10 Best Hard Rock Music Videos Of The 2000s

10. St. Anger - Metallica (2003)

If you're in any way a fan of rock music, then you've most likely watched Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, a film documenting the rocky experience of a band trying to record a new album - while they struggle to reconcile their creative differences and wrestle their over-inflated egos into submission long enough to lay down a track.

St. Anger was the first single Metallica released after the turmoil that was the band's recording experience, post-departure of long-time bass player Jason Newsted. Fittingly, the lyrics explored the pent-up emotion felt by the various band members that had slowly been bubbling beneath the surface, particularly in the case of James Hetfield, who pointed to his long time dependency on alcohol as the main culprit.

Spoiler alert, the grand culmination of the documentary shows the band managing to pull itself back from the brink of collapse, and performing their new single to crowds of inmates at San Quentin Prison.

Perhaps not the most original of concepts, with Johnny Cash beating them to the punch by performing a concert at the very same prison back in 1969. But, symbolically the music video for St. Anger captured what it needed to, with the lyrics expressing an escape from the prison that had been the bands strained relationship.