Megadeth - Super Collider review
| Band: | Megadeth |
| Album: | Super Collider |
| Style: | Heavy metal, Thrash metal |
| Release date: | June 04, 2013 |
| A review by: | BitterCOld |
01. Kingmaker
02. Super Collider
03. Burn!
04. Built For War
05. Off The Edge
06. Dance In The Rain
07. The Beginning Of Sorrow
08. The Blackest Crow
09. Forget To Remember
10. Don't Turn Your Back...
11. Cold Sweat [Thin Lizzy cover]
12. All I Want [limited edition bonus] [Japanese bonus]
13. A House Divided [limited edition bonus] [Japanese bonus]
14. Symphony Of Destruction [Live in Pomona, CA] [Japanese bonus]
So MegadavE is back with album 14 now (Jebus, really, that many? I stopped paying attention after
It seems across the interw3b there have been a lot of super-deriders, but the band is of significant enough stature that we really should review them and since no one else at Metal Storm Towers was chomping at the bit, I figured I'd take this on as a change of pace from Slavic doom.
Supercollider starts off well enough with
The anti-bullying campaign insists "it gets better", but in the case of Supercollider it doesn't.
Sure, there are lots of impressive solo bits to air-guitar along to and the production is a hell of a lot better than, say, World Painted Magnetic, but the tracks themselves just fell largely listless and limp.
Take the e-chugging primary riff off the first half or so of "Dance In the Rain" - it's got some rapid e-string chugging going on, just like my favorite Megadeth riff (the asphalt ripping one off "Good Mourning/Black Friday"), but the song flow around it makes the whole song feel lethargic. At least that song erupts a bit at the end.
Too much of the album just feels like it's trying to walk the line between having some sort of edge, but doing so without sacrificing playability on your average hard/classic rock station.
The album isn't terrible. It's not mortifying horrid, but it's not particularly good either. I mean it's well produced and created by skilled musicians, but it just doesn't have the grit or bite that I was hoping for. I honestly cannot imagine myself intentionally queuing this one again once the review gets posted.
And "Cold Sweat"? suffice it to say somehow Megadeth manage to do pretty much to Thin Lizzy's track what Winger did to Hendrix' "Purple Haze". (Click here if feeling masochistic.) Somehow they managed to suck all the soul and life out of the track. A lot like their "Paranoid", the notes are there, but somehow the "it" that made the original so significant is absent.
But hey, I'm sure a lot of folks will love it. At least it's not Risk, right? Then again, at least there was some risk to Risk...
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 7 |
| Songwriting: | 5 |
| Originality: | 5 |
| Production: | 7 |
 | Written on 02.06.2013 by BitterCOld has been officially reviewing albums for MetalStorm since 2009. |
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| Mattybu Posts: 2589  |
Written by Angelic Storm on 03.06.2013 at 07:57 Interesting. I haven't even listened to the new Megadeth yet so I really can't say anything just yet, but I think I get what you're saying. I actually enjoyed Youthanasia quite a bit, as long as you aren't expecting your neck to get thrashed off its a nice little album. And I agree with basically everything you said about it too. I'm actually interested to hear this new album not that I expect great things it just intrigues me.
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| Monolithic ♠♠♠ Posts: 669  |
As a Megadeth fan, you didn't even bash the album but I'm amazed to see you getting a lot of criticism for that. I don't approve of that, as it is written in a mild manner and you noted that there's some hope for people to like it. 
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15288  |
And the responses to the review demonstrate why this album is likely to win biggest letdown and surprise. in response to the post above, i probably would have said different things had "Megadeth" not been affixed to the album, because a huge chunk of the comparisons would no longer have been applicable. whether Megadeth or the band in the garage down the street, it's still relatively boring and listless. i guess i'm wrong to expect more from dave than the dudes up the block.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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| chrisʇrenounced Posts: 33  |
I think Countdown to Extinction and Youthanasia are the only Megadeth albums worth owning. Haven't heard this one yet, but I can't imagine chicken-dave squeezing out a golden egg after 19 long years.
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675  |
Written by Mattybu on 03.06.2013 at 23:19 Yep, I might actually try giving a go to reviewing this album in a few days time. I think it'll be interesting to see how two people with vastly different opinions on the worth of the band's post-RIP material, still came to relatively similar conclusions about the quality of the new album.
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| Zap Posts: 3586  |
Written by BitterCOld on 02.06.2013 at 19:45 Worst means sausage in Dutch. I don't know why I'm saying this.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7573  |
Written by Zap on 05.06.2013 at 19:45 And, boi, I love sausage.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Zap on 05.06.2013 at 19:45 because current Megadeth material is like a tasteless worst
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 05.06.2013 at 20:49 I knew it had some relevance!
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 |
I've heard of BratWURST sausages, but not Worst.... you learn something new everyday! 
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Written by tea[m]ster on 02.06.2013 at 16:43 Heh, I wasn't the only one who reacted like that.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| tea[m]ster Au Pays Natal Contributor Posts: 5266  |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 09.06.2013 at 00:42 Yep. Don't get me wrong, I don't HATE Megadeth it's just I haven't liked anything by them since RIP.
---- rekt
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| Scuzzy McDouche Posts: 67  |
It's a fact that Megadeth has been total shit since RIP, and should go ahead and change their name to Megafail, but god dammit how can you compare Countdown to Suckage to The Black Album? I actually liked the Black Album! Leave it alone!
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| Daniell _爱情_ Elite Posts: 6106  |
Written by [user id=108863] on 02.06.2013 at 08:53 It's perfectly fine if things change. I absolutely loved "Countdown to Extinction", and quite liked "Youthanasia". These were 2 albums that marked a change in Megadeth's sound. Their later albums were so-so, but most of them had some highlights. "The System Has Failed", "The World Needs a Hero", "Endgame" - these were decent releases with quite a few solid songs each. But this new album is simply bland, uninspired, lifeless and booooooring. Even "Risk" was better, because it had 2 good songs, while this turd has one...
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| Sepulnation Posts: 111  |
I'm losing my interest on MegadetH... all my respects Dave, but your last productions are extremely boring, "soul-less", even bad... where's the anger??? RIP...
---- fuck shit up!
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| Murder Posts: 255  |
I'm a huge Megadeth fan, but God... this album is lack of EVERYTHING, it has nothing to offer. I'd really enjoyed the last two albums, specially the last one, but listening this was really hard for me... one or two songs, no more. I'm disappointed with Super Collider, boring as hell.
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15288 |
Written by Coolingsrock on 02.06.2013 at 17:20 Not sure how i missed this comment earlier... while not a fan of disco (aside in an ironic sort of way which could now be considered "hipsterish", only i purchased the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in '91, long before hipsterdom), i legitimately like this song. the bass line, the "sermon" in the middle - "I ain't talking 'bout burning down no building..." has a fun, good vibe to it.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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