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The Unnamed Feeling From Metallica's 2003 album St. Anger, "The Unnamed Feeling" (Lyrics) is one of the few songs that I acutally enjoy listening to.  Overall, I really wasn't impressed with the release of St. Anger.  It wasn't edgy like previously released Metallica albums.  I remember watching them perform on MTV's Icon and it was great seeing the band perform "Blackened", "Creeping Death" and a few others before breaking into "Frantic". In one of my previous posts I listed as

Larry Flynt told Larry King that he has at least 30 more names to release in his quest to expose Republican hypocrisy. And ye shall be shocked at a certain Senator that he has left unnamed so far. Sounds like a James Dobson/Wingnut/phony family values man to me….Hannity and his pals are probably feeling a little “uneasy” right about now…

“The Unnamed Feeling”
Single by Metallica from the album St. Anger
B-side	The Four Horsemen (Live)/Damage Inc. (Live)/Leper Messiah (Live)/Motorbreath (Live)/Ride the Lightning (Live)/Hit the Lights (Live)/The Unnamed Feeling (Music Video)
Released	January 12, 2004
Format	CD single
Recorded	May 2002-April 2003
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	7:08
Label	Elektra Records
Writer(s)	Kirk Hammett James Hetfield Bob Rock Lars Ulrich
Producer	Bob Rock Metallica
Metallica singles chronology
"Frantic" (2003) "The Unnamed Feeling" (2004) "Some Kind of Monster" (2004)

The Unnamed Feeling is the third single by heavy metal band Metallica to be taken from their 2003 album St. Anger. The song is about an unnamed feeling (anxiety, according to Hetfield) a person feels when they're close to the edge of losing control, just before he or she panics.

Along with a music video, the song was released as a single exclusively to Australia. It was released as part of an E.P. in The UK. The unique video, directed by The Malloys, featured the band performing in a virtually empty room that gradually closed in on them throughout the song. This was accompanied by visual stories of several people all experiencing that "unnamed feeling" in their own way.

Cover art for the CD single was chosen through a contest where fans could submit their own original artwork. The winning piece was an isolated illustration of a black heart roughly outlined in white with a black background (although the front cover is the "Monster" from their other St. Anger single, Some Kind of Monster).