St. Anger (studio album)
by Metallica

St. Anger by Metallica
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 3,972nd   
Average Rating: 
45/100 (from 429 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (77th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (685th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,972nd)

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Metallica bestography

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 12,581.

Metallica album bestography « Higher ranked (3,628th)
Load
This album (3,972nd)
St. Anger
Lower ranked (5,082nd) »
S&M

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St. Anger track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 59 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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St. Anger rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,972nd | 2000s rank: 685th | 2003 rank: 77th

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St. Anger ratings

Average Rating: 
45/100 (from 429 votes)
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From 04/07/2025 21:23 | #308400
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.
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From 09/26/2024 00:40 | #305426
Definitely the last great album Metallica ever released and the absolute peak of the band’s 1990’s/Early-2000’s experimentation.
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30/100
From 05/10/2024 11:27 | #303462
Oh how the mighty have fallen ! Really Bad album !
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80/100
From 04/20/2023 16:55 | #296245
Confuso e raivoso, mas não é ruim.
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From 11/15/2022 23:05 | #291308
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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From 08/03/2021 01:43 | #272147
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.
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60/100
From 03/31/2021 22:51 | #268034
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.
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20/100
From 01/08/2021 20:14 | #264051
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
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From 11/17/2020 03:04 | #260929
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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