St Anger: (Slightly) Better Than You Think 😠 

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First second of the video: "Schtonger!" I can tell this is going to be a good one.

Stahnger: I am inevitable! Semaj: And I am THE TABLE!

he attac he defend but most importantly he never gets respecc

_"0, 3, 5... _*_Oh no."_*

Nobody: Andriy: *s h t a n g e r*

this album saved from me depression Especially "all within my hands": I remember being in my room and every time i felt really bad about my family and all the problems i had at school I sat in my bed shouting KILL KILL KILL KILL like a maniac. And that album (especially all within my hands) KILLED everything that was wrong in my head.

First second: Andriy: SHTHANGHER

I’m so early that Kerry King is still in Megadeth Edit: Damn I just thought of a better one smh

St.Anger is an album that is full of raw anger coming from the things that were constantly attacking the band in that time. I personally like that album.

Finally, St. Anger gets respect.

I feel like I might be the only person on this planet who actually likes and appreciates the snare. It just works perfectly with the raw sound and reminds me even a bit of the percussion on the first Slipknot album. As for the lyrics: Again, they work perfectly in the context of the album. St. Anger is pure emotion put on a record, so it just makes sense for everyone to put their thoughts into the lyrics.

My 2 cents on the album The older I became, the better I started to understand what the album really is about and why its an important piece of the band that should get respect (no puns intended). It has flaws. The songs are sometimes incredibly long, almost unnecessarily. People might not like the downtuned guitars, the garbage bin snare, the lack of solos, the NuMetal inspiration on some parts, or James' vocal performance. But all this comes together to create an atmosphere that is genuine. And it's about being pissed off, angry, miserable, depressed. The riffs are killer, the lyrics are hard hitting, and the whole Garage Band sound grown on me. It's not supposed to be polished, good sounding or pleasent. Anger and depression ain't pleasent either. Also, Sweet Amber and The Unnamed Feeling deserve to be treated as classics.

I had always thought Invisible Kid was about Newsted, since one of his nicknames from the others was "Jason New-Kid." Made sense to me, and in the context of the lyrics, but that was just me. With that, St. Anger was the most metal album of the time because it was rebellious and did not care for what everyone else was doing. I always found it ironic when people complained about certain aspects of the album, thinking to myself, "isn't metal supposed to be loud, obnoxious, and hated by everyone on the surface?"

I won't lie, at first I wasn't much of a fan of the album but after having seen Some Kind of Monster on Netflix I have more of an appreciation of St. Anger and Monster, Sweet Amber and Frantic are some of my favourite songs

Most over-hated album of all time Next to Lulu, but that one is meant to be bad

Really love this recording. Emotional train from Lars and James. First songs that grew on me were All within my Hands and Dirty Window

Yeah, I would want to know all the reasons why Metallica played Load & Reload half a step down

I first listened to this album during a chaotic and uncertain time in my life. My girlfriend left me and my mom kicked me out. I felt depressed, angry, cornered, scared, and betrayed. If it wasn’t for this album, I wouldn’t have been able to handle the emotions I was feel as well as I did. This album was like a cushion to land on. So St. Anger has a special place in my heart

This album wasn't liked because Metallica's other albums was unbelievable. This album is really great actually

The unnamed feeling. This is song is on my top Metallica songs. It kept me a bit sane during military service..

I like St Anger because: 1. James' vocals are amazing, probably the most dynamic and versatile since Black album - the tone in his voice is a highpoint of his career. 2. The songs are long and progressive and full of heavy riffs (best since AJFA) with some really jarring rhythms and dissonance 3. The downtuned guitar tone was brutal as fuck - especially on Invisible Kid - it's borderline Meshuggah level grooviness 4. The drumming is mostly pretty good and versatile. There are a few funk/nu metal/ snare ghost-note style grooves with open and closed hihats etc. 5. The songs sound genuinely full of rage - it's all brutal from start to finish - even the unnamed feeling (a ballad) feels brutal, especially with james' vox. 6. The production is raw and grimy as hell - it reminds me of the green sludgy walls in the multiplayer basement level in goldeneye 64 7. The cool album art and the Some Kinda Monster DVD were a great supplement and insight into the album, giving me a deeper appreciation for it. 8. The lyrics are actually pretty good I think. They are catchy and some of the most memorable of any albums they've done - I loved Kirk's input. 9. It was the 3rd Metallica album I ever heard - 1st being AJFA, then Black Album, then this - I bought it as soon as it came out ( I was only 12 or so) because I saw the music video for St Anger.. so this album has a certain sentimentality to it. 10. The handful of clean melodic sections in the album are great, and really add to the dynamic of the album - any they are super melodic and beautiful at times. I dislike St Anger because: 1. The snare tone isn't great, but it never bothered me as much as it did everyone else 2. You can literally hear a few bad ProTools edits in the songs, where cymbals are hard cut without fully ringing out etc. - just plain lazy production and editing 3. The song structures are awful at times - you can tell they were just randomly adding riffs and copying and pasting sections without any real flow 4. The lack of any higher register guitar playing (lead guitar, solos etc.) - everything was just deep and chuggy without much higher pitched stuff which gets tiresome 5. Some of Lars' drum groove choices sound really forced and don't fit the riffs, and some are just plain bad songwriting, I think he favoured variety over 'playing the.. you know.. beat part' and keeping it solid to serve the song. 6. It seemed to be following trends of the early 2000s whether they realised it or not (downtuned guitars, nu metal vibe, angsty vocals etc.) but this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just hasn't aged as well as some other albums. 7. Bob Rock was uninspiring on bass - I think it would have been a better album if Newsted was still around - I think Jason would have been a good influence and pushed for better songs, without letting Lars and James' egos get in the way of everything. 8. It was too loud, compressed and washy. It needed to have a tighter sound closer to Master of Puppets for the songs to really shine

