds awesome imo!

Sweet Amber, Unnamed Feeling, and All within My Hands (minus the kill part), are all solid. That's pretty much it

@MentaIPatient

4 ай бұрын

I'll have the sausage done soon do you want Eggs and Hashbrowns to

Hey man great videos on your channel so far, great to hear your thoughts on 2 defining albums of my adolescence.

@adarkerstandard

5 жыл бұрын

Hey man sorry about the late reply! Thank you! I took a break for a bit, but I do believe a Volume 1 review is coming in due time

That Metallica vs Napster case set the precedent for all the current harassment that record labels and international legal music associations subject everyone to these days. Doesn't matter if it's KZread, Twitch or one of the 19 billion torrent sites out there. Eventually something gets taken down.

@space_kat1

8 ай бұрын

still, metallica was in the right. people need to stop thinking they're entitled to listening to music completely for free when musicians put so much into making these songs. it's like if someone spent weeks, months, doing something, say, crafting a guitar, and then you expect them to just give it to you for free. it's not how that works. the current way that DMCA laws are enforced is lame? yes, but that doesn't mean piracy should be allowed left and right and fuck the artists getting any money

@SMDaboobity

8 ай бұрын

Anyone complaining about how artists get screwed by Spotify and other streaming services must recognize that it's because Lars and Metallica were right

@willl676

8 ай бұрын

@@space_kat1 No one is entitled to anything in this life, not even the artists. Lars himself put it succintly by admitting in the Playboy interview that it was all for nothing and there was always gonna be more Napsters. The only thing Lars did is make life more difficult for thousands of people across the world who follow the law and try to make a living with online content. As for piracy, it's impossible to stop it, people in the movie and videogame industry have tried to curb it since forever with ever more advanced methods and it always gets cracked. Despite all that, these industries are still ludicrously successful and extremely profitable (gaming gets more profitable every subsequent year). Artists need to get on with the times and realize that there are a myriad ways to make massive amounts of passive income with the current online world. Dragonforce realized that and they're doing great. I'm not even gonna touch on the subject of intellectual property and how it doesn't even make sense to call it property, otherwise we're gonna be here all week.

@ihateeveryone8161

7 ай бұрын

@@space_kat1 Being right didn't make it the correct thing to do. They utterly ruined the industry themselves with that case. Majority of pirates were never going to purchase your music anyway, it was basically marketing for you to be popular on those sites.

@adarkerstandard

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@ihateeveryone8161if you think that the creation of Napster was some altruistic act and not some attempt at becoming a tech billionaire by Shawn Fanning, then idk man. How was the industry expected to change their entire business model overnight? Was it petty revenge on the part of Metallica? Like “you helped our song get leaked to the radio months before it was finished, so were going to crush you into dust”? Absolutely yes. But on the industry’s part? How were they going to know how the internet was going to be in 20 years?

Hello! Well done with these videos, I’ve enjoyed watching them today. I like the fact that you’re sharing your opinion but in a factual, knowledgeable way, as a musician yourself. Good work - subscribed!

Great video and accurate assessment! In my 40s and remember it coming out. Bought this POS and listened to it a few times. For me, it’s still hard to listen to. You nailed it, every song is too long.

South Park nailed the napster issue on the head, "heres lar ulrich from metallica, this month he was planning on installing a gold plated shark tank bar next to the pool, but thanks to people downloading his music for free, he must now wait a few months."

It's been 20 years since the release of St. Anger. I think maybe now it's considered in a little bit better light than 20 years ago. I've always liked it, not their best, far from it. But I don't think it's that bad.

@YouStinkFather

5 ай бұрын

Uh no. It’s still horrible. Just because it’s 20 years old, doesn’t mean it got better.

I remember first hearing stuff from St. Anger and thinking, "This isn't so bad. Definitely not their best, but not as bad as I was hearing." Didn't know it was remastered for radio play. When I first heard the album versions, "....oh. Ok. Yeah, damn."

