Song · Metallica
“Frantic” by Metallica
From the album St. Anger (2003)
“Frantic” by Metallica appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2003. It was first released in 2003 on the album St. Anger. Its best result is #26 on the WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #203 alternative song of 2003.
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Metallica kick off St. Anger, their eighth album, with "Frantic", which also became the record's second single in 2003. Like much of the album, it digs into the band's history with addiction, above all James Hetfield's drinking, which cost him many months in rehab, and it borrows from Zen thinking too, with Kirk Hammett bringing in the Buddhist idea of dukkha, the notion that suffering runs through birth, life and death alike.
Bob Rock produced it with the band, recorded and mixed it, and played bass, and it sounds exactly as raw as its subject. Wayne Isham shot the video in Montreal that July: a hard-living man sees his life flash past as his delivery truck slams into an RV, cut against the band playing in front of scrap metal and rocks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 75 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2003 | 92 |
| 2003 | 26 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
| 2003 | 69 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003 | 106 |
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