Why Metallica Needed To Make St. Anger (Some Kind Of Monster)

St. Anger is seen by many as the worst album from Metallica, but the documentary Some Kind Of Monster shines some light on the chaos behind the album. This video looks at why Metallica Needed To Make St. Anger. Please Like, Comment, and Subscribe! = / rockedreviewsnet
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St. Anger is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on June 5, 2003. It was the last Metallica album released through Elektra Records and the final collaboration between Metallica and longtime producer Bob Rock, with whom the band had worked since 1990.
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is a 2004 American documentary film about American heavy metal band Metallica. The film follows the band from 2001 to 2003, a turbulent period in the band's history which included the production of their 2003 album St. Anger, frontman James Hetfield entering into rehab for alcoholism and the departure of bassist Jason Newsted as well as the hiring of his replacement Robert Trujillo. The title of the film shares its name with the song of the same name from St. Anger.
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[@Erichwanh]

@@natehtf5760 "I even bought the cd" ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, just like everyone else back in the day when that was the only way to actually buy the album? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@allistergraham6704]

@@Erichwanh I bought the album because it's my favourite metallica album, about 5 years after it released

[@godetonter4764]

@@allistergraham6704 if you like St Anger, you will probably really like Gorguts - Obscura

[@anick82]

I always liked "Invisible Kid"

[@SonsOfLore]

St. Anger is a personal paradox for me. I hated it so much, that I literally started writing my own Metallica songs. From Tesla, Megadeth, and The Black Crowes as my foremost influences, now my music is a often referred to Metallica. Which is kind of good. It's flattering, but I've had to go back and read do so much material, because it's more Metallica than me. I want to be influenced, not a copycat.

[@steammate4140]

Honestly, it actually aged pretty well, the NEW live versions of Frantic, St.anger, and Dirty Window actually sound really good, and the fans love hearing them live too.

[@d3athperception828]

I agree. They sound pretty good live.

[@thisguy8106]

There was a DVD that came with the album back in the day that had the band jamming the album live..and that was the version I always listened to.. It was 10000x better than the studio album, but no one would ever believe me when I tried telling them that the songs were actually pretty good when they played them live because the sound was so much better. I really wish that DVD would get uploaded or something.. Bc I really think that so many people would like it if they heard it..

[@juliannaagoncillo6090]

Well yea; as someone who discovered Metallica through St. Anger, I can only enjoy St. Anger songs performed live If I wanted a divine comedy album to torture myself with that’s the only time I will listen to the official studio version; cuz it’s “not made for me” but gawd it’s so funny to listen to

[@shred9475]

@@thisguy8106 it is on yt i agree

[@D4MAG3R1]

I would add purify in there

[@debonaire_nerd]

It's the sound of a band hitting the lowest ebb with their demons, and fighting like hell to hold things together. Yes, this album had to be made - love it or loathe it. No St. Anger, no Death Magnetic or Hardwired To Self-Destruct. It's also the sound of a band preparing dinner with cooking utensils from the days of sea fairing early settlement.

[@newerest1]

the raw production made it feel like they were channeling their younger selves anger, while dealing with their demons (addictions, aging, etc). it felt like them as a garage band at times

[@vladimirbathory1125]

Death Magnetic and Hardwired are uninspired phoned in generic albums. I wish they would have just stopped making music after the black album and kept touring because they simply lack the ability to write good music now. In Lars case lost the ability to play.

[@thesentinel5523]

It was their therapy album. It allowed them to begin to find themselves post 90s alternative stuff they did. If not for St. Anger, they don't remember what made them great and don't make Death Magnetic nor Hardwired. It's a necessary album that has one standout track "Sweet Amber" but that's it.

[@andrewpappas9311]

I always liked Sweet Amber, Frantic and Some Kind of Monster

[@kenterminateddq5311]

@@andrewpappas9311 What about "The Unnamed Feeling"?

[@kenterminateddq5311]

You guys think this is like when Fleetwood Mac made the "Rumors" album?

[@mr.froglegs]

​@KenTerminatedDQ that's a great album to compare it to

[@NexusNine]

Most of St. Anger's songs actually translate very well to live performances. Most people who dislike the album even admit that it's largely the production they disliked, not the songs themselves.

