Metal Reviews

Ahhh, The World Needs A Hero. I remember all the hype it got four years ago about being a "Return to Megadeth's roots", only for everybody to be disappointed with it. I however, thoroughly enjoyed the album and felt its flack came from people simply getting their hopes a little too high. Anyway, hit or miss?

Haven't heard it. But I like most Megadeth albums I have heard. So I'll proablly like it.

I've heard a few songs from it, but never the full album. Return to Hangar is a bit meh. Kill the King was written in the same sessions, and its a brilliant song.

:evil: its fucking terrible-and as a fan im not just saying this, it is.

Miss, it's too fucking slow. It sounds as if the whole band were fucked up on Ludes or something. I did like "When" though, it was an interesting take on "Am I Evil".

A crappy album, total miss. 5 decent/good songs, the rest is a binch of shiitake mushrooms.

you did give it 89/100 though

Yes, I like it being a Megadeth fan, but it didn't live up to the hype. It's good for what it is, but not the return to form that was promised, hence I voted miss.

By the way, going against my better judgement, I finally listened to the "Remastered" version of Risk today. To put it bluntly - the album's bad. "Musical growth," "open-mindedness", etc. aside, I found the album to be very dull and uninspiring. Breadline and The Doctor Is Calling have to be the two most aggrivating songs Megadeth has ever written (not because they're "pop/rock songs" but because they're bad "pop/rock songs"). The only songs I really liked were Prince Of Darkness and Crush'em (and quite frankly, I prefer the original version of Crush'em over the "remastered version" - take that, Mustaine!). I'll Be There was also fairly decent despite being probably the most commercial sounding song Megadeth has ever written. Everything else is average at best, horrible at worst. I'd give the album a 45/100.

One thing I don't understand though is that the album was worse than Load, and yet Megadeth seems to take less flack for it than Metallica did with Load. Why is that so?

I thought it was vastly underrated. Yeah, it's not Rust in Peace Part 2. But it was a good, solid modern-metal album nonetheless, and definitely an improvement over the decidedly bad Risk. Like I said before, I think everybody just got their hopes too high for it (being that it was a supposed "return to roots"), which is why the band took a lot of heat.

Because its allegedly cooler and kvlter to bash Metallica than it is to bash Megadeth.

And yes, Risk is worse than Load. Mustaine doesn't get the disgust he deserves for creating that piece of shit, and now when interviewed about it, says he was forced into that style by his bandmates and the record company. Even though I have a magasine interview with him done after Risk was released where he says it was his best album yet and his proudest achievement. But hey, its Mustaine, so we can dispense with logic.

Maybe he was forced into saying that. :shock: What if Metallica actually wrote Risk? :shock:
:idea: What if Metallica is actually Megadeth and Megadeth is actually Manowar :?: :shock: HOLY CRAP!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE :!: :!:














By the way I'm kidding. That is probably the vodka talking :mrgreen:

Because Risk didn't sell about two million copies.

Risk sold almost nothing. If I released a demo tomorrow that was composed chiefly of a looping backbeat of farting noises over me reading the 'S' section of the Encyclopedia Britannica, I guarantee you that it would sell more then Risk ever did.

Exaggeration aside, Risk was indeed terrible, but everyone else seemed to know that, unlike the way they bought into Load and ReLoad.

In that case, there isn't as much reason to bash: everyone knows that it's a failure and acts accordingly.

Yeah Risk is by far their worst album only enjoyable tracks were 1, 2, 4, 11, and 12. The rest were either average at best or just horrible. But I don't have the re-mastered version yet. I rate it 60/100, but I think it deserves less.

There is a reason why this album is called "Risk", somebody was trying to warn the fans.

Yes, Risk is a horrid black-eye on the Deth legacy. I don't buy into the whole "The band made me to it!" shit either. It's Mustaine's band, always has been, always will be. That's almost as ridicuolus as if Lar$ had tried to blame Load on Newstead. I've seen the liner notes, every song on the album is written by Mustaine so why backtrack and try to say I didn't do it? As much as I love Deth, the man is making less sense by the day. And yes, it's worse than Load, but Load sold millions just because it had Metallica slapped on it. Hasn't St. Anger eclisped the 3 million mark? I mean, how could you possibly find anything redeeming in that album? It's just plain awful, and after watching Some Kind of Monster, it's obvious they have no clue anymore. I'm now convinced Metallica could put out an album of them farting into jars for 75 minutes and it would go platinum in the 1st week. Are the masses really that stupid? I'm afraid it just might be so.

I don't think Megadeth will ever reach it's artistic heights such as on Rust in Peace.

Megadeth R.I.P.

I picked up TWNAH yesterday, have listened to it once, and like it. Sure, it's no RIP pt 2, but still an OK album.

I thought (the songs I heard from) System Has Failed were better, though.

I voted Hit, but not a massive hit. I think that song with the answering messages playing is fucking horrible, but overall it's a decent album. It showed that Dave was still capable of writing some good metal tunes. There are a few crappers on the album, a bunch of good songs, and a couple really good tracks. Hit overall, but not by a whole lot.