St. Anger Re-recorded

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Have you guys heard this yet? 2 dudes re-recorded the full St. Anger cd from start to finish. They do an incredible job and it actually makes the songs way more listenable. Funny thing is, the production they got out of their basement is way better than the production on the original.

Check it out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-UI3_6HcM
 
I saw that yesterday at blabbermouth. I didnt care for or like the original version and i didnt care for or like the remake.....GIGO
 
Way better than the original.. a lot of the songs are stronger than i initially thought when i went through the original album. Annoying popping snare was gone too!
 
While its nice to have the better snare, you'd have to be a meth head crack whore to think that sounds better than the original.
 
The drums (snare, mostly) went from sounding like shit to extremely generic. I really hate modern metal drum tones. I don't know why drum makers bother with fine tuning wood and hardware choices when it just gets homogenized with triggers anyway. Everything has the same overly compressed, characterless pap. No dynamics at all. The songs on this album just aren't that good. Even trimming the fat can't eradicate the boring rhythms and incredibly lame lyrics and vocals. I've bought a few metal albums lately that on clips sound killer but once I hear them at length the drums just become so fatiguing in their lack of any personality and dynamics.

I appreciate the effort they put in but this shit can't be gold plated.
 
They made it sound like the most generic ordinary tasteless and odorless metalcore shit possible.
 
Well I disagree.. thought the production was solid overall. But none of that really matters because i would never own the original or the remake. They have become like Nickleback for me. Just can't listen to them anymore.
 
skoora":2ddae3jo said:
The drums (snare, mostly) went from sounding like shit to extremely generic. I really hate modern metal drum tones. I don't know why drum makers bother with fine tuning wood and hardware choices when it just gets homogenized with triggers anyway. Everything has the same overly compressed, characterless pap. No dynamics at all. The songs on this album just aren't that good. Even trimming the fat can't eradicate the boring rhythms and incredibly lame lyrics and vocals. I've bought a few metal albums lately that on clips sound killer but once I hear them at length the drums just become so fatiguing in their lack of any personality and dynamics.

I appreciate the effort they put in but this shit can't be gold plated.
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Agree. Every drum program sounds so perfect.. as a result with all these perfect samples slotted in (triggered or replaced) on studio mixes, every damn thing sounds the same. Now I think compression was a good thing for peaks in a performance but a perfect kit void of any woodiness has no value to me. I love those old dead sounding toms or boomy snares and kicks. I was listening to some more recent Malmsteen the other day and i swear he programmed the drums himself. Every cymbal crash on the right side sounded the exact same. I have zero interest in samples on my real kit. I think a program like drum x changer which allows you to dial in just a bit of sample with the original hit can be of help for some performances but overall, I like drums to sound like someone is actually playing them.

In this case the snare sounded better but you are right, it sounds like everything out there right now.
 
I like the original better. Even with everyone hating the snare sound, I think St Anger got some amazing, dark, rotten and scary guitar tones!!
It kind of reminded me of when Sepultura went from a ordinary sounding trash metal band (Arise) to an odd, scary and different sounding metal band(Chaos AD). I still like Beneah the remais the best, but the tones and attitude of Chaos AD is unreal. To me, same with St Anger.
 
The songs themselves on that album suck so who cares how it's remastered.
 
Kinda like the original...except for the god-damn snare.....kinda like this version...both have their points but nothing earth shattering either way.

EDIT: Not knocking what the guys did, clearly excellent work by them.....but the source material is not great.
 
for me the DVD of the band playing the album live that came with the album shows the production wasn't really the problem with st anger ....... I think the songs needed to be fine tuned more writing wise ... oh and they needed to recalibrate their tuners to Eb, I hate mid heavy muddy tones :doh:
 
The album has grown on me over the years. I can't sit there and listen to the album from start to finish but when I hear a random song off St. Anger now I don't hate it. I like a lot of the riffs just needed shorter songs/less repetition and much better production.
 
It's a cool thing to do..... wish they had done with a decent Tallica album though.
 
sytharnia1560":1oyrqaud said:
for me the DVD of the band playing the album live that came with the album shows the production wasn't really the problem with st anger ....... I think the songs needed to be fine tuned more writing wise ... oh and they needed to recalibrate their tuners to Eb, I hate mid heavy muddy tones :doh:
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I remember making my own audio CD of that by ripping the audio and doing a lot of edits, cutting out sometimes minutes of material in one song. It ultimately still didn't give it any legs on playability. At least it sounded better.
 
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