St. Anger
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Never underestimate the regenerative powers of Metallica. Following the stripped-down Load and Re-Load, they've returned to the raw, vitriolic savagery of their earlier canon, using 1984's Ride the Lightning as a template for St. Anger. The title track provides the psychic lynchpin of the album by combining the bombast and defiance of the band's earliest high-water marks with more deliberate lyrics and emotional nakedness. Equally cathartic is "Some Kind of Monster," a lumbering beast of a song that declares, "This is the voice of silence no more." Despite that claim, there's an economy to these lyrics; James Hetfield's raw-toothed growl only occasionally punctuates the menacing soundscapes. In fact, "Dirty Windows," the standout track here, is a shimmering five-minute instrumental that's free of the baroque trappings that sometimes clutter the Metallica landscape. --Jaan Uhelszki
Tracks
| 1 | Frantic |
| 2 | St. Anger |
| 3 | Some Kind Of Monster |
| 4 | Dirty Window |
| 5 | Invisible Kid |
| 6 | My World |
| 7 | Shoot Me Again |
| 8 | Sweet Amber |
| 9 | Unnamed Feeling |
| 10 | Purify |
| 11 | All Within My Hands |