The main problems I have with "St. Anger" are somewhat similar to yours Andriy, I agree with you on the lyrics, they really do sound like 'therapy' lyrics and rely too much on profanity as a crutch. As a guy who does listen to lyrics and enjoys them this is one of the main reasons I dislike the album, (although "Sweet Amber" is an exception). I think that if the album had better lyrics I would enjoy it more, this is one reason "All Within My Hands" is my favourite song on the album, the lyrics are good. Another problem I have with the album is: unlike you, I don't like James' vocals on the album, I personally find it hard to listen to him scream through his midlife crisis, (although I know that that's the point). And of course, the songs are waaay too long! Songs like "Invisible Kid" don't need to be 8 minutes long! (Although I have a soft spot for that song personally). But hey now the positives! The tone of the guitars are absolutely awesome! They're heavy and dirrrrty and they sound like they'll kick you in the balls! Also the songs are full of fast heavy almost thrashy riffs! Overall, I think that if the lyrics were better, James sounded better and the songs were shorter, I would dig this album a lot more. I don't even mind the production of the album that much, (except it's too focking loud!), the snare isn't unforgivable and I think "I Disappear" is great, and even the lack of solos is forgivable because frankly, a lot of Kirk's Mid/Late 90s solos weren't that great or memorable in my opinion. And Finally, of course it is the album that saved the band from breaking up so for that alone it deserves our respect. All the best Frrrriend!

As I said on instagram, people need to get over the whole ''snare'' excuse. No single sound can be called ''bad'', just the way it's implemented and used in a song as a sample (for example) can be bad, if the drums were lower in the mix it wouldn't have been anywhere near as hated upon, same with the vocals. It's an entertaining product of it's time and has that charm going for it, and that's why it's actually stuck for so long, because it still has character as opposed to their newer stuff (DM AND HWTSD). If anyone would give a proper argument against the snare than ''oh its bad cause its bad lol'' then I'd be willing to discuss it with them.

I like St. Anger, not because is "Nu Metal" (my favorite type of metal) but St. Anger is too useful to canalize your negative emotions because the songs understand how you feel and you share your frustration, anxiety and anger with The Album until you got calm. At least in mi case

I kinda wish they kept the "Echo chamber" song that Lars' dad said to delete XD

11:51-11:55 COPYRIGHT STRIKE INCOMING!!!

1:03 captions read "not even the Slayer"

11:50 ooooh, I caught the reference...

I'm so early that Jethro Tull hasn't won a grammy yet.

OH MY GOD. Your assessment of "Frantic" is absolutely SPOT ON. I've always thought that about the main riff ever since I first heard it when they debuted it at the end of the MTV Icon special of theirs.

12:15 actually 37 not 27 times

"Stanger".

It might sound bad for some people but when you're angry this is perfect music

This album is one of my favorites of all time. It's so fucking ugly, angry, raw, unfiltered, yet cathartic, relieving, and beautiful in its core. It got me through a very bad time in my life and I would never trade those sounds for anything else. All Within My Hands in particular, is the best song in this album for its emotional lyrics. Not everyone gets it, unless you happen to be in a dark spot in your life. James bared his feelings and it speaks to me like no other songs I've heard of. "Hate me now, kill all within my hands", "love is control, I'll die if I let go", "I will only let you breathe, the air that you receive, and we'll see if I let you love me". Those words were exactly what I wanted to say but could not express.

