Written by Guest on 02.02.2015 at 21:35

Why do people get so worked up about vocals in thrash metal?

To be fair most of them are awful. Like a horrible (albeit not literal) midground between black and death vocals, sans any real talent to do either. I tend to measure thrash vocals by how not irritating / grating they are, rather than how good they are like pretty much every other genre.

Funny as Souza is basically the one thrash vocalist I enjoy

Souza is great, but Balloff is better but Blitz is horrendous but Mustaine truly is the single worst thrash vocalist around. But tbh Souza isn't a shadow of himself. But then again the other bad ones are even worse nowadays.

Written by deadone on 03.02.2015 at 01:55

Written by Guest on 03.02.2015 at 01:37

Funny as Souza is basically the one thrash vocalist I enjoy

I don't mind Souza (prefer Baloff) and have always enjoyed Bltiz's work.

I'm more sick of same sounding clones who just ape the classics and often don't do it as good.

So like Dukes in Exodus who tried to sound like, and to be honest sounded a lot like, Souza in Exodus?

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.02.2015 at 01:43

Mustaine truly is the single worst thrash vocalist around.

I like the fact that on the first few Megadeth albums he just sounds like a guy emphatically saying/yelling a bunch of stuff. When he tries to actually sing it gets worse.

Written by deadone on 03.02.2015 at 02:13

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.02.2015 at 01:58



So like Dukes in Exodus who tried to sound like, and to be honest sounded a lot like, Souza in Exodus?

Never a fan of any of the Dukes era Exodus. Tempo of the Damned is the last album of theirs I have time for (I haven't heard the new one though).

Neither was I. But it hadn't hadn't to do with Dukes. It was the shoddy songwriting by Exodus with their songs which were way too long for their own good (just like Machine Head;s songs)

Definitely not number 1 of all time. I could name dozens of albums that are better in many ways, not to mention crappy vocals but that's not why Megadeth are popular anyway. Life is weird sometimes...

Rust in Peace, what more can be said? Mustaine's voice is what it is and Megadeth's fan base enjoys that way, it's what makes the band different beside the mindblowing guitar work. I have much to listen in the world of metal but this is something special, the personal and nuclear lyrics, the flow, the consistency, the fast riffs, man... i am young, but so far this my album, the perfect 10.

The Onion knows.

It just can't get any better than this.

I love this album,and i love megadeth,but i don't think this should be the best ranked album of all time imo.

Cannot be less than a 10 for me. Incredible quantity of high-quality solos in this album. For sure one of the best metal albums of all time.

16 April 1990 : Hammerheart
03 July 1990 : Cowboys From Hell
03 September 1990 : Painkiller
12 September 1990 : Never, Neverland
21 Septembre 1990 : Rust In Peace
09 October 1990 : Seasons In The Abyss
06 November 1990 : Coma Of Souls

-> Pretty prolific period metal-wise

16 times rated with "1"? lol Even if this is not the favourite style of somebody you can't seriously give "worst album i heard" for such well played music! Can only be people, that are angry, because they want this album not as the best of all time. In normal case you can rate this one not less than 6 points. For me it's even not the best one of all time, but i would rate this very good one with 8,5 points.

Written by Guest on 02.02.2015 at 21:36

Written by Guest on 02.02.2015 at 21:35

Why do people get so worked up about vocals in thrash metal?

To be fair most of them are awful. Like a horrible (albeit not literal) midground between black and death vocals, sans any real talent to do either. I tend to measure thrash vocals by how not irritating / grating they are, rather than how good they are like pretty much every other genre.

Vocals are often a problem for me in Thrash. Many times, I discovered a new Thrash band and I could like the music but vocals were so horrible that there's no way I could listen to that. For example, anything that sounds weak to me is a turn off. That's a reason why I never liked Bay Area Thrash at all. Vocals are almost always awful and weak. Teutonic Thrash is so much better when it comes to vocals.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.02.2015 at 01:43

Mustaine truly is the single worst thrash vocalist around.

I never understood why Dave decided to do the vocals himself, instead of hiring a good vocalist. Megadeth could have been so much better with a decent vocalist.
Dave is a good guitar player but it's obvious he has zero talent when it comes to vocals. And it's not a matter of age, as he already sounded horrible on Megadeth's first album.

Written by Lord_Regnier on 29.02.2016 at 03:38

Vocals are often a problem for me in Thrash. Many times, I discovered a new Thrash band and I could like the music but vocals were so horrible that there's no way I could listen to that. For example, anything that sounds weak to me is a turn off. That's a reason why I never liked Bay Area Thrash at all. Vocals are almost always awful and weak. Teutonic Thrash is so much better when it comes to vocals.

Pretty much fits with my experiences. I can tolerate less than great vocals if the music is worth it, but abjectly bad vocals and I won't bother. It's a useful tool to gauge something by if skimming it to see if it's worth it.

I have no problems with the vocals of the original album, but the rerecorded vocals on the remaster sound like they don't belong on the album. Needless to say, the album I bought is the remaster one w/o knowing about the vocals

My ratings: original =10
remaster = 9

The remaster sincerly was a very bad way to improve this album

Lol at your 1 for this and 10 for Ride The Lightning (right score for the album though).

Pure gold. Not a single weak track, nor riff on this album. Megadeth were by far the best songwriters of the big four and this album proves it!

17 people qualified this album with a "1". Leaving aside the fact that I cannot understand how this is possible (I can understand a 7, or an 8, but a 1 in such a classic album only means that those people hate megadeth for some reason and are trying to bias the qualifications (and succeeding)), I think the way the average qualifications are calculated should be revised. These "1"s are clearly outliers and shouldn't be taken into consideration when calculating the average.

Since the album was remastered in 2004, the whole album that was just in another level, come in a complete crap

Mustaine deserve to be punished by remaster this classic

Written by Guest on 28.12.2017 at 20:32

Since the album was remastered in 2004, the whole album that was just in another level, come in a complete crap

It doesn't make sense to give a 1 for that reason here: this is the original that we are talking about.

The older I get the more I realize how unique this band used to be during their first 4 glorious albums. No other band sounds like early Megadeth.

I just recently bought a used copy of the original mix at my record store, which is aptly going out of business next month (RIP), and I forgot how good this album is! I don't know what I was thinking with my older comments now that I've listened to it again. The musicianship on here is extremely tight and the songwriting is great, the introductory riff to the title track in particular is enticing! Great stuff all around.

Mustaine is a mediocre vocalist and that is why this album is damn good. A classic album that deserves the tag. Miles ahead of Peace sells.

Maybe their best, album, even better as Youthonasia(what is one of my fav from this band) . Songs from 1 to 4 are just killer songs, its amazing, brilliant album.

Trying my best to learn some Megadave riffs on guitar has made me appreciate this album even more. A true masterpiece, even if Five Magics is sort of filler.

Written by Metren on 18.09.2019 at 03:32

even if Five Magics is sort of filler.

Wow, I strongly disagree. Five magics, for me, belongs to the best from this album, actually to the best they have ever done.
In fact I fail to detect a filler on this album, it is indeed a masterpiece.