ok a break from the religion discussion. And I know I messed up my titles, but is anyone paying attention anyway?
I bought the new Megadeth on Tuesday and I wanted to listen to it a couple of days before I decided how much I like it. First, let me start by saying Megadeth is one of my favorite metal bands, so the review can be a little biased. I even like the albums many do not, like Cryptic Writings and Risk. Ok, I didn’t like The World Needs a Hero, but who did? Moto Psycho anyone 
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After Dave Mustaine and Dave Ellefson split, I had concerns about Megadeth, especially after their last album together, mentioned above. But in 2004 Mustaine reassembled his band and released The System Has Failed, one of my favorite recent albums. He has now recycled a couple of more musicians for this go around, United Abominations, even though I think Glen Drover (guitars) and Shawn Drover (drums) played the tours for System even though they didn’t do the studio work, which was done by Chris Poland of the Killing is My Business and Peace Sells… years. A bigger metalhead than me can clarify that I’m sure.
Now, I like this CD, but I would be lying if I didn’t say I wanted more. The first four songs on the CD really get going, and then I think the CD starts to go a little flat before it picks up again. The first song, Sleepwalkers is very good, good riffs-great solo and vocals. Washington is Next follows, and is probably my favorite song from the album. The title track is very good also. Mustaine goes back to a lot of his political rants, which fueled the Symphony of Destruction and Peace Sells But Who’s Buying CD’s back in the day. I like it in the aforementioned songs but I really don’t like Amerikhastan, where he just rants over a song for long portions instead of fusing the lyrics and music together. Gears of War is very average also, IMO. A Tout Le Monde is a redone song from the Train of Consequences CD with some new vocals by Christina Scabbia. This was a decent song the first time, and didn’t really need a re-release, but who knows why they do these things. Everytime I hear this song though I always remember the band on David Letterman back in 1994 or so playing that song. Leading up to it, Letterman in his own dry way, continually kept promoing the band and putting their logo on the screen. But I digress.
The last two songs, You’re Dead and Burnt Ice are both good thrashers and add a good conclusion to the album. So overall I think it is very good, but I really thought this album was going to bring Dave and the boys all the way back, and instead I think they stay even keel with the last release. But reading other reviews, that is obviously mostly my opinion as many other are celebrating the return of Megadeth. I just don’t see any songs that 10-15 years from now that I still love to hear ala Hangar 18, Peace Sells, Holy Wars, and the entire Syphony album. Time will tell…
Since most everyone gives a number rating I will give it an 8 out of 10.
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