Your days of influencing bands are over

From Blistering:

In the same interview, Hammett predicted that METALLICA's new album would influence other metal bands to play harder and faster once again and implied that another well-known arena act has already pulled the plug on their new release after getting an advance earful of "St. Anger".

"I have a suspicion that once this album drops and people hear it everywhere, I just have this suspicion that bands are gonna get heavier and start playing faster again," Kirk said. "I just have a suspicion that they are.

If St. Anger makes any band want to do the same thing as Metallica, they should be shot. The title track is one of the worst songs in history. This coming from someone who likes Metallica up-to-and-including the Black album, and can stand Load/ReLoad. But St. Anger is just horrible.

Of course, it's not surprising.