Monday, November 30, 2009

2001- The World Needs A Hero

Personally I believe that Megadeth needs a hero would be a better title for this album. Overall this was yet another let down for Megadeth fans. The album only had a couple of good songs and was filled in with “filler” songs. The quality of music had also taken a hard hit when lead guitarist Marty Freedmen left the band to pursue his own personal musical styles. This forced Megadeth to create lower grade songs than before which in turn angered the original fan base. This was another failure for Megadeth but it was not as bad as the album Risk.
Track 1- Disconnect


Track 2- The World Needs A Hero

Track 3- Moto Psycho

Track 4- 1000 Times Goodbye

Track 5- Burning Bridges


Track 6- Promises


Track 7- Recipe for Hate... Warhorse


Track 8- Dread and the Fugitive Mind


Track 9- Losing My Senses


Track 10- Silent Scorn

Track 11- Return To Hangar


Track 12- When

1999- Risk

Risk was simply a risk that didn’t pay off. This album was the furthest Megadeth ever went into the mainstream community and it was their biggest failure. The vast majority of the fan base left Megadeth for more music to fill the void that they had created. Over all this albums is very bad.
Track 1- Insomnia


Track 2- Prince of Darkness


Track 3- Enter The Arena

Track 4- Crush Em'

Track 5- Breadline


Track 6- The Doctor Is Calling

Track 7- I'll Be There


Track 8- Wanderlust


Track 9- Ecstasy

Track 10- Seven

Track 11- Time: The Beginning

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

1997- Reload

Reload was suppose to be the second half to the double album load but was cut off and made into its album. Reload is a sad excuse for an album from Metallica. It would have been fine if an obscure band had released it, but that didn’t happen. Metallica was still held at the high standard in received with its “Black Album” in 1991. This follow up to Load was nothing the true fans wanted from Metallica. Overall the combined albums of Load and Reload did produce some good songs but the majority of the albums were filled with “filler” songs just to eat up time. Song of the notable songs on this album would have to be Fuel and The Unforgiven 2.
Track 1- Fuel

Track 2- The Memory Remains


Track 3- Devil's Dance


Track 4- The Unforgiven 2


Track 5- Better than You


Track 6- Slither


Track 7- Carpe Diem Baby


Track 8- Bad Seed


Track 9- Where The Wild Things Are


Track 10- Prince Charming


Track 11- Low Man's Lyric


Track 12- Attitude


Track 13- Fixxxer


Monday, November 16, 2009

1997- Cryptic Writings

One step too far sums up Cryptic Writings. Megadeth had a good thing going for them throughout Youthanasia but decided to see if they could push to go more mainstream and acquire a new audience. This attempt was a not a success. More of the fan base was driven away from this album than new people were drawn to it. This was the first major negative turn that Megadeth had made but would not be the last.
Track 1- Trust


Track 2- Almost Honest

Track 3- Use the Man


Track 4- Mastermind


Track 5- The Disintergrators


Track 6- I'll Get Even


Track 7- Sin

Track 8- A Secret Place


Track 9- Have Cool, Will Travel


Track 10- She-Wolf

Track 11- Vortex


Track 12- FFF

1996- Load

After 5 long years Metallica released another album. It was a huge feat to make an album to be the follow up of the Black Album in the first place, but 5 years seemed to be a little too long. The final product was a completely new style from the original roots of thrash and speed to a major focus of a “heavy” sound. This was the first step in the long road of failing for Metallica. The album drove away a large portion of the original fan base to other more intense bands in order to get their cravings. The simple statement I leave you with is “why fix something that isn’t broken?”.
Track 1- Ain't My Bitch


Track 2- 2x4

Track 3- The House Jack Built


Track 4- Until it Sleeps



Track 5- King Nothing


Track 6- Hero of the Day


Track 7- Bleeding Me

Track 8- Cure


Track 9- Poor Twisted Me


Track 10- Wasting My Hate


Track 11- Mama Said


Track 12- Thorn Within


Track 13- Ronnie


Track 14- The Outlaw Torn


1994- Youthanasia

To follow up with the successful album Countdown to Extinction, Megadeth decided to continue down the road of concept albums. This was a positive move for the group and lead to attracting an even larger fan base than before. But during these times front man Dave Mustaine was dealing with constant relapses with drug use and deep thoughts about suicide, which can be seen in the lyrics of one of their most famous songs A Tout le Monde. Over all this album was a success and boasted major sales for Megadeth.
Track 1- Reckoning Day


Track 2- Train of Consequences

Track 3- Addicted to Chaos


Track 4- À Tout le Monde


Track 5- Elysian Fields


Track 6- The Killing Road


Track 7- Blood of Heroes


Track 8- Family Tree


Track 9- Youthanasia


Track 10- I Thought I Knew It All


Track 11- Black Curtains


Track 12- Victory


Monday, November 9, 2009

1992- Countdown to Extinction

Countdown was Megadeth’s first step down the road of mainstream popularity. This change in style was a direct result of Metallica huge success down this road. But even though Megadeth started down the road of concept albums they retained many of their old trademark characteristics that they were known for. Overall Countdown was a very successful for Megadeth; it was just in the shadow of Metallica and couldn’t propel itself to its full potential.
Track 1- Skin O' My Teeth

