2/29/2024 0 Comments Megadeth rust in peace braniThe song is as aggressive as it gets and I particularly love Dave’s vocals on this one! It’s hard to pick a favorite from this album but Threat… would be in the top 3 for sure. The album opens with “The Threat Is Real”, which sets the tone for the album right from the start. I hope Megadeth keeps using D live and in the studio. It’s about how you set your tone, not necessarily about your tuning! Dystopia is perfect proof of that. People complained after Super Collider saying the guitars weren’t heavy because they were in D Standard but that had nothing to do with it. It fits Dave’s new vocal range better and he sounds really good on this album. The guitars are once again tuned one step down to D Standard. It highlights Chris Adler’s drumming perfectly. Dystopia has drums that sound polished, and sound high in the mix – but retain the natural sound. The guitars are aggressive, with great rhythm and lead tones, making the guitar-work truly shine! The best part of this album’s sound, however, is the drums! My biggest beef with the past few albums was with drums as they usually sounded either too digital for my taste or the snare didn’t have the attack you’d expect from a thrash oriented album. The instruments blend well together and the whole album somehow retains a “live” feeling even though the sound is polished enough. It was another reason why those two felt unwanted and ultimately quit.įrom a production standpoint, this is the band’s best sounding album since Countdown to Extinction. But Mustaine claims that even before Broderick and Drover had quit, the band’s management at the time was already pushing for this reunion. But it fell through for obvious reasons – financial disagreement & creative differences. They even jammed with Nick Menza for a while. As for the RIP-era reunion, it’s well publicized that the band tried that. And as we now know from Chris and Shawn’s new band, Act of Defiance, their music is completely different. The musical difference part is fairly evident as Megadeth is Dave’s band and ultimately, he makes the final decision on the music. There was rampant speculation about the reasons but two main topics always show up in interviews: musical differences, and rumors about a Rust-in-Peace era reunion. I wrote about their departure in more detail on my first post. To add another complication into the mix, Shawn Drover ( drums) and Chris Broderick ( guitars) quit the band right around this time. But first, he had to support his family during this tragedy. When this was happening, he was also in the middle of moving to Nashville to support his daughter’s country music career. This was of course devastating to not just Dave, but to his entire family. Unfortunately, when the search teams later found her about a month and a half later, she had passed away. His mother-in-law had been battling Alzheimer’s disease and, in November of 2014, went missing near a campground in California. It turned out that the songwriting and recording had to wait.īy the time they were ready to write new songs, Dave Mustaine had already gone through quite a lot. Everybody was yearning for a more traditional Megadeth album that fired on all cylinders! Reading the reviews in 2013, it was easy to see that a considerable amount of fans was disappointed. Having said that, I definitely see where all those people are coming from. To be fair, I like Super Collider for what it is because I like it when bands take risks and try something different. In that aspect, some considered it as another Risk (1999) type album. The majority of the songs did not have the complex riffs, trading solos, and intricate drumming that fans usually expect from Megadeth. I would still categorize the album as a whole as “metal” but the tempos were a little slower. In 2013, the band released Super Collider that divided the fans as some did not like the direction the band had taken.
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