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  Summary: Metallica released the best-selling album of their career, 1991's Black Album, in the middle of an identity crisis. That same year Nirvana released Nevermind, a disc that immediately made the previous decade's worth of metal seem kitschy and outdated. Even while outselling the albums on which Metallica built their fan base in the Eighties, the Bay Area quartet spent much of the last decade trying to rediscover how to rock — fighting Napster, losing bassist Jason Newsted, watching singer James Hetfield go into rehab and alienating plenty of loyal fans along the way. No wonder there's an authenticity to St. Anger's fury that none of the band's rap-metal followers can touch. Across seventy-five-plus minutes of savage but intricate structures that recall those pre-Black glory days, Metallica go back to their brutal essence. There's no radio-size, four-minute rock here, no pop-friendly choruses, no ballads, no solos, no wayward experimentation. Recorded with longtime producer Bob Rock on bass, this is loud, expansive, unrepentant Metallica. 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 are heard throughout the next ten tracks, as if the band members focused solely on playing off one another, not the mixing board, and were too busy to notice that the snare drum annoyingly goes ping instead of snap. Rock's bass is mixed way down in a blare of guitar-and-drums midrange that recalls 1988's . . . And Justice for All — over him, the band hammers out its signature staccato stops-and-starts and multiple tempo and key changes like three angry fingers on the same fist. It's a rush to be pummeled by this group again. Despite the songwriting help from drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist Kirk Hammett, St. Anger chronicles Hetfield coping with recovery's ugly truths. He's still ornery, still defensive and still sometimes overselling his rage. On the final track, "All Within My Hands," he sings, "Love is control/I'll die if I let go," and the album ends with him screaming, "Kill! Kill! Kill!" seemingly unable to forgive himself or others as sobriety demands, stuck in the same dark childhood place he's always struggled to escape. It's a closing that puts an uneasy spin on the album's return-to-basics approach and makes it seem more of a masterful retreat than a fully victorious breakthrough into new territory. Album Title: St. Anger Artist | Group: Metallica Label: Elektra Release date: 2003 Genre: Heavy Metal Number of track(s): 11 File format: mp3 Total duration: 01h:15m:07s:346ms Total size: 179.6645 MB  Frantic St. Anger Some Kind Of Monster Dirty Window Invisible Kid My World Shoot Me Again Sweet Amber The Unnamed Feeling Purify All Within My Hands Track Info  File name: 01 Frantic.mp3 Duration: 5mn 50s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 14.1 MiB Track number: 1  File name: 02 St. Anger.mp3 Duration: 7mn 21s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 17.5 MiB Track number: 2 File name: 03 Some Kind Of Monster.mp3 Duration: 8mn 26s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 20.0 MiB Track number: 3 File name: 04 Dirty Window.mp3 Duration: 5mn 25s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 13.1 MiB Track number: 4 File name: 05 Invisible Kid.mp3 Duration: 8mn 30s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 20.2 MiB Track number: 5 File name: 06 My World.mp3 Duration: 5mn 45s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 13.9 MiB Track number: 6 File name: 07 Shoot Me Again.mp3 Duration: 7mn 10s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 17.1 MiB Track number: 7 File name: 08 Sweet Amber.mp3 Duration: 5mn 27s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 13.2 MiB Track number: 8 File name: 09 The Unnamed Feeling.mp3 Duration: 7mn 8s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 17.0 MiB Track number: 9 File name: 10 Purify.mp3 Duration: 5mn 14s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 12.7 MiB Track number: 10 File name: 11 All Within My Hands.mp3 Duration: 8mn 46s Bit rate: 320 Kbps Bit rate mode: CBR File size: 20.8 MiB Track number: 11 
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