[@Flickawho]

In retrospect, it was pretty damn huge of them to expose that side of their personal lives to everyone. Big balls.

[@andrewpappas9311]

Some Kind of Monster definitely gave me a new appreciation for St. Anger, I’m still not big on the album but Frantic, Some Kind of Monster and Sweet Amber are some of my favourite Metallica songs. I loved the documentary and I thought it was super interesting to see what was going on within the band, plus it just shows that they’re just regular guys

[@branjohn205]

Sweet Amber fucking rules

[@frankym69]

Lmfao. What did you think they were Dorphusians from the planet Dorphnia in Galaxy ES-007? Far off ions away in a star system far far away? They're not super human.

[@andrewpappas9311]

John Titor What? No, I just meant that despite being one of the biggest bands in history I liked that they allowed us to see every side of them, personal or professional

[@ReturnToTradition]

Those songs and Shoot Me Again are highlights

[@frankym69]

@@andrewpappas9311 check out the joe rogan James Hetfield interview. It's pretty inspiring stuff on how James is combating his addictions.

[@ARTV-]

IT'S A METALLICA ALBUM!!! (ft. Lou Reed)

[@RockedNet]

Stop lying on the internet!

[@ghostrider.13]

Maybe so....they put out trash

[@Chatman666]

I like "Lulu" more than "St. Anger". *Mic drop*

[@juanjoseireguigarcia4650]

@@Chatman666 I second this.

[@tallycahamuhlhetru26]

WRONG.

[@crazydud3380]

It is definitely one of the most compelling bad albums out there. It is so raw and honest, that it feels like your an awkward third party sitting in on ugly group therapy sessions. Yeah, this is high effort bad, which is always kind of fascinating. I do hope we get a remixed Death Magnetic. That album felt like such a huge "we're back" statement, but the clipping and loudness were an issue then, and have gotten even worse with age. Would love to have a Death Magnetic with the sound quality of Hardwired!

[@howtoavenge1016]

if death magnetic had the mop sound it would absolutely be my favorite album by them

[@SomeDumbKid1]

There's an old saying in writing that goes "good therapy, bad poetry". that's pretty much this album to a tee.

[@NHR_Music]

It's the perfect album for when going through a tough time. A few years back I was in a very depressed state and that album really helped me get through it. Especially Frantic, St. Anger, My World & The Unnamed Feeling. Wasting your days, dealing with your anger, not feeling in control of your own head and anxiety/depression are perfectly shown in these songs.

[@frantic32]

You should take a listen to their most recent live performances of Frantic, St Anger, and Dirty Window. The album isn’t well produced (but I still like it) but even St. Anger haters say that live the songs sound great now.

[@saucexeevee]

I genuinely like this album. I understand its flaws but I have a lot of nostalgia.

[@RockedNet]

I think many people do from that time period.

[@karmathepunkrocker]

Have to admit, St Anger is not my least favorite album. They still hit it hard, and they feel a lot more like Metallica than when they changed their sound (especially Load, and Reload)

[@nickdotjpg]

one of my favorite things about the documentary is watching lars' style slowly transform into looking like an older eminem lol

[@juniorthelichch.]

We think for us it resonated so strongly because of our position. St. Anger was the first album we ever purchased as an idiot teen dealing with an abusive father, school, depression and beyond. The album dropped at a time when it's rawness was needed for us, and even now the album remains on our cycling playlist not because of nostalgia entirely but because it still resonates with the emotions we were feeling at the time and a reminder of how far we've come. It was actually a bit of a shock when we discovered the album was so hated, and at first we were hurt; it felt bizarre that something that we loved so much was hated nearly universally and even the band members sort of addressed it with sheepish regret. But in time we processed this too, we still remember renting Some Kind of Monster from a local video store and seeing it all shortly after its release. St Anger was the album metallica needed for themselves. And even if they weren't aware at the time, it was an album a lot of other people needed too. It might not be the greatest hits of metallica, or to many people even be 'good', but I think that doesn't matter too much as long as it means something to someone who are we to say any art is bad. This was a random thought and video to find but it was nice to see and be reminded that it was still there.

