St. Anger 2003

"There must be something wrong with me, because I actually like this album. I was blown away when I heard it the first time and immediately bought it. The production is terrible, to be sure, and it is perhaps a bit strange that Metallica jump the Nu Metal wave years after it had died out. But apart from the lack of soloes and the terrible production, the music itself is very energetic and explosive... pure anger.

It's an essential release in the sense that Metallica are returning to the aggression of the pre-Black Album Days, thus the first step away from the tired-old-man-biker-rock style of the Load and Reload albums."