GlimmerMan
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What does anyone who has heard it think of the new Metallica album, St. Anger? I like Metallica a lot, although I found Load hard to get into and Reload pretty much inaccessible. However, St. Anger is a stunning return to form and by far their, er, angriest album since the final fading chords of ...And Justice For All. To me, it is the sound of a band who are doing an album for the sheer love of heavy metal once again. The Black Album, although excellent, veered towards a band looking for radio airplay and critical acclaim rather than good old fashioned heavy metal and Load and Reload was a load of commercial heavy rock bollocks. Much was made (by Lars Ulrich especially) at the time of the release of Load and Reload of the 'greasy' sound of the new albums. I just thought they sounded cack. However, this album is excellent, right from the outset with the aptly titled Frantic, to the time changing excellence of the title track, the almost bluesey riff of Some Kind Of Monster (which I reckon should have been the title of the album) and the rest of the album, save perhaps for Sweet Amber, which I can't seem to get into, is a pure heavy metal masterclass. I was honestly not expecting to be blown away by the album, but I was wrong. It took me a couple of listens to get into it, but I am now well and truly hooked, and it is constantly on my car CD player (I love to wind the windows down, crank the volume up to 20 and scare old ladies with the opening riff of the song St. Anger!). The album is not without it's faults - the first thing I noticed about it which I didn't really like is the fact that the snare drum seems to be too high pitched, the production could be more polished and Bob Rock plays bass - bring back Newstead! However, these small points aside, this album rules and I would give it 9/10. I just hope the new Maiden album blows it out of the water now!
Glimmer (Frantic, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...)
What does anyone who has heard it think of the new Metallica album, St. Anger? I like Metallica a lot, although I found Load hard to get into and Reload pretty much inaccessible. However, St. Anger is a stunning return to form and by far their, er, angriest album since the final fading chords of ...And Justice For All. To me, it is the sound of a band who are doing an album for the sheer love of heavy metal once again. The Black Album, although excellent, veered towards a band looking for radio airplay and critical acclaim rather than good old fashioned heavy metal and Load and Reload was a load of commercial heavy rock bollocks. Much was made (by Lars Ulrich especially) at the time of the release of Load and Reload of the 'greasy' sound of the new albums. I just thought they sounded cack. However, this album is excellent, right from the outset with the aptly titled Frantic, to the time changing excellence of the title track, the almost bluesey riff of Some Kind Of Monster (which I reckon should have been the title of the album) and the rest of the album, save perhaps for Sweet Amber, which I can't seem to get into, is a pure heavy metal masterclass. I was honestly not expecting to be blown away by the album, but I was wrong. It took me a couple of listens to get into it, but I am now well and truly hooked, and it is constantly on my car CD player (I love to wind the windows down, crank the volume up to 20 and scare old ladies with the opening riff of the song St. Anger!). The album is not without it's faults - the first thing I noticed about it which I didn't really like is the fact that the snare drum seems to be too high pitched, the production could be more polished and Bob Rock plays bass - bring back Newstead! However, these small points aside, this album rules and I would give it 9/10. I just hope the new Maiden album blows it out of the water now!
Glimmer (Frantic, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...)