While I have St. Anger in my MP3 collection, I found versions of the tracks that fix the awful busted snare and guitars. Second, the songs have been changed as follows: * Added finished versions of seven Presidio demos, with elements of another, and versions of No Leaf Clover and Minus Human without orchestra. *Invisible Kid (by 4½ minutes), My World (by 1m 45s), All Within My Hands (by 3m 51s), Dirty Window (by 2m 11s), Shoot Me Again (by 1m 55s) and Purify (by 2m 16s) have been trimmed. Here's my tracklist: Disc 1: Echo Chamber 1m 41s [Intro] Frantic 5m 49s The Unnamed Feeling 7m 08s St. Anger 7m 21s Minus Human 3m 49s More Than This 3m 51s Sweet Amber 5m 27s Boogeyman 3m 56s (Boogeyman and Ain't Ask No More) Some Kind Of Monster 8m 27s Dirty Window 3m 13s Disc 2: Unbridled 1m 21s [Intro] Shoot Me Again 5m 15s My World 4m 01s Dead Kennedy Rolls 3m 13s Invisible Kid 4m 00s No Leaf Clover 4m 45s Surfing The Zeitgueist 6m 00s (instrumental) Purify 2m 58s All Within My Hands 4m 57s Shadows Of The Cross 8m 31s Total length 95m 43s (50m 42s + 45m 01s)

St anger round my neck!! Good Video!!

me: *loved st anger the whole time and still do* also me: sooo why am I watching this again?

9:13 Oh, now we need a video for that.

Everyone: "wow, this is actually a good video, he really knows what he's talking about! Me: *still cant stop thinking about the snare* Me: *thinks about how james' amazing vocals almost completely counteracts the snare*

Андрей, minus human не в С# а в Drop C#, прошу заметить. ты это не впервые говоришь. Добра!

Im so early, dave mustaine is in metallica still

I ended up ripping the audio of the rehearsal DVD, burning it to CD and listening to that instead since it sounded better than the actual album, but I did hear it quite a bit back them. I think my main complaint is that most of the songs are too long, repeating themselves needlessly, though some of the coolest parts are only done once (like the "ominous - i am in us" chant part). Some moderation there would've helped the music.

i've always liked st anger. Love its raw, aggressive and human sound.

The title just made me think: "Better than you" isn't on St Anger...

That amazing album nubmer 1

I remember talking about the "solo" you mentioned at 9:42 over discord. Time flies frrrrrrrrrriend...

Just one thing. The solo you mentioned for some kind of monster is played by James. You can see it in the rehearsal dvd for the album.

This album is made only to hear The Great Lars' Snare Drum

Hottest take: Bob Rock laid down some good bass lines.

I think when Jason left, James realized the horrible things he’s done and deeply regretted it. He would cope with Alcohol and Chocolate (I’m not kidding btw), he soon decided to get into rehab and therapy. He would manifest his regret into st anger. Each song explained 1. His over reliance on alcohol 2. How he is controlled by his anger 3. The regret and anger of Jason leaving 4. Him reflecting on the horrible things he did 5. James becoming more introverted after Jason left 6. Him confronting the negative emotions and trying to control them 7. He realizes that the emotions can’t overtake him if he finds a way to control them (can also be about Napster) 8. How alcohol has lost him the ability to love 9. The anxiety and fear that those you love (Jason) will leave 10. James starting to put his issues behind him and becoming a better person 11. James regretting on how he was extremely controlling and how the alcohol didn’t fix it, when it in fact would make him go insane (which explains the kill kill kill outro)

I like how the intro to the videos is now the outro.

Great: The Unnamed Feeling Good: Frantic, Some Kind Of Monster, Invisible Kid (without the bridge), My World, Sweet Amber

st anger is so raw i love it

I think that invisible kid is about James being a shy kid and how music was his release. You can talk about any of the cheesy lyrics on that album EXCEPT invisible kid because it is representative of the album itself: angry, bitter, and sad.

Duuude, I just clicked suscribed only 20 into the video. Keep on the good work. Saludos desde Mexico.

i love St.Anger

Bob rock: You ready Lars? Lars 0:15

I was confused when I bought the St. Anger CD. I haven’t listened to it in full for over a decade. If the songs come across as too long then they’re not good songs. I’ve listened to puppets, ktulu, Orion, Fade etc and thought “I wish these songs were only 4 minutes long”.

