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MEGADETH - United Abominations
| Sputnikmusic.com |
| With Megadeth it is pretty much always the same every time they release a new album. The band will allegedly be returning to its thrash roots. Everybody will get hyped up about it. The record will be solid, but not the full on thrash metal that was "promised." People will be upset and bash Megadeth for not being tr00-metal4lyfe-thrashheads and releasing Rust in Peace II. And people will complain about the complaining. It's a never ending cycle....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| Three years ago, Megadeth looked finished. After riding a wave of well-earned success in the early 1990s, frontman Dave Mustaine and his band started to stagnate creatively, resulting in a string of disappointing albums that got more and more mediocre, the trio of Cryptic Writings (1997), Risk (1999), and The World Needs a Hero (2001) marking a career nadir that had the once-mighty American thrash legends sounding exhausted and uninspired. Mustaine hit a new personal low in 2002 when he was diagnosed with radial neuropathy in his left arm, which forced him to announce the disbanding of Megadeth as he underwent physical therapy. ...full text |
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| You know those bands that for one reason or another are forever endearing to you? The band whose transparent and stark decline you deny with frightening vehemence in conversation? The band whose albums you allot twice as much time as others to deem anything less than providential? That band for me is Megadeth. I got Youthanasia at the tender, if not questionably premature, age of eight, and I credit them for my interest in heavy music. But their newest record, United Abominations, is where I draw the line. ...full text |
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