St Anger is as empowering an album title as it can get –there’s a whole load of piss and vinegar left in Metallica, James: “My thing is that I get annoyed that people won’t let you. I ...

St. Anger was released on June 5, 2003 and the making of the album was a rather difficult one as the group overcame numerous obstacles, all of which was documented in the Some Kind Of Monster film.

Metallica released their first studio album in six years on June 5, 2003, to the incalculable excitement (and relief) of millions of patient fans. Then these fans actually listened to St. Anger ...

It was a strange environment in which to record an album and it yielded a strange, raw, disjointed, low-fi release. I first heard St. Anger in April 2003 blasting through a stereo in an office at ...

So certain is this opinion that just weeks later the first Metallica feature to be published since 2001 features the sentence, ‘“St. Anger” is the finest thing to which the band have [ever] put their ...

You won't find many Metallica fans who list 2003's St. Anger among their favorite of the band's albums, and producer Bob Rock understands why — but he also knows of a couple famous rockers who ...

Although it was written and recorded in the studio, St. Anger barely resembles a studio album. The raw sounds on the throttling opening cut, “Frantic,” are essentially the same raw sounds that ...

It’s impossible to perfect St. Anger, not with lyrics like “my lifestyle determines my death style,” but if the album sounded like this the whole time, I might have given it more than one ...

Sadly, St. Anger (the No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 this issue) at one point finds the once-supremely-cool James Hetfield delivering wince-worthy, post-Layne Staley vocals more appropriate for ...

As Metallica finish their new album St. Anger, due June 10th, and get ready to support it on the massive Summer Sanitarium tour with Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, two filmmakers are getting the ...