St. Anger
by Metallica
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St. Anger is ranked 9th best out of 30 albums by Metallica on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Metallica is Master Of Puppets which is ranked number 95 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,002.
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St. Anger track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 58 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
St. Anger rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 85/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 2000s Pt 2 | 80/100 | - |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 24 Music Albums of 2003 | 24/24 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Repo | 2003: Heavy Shit ! | 9/9 | - |
| 2026 | Repo | Top 51 Music Albums of 2003 | 37/51 | 1 |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 32 Music Albums of 2003 | 8/32 | 4 |
| 2026 | Museman | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 51/100 | 48 |
| 2026 | vruslov | Top 96 Music Albums of 2003 | 6/96 | 5 |
| 2026 | Repo | Rank 'Em: Metallica | 5/6 | - |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 71 Music Albums of 2003 | 66/71 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 101 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 357 | |||
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St. Anger ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 17 hours ago | Siromynian | 1,778 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/26/2026 05:12 | robertoveltri | 912 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2026 12:07 | glebrus | 469 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 45.8/100, a mean average of 45.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 45.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 24.9.
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Repo 07/01/2026 19:23 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) dihansse 09/22/2020 19:58 in My discoveries per yearSt. Anger comments
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You know something is wrong with this website's ranking algorithm when this is #3103 best album of all time (Edited)
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/29/2012 15:38 | #45584 | TOP COMMENT
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Not the worst album ever... but I have no interest in listening to it again.
zdwyatt TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/26/2015 20:35 | #142448 | TOP COMMENT
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The chief failing of this album is not the songs, but how they were recorded. The snare sound has been widely (and fairly) criticized, but the whole mix is very strange. And I think Kirk Hammett was right that, without guitar solos, it just isn't Metallica. (Edited)
This album is offensive in its badness
It has some redeeming factors:
1.title song it's actually very good (the snare is still terrible as in the rest of the album, and the lyrics could be better)
2. "All within my hands" could have been a good song if it was more developed. I actually like some of the melodies/ ideas of the song. (sadly, as the song it's the last, it's reaaly difficult to get there without skipping)
That's all the positive things i have to say for this wreck. Other tracks are unbearable thanks to the shit production and shit drums.
Songs are longer than should be (falling quickly into nonsense repetition and some atrocious moments like the "Kil Kil Kill" at the end)
Purify is just overwhelmingly bad... (Edited)
covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/03/2013 18:39 | #78011 | TOP COMMENT
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great bands can make crappy albums but St. Anger is way past that road. When listening to it the very first (and as of today last) time, it has never been clear in my mind what were the guys thinking, what is the sonic concept and what exactly they were trying to deconstruct in order to get... well... whatever this is supposed to be. Funny thing is that the album didn't actually received unanimously bad reviews from most major press back then. It sure as hell makes you reevaluate both Load and Reload which are definetely not this awful...
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