You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product?
Review title: Practically Unlistenable
Product review: While it is nice to see the band return to its "thrash" roots, the production and song arrangement on these songs are terrible. Firstly, it sounds like it wasn't produced at all, sad given the excellent production standards of the previous Bob Rock produced albums (starting with the Black Album). The drums sound like they were bought at Wal-Mart and James' vocals are grating.The songs have no sustained melody whatsoever, it's all very syncopated (title track St. Anger is a good example if you've heard it). Not like early albums like Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets, but unlike anything I've ever heard.There are maybe a couple songs I had any interest in listening again but if you take the worst song on any of the previous Metallica albums they all rate better than the "best" here.The bonus DVD is pretty cool or otherwise this album would only rate 1 star.
