Why do most Metallica fans HATE the album "St. Anger"?

Fans now choose more,Metallica is also old,I think this is a step forward.

for a musician like myself, the way the songs were arranged was not METALLICA at all, the production...well i gotta say they are a notch higher than average and the melodic and pop hooks of JH just doesnt seem to fit them. I mean come on, they are old and they should write heavier stuff.

i liked the title track St anger.its the only song i like from that album

Honestly new metallica just doesn't have what old metallica had. You can listen to say the black album and be awestruck. Listening to st anger just doesn't have that.

I'm a huge Metallica fan. That being said, I just couldn't get into St. Anger. I agree with a lot of things a previous poster said. I expected more since it had been a few years, it was more raw than their other albums, it just didn't fit in well with their style. The other reason I just don't like it is that there are a lot of people out there that don't have much (or any) Metallica experience. St. Anger came out, they checked it out, and from that they decided that Metallica sucks. So as a fan having to put up with all these people running around insisting that Metallica sucks for these past few years... it's been irritating to say the least.

I just don't get it why people hate St. Anger at all? the way I seen St. Anger threads the line between past albums and contemporary metallica. Its like the higly polished mature metallica in the vein of load and reload discovering its roots - young, aggressive and decadent. You see the Metallikatz writing such mature and excellent songs and play it with youthful aggression. Why do people hate it?Just dont get it at all.

I listen to all kinds of genre but I'm not really a rocker or a Metallica fan. But I love the song Enter Sandman.. :) is that from St. Anger?? Sorry!

Hello. Maybe because, the next album, so short time release. If I get many album at once, hard to listen they well.

I have listened to Metallica for years, I first started listening to the "Justice For All" album. I absolutely love One, the sound in that is just unexplainable. I think that is a lot of the reason Metallica fans didn't care for the St Anger album. They were known for their certain sound and when they put out the St Anger album after so many years people were upset to hear that they went away from that signature sound and went a totally different way. It just wasn't the same Metallica with out that sound.

Im not hate it harder than the others. But St. Anger sounds so diferent from the other album. it sounds... ah... li'l bit awful. Not really amazing. Ah.. remember Lars' drum? is that sound of drum or oil drum? I said, "Ow, what the **** is this?"... Im I dreaming or.... yeah.. but somekind of monster edited version is good to listen carefuly, so as Frantic and The Unnamed Feeling. It's very lucky that tey had Frantic. It's Frantic tic tic toc goes hurry!!! Do I have a strenght, to hear all of this?! (LOL)