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| Metallica | St. Anger 
'St. Anger' is easily Metallica's best album in more than 10 years. A monstrously powerful album, driven by raw emotion and some characteristically strong melodies, it finds an ageing Metallica rediscovering the passion, vitality and bone crunching intensity that went missing during the 90s...
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