[@jliller]

"Invisible Kid" should have been John Cena's entrance music, if he had ever made the heel turn in WWE so many of us wanted (and which "Peacemaker" proves would have been amazing).

[@Kriegter]

St Anger is therapy

[@TheCamSays]

Bit of a related note: the clip of Lars eating a sandwich and “stewing in his anger” gets sampled in the Lingua Ignota song “SORROW SORROW SORROW”.

[@CableB_]

I watched Todd in the shadows Trainwreckords video for St. Anger but the only career this album killed was Bob Rock’s Career

[@breandan3280]

I strongly disagreed with Todd that St.Anger is a Trainwreckord. Any band that releases something as bad as St.Anger but still goes on to release two best selling albums and several sold out stadium world tours doesn't have a Trainwreckord

[@CableB_]

@@breandan3280 that’s I mean, the Producer for that album Bob Rock killed his career after that.

[@mmrion0]

Even though St. Anger is definitely Metallica's weakest album, I still found some tracks that I enjoyed on it. My World, Frantic, and The Unnamed Feeling to name a few. I could always appreciate it from a standpoint of Metallica wanting to try something different. It's been many years since I saw the Some Kind of Monster documentary and I forgot how turbulent of a time it truly was for this band. When you combine the documentary and the album that came from Metallica during this time period, it definitely makes it a more "peculiar" than a "bad" album in my opinion. Great job Luke!

[@riddypr]

Very fascinating video. And it's great to see how Metallica learned from St. Anger and went to make better music. Sometimes you gotta hit a massive low to never go down there again. I've not listened to St. Anger myself (I don't know if I ever will given what I've heard about it), but I HAVE been interested in watching Some Kind Of Monster.

[@RockedNet]

It's on Netflix now and other sites.

[@grim1683]

This video perfectly highlights one of the biggest reasons I don’t consider St Anger Metallica’s worst. I consider Lulu to be their album

[@Ellthom]

I hope this video does well , because I would love to see more video like this :)

[@RockedNet]

Sharing always helps.

[@Ellthom]

@@RockedNet Always do. Keep up the good work 😎

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Great video and review. A job well done. Keep it up.

[@stevenalexander6033]

The album could have been good to great... If they tightened up the drums and cut like most of the songs 2 to 3 minutes. There's so much good ideas and good sounds that the album does have. Would almost like to see them go back and rework pretty every track... with several years worth of hindsight involved as well.

[@alizeneely6380]

I hope in the future you'll do video of why Metallica's Load and Reload needed to happen...

[@randywilder6662]

Luke, this is so well said. There was a lot going on with the band at the time of St Anger, and it shows on the album. It was never going to be the best outing they put out cause of all the strife And as someone who spent money to buy St Anger when it came out....yeah lmao

[@chrisbellem344]

I think st anger is a good album because it shows where metallica was at not only in their music but also where they were at psychologically they hadn't had a chance to process the death of Cliff Burton until then

[@ConcertCrap]

0:24 Bands, hire this drummer!

[@Jaspertine]

I mostly agree with you on this. But I feel like the album should be heard, as well as discussed. I won't force you to try to like it, or even listen to it all in one sitting, but I do think that difficult art deserved to be engaged with.

[@jblazeby]

Well done 👍 This is mostly what I have thought over the years. I maintain St Anger is St Anger the demo's, they've played some of these songs live with added solos and they sound so much better.

[@plasmakitten4261]

I've often said that you can tell how good someone's mental health is by how much they hate Saint Anger. I really do think part of why people hate it so much is that it came from such a deep place of struggle for the band that, if you can't easily empathize and hear the pain, fear and well, anger in those songs, it will just sound like the aimless garbage everyone makes it out to be. But Saint Anger was the truth. It's as far from selling out as Metallica has ever been, more authentically themselves than any other album except perhaps Justice (earlier albums had the slightest tinge of Dave, or lots on KEA). They made the album for themselves and not the fans, but they made their first several albums like that too. The difference is that Saint Anger is simply less relatable. But for those of us that can relate to The Unnamed Feeling, for example, there are few albums with more power.

[@jesurenbnb]

To tell you the truth i hate the album because of the production and some of the songs

[@JVR10893]

Frantic, St. Anger, The Unnamed Feeling, and the S&M2 version of All Within My Hands are great. The rest can go burn in a fire.

