“Some Kind of Monster” by Metallica

"Some Kind of Monster" is one of the rawest cuts on St. Anger, Metallica's eighth album from 2003, and it lent its name to the 2004 documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, whose soundtrack caught the song in several half-built stages. That's fitting, since this is a record that sounds like it was dragged out of the room still twitching.

James Hetfield sings and trades guitars with Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich pounds the drums, and producer Bob Rock, who also recorded and mixed it with the band, plays bass and shares the writing credit with the other three. It went out as a single on July 13, 2004, with a video filmed during the St. Anger sessions in San Rafael, California, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2005, losing to Velvet Revolver's "Slither".

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