Let’s start with the image up top, the design for Black Sabbath’s 13, their first full album with Ozzy Osbourne up front since the 70s. Apparently not! I thought about including some older examples like Iron Maiden’s Dance of Death or Judas Priest’s Nostradamus, but there’s been enough lousy the last few years to make my point. Your eyesight goes as you get up there in age, obviously a bunch of them have had their brains fried by drugs, and obviously a few had pretty lousy album art back in the day, but you’d think that, with all their experience in the industry and multiple levels of band members and management to go through, they wouldn’t wind up with these eyesores. We are here to take a look at some of the terrible, terrible album covers these legends of metal have chosen to grace their recent releases with. Sometimes they continue to put out good music, sometimes they lose the fire that drove them back in the day. On Megadeth's "Supercollider," a Track-by-Track An.Guys in metal bands grow old.Better than Risk and Cryptic Writings combined. The lyrics are about being afraid and paranoid and stuff, but it's really fun to listen to. The guitars are fucking sweet, the bass and drums fucking rock. The song is pretty easy going and almost positive with the feeling it leaves you. Okay, for the final track, Megadeth went in a new direction, and I think that's cool. Not the complex riffage of Burnt Ice or Ashes In Your Mouth, not even the speed of Victory or FFF, but. You've got to save one of the best songs for last, right? Burn out rather than fade away? Let's listen.Ĭold Sweat. Okay, some old school riffage in my left ear, then in both, then some real AC/DC type shit. Okay, time for the last song on the album.
The locals here are dying for some brütal, accurate speed metal. If some band this good at their instruments started playing shows, they'd blow up. I think about the metal scene here in Seattle. I admit: they're more than just another aging metal band.
It was only a minute and a half song intro, but still. Okay, while I was writing and bitching about how I wish Megadeth would leave their box, they do it. The verse is kinda tired, but the chorus rocks. Holy shit, what's going on with Don't Turn Your Back.? Total Pink Floyd intro, leading into some pretty awesome double-kick metal riffage. Keep watching us, we're going to blow up. That's what I'm trying to do with Freeze, incidentally. I wish the band would do tread new ground-not further into pop territory, but into new forms of metal! Mustaine could really rip some black metal styles and throw some evil solos over it all. They're pretty much just another aging metal band though, they never really leave their box. These are the studio tricks that add flavor to the songs and keep Megadeth relevant. HOLY SHIT THAT LAUGH IS CREEPY (around 2:00-listen for it). His voice is the right amount of gravel and note-accuracy, and of.
I do like Mustaine actually singing, though. Go ahead, Megadeth, do that and gain some more followers. So we're drifting into Lacuna Coil territory now. Finally! Let that bassist shine already, Mustaine! Megathians love Ellefson!įorget to Remember. The Mustaine/Broderick combination really works to convey that special, characteristic Megadeth sound.Īnd when I hear Ellefson's bass come in, I realize how intricate his bass lines are here. The guitar solos are particularly good here, too. It's a great theme for a song, it's touching, and real. It's about a relative of Dave's that succumed to dementia. The song's imagery reminds me of Lucretia. It's not a banjo, but it's some kind of guitar-banjo instrument concoction. The Blackest Crow starts well with guitar-jo. As if any mother needs some man to tell her that abortion is hard to deal with. It also relates to the theme of the lyrics, double cool.īeginning of Sorrow is good, but is he preaching about abortion? That's annoying. Also Dave starts fucking with vocal processors and it sounds really mechanized, like some kind of industrial thing. Part II of DITR is fucking awesome-the fast guitars that made Megadeth a legend back in the day. That's what Mustaine does well, he crafts whole pieces and makes chapters out of them. I like when Dave screams.ĭance In the Rain starts with good intentions of conveying all-encompassing government surveillance into our private lives, a very real possibility in our world today, but the music and the vocal style just keeps it in the mediocrity range.īy the end of the song, though, you have a sort of Part II. I like how the lyrics are structured during the chorus. But it doesn't really lite my fire all the same.īuilt For War. Mustaine gets pretty old-school blues with the lyrics here, which is okay because he delivers it well.
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