Andriy, even though I don’t agree with some of your countdown videos, your videos always put a smile on my face. Hope you’re staying safe and well friend, love your content. 🤘🏻

St. Anger is one my favorite Metallica records and I listen to it quite often. It's raw and full of emotions, the vocals really fit the themes and the angry nu-thrash riffs. Musically i consider this a important step in the direction of a thrashier modern age Metallica (Death Magnetic, Hardwired). There are so many fast riffs and some really cool drums by Lars (the double bass drum in the title track gets me pumped every time). And i actually like the production for what it is, I don't think that a clean type of production would have fit the songs really... I think I would rank St. Anger as my third favorite Metallica album after 1# ...And Justice for All and 2# Ride The Lightning. \,,/

You kinda nailed how i always felt about the lyrics. I couldn’t put a finger on it, but always thought it sounded like James was holding up a piece of paper and reading the lyrics. No real feeling. Also i don’t mind the sound of the album, but the songs are just way too long without much variety

I always like St Anger (the song) and Sweet Amber and they really do sound great live with proper drums. I think they did a Rock AM show and played St Anger and it sounded fantastic. James had a Beanie on if I remember correctly. I'll see if I can find it. There it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g2pCifOt40A.html They don't sound that clean live anymore.

Wow.. I always thought Invisible Kid had a funny sound to it.. not just down tuned. I wonder who’s idea it was to have the two guitars tuned differently and not both to Ab. Makes so much sense now as I could never figure out what Kirk was doing in the studio performance.

I like St Anger, because from this album on, the band has gone back to their roots a bit more, to fast, powerful songs. And the sound would have been really cool, if they had a good drummer. In my opinion Lars should change to the management. I see that he is important for the band structure. But that he didn't come up with the idea of taking drum lessons in all these years, I don't understand at all. With a good drummer the band would be great. Because everyone is so skilled with their instruments, except Lars. And he apparently doesn't see the point in changing anything about it, although he would have enough time and money for it. Metallica used to be a musical style-setter, they were an inspiration for countless other bands, but they are not anymore, because Ulrich slows down the others. A chain is only as strong, as its weakest link. I find that a little sad. But I just want an album from Metallica, with a good drummer. Just one ******* album! I like your videos. Greetings from Hannover/Germany.

St. Anger is like coffee, whisky, or Load. You how to grow up, and learn to enjoy it

Nobody: Metalligeek: uses 2:15 for a secret bit of Metallica trivia

That bass line at the beginning of Shoot Me Again is one of my favourite parts of the album lol

You understand that there are many of us that genuinely believe it’s their best album. As it should.

Frantic is probably my least favorite song on the album, specifically because of the TIK TIK TIK TIK TIK TOOOK

2:02 so basically you mean 2003 - 2020 Metallica 1983 - 2003 The James Hetfield Project

9:36 the notes in between

Some Kinds Of Monster also in two guitar tunings: James: CCGCFAD, Kirk: CGCFAD (James plays on 7-string guitar). Just think to the minor third in the intro. And I think Dirty Window in one guitar tuning. James played Frantic and Dirty Window on same guitar (the Grynch) in 2011 at the Fillmore. There is no justification to use two tunings.

Love how the past two days I've been relistening to this masterpiece of an album and now you upload a video on it.

The Unnamed Feeling was probably the first Metallica song I've ever heard when I was like 7 or 8. After I became a fan around 15 I've rediscovered it in a great way. I didn't even know that this album was hated. The lack of solos was the only thing that I didn't like. Only when people started pointing out the cons of Anger, I noticed them. I still like it, but I have to be in a specific mood.

The unnamed feeling is tuned to drop A#. Only 2 chords of the chorus go to the lowest notes though.

11:50 Smoke on The Water riff

In retrospect, my biggest problem with St. Anger is it’s repetitiveness. Pretty much every riff is the same. Just hang out on the low string and alternate between playing it open and fretting it on the third and fifth fret.

Metallica's crazy tunings from the Black Album onward are the reason I play a 5-string bass. Sad But True is completely impractical to play on a 4-string (Tuned 3.5 steps below E standard), plus that low B string is a great extension of the fretboard.

Best lyrics ever "Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock" WTF JAMES!

My quibbles with St. Anger are the production and "All Within My Hands" could have cut the end off; it had no business being longer than Invisible Kid. But it is and underrated album even if I don't like it as much as their last two albums.