I remember doing work practice when i was 14 years old (we do/did that here in Sweden when we went to school, tried different work places for 1 or 2 weeks) and worked in a place where they sell books and music. When the week was over, I could pick anything in the store as thanks for helping out. I picked St. Anger! I still have the CD in my book shelf, 20 years later, in my apartment. Now a single dad! Man, time flies!

I bought this album on day of release with the bonus DVD that you are showing clips from, the performance of the album from start to finish was a nice bonus and they actually change a few things on the live performance which makes the songs feel a little more lived in instead of ProTooled to death.

Nice review dude!

great video dude !! deserves way more views, such an interesting record

20:00 I honestly think this album has some of the most prominent & interesting bass parts since the Cliff days. And that’s coming from the perspective of someone who picked up their first 4 string because of Cliff.

You are the first person that talked about the biggest problem of the album. The biggest problem isnt the snare or the lack of solos, is the LENGTH

In newer interviews Metallica praise the time with Phil Towle. It seemed weird at the time for a famous rock band going through therapy with a performance coach but apparently they needed it.

@jessickalush3305

10 ай бұрын

Phil was the biggest douchebag

@ramshackleshack751

8 ай бұрын

Towley .......from south park 😮

Great videos man, thoughtful analysis and provocative opinion.

Lol. The Unnamed Feeling is my favourite and I first heard it as a teenager and the lyrics hit me almost as hard as Linkin Park's Crawling

Best review of St Anger. I like how you didn't bitch about it like how other Metallica fans do("oh this album sucks! Master of puppets is the best album ever!!!!!"). I think there are good songs here where I find myself tapping my feet. I agree with you on the length of every song and the entire album in general. Solos were definitely needed along with drum fills. I listen to a song then start getting bored halfway most of the time.

@adarkerstandard

3 жыл бұрын

Consider this though for a moment…Kirk’s solos are really ill-fitting with St. Anger’s raw sound. Wah pedals or super tapping solos wouldn’t really work for this. In fact, I think if the record came out with solos people would’ve complained about those too lol!

I just discovered your videos and subscribed today based on binging on the Load/ReLoad video and into this one. I agree with most of what you said about this album but I strongly disagree with the hate for Some Kind Of Monster and Unnamed Feeling, yes they are repetitive and go on too long but are two of my favorites from St Anger

@turkeysamwich00

6 ай бұрын

The opening riff of Some Kind Of Monster goes hard as hell, but it has some of *the* worst lyrics I have ever heard

St anger was the first metallica song I heard as a very young kid like elementary or early middle school in the early internet days and I loved it, I thought oh this is why people love metaliica. I had no idea there was any controversy around the album. It is buried in my brain when I told someone I really like metallica and told them the song I liked was st anger, this guy broke eye contact and struggled to get out that he did not like that song lol. At the time I expected acceptance of being someone who was also into metallica, and knew something was off when that happened. I think him hearing someone say what I said to him in real life made him question everything. I really liked a lot of the album, but all I heard about it after this was how hated it was so I distanced myself from them and told myself I hated it too. Not until I played guitar did I get into their earlier 'cool' albums.

The unnamed feeling is one of my favorite songs, but not for rock it, i mean, I prefer to hear it when I'm quiet, if I want to rock I put purify or frantic, I'm a very anxious person and I think that's what I love the unnamed feeling... but for tastes, color, doesn't it? Well, I enjoyed pretty much this video, keep going bro

@ericksheldon3870

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wasn't expecting him to be so harsh on it - it honestly surprised me considering that the consensus is that it's the best song on the album. That said, I completely understand why you relate to it, I'm the same way.

@dawsonclay5237

2 жыл бұрын

The Unnamed Feeling is very underrated. The pain in the song is tangible and heartfelt. In my opinion, this song might have saved Hetfield's life. I know it helped me through some difficult times.

@nickp3949

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s an amazing song. Easily the best on the album and a top 25 Metallica song.

