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Following on from the success of one of the bands
most technical and possibly heaviest album to date
(“Endgame”), Mega Dave and company are
back with latest offering “TH1RT3EN”.
This album marks the triumphant return original
and founding bass player David Elfson, the last
time Elfson played on an album was a decade ago
on 2001’s “The World Needs A Hero”.
Will this tremendous addition to the crew bring
back some of the old school writing styles some
of the all time classics possessed or are we looking
at a new era for Megadeth?
Having had the past 2 albums be pretty heavy
in comparison to the mountains of previous songs
that predated them, one would only expect this
to release to be of the same nature. After hearing
opening track “Sudden Death” it becomes
apparent that this is not the case. It definitely
seems to me as though the band are trying to get
back to their roots in writing in a style more
“Rust in Peace” but trying to keep
some of the distinctive techniques that have been
present from “United Abominations”
onwards. The extremely intricate guitar work is
still here with Chris Broderick’s tremendous
skills at work, but the riffs and chord sequences
are trying to return to the original simplistic
thrash metal style.
The prime example that shows what I’m talking
about at its best is “Public Enemy No.1”,
it’s just smooth and the palm muting and
chord sequences are overlaid with fills and riffs
with Dave Mustaine’s whiney yet fitting
vocals laced into the mix. The question remains
though is it the best work that Megadeth has produced?
After giving the whole thing a listen picking
out a few brilliant tracks like “Deadly
Nightshade”, “Whose Life (Is It Anyway)”
and “Fast Lane” which are easily the
best tracks from the album, I can say that whilst
this is a pretty impressive album I just don’t
feel that it’s as strong as the past 2.
The reason being that I feel that the material
on those albums showed huge progression stylistically
especially considering how many years Dave has
been putting out albums it was a huge turning
point in the bands careers, a new era was expected
for Megadeth and whilst this release is good,
it kills all hope of that happening.
3.5/5
Review by James Webb |
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Dave Mustaine
David Ellefson
Chris Broderick
Shawn Drover |
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1. Sudden Death
2. Public Enemy No.1
3. Whose Life (Is It Anyways)
4. We The People
5. Guns, Drugs & Money
6. Never Dead
7. New World Order
8. Fast Lane
9. Black Swan
10. Wrecker
11. Millenium of the Blind
12. Deadly Nightshade
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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