Bizzarro, questo disco. Uscito sei anni dopo quell'insopportabile pop-rock che era Reload, St. Anger ricorda poco il sound di quella fu la nuova era dei Metallica, inaugurata quattordici anni fa con l'amato/odiato "Black Album".
La prima particolarità che salta alle orecchie dell'ascoltatore riguarda la pulizia del suono: ovvero inesistente, e questo può essere un punto a favore perché potrebbe ricordare (moooolto lontanamente) i tempi di "Kill'em All". La seconda riguarda il rullante della batteria, cioè se ho capito bene ha la retina abbassata, conferendo ai pezzi un'inedita pesantezza, punto a sfavore.
Inoltre l'album è totalmente privo di assoli, a parte i piccoli intermezzi melodici sull'ultima song.
Si parte con "Frantic", buona track dove si intuisce che tipo di disco stiamo per ascoltare. La title-track, come sempre in buona tradizione Metallica, piazzata al secondo posto, continua il discorso iniziato. Assolutamente da evitare il trio "Some kind of monsters"(pessima imitazione di MoP), "Dirty Window" e "Invisible kid": lunghe, pesanti e indescrivibilmente noiose.
Abbastanza carina è invece "My World", che riesce a piacere solo se non ascoltata di seguito alle precedenti. "Shoot me again" è un bel pezzo oscuro e tenebroso, con delle belle linee di basso. Forse è la track che più ricorda gli anni d'oro del thrash, discendente di canzoni come "Leper Messiah". Dotata di un intro che somiglia a "Battery", "Sweet Amber" è la più veloce del disco, picevole da sentire (basta non pensare che l'ha composta uno dei più grandi gruppi rock-metal presenti oggigiorno sulla Terra).
Gran bella canzone "The unnamed feeling", la più 'ragionata' dell'album. Velocità e violenza vengono abbandonate per un pò' e la tecnica metallozza, della quale i 'tallica erano gli incontrastati padroni del mondo, rispunta timidamente fuori. "Purify", col suo divertente tempo sincopato, risulta ascoltabile ma nel complesso è abbastanza anonima. Molto strana e tendente al Nu-Metal è "All within my hands", la traccia di chiusura del disco. In questa bizzarra song si alternano melodiche parti dal cantato pulito ad altre martellanti tipo System of down. Bello il finale scandito da tre lunghissimi accordi ripetuti ossessivamente.
In conclusione, io non credo che St. Anger sia un brutto disco, ma un disco 'diverso'.
Per alcuni un'evoluzione, per altri un'ennesima operazione commerciale. Ai posteri l'ardua sentenza...
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Frantic (05:50)
If I could have my wasted days back
Would I use them to get back on track?
Stop to warm at Karmas burning
Or look ahead, but keep on turning?
Do I have the strength
To know how I'll go?
Can I find it inside
To deal with what I shouldn't know?
Could I have my wasted days back
Would I use them to get back on track?
You live it or lie it! (2x)
(You live it or lie it) (2x)
My lifestyle determines my deathstyle (2x)
Keep searching, keep on searching
This search goes on, this search goes on
Keep searching, keep on searching
This search goes on, this search goes on
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock (4x)
I've worn out always being afraid
An endless stream of fear that I've made
Treading water full of worry
This frantic tick tick talk of hurry
Do I have the strength
To know how I'll go?
Can I find it inside
To deal with what I shouldn't know?
Worn out always being afraid
An endless stream of fear that I've made
You Live it or lie it (2x)
(You live it or lie it) (2x)
My lifestyle determines my deathstyle (2x)
Keep searching, keep on searching
This search goes on, this search goes on
Keep searching, keep on searching
This search goes on, on and on
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock (4x)
Do I have the strength
To know how I'll go?
Can I find it inside
To deal with what I shouldn't know?
Do I have the strength
To know how I'll go?
Can I find it inside
To deal with what I shouldn't know?