@Zanstorm

Жыл бұрын

That song when it breaks down is so fucking heavy, I love it

Shoot Me Again pretty much summarises me. This song by far is my favourite song from the entire Metallica catalogue. I’ve been through so much in my life that if someone shoots me again, I would just get up, and say I am not dead. I’m alive and fighting this unjust fight. I have became so resilient during the times of the pandemic that no one scares me. No one. How big the challenge will be, I will find a way out. Out of this mess. It’s all the fucked up shit I’ve been through that has made me so resistant to everyone and everything. “All the shots I take, I spit back at you, All the shit you faked, comes back to haunt you.” Those lines have struck to me ever since the first time I heard this song. St. Anger is such an underrated album. And this album has gotten me through some fucked up shit of self hatred, guilt and agony. Not caused by myself, but caused by others around me. Others who I called family once. But not anymore.

@loopeygoopey

8 ай бұрын

get bc a load of this guy

@ab72_s

8 ай бұрын

@@loopeygoopey Why do you keep leaving negative comments specifically under me? Did I do something to you, bitch? You’re an asshole and this hate against a particular album/song/person is not going to take you anywhere, so just fuck off.

I don't really think this album sucks because I think it really fits what they were trying to do as far as sounding like a garage band and express the emotions they were dealing with. I have been to anger management 3 different times throughout my life and I kind of get what they were trying to say. There are times when I have listened to this album when I was mad and it was a way to blow off steam and calm down.

@nojuanatall3281

7 ай бұрын

The song anger management by Lovage (Mike patton) is the best song on the topic. One can assume Patton wrote that song about his ex wife.

The biggest issue with St. Anger is it wasn't produced.. Bob Rock was too caught up in being part of his own rock and roll fantasy camp playing bass on it to step in and make changes to it. The tin drum sound and no guitar solos date it horribly . The songs also meander on endlessly, When bands do this, a producer usually steps in to reel the band in. Here he is too caught up in his own crap to separate himself from it.

you had me at " my favorite albums are Load and Justice"...a man of culture!

Great review. That’s why Death Magnetic felt like such a triumph to me. They had gone through a lot of shit in the years leading up to 2008. Yeah I know the sound sucked on it, but that album fucking kicks ass.

@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303

7 ай бұрын

Yeah Rick Rubin murdered Death magnetic. But there's some really great music on it

I just purchased this classic album on CD. 💿

It's nice hearing someone explaining and talking shit about one of my favorite bands. It's like the truth in the back of my mind I've been ignoring is being pulled out and put on my screen. ty 4 holding me at gunpoint and listening to the national treasure that is St Anger

Nicely done. It's good to see a more thorough and balanced review of this record. A bit of critique: I felt the use of expletives was overdone in this review and detracted from the overall quality. Thank you for reviewing this album

@adarkerstandard

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was kind of my old format. I had been watching KZread since 2006, and I wanted to bring back some edge, monetization and community guidelines be damned. In 2019, KZread was starting to get watered down and people were less willing to use profanity (now things are even more sanitized). So my original idea for the channel was to be somewhat edgier and looser, more snobby and opinionated. Eventually, I figured it just doesn’t work. I will occasionally use profanity now, if the subject matter absolutely demands it, and I tend to try to limit my own opinions wherever possible (hence why the Load video is far more historical than opinion based). These days I’m far more interested in storytelling than being a character or a “personality”.

As a hardcore Metallica fan I got this day 1 I listened to this on repeat while I was doing yard work and for the life of me understand WTF happened to them, So I gave it to my mom to listen and she said "The album is called St. Anger where's the Anger?" This was the last MetallicA CD I bought (Till Hardwired)hell I even ripped it and uploaded to LimeWire under a different name as a protest. It has a few good songs but sounds much better live.

