The best thing that can be said about Metallica’s St.Anger is
that it’s an album with sounds on it. There are many things wrong with this
2003 though one of the most noticeable flaws… aside from the bad riffs, over-long
songs and basically everything else, is that of the production. Lars Ulrich’s trash can, snareless monstrosity
of a drum sound being the prime offender.
Three guys from some bands decided that right now, 12 years
later, when the world had almost forgotten the horrors of Metallica trying to
play Nu-Metal, have decided to re-record the entire thing. The ENTIRE damn
thing. They even went out of their way to get permission from Metallica's management company Q-Prime Management. I think some medals for bravery are in order.
Sadly Daryl G. and Chris D. of
Grace The Skies and Dave C. of Adust didn't rewrite any of the cringe worthy lyrics, repetitive riffs
or bloated structuring, in short they didn't replace St.Anger with a good
album. They just recorded a turgid mess of an album with better production. I don't want to get too down on these guys as they obviously have some talent, but c'mon, no one asked for this.
You can listen to this exercise in pseudo-masochism below.
But if your life style really does determine your death style then I hope you’ll
avoid this some kind of monster; you’ll never get your wasted days back so keep
on searching for some sweet amber instead.
(I am truly sorry for the above paragraph)