That was awesome and if you can put the parts that you mentioning in the video it could be better for example I just paused video to go and listen to the sweet amber break down. And its gonna be a great idea if you do something like this about DEATH MAGNETIC. Good luck frrrriend

that’s funny they named their charity after a song that yells kill 27x

I love the comparison of the lyrics to a hostage-collage message

I have been thinking about St. Anger for a long time, because honestly I like it quite a bit. I guess this is helped by the fact that I actually got into Metallica quite recently, as I can see how someone that had been following from the start and grew attached to the early albums might be disappointed when getting St Anger after waiting for a few years for a new release. I remember that it took me a while to get to listen to it due to all the bad comments I read about it in YT in other metallica songs. And to be fair, the first time I tried to listen to it I think I did not get through even the half of the songs. However, some of them have really grown on me. My take on this album, after reading a lot of commentsis that it tries to reflect, to show the mind of a broken person, emotionally and mentally. And honestly I think if you take it this way, the album is amazing at it. I guess in some ways it could be compared in the concept behind "The Downward Spiral" of Nine Inch Nails, or at least I see some connection (it might just be me as I discovered both not so long ago so I might have made the connection artificially). The snare/trash can sounds, the excessively repetitive/long riffs and songs, the unconnected and/or nonsense lyrics, they are not pleasant because they are not meant to be. They are a reflection of the mental struggle of a person that is fighting its own mind. All these elements represent its thoughts: dark, unpleasant, repetitive; the person tries to fight just for them to come back. You don't enjoy this album, you endure it, and hope to see the end of it in one piece. This is just my take and it is very likely Metallica did not really create the album with this idea in mind, but it has made me appreciate it a lot, even if it is not an album that I listen to that often or with whose songs I'm the most familiar with. Edit: I haven't seen the Some Kind of Monster documentary but I think I should get to it some day. At any rate, I don't think I dislike that mich the shared lyrics writing, I liked seeing Kirk actually wrote a good bit of Frantic, and I guess the multiple writers can help the feeling of disjointed thoughts.

I think that The Unnamed Feeling still the best song in the album, not only for the instrumental part but for the extreme coherence between atmosphere and theme addressed in the lyrics. And in my opinion the best riff of the entire album it's the bridge in Sweet Amber, from 3:45 to 4:25. I don't love this album but I listen to it so many times when I went through a bad period of my life, it makes me feel understood.

I’m so glad to become your patreon. You’re videos are awesome and underrated af. \m/

Someone on Metal Archives mentioned that St. Anger is exactly what the title says, an "angry" album and it sounds way better when you're in an angry mood. The repetition and a lot of its aspects just flow with your bad mood for some reason and I have no idea why. And that was probably the first time I actually appreciated it a bit more. It took me a while to get into it, but nowadays I actually really enjoy a lot of aspects of the album. There's a lot of emotion put into it and you can tell, I don't think every album should sound like this, but a bit of it once in a while is very nice.

On the St. Anger album, I made several edits to songs to make it listenable for me. One of the bests edits I made was in The Unnamed Feeling. I cut that stupid scream whining part out at the 5 minute mark and now it’s my favorite song on the album. 😋🤟🏼

I never understood the hate for the snare Sound on St. Anger. It was something different and they got bashed for it but when The Rev did it on Unholy Confessions every drummer and their sister was tuning their snare up so high

I think they tuned to C# Standard in Bad Seed because It was a tribute to Black Sabbath Sweet Leaf...

12:24 The darker one looks almost like a Vektor cover

I remember when i listened this cd for the first time. I thought that cd was broken because of that drum snare. The rehearsal dvd sounded much better than the cd.

9:36 The notes in between...

That ShtanGer at the beginning was so cute lmao Over all, I like the album as I heard it remastered I still like the original recording and perhaps I got used to it.

I think watching the SKOM documentary makes you appreciate the album a little more. I still haven't listened to it all the through in years though. When they play the St Anger track live it tends to get a good reception though.

Minus Human is in drop C#!!! Just see James, he plays C# power chords without left hand... and other power chords with one finger. At the 1999 S&M concerts Metallica played 20 songs: 16 in Eb, 2 in D (Devil's Dance, Sad But True), and 2 in C# - but James played the 2 D-tuned songs on the same guitars (black diamond plated explorer), the 2 C#-tuned songs played on different guitars (James/Kirk: deer skull explorer/black flying V - The Thing That Should Not Be; green flame flying V/black les paul - Minus Human) (Maybe Jason played the to C#-tuned songs on the same blue bass, but... Minus Human is a "one-string-song" on bass). Probably the barre chords are more visible in the S&M documentary. ...and the solo in SKOM played by James!

Hey Andriy, could you do some videos on deftones? I’ve been exploring different types of metal and I really like nu metal now. Maybe a video on deftones? Pls...

The "guitar solo" in Some Kind of Monster is James.

In order of my least to my most favorite St. Anger songs (I love them all in their own way): Invisible Kid Shoot Me Again My World Frantic All Within My Hands Purify The Unnamed Feeling Some Kind Of Monster Dirty Window Sweet Amber St. Anger