Megadeth - Super Collider (2013) [Official Digital Download]

For a heavy metal band that’s been around for nearly three decades, selling more than thirty-eight million albums worldwide, earning numerous accolades including eleven GRAMMY nominations, scoring five consecutive Platinum albums-including 1992’s two-million-selling "Countdown To Extinction" Megadeth’s founder, leader and primal guitar-slinger and lyricist Dave Mustaine feels the best is yet to come. "Super Collider" is the band’s highly anticipated fourteenth studio album.

Megadeth's 14th studio outing finds the venerable metal outfit parting ways with Roadrunner Records, but not with producer Johnny K (Disturbed, Staind), who brought some much needed sonic heft to 2011's Th1rt3en. Super Collider is indeed big and beefy, but it’s awfully light on flavor. Things start out promisingly enough with the blistering "Kingmaker," a thrashy, cautionary tale about oxycontin that evokes classic Megadeth, but any residual warm and fuzzy feelings vanish abruptly upon the arrival of the surprisingly out of character title cut, a rote, state fair-ready, light beer-hoisting rocker that sounds like a late-'80s/early-'90s Tesla or AC/DC throwaway (actually, how did Megadeth release an album called Super Collider before AC/DC?), which is exactly the kind of thing that the band has not only avoided, but brazenly stood against since its 1983 inception. Also, why is there a painting of Iron Man on the back cover? Things certainly don’t improve with the limp "Burn!," an artless slab of gym metal that finds the normally erudite Dave Mustaine rhyming fire with desire, a desire that "burns hotter than hell." In fact, outside of "Kingmaker," the banjo-led Rob Zombie-meets-Mark Lanegan lament "Blackest Crow" and the outstanding "Built for War," a surprisingly agile, apocalyptic anti-anthem which was co-written with drummer Shawn Drover and guitarist Chris Broderick, the latter of whom supplies the cut with some truly impressive riffage, Super Collider is so mired in midtempo drudgery and familiar hard rock (not thrash) tropes that it never really connects.

Tracklist:

01 - Kingmaker
02 - Super Collider
03 - Burn!
04 - Built For War
05 - Off The Edge
06 - Dance In The Rain
07 - Beginning Of Sorrow
08 - The Blackest Crow
09 - Forget To Remember
10 - Don't Turn Your Back…
11 - Cold Sweat

Produced & Mixed by Johnny K and Dave Mustaine. Engineered by Cameron Webb.
Recorded on December 18, 2012 – March 13, 2013 at Vic's Garage, San Marcos, CA.
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York, NY.

Musicians:
Dave Mustaine - lead vocals, lead, rhythm, acoustic guitar and slide guitars
Chris Broderick - lead, rhythm, acoustic guitars and backing vocals
David Ellefson - bass guitar and backing vocals
Shawn Drover - drums, percussion


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