My lifestyle (birth is pain)
Determines my deathstyle (Life is pain)
A rising tide (Death is pain)
That pushes to the other side (It's all the same)
My lifestyle (birth is pain)
Determines my deathstyle (Life is pain)
A rising tide (Death is pain)
That pushes to the other side (It's all the same)
Keep searching, keep on searching
This search goes on, on and on
I keep searching, keep on searching
This search goes on, on and on
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock (4x)
02 St. Anger (07:21)
saint anger round my neck
saint anger round my neck
he never gets respect
saint anger round my neck
(you flush it out, you flush it out)
saint anger round my neck
(you flush it out, you flush it out)
he never gets respect
(you flush it out, you flush it out)
saint anger round my neck
(you flush it out, you flush it out)
he never gets respect
fuck it all and no regrets
i hit the lights on these dark sets
i need a voice to let myself, to let myself go free
fuck it all and fucking no regrets
i hit the lights on these dark sets
Medallion noose, i hang my self, saint anger round my neck
i feel my world shake
like an earthquake
it's hard to see clear
is it me, is it fear
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
saint anger round my neck
saint anger round my neck
he never gets respect
saint anger round my neck
you flush it out, you flush it out)
saint anger round my neck
(you flush it out, you flush it out)
he never gets respect
(you flush it out, you flush it out)
saint anger round my neck
(you flush it out, you flush it out)
he never gets respect
fuck it all and no regrets
i hit the lights on these dark sets
i need a voice to let myself, to let myself go free
fuck it all and fucking no regrets
i hit the lights on these dark sets
Medallion noose, i hang my self, saint anger round my neck
i feel my world shake
like an earthquake
it's hard to see clear
is it me, is it fear
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
and i want, my anger to be healthy
and i want, my anger just for me
and i need, my anger not to control
yeah and i want, my anger to be me
and i need, to set my anger free
and i need, to set my anger free
and i need, to set my anger free
and i need, to set my anger free
set it free
fuck it all and no regrets
i hit the lights on these dark sets
i need a voice to let myself, to let myself go free
fuck it all and fucking no regrets
i hit the lights on these dark sets
Medallion noose, i hang my self, saint anger round my neck
i feel my world shake
like an earthquake
it's hard to see clear
is it me, is it fear
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
im madly in anger with you
03 Some Kind of Monster (08:25)
These are the eyes that can't see me
These are the hands that drop your trust
These are the boots that kick you around
This is the tongue that speaks on the inside
These are the ears that ring with hate
This is the face that'll never change
This is the fist that grinds you down
This is the voice of silence no more
These are the legs that in circles run
This is the beating you'll never know
These are the lips that taste no freedom
This is the feel that's not so safe
This is the face you'll never change
This is the God that aint so pure
This is the God that is not pure
This is the voice of silence no more
We the people
Are we the people?
We the people
Are we the people?
Some kind of monster, some kind of monster
Some kind of monster, this monster lives
This is the face that stones you cold
This is the moment that needs to breathe
These are the claws that scratch these wounds
This is the pain that never leaves
This is the tongue that whips you down
This the burden of every man
These are the screams that pierce your skin
This is the voice of silence no more
This is the test of flesh and soul
This is the trap that smells so good
This is the flood that drains these eyes
These are the looks that chill to the bone
These are the fears that swing overhead
These are the weights that hold you down
This is the end that will never end
This is the voice of silence no more
We the people
Are we the people?
We the people
Are we the people?
Some kind of monster, some kind of monster
Some kind of monster, this monster lives
This is the cloud that swallows trust
This is the black that uncolors us
This is the face that you hide from
This is the mask that comes undone
Ominous, I'm in us
Ominous, I'm in us
Ominous, I'm in us
Ominous, I'm in us
This is the cloud that swallows trust
This is the black that uncolors us
This is the face that you hide from
This is the mask that comes undone
Ominous, I'm in us
Ominous, I'm in us
Ominous, I'm in us
Ominous, I'm in us
Are we the people?
