Well that along with all of the excessive genre bashing makes for a weak negative review, which I loathe the most out of all reviews.

Great EP - 87%
Written by OlympicSharpshooter on April 19th, 2004

I joined the Metal Archives fairly recently, so I didn't get a chance to do a St. Anger review(it would've received an 84), so this is the next best thing. What you've got here is one of the better songs on St. Anger(issue "Sweet Amber" as a single dammit!) plus a bunch of really solid live cuts. Whatever you say about Metallica, they've always gotten the job done live, and they've been really on for this tour, much more so than the rather limp performance captured on the S&M album and DVD.

I'll start with the title track. Like the album itself, “The Unnamed Feeling” owes itself to both old and new Metallica. It's sort of a statement on the metal scene in general in that regard. We sit in the middle of a paradigm shift in metal history. The definitions are changing. Just as the 80's metal crew started declassifying traditional metal like Aerosmith into the vague "hard rock" category. Now metalheads, the hardcore ones, are starting to revisualize the genre, to expand it's boundaries. But there are some who resist. Fuck you, maybe SlipKnot and Disturbed are louder, faster, and harder than anything Iron Maiden ever put out but I'll be damned if I call them metal. They are "hardcore", "metalcore", or worst of all "mallcore". Pffft.

St.Anger is not a hardcore album, "The Unnamed Feeling" is not a mallcore song. It's a metal record. On the whole the St.Anger got more in common with traditional metal than with The Deftones, but still it's being flayed for being progressive and new. We may look back and find out that St.Anger is a true landmark in the progression of metal. But maybe it won't, so let me step off of my soap box and talk about the release at hand.

Like every other Metallica song(except "2x4" it's good, and in fact "The Unnamed Feeling" is probably one of the best songs they've ever done. Fuck calling this nu-metal. No nu-metal act hits this hard, feels this passionate, is built so raw. It'd be like calling Accept a hair band because they have a singer with a high pitched voice. Make no mistake, the St. Anger record shares some common characteristics with nu-metal, and as a fervent hater of Linkin Park and company, and all they represent, it upsets me a bit. But I look beyond.

I see this as a throw back to both “Until it Sleeps” and “Welcome Home(Sanitarium)”. James is at the top of his game with little of the slightly punky tone he'd acquired by Reload. This a real a gem of a performance throughout over a truly rocking riff that has that slow but unstoppable feeling of “No Leaf Clover” or “The Outlaw Torn”, with lyrics that, while reminiscent of “UIS” are among the most dependably solid on the record(sorry boys, but not every song here is "One"). It’s a straight ten, even if James does a passable Jonathan Davis impression towards the end of the song. The difference is that while KoRn bitches and moans so much that it loses it’s power within the first twenty seconds, this comes after a singularly forceful performance by Het and feels much more honest and exposed. Of course, I love Metallica so what do I know?

Of course, if you're one of those who despises new Metallica in any form, the live stuff is still well worth the price of admission. "The Four Horsemen" kicks into overdrive like nobody's business, and you can practically see Dave Mustaine moping about how "Mechanix" was really never as good. "Damage Inc." has always been one of the most intense Metallica numbers, truly shredding the melodic elements that had started to creep into the band's music by the time Master of Puppets came out, and the band does it justice here.

Although it was much publicized that Lars didn't even touch his double-bass live on this song in recent years, he doesn't skimp on it here. I've never really loved this song, but it is a convincing chugger with great lyrics. Don't forget "Motorbreath" either, always one of the better songs on Kill 'Em All I felt. I still don't think they need to do every song from it on this tour, but people have missed it after such a long abscence so...

"Ride the Lightning" works very effectively live, and it makes you wonder how they dropped it from the set for so many years. Did you really need to play "Nothing Else Matters" so often? "Hit the Lights" has such a great chorus, and the punky vibes of the verses work even better now than they did before. Well worth a spin, particularly for it's huge historical signifigance.

In the end, this is not an essential release, but it is a very good one. The songs could be better chosen, but I'm sure classic thrashheads will get all misty eyed for tender youth and lost brain cells. A great combo of new and old.
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I'd reckon he's new to metal, otherwise; how could one say that St. Angry and the singles it spawned did Metal as a genre a favour? TO THE OVENS I'd say!