[@SRMoore1178]

Yeah, that snare sounded horrible but I actually think it worked well with the slower, downtempo songs and sections.

[@jedigarent]

I bought it then instantly regretted it. Lol

[@1mlb704]

You pretty much nailed my feelings on this album/era. It really made Death Magnetic that much better than it already was

[@TheNightmareRider]

I'm curious if there are other stories for bands with legendary bad albums informing the process. I know not every band featured on Regretting the Past has a feature length documentary of the drama, but I am curious to see if other bands have a similar story!

[@BKsBullets]

I love this album, but that probably has something to do with it being my first Metallica album I bought when it came out and blasting Frantic and Sweet Amber in my Dad's '91 Celica heading to work

[@faeriewren]

I watched the doc for the first time this week for my music class. It was quite good. Also that fact made me burst out laughing when I got the notification.

[@RobertSeeJen]

Thank you for making this video.

[@necropink9200]

I've always thought the drums and overall sound works really well on the song Some Kind Of Monster.

[@zerk555]

There's a fan made re-recording of St Anger on YT and it's actually really cool. Just look up St Anger Re-recorded

[@frozyre7854]

The thing about this documentary and it's according to Dave himself, but Dave Mustaine honestly thought this documentary was phony because they've set him up to be in this. This was still around the time when Dave was still having bad beef with Metallica, something that wouldn't come close to being resolved until The Big Four in 2010. It's a mild takeaway from the sincerity of what Metallica has gone through and nobody really knows for certain if any of this is 100%. Lots of fans think that this documentary and showing people the process of St.Anger was all just to make a big excuse as to why the album was as poorly received among fans. The other point I have to make also, is that this happened right when nu-metal as a genre was more or less popular but also not at the same time, in the middle of the road. Metallica might've known that the metal and rock scene had changed around them to where they can't be the Metallica of the 80s. Plus, they're riding on the other unfavorable albums released prior to St.Anger that also has had fans divided, like Load and ReLoad. I don't know, that's a lot of takes that I have about this documentary. I personally think it's all a show from Metallica based on what I brought up. However, this does shed some light on what your favorite bands could've also have gone through when trying to make albums and their worlds is complicated in doing so. The music world usually ain't all that it seems.

[@michaeltunnicliffe4935]

Sometimes, you need to fall a little to realise you need to pick yourself up and get back on track. I remember as a kid, when first getting into metal, A7X, Trivium and BFMV all had new releases which dominated my life and seemed to be setting them up for greatness. City of Evil, Ascendancy and The Poison respectively were huge albums, but each of them had weaker, lighter, less impressive follow ups. I like each of them but suddenly none of the bands seemed like they were going to get that big break I thought they would. A7X eventually made it big but for me, they were never as good as they were in those early years. Same with BFMV. But Trivium whoes album The Crusade flopped hard here in the UK, did something the other two didn't. It came back stronger. Shogun was a masterpiece. And then we got other classics like In Waves, Sin and the Sentence and Court of the Dragon. Trivium, having stumbled, came back heavier, stronger, inspired. And they didn't reach the fame that A7X or BFMV did, but I'd argue they are the far better band. Because like Metallica, they returned to their heavier, more pure metal roots rather than continuing down a path of commercial success with less oomph.

[@LuziFearon]

I was still a child when I listened to St. Anger at first and I still like the title song and frantic, but I can't tell if its bcz of nostalga or something else

[@jesspayant1667]

Love some kind of monster. Watched it with my wife and son. Saw it in the theater before they came into my life. As for the album I don't necessarily miss the solos. The drums do get on my nerves. Some of the songs I still enjoy. Is it a great Metallica album? No. I do think if it was recorded by another band it would be thought better of. That being said you have to take it for what it is. As the title track says" You flush it out."

[@napesdrk1174]

I still believe the bands heart was Cliff and Dave. After all the ideas they introduced to Metallica were used up in And Justice for all that was it. The creativity only lasts so long, once that we'll is dry you get The Metallica from The Black Albums to Today.