Some kind of monster
Some kind of monster
Some kind of monster
This monster lives
04 Dirty Window (05:24)
I see my reflection in my window
It looks different, so different than what you see
Projecting judgment on the world
This house is clean baby
This house is clean
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Look out my window and see it's gone wrong
Court is in session and I slam my gavel down
I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too
I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too
Projector, Protector, Rejector, Infector, Projector
Rejector, Infector, Injector, Defector, Rejector
I see my reflection in the window
This window clean inside, dirty on the out
I'm looking different than me
This house is clean baby
This house is clean
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
I look out my window and see it's gone wrong
The court is in session and I slam my gavel down
I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too
I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too
Projector, Protector, Rejector, Infector, Projector
Rejector, Infector, Injector, Defector, Rejector, Detector
I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too
I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too
Projector, Protector, Rejector, Infector, Projector
Rejector, Infector, Injector, Defector, Rejector
I drink from the cup of denial
I'm Judging the world from my throne
I drink from the cup of denial
I'm Judging the world from my throne
05 Invisible Kid (08:30)
Invisible kid
Never see what he did
Got stuck where he hid
Fallen through the grid
Invisible kid
Got a place of his own
Where he'll never be known
Inward he's grown
Invisible kid
Never see what he did
Got stuck where he hid
Fallen through the grid
Invisible kid
Got a place of his own
Where he'll never be known
Inward he's grown
Invisible kid
Locked away in his brain
From the shame and the pain
World down the drain
Invisible kid
Suspicious of your touch
Don't want no crutch
But it's all too much
Invisible kid
Locked away in his brain
From the shame and the pain
World down the drain
Invisible kid
Suspicious of your touch
Don't want no crutch
But it's all too much
I hide inside, I hurt inside
I hide inside but I'll show you...
I'm OK, just go away
Into distance let me fade
I'm OK, just go away
I'm OK, but please don't stray too far
Open your heart, I'm beating right here
Open your mind, I'm being right here (right now)
Open your heart, I'm beating right here
Open your mind, I'm being right here (right now)
Invisible kid
Never see what he did
Got stuck where he hid
Fallen through the grid
Invisible kid
Got a place of his own
Where he'll never be known
Inward he's grown
Invisible kid
Never see what he did
Got stuck where he hid
Fallen through the grid
Invisible kid
Got a place of his own
Where he'll never be known
Inward he's grown
I hide inside, I hurt inside
I hide inside but I'll show you...
I'm OK, just go away
Into distance let me fade
I'm OK, (I'm OK) just go away
I'm OK, (I'm OK) but please don't stray too far
Open your heart, I'm beating right here
Open your mind, I'm being right here (right now)
Open your heart, I'm beating right here
Open your mind, I'm being right here (right now)
Ooh, what a good boy you are
Out of the way and you're kept to yourself
Ooh, can't you see that he's not here
He doesn't want the attention you give
Ooh, unplugging from it all
Invisible kid floats alone in his room
Ooh, what a quiet boy you are
He looks so calm floating 'round and around in himself
Invisible kid
Locked away in his brain
From the shame and the pain
World down the drain
Invisible kid
Suspicious of your touch
Don't want no crutch
But it's all too much
Invisible kid
Locked away in his brain
From the shame and the pain
World down the drain
Invisible kid
Suspicious of your touch
Don't want no crutch
But it's all too much
I hide inside, I hurt inside
I hide inside but I'll show you...
