Why, just why is Dave Mustaine attempting to become the Justin Bieber of heavy metal? Quite often, musicians and creative artists in other fields release their work and give it their full backing, as they should, but some of their work makes you wonder, ‘What were they thinking?’ Super Collider is one such moment in the life of Megadeth. Having achieved an undeniable level of success doing what he does best, it baffles me to see Mustaine try to make Megadeth into a radio rock band. What happened to the Mustaine who came up with all those complex, unorthodox and unconventional meshes of rhythm and lead guitar parts, to go with hard-hitting lyrics that decorated the Megadeth albums of the past? There’s hardly anything of note on this entire album in the name of guitar solos and absolutely no interplay between Mustaine and Broderick. ![]() Lines like ‘Burn Baby Burn!’, ‘Built for war, are you looking at me, you want some more?’ and ‘Crazy, I’m going crazy!’ are just hilariously bad and I am stunned at the childishness exhibited by Mustaine through his words here. Normally, mediocre lyrics don’t bother me as much if the music is good enough to let the listener ignore that flaw, but when the lyrics are as bad as the ones in the songs ‘Burn!’, ‘Built For War’ and ‘Off The Edge’ and the music is nowhere near strong, I simply can’t overlook the comic tragedy that surrounds these songs. Usually, the first couple of tracks set the tone for the rest of the album and lay the foundation, but alas, I came to learn that Super Collider implodes rather rapidly after you’re done listening to the title track. The title track is similar in that regard, but leans towards the softer, more ‘radio friendly’ side of rock music, which may be appreciated on a broader level by people who still listen to radio, but not necessarily by Megadeth fans. It’s not a thrash tune by any stretch of the imagination but it’s a presentable, above average mid-tempo heavy rock song, generic in many ways but enjoyable all the same. ‘Kingmaker’ actually gives the album a decent start. So, contrary to the popularly prevalent ‘love to hate’ attitude towards Mustaine and his band which has led to extremely low expectations from the band’s newest effort amongst most people, I was hoping for a solid release with a longer lasting impact this time, and as I do with pretty much every album I’m eagerly waiting for, I avoided the hype/hatred around the ‘single’ releases on the internet, and earlier today I finally got the chance to experience the album in the right manner, by listening to it in full. I enjoyed the band’s throwback to the good part of their 90s era albums. Come 2013, Megadeth has moved on to Tradecraft, a label created by Universal Music for Dave Mustaine, and today on June 4th released their 14th studio effort, ‘Super Collider’.Ī lot of people hated on ‘Th1rt3en’, and even though it wasn’t memorable by any means, it made for a good few listens. ![]() The focus on the last two albums was largely lost as the band got caught up in these anniversary tours and what not. Somewhere along the line, a new studio album called ‘Th1rt3en’ was also put out. The first run of this tour was with Testament and Exodus, and got the ball rolling for a never-ending touring cycle that included two more US tours in support of the Rust In Peace anniversary, then the Big 4 dates, the resurrection of Gigantour, and ending with another anniversary tour, this time for the 20th anniversary of Countdown To Extinction. It started with the release of their 12th studio album Endgame in 2009, the first featuring Chris Broderick on guitar, then the reunion with longtime bassist David Ellefson which led to them doing the Rust In Peace 20th anniversary tour in the right earnest. At this point in time Overdrive can not confirm that any dates for any Irish shows have been announced as yet, however we will keep you informed as soon as we hear anything.Metal heavyweights Megadeth have had an eventful past few years, to say the least. They will kick things off in Romania on May 22nd and conclude on June 9th in France. The band will be performing a series of concerts in Europe this spring which can be seen below. The chat will be open to members of the Megadeth Army fanclub and will take place at 4 PM PST. Mustaine has also announced plans to hold an online chat with fans on April 1st. The album will be released on June 4th by Mustaine’s new record label, Tradecraft, in partnership with Universal Music Enterprises. Megadeth have set a release date for their new album, “Super Collider” and have announced a special online chat with frontman Dave Mustaine. Megadeth set release date for “Supercollider”
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