I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion, but St. Anger gets better with age and the album wouldn’t have gotten the shit it got if it wasn’t by Metallica and if the snare sound wasn’t so offensive.

The album has the grooviest Metallica riffs. The biggest offence (in addition to the snare sound) is that the songs are too long for the content, but that has been Metallica’s problem since Ride the Lightning.