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 ...

It was a different time in 2003 — especially for Metallica, who promoted that year's St. Anger with a commercial ... seemingly spoof their own lyrics. "I'm madly in love with you," Hetfield ...

St. Anger is maligned by fans because of the direction ... Metallica tracks like "Damage Inc." and "Hit the Lights" with the lyrics, "Fuck it all and fuckin' no regrets, I hit the lights on ...

overlong patchworks of incoherent lyrics, rattling riffs and tin-can drums. (The worst part is that some truly intriguing James Hetfield riffs are wasted in this mess.) And though St. Anger would ...

But none is more universally reviled than the infamous snare drum on St. Anger, which sounds something like a cross between a trash can, a wind-up toy and Lars’s butthole. Fans so hated the production ...

who recently told Tone Talk, "I'm okay with all the flak I've taken.... It's a fucking snare drum sound, give it a break." As of press time, Metallica have yet to apologize for St. Anger's lyrics.

Metallica's eighth studio album, 2003's massively raw and oddly produced 'St. Anger,' is clearly the most polarizing release in their catalog. We've covered some of the strange decisions that the ...