[@johnberry3348]

It's note up to the standard of the first 4 by a long way. Overall the drum sound is awful, yet sometimes sounds okay. I like Frantic, St Anger, Monster and Unnamed Feeling but that's about it. I always saw it as Metallica getting back to being a metal/thrash band than the mainstream rock band that did the Load albums and garage days re-re-re-visited covers albums. For that alone, I think St Anger was worth it.

[@ViperSRT1008]

They actually did a decent live rendition of Dirty Window recently. It seems that newer live versions of some of the songs aren't too terrible. Overall you are 100% correct in your assessment.

[@wilbert9567]

I think Sweet Amber is also a good song

[@martyjohnstone8226]

The only positive I can find from making this album is that it made Death Magnetic sound like a return to form...

[@reviewtechgermany8091]

Production wise, death magnetic is the worst album. I'm talking about the original, audio compressed release and not the digital download one. St. Anger and even AJFA with the lack of bass sounds way better.

[@scottbolderson1566]

I'm the St. Anger apologist in my group. I don't love it, but every time I listen to a song from it, I can hear the bones of a killer track. I just think that someone needs to go at the album with editing software and cut out the bloat. Radio edits of St. Anger and Some Kind of Monster exist that are superior to the album versions and about half as long (IMO).

[@austindolan7182]

how bout radio edits using the dvd rehearsal mixes? that dvd has better versions of each song.

[@mattwatts33]

I still love the songs and have since day 1.

[@nitt3rz]

What a brilliant video.

[@tarunbhandal6111]

I would love to see what your thoughts are on Load and Reload

[@spencermagee6847]

I got to see them for the first time on their St. Anger tour with Godsmack. I didn't buy my ticket until two hours before the show and I managed to get an 8th row seat (probably because of the whole Napster controversy around that time). I could've roasted marshmallows with the heat from the pyro. Plus the whole stage rotated,so everyone had a good view at some point in the show. Sully came back out and sang "Sad But True" with them. Great Show!😎👍🎸🎶🎵

[@nachocavallocarbonell1863]

I first didn't know the album in its entirety, I only knew Frantic, St Anger and All Within My Hands While I didn't preffer them over RTL or...MOP, even Black Album which kicks ass in my opinion, I didn't hate them Wasn't until I heard all the album from beginning to end that I realised how different the band was at the time, I thought they were just lazy because of their age But when I watched this film with my brother I understood what they were going through, the disc is a mirror of their personal and band problems, which made me appreciate it more Great albums came later, Death Magnetic, SyM2, Hardwired, and I was happy they still had that spark that made me love them in the first place!

[@pabloaguirre7472]

If there's an album that I want to be re-recorded is St. Anger. I loved the St. Angel 2015 cover album project and proved that the record could have been better because the ideas were good.

[@cpottervlog8122]

There’s some really good riffs on St. Anger. I like All Within My Hands

[@deniscollins3635]

I totally agree with you. St. Anger is an album that needs to be talked about, not listend to... I liked the documentary a lot... the album? Not so much... although I have to admit, there are a few good songs on it. Not many, though... When I'm listening to my Metallica playlist on random, I don't skip songs, but when I choose to listen to an album, St. Anger is not an option!!

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

I never liked St. Anger. I saw Some Kind of Monster and I have just a tad bit of appreciation for the album. It wasn't the album we wanted or deserved, but it was necessary to get them back on track.

[@johngammon963]

They needed to make it. We didn't need to hear it.

[@gdr1174]

With the CD there was also a DVD of them playing it in its entirety at their HQ. The album made a lot more sense to me when presented that way...

[@meanmattworld]

i was in my last year old highschool, and was looking forward to St. Anger......i will say, Frantic is still one of my favourites on that album. Also liked the DVD

[@Ianspiegel]

Couldn't have put it better myself. Bravo. I'm also not the biggest fan of the album, but it is the one that got me into the band back in '03, so it holds a special place in my heart.

