St. Anger

St. Anger is Metallica's eighth full-length studio album, and tenth overall CD release. The album was to be released on June 10, 2003. However, due to fears of extended music piracy over filesharing networks, St. Anger was released 5 days earlier on June 5, 2003.

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Six years elapsed between the release of the band's last album, Reload, and their recording of the album, which began in 2002. Many factors contributed to this delay, the two most important being the departure of bassist Jason Newsted, and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield's several months in rehab.

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Metallica's longtime producer Bob Rock played bass for the recording of the album, and although the idea of Rock joining the band full-time was floated briefly, auditions for a "real" bassist were held in early 2003. A permanent replacement was found in the person of Robert Trujillo, formerly of Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne's band.

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The initial limited edition of the album also contained a DVD of the band performing the album live in the studio.

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The album met mixed reviews from fans and critics. The most resounding opinions were that the album was unpolished and seemed unproduced. Drum rattles and just-off-pitch vocals gave the listener a sound different from previous albums. The sound was actually a desired quality, as stated by Bob Rock in the movie Some Kind of Monster. He is quoted as saying "it should sound like a band getting together and jamming in a garage...only the band is Metallica." Some praised this as a return to the heaviness that Metallica had with its earlier albums. Others criticized it for being too incoherent and unproduced. St. Anger also faced criticism for dumping guitar solos, with some fans going as far as calling it "nu-metal," "mallcore," or even "typewriting monkeys playing instruments."

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