If I'm not a true Metallica fan and aren't worth arguing over, then why did you click submit? Hypocrite!

I didn't say St. Anger was "harder" than their old stuff. I said it was hardcore Metallica, and it is. I understand exactly what Metallica "was." I'm a "real" Metallica fan, too. Looks like you fall into my aformentioned category listed on IGN! I simply said that they're my favorite songs, and they happen to be "harder" than Metallica's in-between music.

Why start an argument about their stuff in between? Did I say it was "hard?" No. I didn't say it was their best music, either. You actually nailed it on the head -- they haven't did hardcore metal music for a long time, and St. Anger is the closest they've been in years. Stop skimming my posts and actually read it! You agreed to half of what I said but decided to argue anyway.

-Lasereth

I don't agree with one single word you said about Metallica.

We obviously speak two separate languages, and neither one of us are capable of understanding each other.

The production on their albums since the black one has just plain sucked. While the black album was great under Bob Rock , he has led them to try to play to radio standards. If St. Anger had been played in the pre-black style it would've been a smash but instead you could tell it was trying to be something you'd here from more modern hard rock bands. their older albums had darkness and melancholy to em' even the black album was dark( no pun intended). If you go to a live tallica show you see that they still play the best live show around so you know that the prob. is in the studio process. hell even the st anger songs sound better live.

I think it's all opinion when it comes to Metallica. Obviously people like to obsess over these guys (look at all the long posts) without realizing that to some people, to a LOT of people, Metallica never "happened." They are just as good as they were back in the day, but they have changed. Like you and me. Everybody changes. I, for one, love St. Anger. A lot of you would have complained that "it's just the same old stuff" if they would have put out something like Justice or Master of Puppets. If it was like Load or Reload, they would have "sold out." I am very happy they decided to piss ALL OF YOU off and make something that doesn't sound pretty and pleasing. Try listening to St. Anger when you are pissed off at something. Then you will see what they have accomplished with the album. I mean hell, it's called "St. Anger." Angry? yeah. They are angry at a lot of things, and when you are angry, the "mastering" and "drums" and "solos" don't matter. Making music matters. Whether you like it or not. And I like it.