What Album / Playlist Are You Listening to Now?
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Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
I got through the first five albums quickly, they're top stuff (if you discount the cover of Anarchy in the UK). Youthanasia was a little harder to digest but still nice. This is a big dip. It's still quality metal, but it's containing nothing that defines Megadeth, with the exception of Dave Mustaine singing. By this point, metal has fully entered the dark age kicked off in 1991 when Metallica released the Black Album, and every other band decided to abandon their own identity and create the same mainstream radio-friendly content as each other. It never escapes my notice how a lot of the songs are not only the same tempo as each other, but as Enter Sandman. Solos and guitar trickery of any kind are thin on the ground, to the effect that Marty Friedman, a man I've always considered to be one of the greatest guitar shredders in history, is basically anonymous. Occasionally a track like The Disintegrators or Have Cool, Will Travel comes along and reminds you what this band used to be, but then it's right back to reality. Still a decent album, just absolutely not a Megadeth album. And having heard that the next album, Risk. goes harder in the same direction as this one, I'm not hopeful for it.
I got through the first five albums quickly, they're top stuff (if you discount the cover of Anarchy in the UK). Youthanasia was a little harder to digest but still nice. This is a big dip. It's still quality metal, but it's containing nothing that defines Megadeth, with the exception of Dave Mustaine singing. By this point, metal has fully entered the dark age kicked off in 1991 when Metallica released the Black Album, and every other band decided to abandon their own identity and create the same mainstream radio-friendly content as each other. It never escapes my notice how a lot of the songs are not only the same tempo as each other, but as Enter Sandman. Solos and guitar trickery of any kind are thin on the ground, to the effect that Marty Friedman, a man I've always considered to be one of the greatest guitar shredders in history, is basically anonymous. Occasionally a track like The Disintegrators or Have Cool, Will Travel comes along and reminds you what this band used to be, but then it's right back to reality. Still a decent album, just absolutely not a Megadeth album. And having heard that the next album, Risk. goes harder in the same direction as this one, I'm not hopeful for it.
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Megadeth - Super Collider
Oh wow, I was completely lied to about this album. From the reviews and comments I had expected this to be Risk 2, turning the band into pure alt rock and abandoning all its roots. What I got really wasn't that. Definitely more commercial than its predecessor, but it's absolutely not the departure I saw coming. If anything, rather than the "chasing that Black Album money" qualities of Cryptic Writings and Risk, I'd say its influences have a bit if glam in them? Especially in the first half. That's something I can vibe to much more. Still less of a Megadeth album than either its predecessor or successor, so it's still 12th out of 14 I've been through so far, but there's a gap between it and Cryptic Writings below, as opposed to TWNAH above
Oh wow, I was completely lied to about this album. From the reviews and comments I had expected this to be Risk 2, turning the band into pure alt rock and abandoning all its roots. What I got really wasn't that. Definitely more commercial than its predecessor, but it's absolutely not the departure I saw coming. If anything, rather than the "chasing that Black Album money" qualities of Cryptic Writings and Risk, I'd say its influences have a bit if glam in them? Especially in the first half. That's something I can vibe to much more. Still less of a Megadeth album than either its predecessor or successor, so it's still 12th out of 14 I've been through so far, but there's a gap between it and Cryptic Writings below, as opposed to TWNAH above
I'm just straight listening to albums at work today
Hour and a half for an Uzi album is preposterous. I love Uzi but 40 minutes is plenty for what he's got to say
Off to a good start though