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Ok, I’m a little late on this, but…
By Eric | June 12, 2003 9:31 pm
Metallica’s St. Anger (the song) really sucks! I finally heard it in its entirety tonight, and wow… the list just goes on:
1. It’s too long – They repeat the same portion of the song like 3 or 4 times, and its boring…
2. The first part of the song sounds like Metallica tries Nu-Metal… and they failed. Miserably.
3. Hetfield sings the same couple notes the whole song, he sounds even more monotone than normal.
4. The middle of the song switches tempo so abruptly, it sounds like I accidently taped over the song with something else.
5. Also in said middle part, it sounds like there was supposed to be a guitar solo there, but alas, because Kirk Hammett was either lazy or incompetent, there isn’t one.
I read an interview with him that said that when it came time to overdub the solos in, they thought it sounded great without it, and that anything they did sounded “pasted in”. Therefore, there’s nary a solo on the ENTIRE ALBUM, let alone this song! Metallica my ass. They haven’t sold out, they did that with the Napster fiasco, now they just plain suck. I even busted out Load again the other day (prompted by a discussion with Scott), and I got bored 3 songs into it… I’m listening to it, and thinking, this is probably a good album, but as a Metallica album, this really isn’t that good. So because of this, and a bunch of other reasons, I’m still convinced that Metallica’s best days are way behind them, and while the Black album and back are fine, anything after that is just crap.
Like you all cared, but after hearing it, I just HAD to complain 🙂
Topics: Blog | Tags: NT | 3 Comments »
June 13th, 2003 at 5:16 am
yes st anger sucks. it’s boring. but you’re still wrong about load. put any other band name on the cd and you’d love it.
June 13th, 2003 at 9:12 am
Yes, this is terrible, this Metallica CD…
June 13th, 2003 at 10:53 am
Sara, that’s exactly my point. Like I said, it’s probably a good album in its own right, but since it has the “Metallica” name on it, I’m expecting something more, I don’t know… more Metallica. You know I’m no fan of the same album over and over, but you gotta at least make it sound like Metallica! Musically, Load is fine, but it ain’t ‘tallica (that’s for you Scott!)
Case in point, me and Scott were talking about OLP the other day, the first 4 albums sounded different, weren’t the same album over and over, yet all were distinctly OLP, the new one, well, we’ll just leave that alone!