Tag Archives: Megadeth

Megadeth, A Night In Buenos Aires. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You know exactly what you are going to be exposed to before the needle comes down gracefully upon the spinning vinyl, and yet the bolt of music you find your ears impaled upon is both satisfyingly and dynamically explosive. It is enough to register shock waves of pleasure and joy from across the oceans, it is seismic even after more than a decade and a half after it first appeared in cd form. It is the overwhelming arsenal poised at your heart, the warheads of metal ready to take off and bombarded the listener with strike after strike, the unrepentant wave of hits as A Night In Buenos Aires becomes the theatre of music that is so richly needed in a period of human inactivity.

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(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Megadeth, Dystopia. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Utopia sells…but who’s buying? Nobody really, for all the beauty that resides in a perfect world of equal opportunities, of pain free existence and each nation, each person, doing all they can to protect and savour the planet, Dystopia is a much keener collector of souls than its well preserved shrink wrapped cousin, Dystopia never runs out of places in which to revel or play with the destruction available.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

The Peace Collective, Altogether Now. Single Review.

There used to be a buzz of excitement around this time of year. Away from the thought of inedible sprouts that seemed to only be placed upon the plate with frightening regularity, the Queen’s speech having to be watched because an elderly relative once saw Her Majesty dangle a gloved hand out somewhere in Weston–Super-Mare in 1965, and the usual fights that would lead to doors slamming throughout the land because someone didn’t want to enter the Christmas spirit, one thing could unite the family and be the cause of more arguments and that was who would be Christmas No. 1.

The Peace Collective, Altogether Now. Single Review. full post

(782 words, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)

A Night Out With Metal On The Mind.

The multiple choice between Megadeth, Magnum, ‘Maiden or Metallica

T-shirts, crumpled to hell, beaten, seven shades of death

inside a second hand washing machine that dribbled

four star oil and council pop with regular ease

and threatened to catch fire whenever you weren’t looking,

locked horns with

the odd bit of your own valuable

spilled blood and redeemed soul,

imprinted forever, stained but unsullied and undefeated,

that always goes well with a great pair of jeans and trainers

that none of your well-meaning friends would be seen

dead in.

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(1033 words, estimated 4:08 mins reading time)

Metallica, Kill ‘Em All. 30th Anniversary Retrospective.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

For many it was the album that was the beginning of Thrash Metal. The next logical step from Heavy Metal that found its way from America as in an exuberant recognition that British Heavy Metal had stolen a march on the genre. Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All certainly stands out as being part of the genre but it’s overall feel 30 years after its release is more of being the  partially formed conception, the gestation period before the moment of truth with Metallica’s Ride The Lightning coming in 1984 and the genre exploding in its classic era between 1985 and 1992 when bands such as Sacred Reich, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax easily stood head and shoulders above anything coming out of continental Europe and in some respects the U.K.

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(827 words, estimated 3:18 mins reading time)

Megadeth, Super Collider. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Thirty years after Dave Mustaine was sacked by Metallica, it seems as if the crown prince of Thrash can finally look back on the intervening years and sit back and think to himself that somewhere along the line, he triumphed. Not that there was ever a final goal of that kind lurking between two of the big four of American Thrash Metal but the grip satisfaction that since 1992 Megadeth have had nine top-20 U.S. albums on the bounce must keep him going and if there is any legitimacy and heart in the American market, as well as here in the U.K., then Super Collider will make it the seemingly impossible 10.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Megadeth, So Far, So Good, So What!. 25th Anniversary Retrospective.

Megadeth’s third album So Far, So Good, So What! carried on the fine work made by Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson on Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? Megadeth in the space of two consecutive albums became one of the quintessential American Heavy Metal bands, of which the core group of Mustaine and Ellefson certainly rivalled the Metallica foursome of Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett and the much missed Cliff Burton and Anthrax’s Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Frank Bello and Joey Belladonna as leaders of a brand new pack and iconic American Heavy Metal.

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(1140 words, estimated 4:34 mins reading time)

Megadeth, Countdown To Extiction. 20th Anniversary Edition.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Following on from the 25th Anniversary release of the Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying album by Megadeth in 2011, the band have once again decided to give new life to an album that in all honesty doesn’t need to be tinkered with but is great fun to enjoy nonetheless.  Countdown to Extinction is one of the four great albums of Megadeth’s and Dave Mustaine’s early period and alongside Peace Sells…, So Far, So Good…So What! and Rust In Peace stand out as almost impossible to age and see decrease in stature, no matter how much the ravages of time may try.

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(474 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Stone Sour, House of Gold and Bones Part 1. Album Review.

Do you remember where you were when you heard Megadeth’s Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying or Rust in Peace, Sabbat’s Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) or Skyclad’s Wayward Sons of Mother Earth for the first time? The temptation to add the latest album by Stone Sour, House of Gold and Bones Part 1, to these premium and top rated albums of the genre should not take long, all of the first listen will be enough to confirm that perhaps for the first time the band have created something intrinsically and artistically brilliant.

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(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Megadeth, Endgame. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 17th 2009.

One of the most consistent thrash / heavy metal bands have returned with the eagerly awaited album Endgame. Whilst the other thrash mainstays Metallica have raised their game over the last year to come back the pinnacle that they deserve to hold, Megadeth never really let their fans down and time after time delivered albums full of humour, stunning guitar work, drums that make your head spin and lyrics that stand the test of time.

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(307 words, 1 image, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)