I love skom, lars’ work was very cool in this song, pretty long but the last riff it’s pretty cool, same with kid

St. Anger brings me back to a time when I was younger. Even though it's not my favorite album me and my bro would play along in our guitars and for that reason alone ipl remember st. Anger

loved the way you reviewed it

one thing that has always bothered me about the way people criticize St. Anger is how they always seem to think like the trash can snare was some sort of mistake, when it sounds exactly like they intended it to sound. the whole album sounds like it was intended to: raw, uncomfortable, edgy, messy etc. and it's a very accurate picture of what the band was going through back then. i don't like it very much, i think most of the songs are boring while at the same time completely overloading my senses from the mess and the loudness, but i can't say it's a bad album since it's purpose is done masterfully: it leaves you uncomfortable and with a bad taste in your mouth and that's EXACTLY what it was meant to do. with all that being said, St. Anger and The Unnamed Feeling were always my favourite ones from this album. i just used to relate to the lyrics so much in my teenage years when i would struggle so much with anger issues while being unable to communicate what was going on in my mind and when i was able to do so it seemed like it was all in vain. i guess i never stopped to think that these were men in their 40s going through a midlife crisis, it just always gave me a sense of finally someone was listening to me and understanding what i was going through. the fear of what was inside of me, the social anxiety, the pain, the anger; it felt like finally i had found someone that understood me and it felt relieving, it felt comfortable, in a sense.

8:41 Everybody's favorite Metallica album is Justice. They just don't know it yet. It's a straight up 10/10.

@bluecomet1109

3 ай бұрын

Wrong

@chilidem

3 ай бұрын

​@@bluecomet1109 It's not a 10/10?

@bluecomet1109

3 ай бұрын

@@chilidem you said "everyone", justice is NOT my favorite album, it's puppets. puppets 10/10, justice 6/10

@chilidem

3 ай бұрын

@@bluecomet1109 Justice is your favorite. You just don't know it yet. Can't you read?

@bluecomet1109

3 ай бұрын

@@chilidem you wanna date?

I love the songs Frantic, Some Kind of Monster and even Invisible Kid "Open your mind, im being right here! Open your heart, im beating right here!". Invisible kid has a noticeably different guitar distribution tone and it's superb.

The only difference between Lars and your average local band drummer is that he met James Hetfield as a teenager. He basically won the lottery.

Wow, surprised to see how opinions have changed about this album. 15 years ago if there was a YT video about St. Anger to was to trash it, and the comments echoed similarly. Fast forward 20 years (yes, shockingly St, Anger is 20 years old) and people are finally finding personal and artistic value in this production. St. Anger, as well as their first 4 releases, are my 5 favorite Metallica albums.

@MrBownze

8 ай бұрын

Like your mom then, amirite?@@luke5100

@TheDavidish

8 ай бұрын

It is a truly awful album. However, not as bad as Lulu 😂

Best review ever of St Anger ever and great footage, like the context too, the mention of the musical landscape at the time. Metallica fans are so dumb and always critizcies St Anger for all the wrong reasons.

@adarkerstandard

5 жыл бұрын

Alejandro Rivera Thanks so much man!! I think the main problem is that metal fans are so boxed in. The rules of what is and isn’t metal are stodgy as shit and they’ve been so for decades. That being said I don’t think we should be considering bands like Pierce the Veil to be metal or anything..just be willing to accept an artists growth.

@Liviopedata

4 жыл бұрын

@@adarkerstandard i Think st anger is Their heaviest album and i think is different than other albums its not alternative heavy or thrash its a mix of these three genres in a big new metal sound i think its a revolution

@faz6877

4 жыл бұрын

they are dumb because they have a different opinion than you lol? It just didn't click with some people. St Anger didn't give me the moments of euphoria that almost of their albums do. I didn't enjoy the sound of James voice, the lyrics, the guitars. I've always loved Metallica's guitar harmonies and solo's. This album is pretty void of solo's. So I have no problem if you enjoy it. But it's obviously much different than classic Metallica, so why would you call people dumb if not finding enjoyment in the new experiment.

