My Heroes Diminish I watched the Metallica documentary, Some Kind Of Monster, just before I went away, for a fan of the band it makes for horrible viewing. Rock bands are supposed to be aggressive, demanding, wild, strong, sexy, all the things you want to be when you're listening to them. St. Anger era Metallica though showed a band destroying themselves, it would be funny if it were not so terribly sad, an album that takes two years to record, band members bickering like little kids over who is getting more influence than somebody else. The low point is surely the band's mentor / psychotherapist / sponging layabout, I mean, you can't really blame the bloke, I'd be advising them on just about everything if they were paying me ten grand a week to listen to my pontificating. It's awful to watch the three of them whining their way through an endless series of "And how do you feel about this ?" questions. They even manage a face to face with Dave Mustaine, who proceeds to nearly cry as he whines about Megadeth not being as good as 'Talica, oh Dave, shut up man. Unintentionally, Metallica have produced an excellent sequel to Spinal Tap, watching the prolonged making of the album is on par with the hopeless US tour that ST undertake. Is there a Metallica fan who didn't want to reach out and strangle Jamyz as he puts down pointless and petty rules (like only working from 12-4pm every day, with no-pne else allowedto work on after that). When I was a youngster, these blokes were the gods of metal, they changed the face of rock music with Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets, then they went a bit mad and recorded some right crap, Load and Reload are surely two of the worst albums to grace any metalheads shelves, then they went completely bonkers whilst recording St Anger. At the time I gave the album a good review, but looking back, it isn't very good at all, it could have been, perhaps if the drums didn't sound as if they were recorded in a biscuit tin, perhaps if they had allowed Kirk to actually play his guitar, perhaps, perhaps.