Megadeth - Super Collider

Published June 12 2013

*=Staff's pick	Kingmaker* Super Collider Burn! Built For War Off The Edge Dance In The Rain* Beginning Of Sorrow The Blackest Crow Forget To Remember Don't Turn Your Back…* Cold Sweat

Genre	Heavy Metal	Dave Mustaine	Vocals
Tracks	11	Dave Mustaine	Guitar
Running time	45 Min.	Chris Broderick	Guitar
Label	Tradecraft/Universal	David Ellefson	Bass
Release	04 June 2013	Shawn Drover	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboard
Producer	Johnny K, Dave Mustaine
Similar artists	---

Megadeth's fourteenth album starts up pretty promising with Kingmaker, but when the title track, with its crushing title, Super Collider appears I expect a double barreled impact, but all I hear is some viscous and weary metal, on the contrary to the title who speaks of a particle accelerator based on high energy. This track immediately takes the edge of the album and from that on this release never really recovers from the damage done.

I wasn't a big fan of the band's last release and now they climb one step further on the downward spiral staircase, away from greatness and reliability. Similar to Th1rt3en, Super Collider have a bunch of tracks who seem to lack a great amount of fantasy in the songs' melodies and they just don't address to me. Still there are many great, heavy and fantastic riffs and a truly solid overall guitar playing all throughout, but with the absence of skilled, breathtaking and awesome songwriting, there's no chance in hell fans to Megadeth will take this release to their hearts and souls. Some will try and also succeed, but that will be more die hard behavior than rational thinking.

Most of the choruses feels forced and don't appeal to me. It's just face the facts that most bands only have a couple of huge records in them and then they lose their youth's inspiration, their ideas or just the knowledge of how to create awesome albums. What I want to hear is songs with a thrust that attack all through like Dance In The Rain and also perhaps Kingmaker and Don't Turn Your Back. Many of the other tracks have this certain drive occasionally, but they continuously also lose their momentum on and on. It would however be a great shame to accuse them for having created total crap, but I totally have to expect more from this veteran unit as well.

See also review of: Dystopia , Th1rt3en , Endgame , The System Has Failed

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
8	6	6	4	3

Summary
4 chalices of 10 - Tobbe