@DeYogs

2 жыл бұрын

The album has a lot of problems, but It Is unique and particular. However not liking It doesn't mean Being "dumb", St Anger's issues aren't related to what is or not Metal, but with the poor production and weird songwriting (long songs with Just a few riffs in loop) and an overall lack of attention. The album has highlights tho, the riffs are really good, the album feels really "sincere" and some songs like Sweet Amber or Purify should be played live. I'd like to hear a sort of remix with new drum parts. I'm not interested in the lack of solos, i think it's okay for the kind of album st anger Is, but i do miss Metallica's classic harmonies

@Tornado1994

2 жыл бұрын

@@adarkerstandard St Anger wasn't BAD per say, it was a MISFIRE. A Double Minded, Disgruntled, Badly Mixed and Disastrous Attempt from a Yuppie Thrash Metal Band having had unprecedented success since the glorious 80s hitting a Mid Life Crisis, and 4 Middle Aged Men doing everything in their Power to Keep up with the Times and Failing miserably at doing so. When you think about it, St Anger was Metallica's Mid Life Crisis. It was going to flop either way, with Jason Newsted's highly publicized exit in 2001 and Lars having lost cred with younger fans and 80s kids with his Lawsuit against the Founder of Napster. Metallica has had ups and downs, And at least they were able to redeem themselves with Death Magnetic half a decade later.

10:45 man, thank you for that. you reminded me of how awesome that intro is :) Just listened to it another 3 times just to make sure I remembered correctly :)

St Anger was supposed to sound like a group discovering each other for the first time, which it kind of was considering how much the guys had changed at that point, and in that sense it worked.

St. anger came out when I was 11 or 12. They were my favourite band at the time, had a bunch of their CD’s and used to trade them back and forth with my Dad so we didn’t have to buy multiples haha. We both liked this album when it came out, and I didn’t realize people hated it until a few years later when I got into high school and got high speed internet. I’ve always liked it for what it is 🤷🏻‍♂️

Brilliant quality review! I acknowledge the fact that this album is bad, but I love the RAW nature of It. Overall I really enjoy this album :)!

At Anger was their reset. They went back to the garage, and hung up a mic. It was the roots out of which Metallica now grows.

St. Anger was the last time Metallica were original and edgy. I kinda enjoyed Death Magnetic in a sentimental, revisionist way (fond listener since early 1988) and I cannot listen to the last two albums for longer than 2 minutes without cringing.

amazong how diffrent opinions on st.anger are within the few that actually appreciate the LP ^^ your choices of best/worst songs are soooooooo bewildering to me ... i love unnamed feeling and invisible kid and sweet amber

I have St. Anger in my MP3 collection, but I found versions that fixed the awful busted snare and guitars. I added finished versions of seven Presidio demos, with elements of another, and versions of No Leaf Clover and Minus Human without orchestra, while Invisible Kid (by 4½ minutes), My World (by 1m 45s), All Within My Hands (by 3m 51s), Dirty Window (by 2m 11s), Shoot Me Again (by 1m 55s) and Purify (by 2m 16s) have been trimmed. Here's my tracklist: Disc 1: Echo Chamber 1m 41s [Intro] Frantic 5m 49s The Unnamed Feeling 7m 08s St. Anger 7m 21s Minus Human 3m 49s More Than This 3m 51s Sweet Amber 5m 27s Boogeyman 3m 56s (Boogeyman and Ain't Ask No More) Some Kind Of Monster 8m 27s Dirty Window 3m 13s Disc 2: Unbridled 1m 21s [Intro] Shoot Me Again 5m 15s My World 4m 01s Dead Kennedy Rolls 3m 13s Invisible Kid 4m 00s No Leaf Clover 4m 45s Surfing The Zeitgueist 6m 00s (instrumental) Purify 2m 58s All Within My Hands 4m 57s Shadows Of The Cross 8m 31s Total length 95m 43s (50m 42s + 45m 01s) Also, Frantic's lyrics are pretty awesome - particularly "my lifestyle determines my deathstyle" (which is true for most of us) and the Frantic-tick-tick-tick-tick-tock (think of someone who has a short fuse and/or is about to lose their mind).

