The next two songs (“Forget to Remember” and “Don’t Turn Your Back…”) are much stronger and along with “Kingmaker” and “Dance in the Rain” really highlight the album. Shame, there was a real opportunity to do something new there. Unfortunately, it resorts back to a chorus that sounds much like the weaker songs on the album. “The Blackest Crow” features a little slide guitar and almost sounds like an interesting take on a country song. “Beginning of Sorrow” is nothing special, but at least sounds more like Megadeth than Nickelback. Disturbed’s David Draiman even adds a little guest vocals over the powerful dueling guitar solos. The headbanging has stopped and the head scratching has commenced.īut then “Dance in the Rain” comes on and Mustaine belts out spoken-word type lyrics semi-reminiscent of 1993’s “Sweating Bullets.” You sing out, “Powers that be will never learn” and rejoice. It’s heavier throughout and features an almost Pantera-ish chanting-like chorus of “Built for war/What do you think fists are for?” But then “Off the Edge” comes on next and farts right back to the familiar old hard rock verse/chorus/verse begging for radio play. This is followed by “Fire/I got the fire,” so if nothing else, at least Beavis and Butthead will appreciate it. “Burn, baby, burn ‘cause it feels so good” is about as generic as lyrics can get. What is going on? This is almost butt rock. Then “Burn!” comes on and does the same thing. Dave sounds like the scary guy down the hall who likes to complain about everything, but not in a whiny way, more in a way you can’t help but listen to, and afterwards he just says, “Rock and roll,” and you nod in agreement though you know not why.Īnd just as you’ve banged away a couple thousand brain cells in celebration of the first song’s awesomeness, the title track comes on next and you go, “Uh, what?” “Super Collider” starts off promising enough with a nice loud thrashing guitar solo, but then it slows down to the same bored beat that’s been polluting modern rock radio for years before transforming into one of those semi-catchy, but tired, choruses that could’ve easily been Nickelback or 3 Doors Down. It’s heavy and fast as shit, the dueling guitars whirl, swirl and scream and Mustaine’s distinct voice shines through. The Born-Again Christian Mustaine probably won’t appreciate that.īut no matter what religion any of the band members follow, none has forgotten how to thrash on the first track “Kingmaker.” The first song comes out kicking some ass. But enough of that, let’s start headbanging and put up those signs of the devil… oh, wait. Though Megadeth has gone through many lineup changes over the years all the same musicians from 2011’s Thirteen are here, including original bassist David Ellefson, drummer Shawn Drover and Chris Broderick on the other guitar. Super Collider is thrash metal veterans Megadeth’s 14th studio album and the first one to be released on frontman Dave Mustaine’s own label Tradecraft.
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