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MEGADETH RUST IN PEACE VERSION FULL
The classic Megadeth "weaknesses," are also on full display, such as Mustaine's often-juvenile lyrics ("Five Magics" is a case in point here).
The production quality is raw, even in the remasters. Still, they're youthful and a little hasty. For me, this is almost a debut album, an album when Megadeth "finally became a band." It is less-refined than the follow-up, Countdown to Extinction, but has so much more clarity of vision than preceding albums.Īs far as it goes, it's everything you can expect from that sort of a "debut." The songs are heavy, ambitious, technical, passionate. Nor is it any coincidence that so many of these classic Megadeth songs appear on Rust In Peace. As great as prior and subsequent incarnations of the band may have been, this is the lineup that gave us all the classic songs: "Holy Wars.," "Hangar 18," "Lucretia," "Tornado Of Souls," "Symphony of Destruction," "Train of Consequences." So Rust In Peace, like its deadly opening track is a thrash-metal classic, a Megadeth classic, and - as we would come to discover over the years - features the classic Megadeth lineup of Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson, Marty Friedman, and Nick Menza. What they have to say, they'll say in whatever way required to get the message across. They don't mind getting complex, they don't mind straying far off the verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus song format. See, the great thing about Megadeth has always been the intelligence of the songs. When he finishes, the song unfolds in the way of a true Megadeth masterpiece: with a complex barrage of ever-changing metal riffs and melodies that are at once unified and diverse. The opening riffage is absolutely brutal, then suddenly breaks long enough for Marty Friedman to blast his way through a surprisingly tender nylon-string guitar solo. The Punishment Due." This is a classic for many reasons, but what makes it a classic to me is its position as an archetypal Megadeth song. Rust In Peace begins with a hard-hitting classic of the oeuvre, "Holy Wars. You're getting a Stationary Waves review of the album here, not a metal-insider's review. Nor am I as attuned to the metal genre as others might be.
The reader must keep in mind, however, that although I am a long-time Megadeth fan, I can't be considered a true, hardcore fan. I wouldn't be qualified to write such a review, anyway, since I never owned the original version of the album.įortunately or unfortunately, you'll have to make do with a more straight-forward review of this album. Although this is a pretty old album, and the expectation is that I will compare the remastered mixes to the integrity of the original release, I think that is a low-value album review, and something that would only appeal to a very small number of hard-core Megadeth fans.
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