Sorry you don't agree with it. It stays.

agreed, it's a good review.

Yeah, people have forgotten about that little bit that said,

Written by Cinerary on August 23rd, 2002


The longest song on the album is 2:38, and i don't give a fuck. These german perverts release their second CD with 21 tracks of perversion and pummeling madness. The vocals performed by drummer Sascha Pahlke (although he uses harmonizers and pitch shifters) are as gutfucking br00tal as you could imagine. If you enjoy Hemdale, you'll definitely love these sick fucks.

Best songs: "Spank Me - Fuck Me - Fill Me", "Lesbian Duo Dildo Fuck", "Candy Teen Pussy Pleasures" and "Koala Cunt"

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=3947

Honestly. This review tells me that the longest song is 2.38, and that the vocals are gufucking br00tal. (wow he used that as a positive description?!)

Not to mention that it increases the album's average quite a lot.

Hmmm...it's iffy, because to be honest, how much description can you write about something like that? Taken into consideration.

Doesn't that, in itself, say something about the album?

ARGH. Fifty thousand dollars and a handjob to the man who brings me the severed head of PumpkinFlyFree.

I'm subjecting unworthy reviews to the guillotine, and about thirty of them have been his. Keep the oven fodder coming, people; I've got the spare time to nuke them if you submit them.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=12482#612

Written by PowerMetalGuardian on May 30th, 2003

I am glad I had the opportunity to listen to this album, and then review it for everyone. Isis is considered death metal, but I am not to sure on that. Not a lot of people have heard of Isis, I know I never have until now. And I wish I never heard of them. Celestial is definitely something else! It has ambient sounds at points, long songs, whinny vocals turned to death metal vocals (not really dm vocals, more of a pissed off screaming to your face turns red), and detuned guitars that use the same riffs over and over. Take the crappy death metal vocals, throw in the song length of Opeth songs, the detuned angst of Godsmack, and some ambient noise, and you have Isis.

It is easy to break down this album into three parts because of the three Sgnl (Signals). The first track, which is the first signal, is nothing up until 50 seconds in the track. All you hear is someone typing on a keyboard. Then we are sent into Celestial (The Tower) with a powerful riff and some weird noise. The riff isn't bad, however two minutes of the same riff is just lame, and honestly quite boring! At two minutes we see whinny vocals turn into supposedly death metal vocals. It's not death metal, it is screaming till you pass out, which is very obnoxious. After 9 minutes of this crap, the next song rolls in, Glisten. Halfway through this six minute song, it sounds like they use the same riff that they played in Celestial, but it's not (I had to check six times). It is awfully close though. The vocals are totally mellow/whinny, they just get worse every song. Swarm Reigns isn't any better. Clocking in at another six minutes, the vocals now get an annoying distortion added to them. At least three minutes of the song is devoted to a drum beat and the sound that is quit similar to walking around in the tunnels of the video game Half-Life.

Sgnl 2! Absolutely nothing but a buzzing noise and more Half-Life sound effects. Deconstructing Towers, starts off with a cool riff, but it is too detuned for me. Seven long agonizing minutes of the same riffs used over and over, no solo's to liven things up. No vocals either, which could be a good or a bad thing. If they were trying to hit the ambient sound on this song, they missed it by..oh about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.

Sgnl 3...er is this the same thing as Sgnl 2? No, this one is shorter, but it is the same thing basically (same noise and stuff). Collapse and Crush actually has some decent riffs, but it's relatively slow. At least this song is only 5 minutes long, but there is nothing to it. It does harsh vocals that would make any metal head throw up their lunch. C.F.T. is the push over, it starts off with this clean riff. The riff stays with the song about 3 minutes (zzz). Then it adds crappy, whinny, feedback guitars at the end. Nonthing else to this song. Gentle Time is the song that makes you realize this isn't death metal. The vocals are clean and have a distortion to them, almost like they are faded. And Sgnl 4..Hello! I am not even going there...lets just say the same thing as Sgnl 1, but reverse.

