"Thrash pioneers and stadium mainstays Metallica have been in the doldrums for half a decade; the grungey, hard rock gristle of their last two records, Load and Reload, and reconfiguration as short-haired, eyeliner-wearing Anton Corbijn muses have alienated them from their headbanger OG fans; inter-band relations are at a low ebb and longtime bassist Jason Newsted has jumped. Meanwhile, the tectonics of the heavy music landscape are shifting around them the solipsistic dirge of nu-metal now energising the disenfranchised youth of America."
"Regrouping in San Francisco, singer and guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and determinatively named producer Bob Rock hole up in a makeshift studio in the Presidio and set to relocating the old garage-band spark that gave birth to albums as seismic as Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. That was the plan for 2003's St Anger, anyway. It was not to be."
In 2001 Metallica faced diminished standing after Load and Reload alienated original fans and longtime bassist Jason Newsted departed. Nu-metal's rise attracted disenfranchised youth while internal band relations deteriorated. The band regrouped in San Francisco with producer Bob Rock and aimed to recapture the raw aggression behind classics like Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, targeting a rebirth with St Anger. Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky documented the sessions and the search for a new bassist. The resulting portrait shows personal conflict, creative stagnation, hubris, excess, and laborious sessions that yielded uninspired riffs, abrasive production choices, and weak lyrics.
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