I remember I would just jump on the hate wagon, but one day I was off from work and decided to just give it a listen all the way through. Did it for a couple of hours and then I realized that the album ain't that bad. Definitely not everyone's favorite for sure

I really liked St. Anger album. The rawness was cool and different from all the previous. I remember buying this album specifically to put in a Ferrari I rented as there was carrying no cds. Bought it just before the cars were delivered to our hotel. And damn, when the first song started with the bullet sounding snare/guitar blasting with the Ferrari engine. Nice memory :-)

Honestly, I've always believed that if any other band had released St Anger, it would have been hailed as groundbreaking. Metallica have always done whatever they wanted and pushed the envelope. That always pisses off elitists. That's why they will always be the greatest. They don't give a fuck!

@Bogweed

8 ай бұрын

@@luke5100 well said, and also just waay late to the game. Sepultura went nu-metal on roots(1996), just before it became fashion, and Metallica thougth it was a smart move in 2003, when nu was already on it's way out. And it sounded dated upon it's release.

@shrumgus5608

8 ай бұрын

Newest album actually put me to sleep, singles are ok.

Great review standard, but I have to know one thing. Did you hate every performance Metallica ICON show?

@adarkerstandard

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, it’s been maybe 10 years or more since I watched the full ICON show, but if I remember correctly, Avril Lavigne, Korn and Limp Bizkit had some good performances

I can't wait for the Death Magnetic review. That album was such a banger when it cane out, kinda weird how guitar hero got the ideal mix lol

To me Hetfield was at his most vital on ....And Justice For All. He sounded genuinely angry about the world and the injustices which he saw.

Much respect for your articulation and opinions but I couldn't disagree more about this album. That said, I now remember why I dislike musical critique so much. Music just hits each person so different that it's impossible for one person to have an opinion that everyone (or sometimes anyone) can agree with. Either way, I respect your taste and appreciate that you gave each song some thought rather than simply spewing a half-baked opinion to appease the masses. Also, I loved your Load video - super cool.

I knew in the beginning that this ability to download music for free was going to hurt the industry even before the whole Napster incident with Metallica.

@anick82

8 ай бұрын

It's one of the reasons why ticket and merch prices for top acts have gone up as much as they have. I use Staind's sales as an example. 950,000 plus of Break the Cycle to land them at #1 in 2001, 74,000-78,000 of their self titled album in 2011 to land them at #4. In 10 years that's how far sales declined.

@LEDPENNY

8 ай бұрын

@@anick82 exactly!! I always have to explain it to people who think the bands are just being greedy when in actuality they're trying to make up for album sale losses.

@anick82

8 ай бұрын

@@LEDPENNY Same! They have to earn somehow, and the money they make isn't just for them. It pays for studio time, the crew in the studio and the crew that makes the tour happen. And now you have some venues that are taking a percentage of the merchandise sales from the artists as well.

@jonstiffer4994

8 ай бұрын

I miss the days when you bought the albums and a concert didn't cost an arm and a leg.

@thetruthisoutthere5173

8 ай бұрын

Wow you were a genius

man that interview gets serious. Lol had to stop the vid and read it. :D

Invisible Kid inspired All Nightmare Long main riff and i think Metallica was very inspired by Godsmack for there song Shoot me again !!!

I can't hate St. Anger. I love the Anger on it, i like the snare also.

@infectedgoat7775

7 ай бұрын

I always liked the snare lol. It also seems that snare sound is being used now like in Slam and Beatdown breakdowns. TONK! TONK! TONK!