This album plain out sucks. The ambient presence is missing, or really hard to find. Death metal vocals! What death metal vocals? All I hear is a whinny singer who tries to spew out hate, but in return spews out his remains. Riffs are choppy, make no sense, and are recycled over and over again. Hell the only thing that was ok was the drumming. I urge every metal head to stay away from this. Unless you like nu metal sounding riffs and gay vocals, along with 9 minute songs...It truly is a waste of your life!


I've always thought this review sucked. He obviously is quite the uninformed individual when it comes to this music and I have no idea why he listened to it. Just like I wouldn't want a mallcore fan reviewing death metal, I don't want a Power/Thrash metal fan reviewing Drone Doom stuff, but maybe that's just me.

What Os said. It stays.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1033#376



I'd give it a 2-2.5 out of 10.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1033#79

Get rid of this one too.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=840#79

And this.

1st and 3rd deleted. Ktulu's isn't that bad.

This one is pretty lame. The only real description is a short comparison to another band.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1302#6269

Guillotined. And I'm considered taking the blade to the other two as well, or at least EmperorDeath's.

If you're considering the other two, you might as well consider these, too...they're also pretty skimpy on content, especially the one for 'Dark Medieval Times.'

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1305#170
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1308#170

Axed the first one, and decided to leave those two I mentioned alone. I'm a reasonable man.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=336

I think this review is pretty bad. It does not describe the music at all..... Bad choice of instruments and vocals, what the hell does that mean? Comparing it to Marilyn Manson.... Ok.... in which way?

This is what the review says:
This album is crap, sounds like Marilyn Manson , No surprises, (bad choice of instruments and vocals ) I didn't like it.
That's pretty much all that I can get from this review.



Nuke Please.

UNDER
THE GUILLOTINE

Thank you

So a couple of verses sung with clean vocals on a single song (the rest of the clean vocals on that one are spoken words, actually) make an album "mostly clean sung"? *proportions scream in agony*

Mercyfulfate666's latest review (CoF - Cruelty...) is gawdawful.


Wow, an album with excellent guitar playing and classic drumming?

The track-by-track is one of the worst I've ever read.

Links, guys. I'm not hunting those reviews down myself, especially when I don't even know what the first one is for.

ODIN DEMANDS A SACRIFICE.

Keep 'em coming. Be harsh. Be br00thal. PURGE THE WEAK FROM OUR DOMAIN.

Odin is my favorite God

Take a look at the incredibly minimalistic reviews for this album:

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=286

EDIT: NightCrawler got the two really bad ones.

My God! All three of the reviews for that album suck ass. That's gotta be some kind of record. My brain hurts from reading those 3 reviews. Oy, the pain.

Haha that was one of my first reviews,and yeah,its not that good.Ill rewrite it if needs be

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=69

Osmium–I'm leaving that last review. It's pretty borderline, but since it's the only review left, I'll keep it there until somebody writes a better one.

Deleted that CoF review, and a few others.

I suppose I'll leave it too, though it's really a "2" in my book. But only because Tox promised a rewrite. So, BRING IT.

While you're at it, more mercyfulfate666 reviews that suck ass:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=68
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=72

Nuked and nuked. As well as two or three others for the second album. Now I'm going to rape mercyfulfate666's selection of reviews.

This will take me a few days due to a hectic week,but itll get done.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=21633#6230



Wasn't this an issue a little while ago?

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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=21633#1991



Tehh-minate, please.

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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=29944#2613



I'd give this review a 2 out of 10, only because he compares it somewhat to earlier albums.

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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=796#2613



Until you DO know what it is about this album that makes it so sinister and dark, don't write a review.

I left the fourth one alone, though.

I didn't. It's gone.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=304#5306



This review can be summed up as follows:

The songs sound better. I don't like Barlow talking between songs. :tracklist:

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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=304#1852



I know live albums don't have to be described in great detail. However, one should mention if the sound is any different from the studio version, instead of writing the tracklist or "I like this album" 30 times.

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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=298#1632



This is better than a funhouse mirror.

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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=298#170



The album may be timeless, but your review is not.

Killed, spared, killed, superduperkilled.