St.Anger 

Metallica's 8th studio album, recorded without the band's bassist (bassist Jason Newsted left prior to the recording), producer Bob Rock, who also produced all of Metallica's albums from their 91 self-titled album played bass, as well as co-wrote all of the album.

St.Anger was self lauded by Metallica to be "a return to their roots", while in fact this album is a somewhat lazy attempt at hopping on the nu-metal trend.

Many key basic musical elements any album requires are missing in this album, such as : proper production, balance, a vocalist who sings in key, drums which don't sound like tin cans etc..

Riding on the tsunami of success Metallica experienced during the 90s, this album started as the fastest selling Metallica album, but backlash from the utter horror this album is to listen to eventually led it to become their worst selling.

St. anger was a huge flop for Metallica. In fact, it was such a flop that by the middle of the supporting tour for st. anger Metallica played less than 5 st. anger songs on each set. By the end of the tour they were playing only one or two, heavily modified version of the original st. anger songs.

St. Anger means more than just a sellout, it means a sellout done bad, very very bad.

St. Anger is considered a flop not just within the Metallica fanbase and the world of rock/metal music, but it is considered a synonym and the epitome of a flop and self-parody.

See : spinal tap

guy #1 : Dude, did you hear the new Cryptopsy album? that shit is horrible!

guy #2 : yeah they totally pulled a st.anger on us

****

see other st.anger-esque albums :

Celtic Frost - Cold Lake
Megadeth - Risk
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken king

****

Windows ME is sooo st. anger

St.Anger by munchlord April 24, 2008

St.Anger 

St. Anger is Metallica's eighth full-length studio album. The album was to be released on June 10, 2003, but because of fears of extended music piracy over filesharing networks, St. Anger was released 5 days earlier on June 5, 2003.

Six years elapsed between the release of the band's previous studio album, Reload, and the recording of St. Anger, which began in 2002. Many factors contributed to this delay, the two most important being the departure of bassist Jason Newsted, and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield's several months in rehab.

Metallica Still has it in em, listen to St.Anger

St.Anger by Dallasp April 26, 2006

St Anger snare 

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Is it just me or does the St Anger snare sound like a church bell?

St Anger snare by DudeBroKowski January 31, 2022

St. Anger 

The worst Metallica album to date. There should have been solos by Kirk, and Lars.

Mix of Nu-Metal with Heavy Metal, which sounded really crap.

Even though im a hardcore Metallica fan, i'll always say St. Anger sucked balls.

Hey Jimmy. Wanna go to the Metallica concert? They're doing the "Madly in Anger with You" tour.

Fuck off wanker ! St. Anger blew ! I'll go if they're playing good music like Dyers Eve and Sad But True !

St. Anger by Mr. Ownage June 16, 2004

St. Anger 

St. Anger is a Metallica album released on June 5th, 2003. The Album has 11 songs on it's listing and lasts for a total of 75 minutes and 4 seconds. This album was hit with many mixed reviews and has a score of 65/100 on Metacritic. There has been many criticisms of the album because of the drum snare which to quote Brent DiCrescenzo "playing a drum set consisting of steel drums, aluminum toms, programmed double kicks, and a broken church bell". Therefore there has been many jokes in the Metallica community about this album's drum kit being made out of tin cans.

Friend: Yo! Did you listen to St. Anger yet?
Other Friend: Nah, it's filled with tin cans!

St. Anger by ThePearl234 July 17, 2022

St. Anger 

Frantic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tok!

nuff said. wow it's like st anger damnit!

St anger is the worst album ever made.

St. Anger by ndhwd August 8, 2004

St. Anger 

A term synonymous with "shitty drum sound". This is due to the fact that in order to "get back to their roots", Metallica decided to make the snare drum sound like a pile of garbage cans. It is worth noting that even on their first album, Metallica's drums did not sound this shitty. Goddamn this album blows.

Bro, let's take another take of that song, I gotta tune this snare, it sounds totally St. Anger right now. Goddamn that album blew.

St. Anger by Smanny April 19, 2006