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 94 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,304.
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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).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/23/2026 20:51 | JayTee | 596 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/13/2026 02:37 |  Repo | 2,202 | 85/100 |
| ! | 05/24/2026 01:37 | stareaterogni0n | 491 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/01/2026 20:27 | Ilor | 263 | 76/100 |
| ! | 03/31/2026 14:31 | hunterdietz37 | 69 | 80/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 45.7/100, a mean average of 45.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 45.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 24.9.
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Much better album than Load, Reload, Death Magnetic, Hardwired and their latest studio album. And it was definitely not a commercial flop like so many people would want you to believe…it sold over 2 million copies in the US and sold over 6 million copies worldwide and was actually well-liked at the time of it’s release, the hate for Metallica’s St. Anger didn’t actually come until much later.
Definitely the last great album Metallica ever released and the absolute peak of the band’s 1990’s/Early-2000’s experimentation.
Tamthebam 05/10/2024 11:27 | #303462
Oh how the mighty have fallen ! Really Bad album !
VictorVale 04/20/2023 16:55 | #296245
Confuso e raivoso, mas não é ruim.
There are some decent riffs on this. However they are so scattered and segmented throughout the tracks that the songs and whole album is massively disjointed. I can see why this is known as Metallica's worst album. It's shite.
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I went onto the metallica page of this site, and I saw that the only album of theirs that I hadn't rated yet was St. Anger. I then realized that I did rate it, but I didn't see it because I gave it a 5/100. Anyway, on to the review. This album is garbage, with no reedeeming qualities. Please go listen to Master of Puppets instead.
It's not THAT bad. The first three tracks are ok, if long-winded, and the Unnamed Feeling has a fun riff. Load and Reload are hardly much better, let alone Death Magnetic and Hardwired. The production is awful, but at least its sound is unique. I'd rather listen to Frantic or St. Anger than most of the tracks on anything past the Black Album.
It is incredible how a resourceful band like Metallica can sound so terrible. The production is awful and the drums are a torture to listen to. There are some creative sparks, but they are buried under that terrible production making it onwe of the worst Metallica albums
Call it alternative metal, call it nu metal, call it whatever. Any way you look at this album, it sucks. Easily the worst material Metallica has ever done.
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