nada_says

While I'm not too fond of Metallica saluting Black Sabbath with "The
Black Album" which I enjoyed the heck out at the time of its release,
"St. Anger should had been left on the b-side drawer as a secret
weapon, sort of like "Garage Days Revisited" and release it when
things would get lull. "Sell-out", as a term, is loosely used.
Releasing "Master of Puppets 2" would've resulted the same outcome as
labelling them as sell-outs, although with better "thrash" music. No
matter what Metallica would do to keep the true metal fans happy, they
have "KISS for sale"- trademark kicked firmly in their asscheeks.