The Worst Albums of All Time: Metallica – St. Anger (2003)
When it comes to music, we here at Opinz are sincerely interested in the good, the bad and the very, very ugly. With this interest in mind, we are undertaking a quest to examine the seedy underbelly of music, to dig to the bottom of the barrel and take a look at those albums that are widely regarded as the worst of the worst. Every week, we take a look at a candidate and determine whether or not they truly deserve their reputation as a musical disaster. Enjoy.
In this second week, we’re taking a look at Metallica’s St. Anger. This is mainly because of a certain person who runs this site, who hates this thing with a dark, fiery passion that he usually only reserves for squinting masks and Robert Smith. I don’t want to speak for him, but I think it’s safe to say that if St. Anger was a person, he would pay good money to skull-rape it to death, and then probably pee on it or something. He really doesn’t like it.
The album has a mostly mixed reputation. Some like it, many are neutral towards it. Pitchfork hated it so much that they wrote one of their most pretentious reviews ever about it. (Which is saying something for Pitchfork.) I went into it unsure of what I would hear. I’m not a metal fan by any measure and had never heard a Metallica album before. I was worried if I’d even be able to properly judge it’s quality. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I can safely say that St. Anger sucks fucking donkey balls.
Tags: james hetfield, lars ulrich, metallica, st. anger, worst albums of all time