St. Anger was a reflection of what the band was going through at the time and I can respect that. I really wanted to like this record and you can find some good songs in there but the overall sound is terrible. I guess they finally got the desire to make a garage record out of their system. A 10 minute song is fine if the song is complex but when you put in repetitiveness to make the songs long just for the sake of making them long, it's certainly the most tiring record to listen to.

BTW, my favorite track on the album is The Unnamed Feeling, but I love Some Kind of Monster and Invisible Kid, also

I feel like you were a little harsh on some of these songs but I enjoyed the video all the same. Love it when I can learn something new about Metallica. I'm off to go jam this banger of an album. 🤘

@pnut3844able

6 ай бұрын

Yea he was deff hard on them.

Hey, Darker Standard, if you enjoyed St. Anger, you should look up St. Anger rerecorded. It sounds pretty good. Here is the link to the video kzread.info/dash/bejne/nolht6tsj5muk7A.html it was rerecorded by like 2 or 3 other people and they show them playing and singing. I think it's really cool that someone took the time to do that. Good retrospective man, St, Anger was my favorite Metallica album growing up and I appreciate someone else's opinions on the album.

I was already on to bigger and better things by this point into Metallica's career. I listened unironically one time when it first came out, and the snare single handedly turned me off to the album. I was already listening to Opeth, The Black Dahlia Murder, and other harder and more progressive music and never looked back! With that being said, this was an excellent video! I am going to start making my way though your other videos!

@Walter370z

8 ай бұрын

100% me too at this point I moved onto new things system of a down,disturbed, korn, slipknot, fear factory, deftones, tool, static-x,lamb of god, In flames , mudvayne and many more bands . I was always hoping for that next heavy Metallica album since black album but we never got it and anything after this I never got into. Maybe 10 yrs after st anger I gave up on hoping for a heavy Metallica album and just listen to the old stuff.

I’ve been reading and watching the metalica vs Napster case and it’s easy to look back now and criticise what happend but at the same time with or without Napster the music sharing would have happend either way yes the could still go and buy cds but look how quickly that soon went down hill as technology and the internet progressed it just became the next logical step but that’s just my thoughts

damn dawg. sad to hear you trashed invisible kid and the unnamed feeling. two of my favorite Metallica songs of all time haha. but I totally see your point. good video!

@adarkerstandard

7 ай бұрын

Lol all is good man! Idk I heard Unnamed Feeling again recently and it kind of made a bit more sense to me, even though it’s definitely got some nu metal vibes that aren’t quite my style lol.

@jmasulli

7 ай бұрын

@adarkerstandard totally get it man. Not for everyone haha. But you've got good videos.

Great review, man! Especially happy to hear i'm not the only fan who has LOAD as his number one Metallica album. Thank you so much! As for James' sex addiction? Really? I knew he had an alcohol addiction but never knew he had a sex addiction. Oh well...explains why he keeps saying "YEAAAAAAH".

@adarkerstandard

3 жыл бұрын

One of guys who did the movie actually wrote a book that alluded heavily to James having a sex addiction. I believe I also read that around ‘02/‘03 James and his wife Francesca renewed their vows, so I just put 2 and 2 together on those tidbits

Bro... I gotta say that I'm with you in not hating this one... in fact, I dug it from the day it was released and couldn't empathize with all the folks that hated that album... but it never swayed me. And I am an old fan... I still really dig the rawness of this one. Even Lars' nasty garbage kit has a place in my heart. Either way... great vid and you have a new sub.

Great video man! I love this album but I disagree on virtually all the songs you like haha + Invisible Kid + Shoot Me Again + The Unnamed Feeling + All Within My Hands - Frantic - St Anger - Some Kind of Monster - Dirty Window - Purify

My friend and I each bought a copy from Best Buy immediately after release. Opened one and inserted it into the CD player of his firebird. After 2 songs, we removed it and neither of us ever listened to it again. I gave my unopened copy to my 15 year old sister as a birthday gift. Also, I have purchased at least 10 albums and attended countless concerts of bands I'd have never even heard of without Napster. Never bought another Metallica album after that.

