After a decade of releases that included the eponymous " Black Album," as well as Load and Reload, 'Tallica needed to open up in a new way. Anger Is DifferentĬhange for the sake of change isn't always good, but Metallica's different approach to St. Rather than lay on criticism of the 20-year-old album, we give you 10 reasons not to be mad at Metallica's St. Anger marks a turning point in the band's history as it opened the door for a new member to join and it also introduced a new writing process-one that had never been tried before with any other album. Overcoming all of those obstacles was no easy task, but for a band like Metallica, it was necessary for the future of the band. Anger is one for the history books: James Hetfield enters rehab for alcoholism, former bassist Jason Newsted leaves the band and Lars Ulrich is still dealing with the bad public image for his vocal and public involvement in the Napster file-sharing case. Their story is, in essence, the story of metal itself: a push-pull of simplicity and complexity that continually challenges our understanding of fast and loud.The creation of St. Anger), and orchestral live albums (1999’s S&M). (Burton was killed in a bus accident in late 1986 and replaced by Jason Newsted the band regrouped for 1988’s epochal … And Justice for All.) Even as they became a global phenomenon in the wake of 1991’s record-breaking self-titled album, Metallica remained defiantly on their own path, dabbling in Southern rock (1996’s Load), high-concept dirges (2011’s divisive Lou Reed collaboration Lulu), stripped-down hardcore (2003’s St. Having moved to the Bay Area in the early ’80s to court bassist Cliff Burton, the band-Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett, guitarist-vocalist James Hetfield, and Burton-went on to fashion metal into a kind of art form, eschewing the glammy appeal of hair metal for ultra-serious, progressively complex song-suites that explored subjects like suicide, political corruption, and the psychological horror of war. Formed in 1981 when a “dorky, disenfranchised” teenager in Orange County, California-Lars Ulrich, his words-placed a classified ad name-checking Iron Maiden and Diamond Head, the band debuted in 1983 with Kill ’Em All and pioneered the blinding synthesis of punk and British metal we now call thrash.
Metallica didn’t just help invent heavy metal, they evolved with it.
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