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Originally Posted by MicShazam
Because I like the vibe of I Disappear and it had tight songwriting.
St. Anger is a bloated mess and way more sonically repetitive as an album than the preceding albums. I don't hate it, but it's the first album Metallica has made that bores me too much as a whole that I want to own it. It only got worse from there. So in hindsight, an album of material that follows the lead of I Disappear seems even more appealing to me now than back then.
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They would both have been equally dad metal/rock albums, but whereas the "I Disappear" album would probably have been the worst album in the hypothetical Load/Reload/Rereload trilogy, at least St. Anger is an interesting failure that doesn't sound like any other album I can think of. At least Metallica were out of touch while also reaching for something where we can look at their artistic intent that was legitimate artistic intent rather than just casting it off as the next album that sounded like the albums before it.
I can discuss St. Anger and appreciate both what went wrong and what went right (and yeah things did go right), but the album you're talking about would have flown by my head just like the next Megadeth album.