This is a good review of St. Anger. I've never understood the hate for the album. It's got some sick riffs. If you just let it play for a few minutes you get used to the snare. I've always thought if it was produced differently, people would consider it one of their best. Also.... I have to disagree that all their new stuff is dull and uninspired. I love Death Magnetic and 72 Seasons.

I think the fact a band who built their early career reputation on tape trading, where people would record songs on cassettes and pass them around to their friends, who would record and then pass etc (analog Napster) and a band who encouraged tape trading, taking on Napster was ironic. That always bothered me about them.

@adarkerstandard

10 ай бұрын

I’ve seen this take maybe dozens if not hundreds of times over the years, but I don’t think its correct at all. It should not bother you that Metallica took down the original Napster. Here’s why: The tape trading primarily was of their live shows. It was their live shows, NOT their recorded studio work, that helped put the band on the map in their earliest days. The tape trading of these performances drew interest enough to help them sell the actual albums & draw larger and larger live crowds. But let’s also think about the medium here. Tape trading at the time was an incomplete, imperfect way to experience something. If you receive a copy of Metallica playing a show in 1982 on a casette tape, the audio quality of that tape will likely not be good enough to replace the actual experience of going to see the band live. Now let’s say that the tapes that were being traded were indeed the albums. The tapes would likely be ripped, thus being a copy of a copy, and would suffer in quality. This again would not be a good replacement for hearing an officially released casette of the album. When file sharing came around in the late 90’s, the MP3’s being shared were of such quality that, to most listeners, the difference in quality between the albums and the downloaded files were negligible. Also consider that Metallica were first made aware of file sharing when their single “I Disappear” was leaked to the airwaves in a rough state that they were not comfortable to deem ready for release yet. If you have any further qualms, consider that the state of the music industry has taken a dive since the creation of file sharing that it has not recovered from to this day. Music is no longer a product, it’s a service that is given away for free on streaming apps. This means that labels are mostly focused on signing artists that are more likely in their eyes to turn a profit, which is why this generation doesn’t have their own equivalent to Metallica, instead it’s rap and pop music which is cheaper and quicker to churn out. In a way, Napster killed rock and metal.

@choch72

9 ай бұрын

@@adarkerstandard It wasn’t just their live shows they themselves passed around music. They even said themselves they would record it off the radio. Metallica wasted their reputation on fighting something that was inevitable and they themselves helped plant the seed for. They’re my 2nd favorite band (Pantera) and I support them but concerning Napster, they were hypocritical and it doesn’t help that the whole ordeal was led by the least likable member of the band. A guy the band actively tried to get rid of before Cliff died.

I love this album!

It's one of my favorite albums more so because the way the songs are written rather then the way they are played.

The way I see it, in the early 90s Metallica became this mega popular band - probably more than they'd ever thought they'd be - and so they ended up rebelling against everything that had made them so successful. I think they felt their popularity could end up strangling them. At the same time they still wanted to keep up with what was trendy at the time. You can still hear the strength of their ideas, but they seem inhibited by their egos - not willing to cut off the fat or remove the needless limbs or, in some instances, be disposed of altogether. I disagree with the idea that 'metal fans' hate them because 'it's not metal enough'. In truth I find it was always fans of other genres not liking metal. After all these years with Load, Reload and St. Anger they are not misunderstood masterpieces, but the products of a band dealing with the implications of success.

@jayp9158

7 ай бұрын

Don’t forget the immense pressure they should’ve felt while trying to come up with something at the level of the Black Album

It's too bad people can't get over the snare drum in St. Anger, that album is the rawest, heaviest, metalist album Metallica has (albeit not classic thrash metallica we're accustomed to). I LOVE IT

What's up man. Enjoying your content & subbed. I Cherry picked a few songs off St Anger last summer just to see if I could stomach it any better, it wasn't as bad as I remembered. Maybe I'll give it another whirl. Keep up the good work dude

where did the cky videos go