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Originally Posted by Hesher
I just think that Metallica were never really broad-spectrum musicians and even though they were willing to jump the thrash genre and experiment (load, reload, etc.) they were too afraid of losing the Metallica name. Guys like Josh Homme know when a band has done it's job (when it was time for Kyuss to end) and how to keep a band open in terms of potential to prevent it from being pigeonholed. Metallica as Metallica ended after 1991's Black Album, and they just didn't know when to quit and start anew. Anybody who bought St. Anger would also have bought the cd of a side project involved Hetfield and Ulrich. There is just so much good music out there that it makes it arrogant and ridiculous to believe you can rest on your laurels and continue to crank out regurgitations of your previous material. There is also no excuse for the terrible production quality on St. Anger, no matter how much of a "garage" sound they were going for. The ability to tune a snare is something I am not surprised Ulrich lacks.
I have little to no respect for Metallica anymore, or any of it's members save Jason who recently retired.
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Maybe after The Black Album their relevence in music has gone but they're at the point where they don't need to be in a band, they could quite happily put down the guitars and drums and not make another record, so why don't they? because they enjoy what they do. St. Anger was undoubtidly, for me anyway, one of the worst albums of the decade but they tried something, as you said, the "garage" sound and it didn't pay off, but at least they tried something and I believe that the latest record is excellent and it's a return to form from them.