I'm OK, just go away
Into distance let me fade
I'm OK, (I'm OK) just go away
I'm OK, (I'm OK) but please don't stray too far
Open your heart, I'm beating right here
Open your mind, I'm being right here (right now)
Open your heart, I'm beating right here
Open your mind, I'm being right here (right now)
06 My World (05:45)
The motherfuckers got in my head
Trying to make me someone else instead
It's my world now, it's my world now
It's my world, it's my world
Mama why's it raining in my room
Cheer up boy, clouds will move on soon
Heavy fog got me lost inside
I'm gonna sit right back and enjoy this ride
It's my world, you can't have it
It's my world, it's my world
It's my world, you can't have it
It's my world, it's my world
It's my world, you can't have it
It's my world, it's my world
It's my world
I'm out my head, out of my head
Get 'em out my head, out of my head
Get 'em out
Who's in charge of my head today
Dancin devils in angel's way
It's my time now, it's my time now
It's my time, yeah it's my time
Look out motherfuckers, here I come
I'm gonna make my head my home
The sons of bitches tried to take my head
Tried to make me someone else instead
It's my world, you can't have it
It's my world, it's my world
It's my world, you can't have it
It's my world, it's my world
It's my world, you can't have it
It's my world, it's my world
It's my world
I'm out my head, out of my head
Get 'em out my head, get 'em out of my head
Get 'em out
Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is
Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is
God it feels like it only rains on me
God it feels like it only rains on me
God it feels like it only rains on me
God it feels like it only rains on me
Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is
Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is
I'm out my head, out of my head
Out of my head, get 'em out of my head
Get 'em out
Enough's enough
07 Shoot Me Again (07:10)
I won't go away
Right, right here I stay
Stand silent in flames
Stand tall 'till it fades
Shoot me again, I aint dead yet
Come on, shoot me again, I aint dead yet
I said shoot me again, I ain't dead yet
Come on, shoot me again, I aint dead yet
Come on, shoot me again, shoot me again, shoot me
Shoot me again, shoot me again, come on
Shoot me again, shoot me again, shoot me
Shoot me again, shoot me again, come on
All the shots I take
I spit back at you
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you
All the shots, all the shots
All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you
I won't go away, with a bullet in my back
Right here I stay, with a bullet in my back
Shoot me (Take a shot)
Shoot me (Take a shot)
Shoot me (Take a shot)
Shoot me (Take a shot)
I stand on my own, with a bullet in my back
I'm stranded and sold, with a bullet in my back
Shoot me again, I aint dead yet
Come on, shoot me again, I aint dead yet
Yeah, shoot me again, I ain't dead yet
Come on, shoot me again, I aint dead yet
I said, shoot me again, shoot me again, come on
Shoot me again, shoot me again, come on
Shoot me again, shoot me again, shoot me
Shoot me again, shoot me again
All the shots I take
I spit back at you
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you
All the shots, all the shots
All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you
I bite my tongue, tryin not to shoot back
No compromise, my heart won't pump the other way
Wake the sleeping giant, wake the beast
Wake the sleeping dog, no, let him sleep
Wake the sleeping giant, wake the beast
Wake the sleeping dog, no, let him sleep
I bite my tongue, tryin not to shoot back
All the shots I take
I spit back at you
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you
All the shots, all the shots
All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you
08 Sweet Amber (05:27)
Wash your back so you don't stab mine
Get in bed with your own kind
Live your life so you don't see mine
Drape your back so you won't shine
Wash your back so you don't stab mine
Get in bed with your own kind
Live your life so you don't see mine
Drape your back so you won't shine
Ooh then she holds my hand
And I lie to get a smile
Ooh then she holds my hand
And I lie to get a smile
Using what I want to get what you want
Using what I want to get what you want
Using what I want to get what you want
Using what I want to get what you want
Ooh sweet amber
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
Chase the rabbit, fetch the stick
She rolls me over 'till I'm sick
She deals in habits, deals in pain
I run away but I'm back again
Chase the rabbit, fetch the stick
She rolls me over 'till I'm sick
She deals in habits, deals in pain
I run away but I'm back again
Ooh then she holds my hand
And I lie to get a smile, ooh yeah
And she squeezes tighter
I still lie to get a smile
Using what I want to get what you want
Using what I want to get what you want
Using what I want to get what you want
Using what I want to get what you want
Ooh sweet amber
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
She holds the pen that spells the end
She traces me and draws me in
She holds the pen that spells the end
She traces me and draws me in
Ooh sweet amber
Ooh sweet amber
How sweet are you?
Ooh, how sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
Never as sweet as it seems
09 The Unnamed Feeling (07:09)
Been here before (7x)
Been here before couldn't say I liked it
Do I start writing all this down?
Just let me plug you into my world
Can't you help me be uncrazy?
Name this for me, heat the cold air
Take the chill off of my life
And if I could I'd turn my eyes
To look inside to see what's comin'
Pre:
It comes alive (3x)
And I die a little more
It comes alive
Each moment here I die a little more
Chorus 1:
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Been here before (2x)
I'm frantic in your soothing arms
I can not sleep in this down filled world
I've found safety in this loneliness
But I can not stand it anymore
Cross my heart hope not to die
Swallow evil, ride the sky
Lose myself in a crowded room
You fool, you fool, it will be here soon
Pre:
It comes alive (3x)
And I die a little more
It comes alive
Each moment here I die a little more
Chorus 2:
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Treats me this way
And I wait for this train
Toes over the line
And then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
(Repeat)
Bridge:
Get the fuck out of here
I just wanna get the fuck away from me
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I hate it all, why? Why? Why me?
