Megadeth - The System Has Failed
| Release date: | 12 September 2004 |
| Style: | Heavy metal |
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01. Blackmail The Universe
02. Die Dead Enough
03. Kick The Chair
04. The Scorpion
05. Tears In A Vial
06. I Know Jack
07. Back In The Day
08. Something That I'm Not
09. Truth Be Told
10. Of Mice And Men
11. Shadow Of Deth
12. My Kingdom
The Best Thrash Metal Album Of 2004
02. Die Dead Enough
03. Kick The Chair
04. The Scorpion
05. Tears In A Vial
06. I Know Jack
07. Back In The Day
08. Something That I'm Not
09. Truth Be Told
10. Of Mice And Men
11. Shadow Of Deth
12. My Kingdom
The Best Thrash Metal Album Of 2004
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8.5
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Rating: 8.5 |
Ahh Megadeth... This wonderful band used to be my favourite band with Metallica until they released Risk and lost my interest. I then did not even give The World Needs A Hero a chance, it wasn't really worth it anyway, although better than crappy Risk. I didn't expect anything from the 'album of the great return', The System Has Failed. I had heard the song 'Kick The Chair', which was interesting, with good thrash riffing despite the lack of aggressiveness in the vocals. But they had sort of lost the flame in my opinion. Now I've listened to the whole album like thirty times, and I've reached a conclusion: oh damn, I'm sorry, I was wrong, I won't criticize a band blindly ever again... This album is brilliant. Read more ›› |
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| ThisIsEndgame Posts: 35 From: USA  |
Megadeth's decline officially ended here imo. Although i dislike how they edit Dave;s voice in many of the tracks i like the way it sounds in of mice and men. A lot of great songs on this CD
---- \m/ Next thing you know they'll take my thought away! \m/
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| Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504 From: New Zealand  |
Written by ThisIsEndgame on 28.08.2011 at 02:05Agreed... 3-5 are my favourites. The vocals in Mice annoy me a bit, but overall it's certainly a good one. Had it rated at 7 for the longest time, until today. Among Deth's 4-5 best albums IMO
---- death ? thrash ? death/doom/prog ? Hail Zoldon! he's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 From: UK  |
For me, this is Megadeth's best album outside of their first 4 classic albums. My only gripes with the album are Chris Poland's solo in "Of Mice And Men" being criminally short, the whiny hypocritical lyrics of "Something I'm Not", and the fillers "My Kingdom", and (the pointless!) "I Know Jack". There's a genuine tension in many of the songs, even the mid paced songs, that was abscent in most of their other post-RIP material. For me, it's definitely the closest Megadeth have came to recapturing the vibe of their first 4 albums, which is why I regard it so highly! 
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| Alex F Slick Dick Rick Posts: 3502 From: USA  |
A good album, i'm going to have to agree with Angelic Storm in saying that this is their best album outside of the first 4.
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| Zombie94 Posts: 458 From: Ireland  |
Really underrated album! A few forgettable songs on it towards the end but the first seven are killer; especially Blackmail The Universe, Die Dead Enough, Kick The Chair, and Back In The Day.
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| Maco Pvt Funderground Posts: 3593  |
"Something That I'm Not" should have been called "Metallica fired me and is more successful than my band so I wrote this song as the envious and resentful I am" A long name, but I think it fits better to the lyrics of the song.
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 From: UK |
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| Shadowdeth Posts: 5 From: Mexico  |
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 60961 From: Sweden  |
Day when Megadeth became bigger as Metallica and rules im big 4 Anthrax died in 1990, Slayer in the abyss, metallica after black. BTW if I would say I would put Testament and Overkill in big 4 kick out slayer and anthrax. I remmeber video die dead enough on TV, I watched it million times and it was killer song then and are now. I listened album then, I did not like(I was young) but after some years re listened again, then I liked it, I understood that new megadeth is good actually. Same I think now.
---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''  apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Roman Doez Hallucigenia Posts: 913 From: France  |
This one is great ! Truly a great comeback after the last 3 albums, and it has some absolutely kick ass songs, "blackmail the universe", "the scorpion" and "kick the chair" being the absolute best ! Though the album drags on for a bit too long at some point, it's still great
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| F3ynman2000 Nocturnal Bro Posts: 2666 From: Germany  |
I really don't like Dave's voice on this 
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| metalbrat Posts: 867 From: India |
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| majormalfunction Posts: 1453  |
Best one since Youthanasia. Some iffy tracks but overall solid.
---- Everything's twice as bright with money in your hands
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