Track 2- Symphony of Destruction


Track 3- Architecture of Aggression

Track 4- Foreclosure of a Dream


Track 5-Sweating Bullets

Track 6- This Was My Life

Track 7- Countdown to Extinction

Track 8- High Speed Dirt

Track 9- Psychotron

Track 10- Captive Honour



Track 11- Ashes in your Mouth

1991 Metallica "The Black Album"

This is the highest any metal album as every come into the mainstream world and popularity. The album was the only one ever to reach the level of Diamond level by selling over 15 million copies. The Black Album was the first album to branch away from the original style of thrash and speed metal to replace it with a heaver and slower tempo. This concept album was first of its kind for Metallica and sparked several other bands to tweak their styles. The Black Album showed the world that change could be good even in a subject such as metal. This was the biggest jewel that Metallica has ever and probably will ever receive in its career.
Track 1- Enter Sandman

Track 2- Sad But True


Track 3- Holier Than Thou

Track 4- The Unforgiven

Track 5- Wherever I May Roam


Track 6- Don't Tread on Me

Track 7- Through the Never

Track 8- Nothing Else Matters

Track 9- Of Wolf and Man


Track 10- The God that Failed


Track 11- My Friend of Misery


Track 12- The Struggle Within

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Metallica Wins Round 1

Concerning only the first four albums Metallica is the obvious victor. Each one of Metallica’s albums was an instant hit while Megadeth struggled to get its footing. But near the end of this first era Megadeth revealed its potential and gained a new and explosive fan base. This marks the end of the first era for both Megadeth and Metallica… but will the bands stay true to their roots or break away and explore new techniques?

1990- Rust In Peace

This was the best album that Megadeth has ever created by far. Each of the nine songs has a unique style and has its own deep background. This was the first album recorded with the guitarist Marty Friedman. Marty brought a new amount of skill and talent to the band that they had not seen before. His many solos throughout the album only reinforce the truth that he is an amazing musician. The album’s main and overlying message is that the nuclear weapons will never get used and eventually “Rust in Peace”. The album cover also features former British Prime Minister John Major, former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, former Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and former American President George H. W. Bush all sitting around Vic Rattlehead inside Hanger 18 around an alien body. This inplication of current, for the time, world leaders gathered together in secrecy shows the band’s feelings toward governments.
All of these key factors allowed Megadeth to create an album that finally showed the world what their full potential was along with showing Metallica that they couldn’t be the best Metal band without a hard fought fight.
Track 1- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

Track 2- Hanger 18

Track 3- Take No Prisoners

Track 4- Five Magics


Track 5- Poison Was the Cure

Track 6- Lucretia


Track 7- Tornado of Souls

Track 8- Dawn Patrol


Track 9- Rust in Peace... Polaris

And Justice For All with Bass Booster

If you listen closely to the album you can hardly hear the bass line. This is a strange thing for Metallica to do. My guess is that after the death of Cliff Burton they were simply not ready to have they bass back at its formal levels. So listen to the following track and see if you like the enhanced bass line or not.


1988- And Justice For All

This album was a huge success for Metallica, is crushed Megadeth’s so far, so good… so what in sales and popularity, but still lagged behind Metallica’s greatest album Master of Puppets. This was the best way possible to follow up Master of Puppets. Many of songs were instant success while others were not so much .The album also experienced some relatively recent success with the game Guitar Hero 3, that featured the song One in the game. As of so far Metallica had only released solid, well planned albums and with And Justice For All this remarkable trend continued to remain strong.
Track 1- Blackened

Track 2- And Justice For All

Track 3- Eye of the Beholder

Track 4- One

Track 5- The Shortest Straw

Track 6- Harvester of Sorrow


Track 7- The Frayed Ends of Sanity

Track 8- To Live is to Die

Track 9- Dyers Eve

1988- so far, so good ... so what!

The third album that Megadeth released was a small success but did not compare to the first two major hits. The song entitled “In My Darkest Hour” was a tribute song to Cliff Burton who had recently passed away in a tragic bus accident. This song showed the world that Dave Mustaine stilled could greave with Metallica over the death of a fellow friend even if they kicked him out of their band. Another notable song was the cover song “Anarchy in the U.K.”. This song was last cover song that Megadeth ever did. Overall this album is very good and seemed to be underrated.
Track 1- Into the Lungs of Hell


Trach 2- Set the World Afire

Track 3- Anarchy in the UK


Track 4- Mary Jane

Track 5- 502

Track 6- In My Darkest Hour


Track 7- Liar


Track 8- Hook in Mouth