New Megadeth Album - 'The System has Failed'

ven0m

Anyone else listened to this yet?? I think it kicks ass & is so like the older decent Megadeth albums...... beats the pants of Metallica's St Anger anyday in my books...... that took months for me to like it, the new Megadeth album was instantly 'good' on the first time listen & on subsequent ones.... makes up for the last 3 bag 'o crap albums they put out....


::: ven0mous :::

SirLemonhead

I've had it for a few months, I got the leaked version, and bought the CD yesterday. Still sounds great after all those weeks listening to it

Hope Dave comes to Ireland on this tour..

niallith

yup i have it, am quite pleased wit it, aint there best but its acceptable, aint there worst either and wasnt a flop like st.anger tbh.
hope they come here yeh,think i heard they only plannin on doin festivals round europe, and ireland aint got many of them, unless they do a cheap 3 band thing like metallica did wit "reading" theyr tourin europe wit iron maiden i hear

Nigel Tufnel

MEGADETH RULE! hey I came onto this board just to post this thread, glad theres some Megadeth fans left in Ireland :cool:

P.s album kicks ass.

projectmayhem

ven0m wrote:

Anyone else listened to this yet?? I think it kicks ass & is so like the older decent Megadeth albums...... beats the pants of Metallica's St Anger anyday in my books...... that took months for me to like it, the new Megadeth album was instantly 'good' on the first time listen & on subsequent ones.... makes up for the last 3 bag 'o crap albums they put out....


::: ven0mous :::

i don't even like megadeth and i think this album is excellent stuff.

also, it's not particularly hard to make a better album then st.anger.

Pantera

Yeah It must be said .... the new album is pretty cool. Great to see em put some good stuff out there. Beathing st. anger aint to difficult but!

Ancient1

I think it's unbelievable - this is quintessential Mustaine!
It's got elements of everything, the riffs are KILLER and some melody runs remind me of RIP.
I havent been this excited listening to an album in years!

I LOVE IT !

Unpossible

I was going to post a thread asking if this album is any good. So its classic megadeath?


Metallica could take a leaf out of their book

Treebeard

I just got the album a couple of days ago, I love it, it just gets better every time I listen to it

Doctor J

I'm not mad about it TBH. I think it's about the same level as TWNAH ie- better than Risk, Cryptic Writings and Youthanasia but nowhere near as good as Rust In Peace. Still, respect to Dave Mustaine for putting out a decent album when so many of his generation are sucking down corporate jizz.

I'd urge you all to check out the new Mastodon album instead.

Shred

I've heard it a couple of times and I really like it, it's definately a return to form for me.
On a side note:I only found out a couple of days ago that Vinnie Colaiuta is the drummer on it, I couldn't fnckin' believe it :eek: - my respect for him has increased ten fold since. He was always an absolutely amazing drummer with Sting etc but he has really adapted his style really well to suit Megadeth, you'd bearly know it was the same drummer, it's so unlike him.

Ancient1

Doctor J wrote:

I think it's about the same level as TWNAH

Man i think TWNAH has got nothin on this one!
No one seriously expected RIP part 2, but riff-wise this comes quite close in my books! The riffs are seriously killer, give it a few more spins Doc
The Scorpion has to be one the best Megadeth song in years!

Ancient1

Doctor J wrote:

I think it's about the same level as TWNAH

Man i think TWNAH has got nothin on this one!
No one seriously expected RIP part 2, but riff-wise this comes quite close in my books! The riffs are seriously killer, give it a few more spins Doc
The Scorpion has to be one the best Megadeth songs in years!

Ancient1

dont ask how i managed to post that twice..... :rolleyes:

Zombienosh

i think its meh, bar one or two tracks
ok its better than what metallica come out with
but its still nothing compared to older megadeth but that can be said for pretty much everyband and their new albums
o well
its alright but nothing to write home about lol

Doctor J

Ancient1 wrote:

Man i think TWNAH has got nothin on this one!
No one seriously expected RIP part 2, but riff-wise this comes quite close in my books! The riffs are seriously killer, give it a few more spins Doc
The Scorpion has to be one the best Megadeth songs in years!

OK, maybe it's a little better than TWNAH, but not by much IMO. It's good, especially the Scorpion, but a little too designed for the big chorus for my tastes. It's good, yes, but maybe I'm destracted by finally landing Unquestionable Presence on cd off the Bay after all this time

Ancient1

Doctor J wrote:

It's good, yes, but maybe I'm destracted by finally landing Unquestionable Presence on cd off the Bay after all this time

you lunatic

Here's Doc tryin to write a review about Megadeth while listening to Atheist

mp3guy

it's pretty good. I was slighty dissapointed.. It's a bit too melodic for megadeth.. But even still, a good peice of metal... At least as good as Youthanasia

9lives

I was hugely disappointed on the first few listens and I thought it was barely an improvement on TWNAH (a one-star album in my ears). But I gave it a few more spins, and lo and behold it grew on me like, um, ivy.

It's something of a cross between 80s and 90s Megadeth, finally getting that balance right again between metal riffs and melody, something they've struggled with since "Countdown to Extinction". 'Blackmail the Universe' and 'Truth Be Told' are old-school, 'Die Dead Enough', 'Something That I'm Not', 'Back in the Day' have teriffic hooks; and 'Shadow of Deth' is hilarious in the same way that 'Prince of Darkness' was on "Risk".

It's not RIP ... it's not, ok? But it's the best surprise since Anthrax's "We've Come For You All".

- 9L

Ancient1

and 'Shadow of Deth' is hilarious in the same way that 'Prince of Darkness' was on "Risk".

I agree - man, that MUST be Arnold Schwarzenegger reading that text

Drazhar

Bought the album here in sydney, and i think its bloody great. By the way, if any of you bought it in a shop and not online, how much did you pay? I paid AU$27, thats about 15-17 euro!!! HA HAH A HA HA. it was priced at AU$32 in HMV here, probably 32Euro in HMV in ireland i'll bet!!!

niallith

32 ???? i got mine for 19.99 from hmv

byte

Only €13.99 on CD WOW

god's toy

Yep I do like this CD,(€19.99 HMV) at the mo my fave song is ‘of mice and men’ , maybe it’s just me but I think from song 6-12 are much better than 1-5, maybe I just need to play it a little more.