Boring title to begin with, but man, why herald your long-awaited comeback with what appears to be a crappy computer image? The teaser footage for the album made it look like somebody actually lit a wicker “13” on fire.
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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.
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And if you ask me, so long as he's content to be a part of the 1%, rather than a part of the 99% he used to represent, Megadeth is doomed to follow Metallica down the rabbit hole of obscurity in age and "maturity.Guys in metal bands grow old. Is all hope lost for Megadeth? No, but a considerable amount of the future glory to be captured by this band rests squarely on the shoulders of Dave Mustaine and his ability to find the sort of inspiration that motivated his past thrash classics. What ought to be a dream team making Globetrotter-style shots that amaze and astound are satisfied making the lamest layups with the occasional alley-oop. Truthfully, Super Collider is just a Megadeth album born of complacency and issued with only the faintest interest in remaining relevant. Unless you're really into that kind of thing. There's no reason to put yourself through the dull faux-aggression of "Built For War"'s insistence that war is what your fists are for, nor is there any rationale to listening to Dave Mustaine shout "burn baby burn" and moan about having "the fire" over and over again. kingmaker!" And, despite its horrible lyrics, "Don't Turn Your Back." (continuing Mustaine's love affair with the ellipses) marks one of the album's few solid tunes, thrashing hard and delivering solos with punch and poignancy not seen anywhere else on the record.Īs for the rest of the album? It's instantly forgettable. Admittedly, "Kingmaker" may be the album's most memorable track given its hallmark Megadeth choral shout of "I wanna be the king. Its best moments come in David Ellefson's bass grooves, which begin the album on a high note that quickly plummets into obscurity amid steeping piles of steaming "hard rock" mediocrity or worse. Musically, Super Collider falters in its inability to deliver the kind of hooks and powerhouse solos we know Broderick and Mustaine can provide. If this is the crap we're going to get from your current direction, you need to pledge your soul back to Satan and get back to voting Democratic right this minute. And now we have a born-again Christian who campaigns for Rick Santorum and writes the bizarre abortion ballad of "The Beginning of Sorrow?" "Peace Sells." was released in 1986 during the Reagan administration and begged equality between dark magic thrash dirges. 2004's The System Has Failed and much of 2007's United Abominations were nothing but huge attacks on the Bush administration. Dave's kicked out album after album from 1985's Killing Is My Business fueled by either personal hatred, political rage, or both. And when you look at the inconsistency of frontman Dave Mustaine in recent years, the fact that Super Collider is an inauthentic feeling mess begins to make sense. Well, Super Collider is here and it's proof positive that our hopes were in vain. Somehow, though, the Megadeth faithful, with Endgame not too far off in the rear-view mirror, held out hope that this would only be a palate cleanser while the band worked on their next true opus. Yet 2011's Th1rt3en suffered long strokes of mediocrity between recycled and poorly reimagined songs. Frankly, if he wanted to be, he could be the most talented guitarist in whatever genre he wanted to be in. How could it not be? Chris is, unquestionably, one of the most technically talented guitarists in metal today. The 2009 album saw the band thrashing hard enough for our very own Trey Spencer to hail the album as "Rust in Peace Part 2" and it seemed that the addition of Chris Broderick was a match made in heaven. Post- Endgame Megadeth is, flat-out, a confusing mess.
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Review Summary: The sound of complacency.