[@jaddaman]

Being a diehard Metallica fan, I vividly remember watching Some Kind Of Monster the first time more than every time I've heard St. Anger for just how raw of a ride it was to witness. When it comes to St. Anger, it's far from being a favorite album of mine, but it is... okay. It's not perfect, but as the product of the band's turbulent early 2000s, the album has its moments worth remembering. Frantic is a banger, St. Anger is a cool tune, and I know when I say that I'm in the minority for defending Invisible Kid. I'd go as far as say that if the album would get a rewritten/reworked treatment, pull back on the amount of snare drums and add one or two guitar solos for the hell of it, it would be an enjoyable listen. But we can't change history and Metallica fans got what we got with St. Anger, and whether you love it, hate it or simply feel indifferent, it's worth recognizing what influenced it in the first place.

[@SpazAntics]

I don't mind the snare sound to st anger. I want to see a cover of st anger w/out muffled kick drum.

[@ivyhallquist3159]

People need to remember that Bob Rock produced the Black Album.

[@RockedNet]

Bob Rock has been a massive part of heavy music history.

[@ElliYeetYT]

If Metallica didn’t make St. Anger, it would’ve Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill, Kill-ed the sanity of all Metallica members completely.

[@slasherdope8065]

I love St. Anger. Then again, I love everything they have been a part of, except for Lulu. I Am The Table!

[@EveryFairyDies]

I was never a fan of this album, especially as this was the first original album Metallica released after I became a massive fan and they changed my entire life. I was so excited to be a Metallica fan who could join in the excitement that comes with the release of a new album!... and then I heard it, and was shocked. I just could not wrap my mind around how this could have happened. And I adored every Metallica album, including Load and ReLoad! So for many years I just pretended St Anger didn't exist. Then the documentary came out, and I went to see it with a mentality of 'there better be a damn good explanation for this!!' I'm glad I saw that documentary, because it really did explain the album and gave me a better understanding of why it exists, what the point of it is, what it's trying to say and so on. I'm still not a huge fan of it, but I understand it, which I think is more important. And yes, without St Anger, we wouldn't have all the fantastic later Metallica stuff. And while I was never put off Metallica by St Anger, I admit the disappointment I felt at the release of my first mega-fan Metallica album has coloured my love for them, and instead of excitement or anticipation when Metallica announce a new album, I feel mostly wariness. Following St Anger up with Lulu didn't help my situation. I will always love Metallica; I am grateful for the music and it's community they introduced me to, I love I've been able to see them live (and hopefully will again later this year!! 🤞🤞🤞🤞), but my relationship with the band has become less of mindless worship and more of a 'I adore you guys, but you really hurt me once. I've forgiven you for that, but it was something so huge that I'm still working on rebuilding trust, which is hard to do when I don't actually know you all personally, and have only the insight you allow me. I don't begrudge your privacy, we just have to accept that a certain wariness is always going to be there going forward.'

[@philiom7724]

Honestly the DVD that came with the CD was way better. The songs are cool and hit properly when the sound isn't all jacked up, like on the CD. never listened to the CD once but I watched the DVD plenty of times.

[@Lornewright83]

The last minute of All Within My Hands to me is james trying to exorcise his demons when he roars and screams KILL KILL KILL.

[@priorwitness]

Metallica has been and probably always will be my #1 favorite band. With that said totally agree with your comments in the video. The album is definitely their worst by far. When it first came out I tried to defend it and grow to love it, but after a while I just couldn't do it lol. However, time for me has been weird with this album. It's been about 20 years since it came out, and hearing what the band does with these songs live by adding solos, shortening them up, and adding some much needed punch has breathed new life into the album for me. Now when I listen to the songs from the album, I actually prefer live tracks of recent years. I can't listen to the album itself, but I do appreciate it. One other thing to add on why it needed to happen: Metallica had lost their way I think. After Load and ReLoad, and then the weird 2 disc album of Garage Inc, Metallica needed to find a way to get back to what they were best at. You heard that transition when they released Death Magnetic followed by Hardwired. St. Anger sort of forced them back to their roots as well.

[@EvilHomer1973]

Ive been a fan since Master of Puppets and I liked St Anger. Not EVERY song, but enough that I liked it.

[@norbertcsorba4639]

This may sound stupid but the documentary makers realy knew something about St Anger beforehand to have all this footage for this movie.

[@Glasshexagon]

I consider St.Anger as their latest honest album (honestly lmao). Opinions divided, but I feel both Death Magnetic and Hardwired as...somehow...fake and self-repetitive.