I cannot sleep with a head like this
I wanna cry, I wanna scream
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I wanna hate it all away
(Solo)
(Return to Chorus 2)
10 Purify (05:13)
Tear it down
Strip the layers off
My turpentine
Old paint, old looks
Cover up the past
White heat, white light
Super white bones
Bones of you and I
Pure if I...can't you help me?
Pure if I...won't you help me?
Purify you and I
Purify you and I
Pure if I...can't you help me?
Pure if I...won't you help me?
You and I purify
You and I purify
Purify
Truth and dare
Peeling back the skin
Acid wash, ghost white
Ultra clean
Wannabe skeleton
Clear eyes, diamond eyes
Strip the past of mine
My sweet turpentine
Pure if I...can't you help me?
Pure if I...won't you help me?
Purify you and I
Purify you and I
Pure if I...can't you help me?
Pure if I...won't you help me?
You and I purify
You and I purify
Purify
I can find the dirt on anything
I can find the dirt on anything
I ain't dancing with your skeletons
I ain't dancing with what might have been
Pure if I...can't you help me?
Pure if I...won't you help me?
Purify you and I
Purify you and I
Pure if I...can't you help me?
Pure if I...won't you help me?
You and I purify
You and I purify
Purify
11 All Within My Hands (08:49)
All within my hands
All within my hands
Squeeze it in, crush it down
All within my hands
Hold it dear, hold it suffocate
All within my hands
Love to death Smack you round and round and
All within my hands
Beware
Love is control
I'll die if I let go
Love is control
I'll die if I let go
Hate me now
Kill all within my hands
Hate me now
Crush all within my hands
Squeeze all within my hands
Choke all within my hands
Hate me now
Trap all within my hands
Hate me now
Kill all within my hands again
All within my hands
Take your fear, pump me up
All within my hands
Let you run, then I pull your leash
All within my hands
All within my hands
Under thumb, under to myself
All within my hands
Beware
Love is control
I'll die if I let go
Love is control
I'll die if I let go
Let it go
Hate me now
Kill all within my hands
Hate me now
Crush all within my hands
Squeeze all within my hands
Choke all within my hands
Hate me now
Trap all within my hands
Hate me now
Kill all within my hands again
I'll die if I let go
Control is love, love is control
I'll fall if I let go
Control is love, love is control
I will only let you breathe
My air that you receive
Then we'll see if I let you love me
I will only let you breathe
My air that you receive
Then we'll see if I let you love me
Love is control
Hate me now
Kill all within my hands
Hate me now
Crush all within my hands again (yeah, yeah)
Choke all within my hands
Squeeze all within my hands
Hate me now
Trap all within my hands
Hate me now
Kill all within my hands again
Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill
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Altre recensioni
Di cliffburton86
Un album aggressivo come un cane al quale viene tolto l’osso di bocca!
James Hetfield ha una voce rabbiosa come se volesse dire a tutto il mondo: 'Sono risorto bastardi!!! Sad but true!!!'
Di El minchia
Metallica con St. Anger sono riusciti ad elevare il ruolo della merda oltre livelli che lo stesso Elio non poteva immaginare.
La batteria ha un suono così orribile perché il nanerottolo suona con una batteria di pentole!
Di Brizz89
Un album che non consiglio assolutamente a nessuno, fans compresi.
I Metallica non sono Nu Metal, ma hanno voluto lo stesso entrare nell'olimpo del commerciale.
Di pep 92
"Sembra quasi che Hetfield e soci si siano divertiti a premere continuamente il tasto LOOP."
"L'unica cosa bella di 'St. Anger' è la copertina, basta."
Di thetrooper
"'St. Anger' è un tentativo coraggioso per riprendersi, riportando un pochino di sana cattiveria nelle canzoni."
"Pecche grosse: totale assenza di Kirk Hammett e affidare le registrazioni del basso a quel cazzutissimo cornuto di Bob Rock."