[@emakrox]

I still think St Anger sucks, but Some Kind it Monster is a wonderful RockDoc. It made me appreciate metallica more than I already did, and I agree that St. Anger kind of adds to the mythos of Metallica as a whole and needed to be made

[@johnathonberube6833]

I saw Some Kind of Monster, and I do have better appreciation for the album. By no means am I saying I dislike the album, but like what pointed out, after watching the documentary, I like it more. It's not my favorite by any means, but I do like it, and will go back and listen to it every once in awhile

[@frankym69]

Yeah. If I knew of this, I would've forgiven them. Dude at some point, all the hurts and pains of being gone from your family for months at a time and you just want to provide like you know you can. It's debilitating and it catches up. Glad they worked through their demons.

[@Chatman666]

2 hot takes. Kinda. 1. I like this record. The tin can doesn't bother me. Neither do the lack of solos and "cheesy" lyrics. 2. Lars is overhated.

[@khaosbydesignuk946]

I love it tbh the lyrics are really raw & nearly every riff is gold, granted the snare doesn't sound fantastic but it's not distracting enough to stop me enjoying the album.

[@JackMcSomeone]

Which album is worse? St. Anger or Lulu?

[@punkfan97]

St. Anger gave us endless jokes about Lars' snare drum still to this day there's comments about Lars using a trash can lid

[@lightbody666]

Good hear someone finally kind of gets it. I like a lot of songs on it so you're wrong there. Though it had to happen is spot on. This record had to happen.

[@Lullalies]

I really like the UNKLE remix for the song Frantic NGL. As for the Lulu album I hear it more as a Lou Reed bucket list album.

[@megaman7799]

Anyone who says St Anger is bad, I direct them to the fan rerecording in 2015.

[@SavitTheGoalie]

Love some kind of monster and I like invisible kid but I can’t really get into the st anger album as a whole

[@heavenly2k]

Kirk seems so damn chill lol

[@angryguy9000]

"Lulu does not count. That is not a Metallica album." *TABLE INTENSIFIES*

[@LP004]

When I first heard it I completely understood why so many people shit on it, that snare was ugly, production was off, guitar solos would’ve been nice, although considering their situation it actually makes sense why there was none. I recently dived deep into the album and it’s grown on me a lot, it’s one of those albums you could really understand if you were in a bad mood, I wouldn’t mind a remastered version of the album where the snare is fixed and sound quality is improved

[@bigballz4u]

I for one am glad that St. Anger happened, because if it didn't we wouldn't have the film SKOM, which is basically Spinal Tap but with a real band. Not just any band either, but the biggest metal band ever. A documentary like that is truly monumental and it's hilarious even with just its premise.

[@prometheustv6558]

SO many great memes came from this

[@branjohn205]

I don't hate St. Anger. I think it's better than the Metallica collab album Lulu. 4 songs out of 11 I like. I think St. Anger did need to happen because without it no more Metallica.

[@dynamicsasquatch]

Haven't listened to st anger since buying it in 2003...literally one listen and stored it away

[@RockedNet]

Hate to say it, but it's not worth revisiting.

[@gansior4744]

I love St.Anger, even tho the Stare lsnt good. You still can enjoy it and live versions are absolutely awesome

[@RomeoTRM]

I got more into ST. Anger When I heard Dirty Window, Frantic, And Some Kind Of Monster. I even kind of liked the Title Track

[@vasilikitsouni7622]

I don't know why everyone hates that album i love it

[@jessicaworzalla684]

I've not seen the documentary. As far as St. Anger goes, I don't enjoy it one bit. But I agree with Luke, that this album has to exist tfor people to appreciate Metallica's better works.

[@youraouibe]

Is the album necessarily good? No, but that doesn't stop me, or anyone else from liking it. I like St. Anger more than I should, and my reasons for liking it differ. Take songs like the title track or Invisible Kid, one of main reasons I like and enjoy those tracks are because of their length, as I'm kind of a sucker for long(ish) songs, and Invisible Kid in particular, I like that song for the sole reason that James is tuned to drop G#. My point being, St. Anger isn't necessarily good, but it is important, and people like me and many others, like and enjoy it.