5/1/2023 0 Comments Supercollider review megadeth![]() ![]() There is no official showing for this artwork. But I'm still rooting for you, Dave, and always will be. While this isnt official, the folks at AntiMusic seem to think this is the artwork for the new Megadeth album, Supercollider. And hearing him talking about "big brother" (sigh) while doing his spoken-word "spooky angry guy" vocals in the horrid "Dance in the Rain"? The whatever-that-is nothingness of "Beginning of Sorrow"? The unfocused mess that is "The Blackest Crow"? (And these are three songs in a row, totally killing the album's flow at the mid-point.) Yeah, you just want it to stop. Truthfully, Super Collider is just a Megadeth album born of complacency and issued with only the faintest interest in remaining relevant. It's also way less heavy than the last few, which at least had that going for them (not that music has to be heavy to be good, but Megadeth pretty much do). Look, I've long been a late-era Megadeth apologist, and while there's nothing abhorrent about this album, it's so unobtrusive that it's practically not there, just one more forgettable release from a guy we're all secretly rooting for. "Forget to Remember" pulls off the mid-tempo Mega-dance, but barely, and at track nine, it's way too little too late. According to, the below image is a leaked version of the cover for Megadeth’s new album, Supercollider.Amazingly enough, it’s even more boring than the cover for TH1RT3EN, and, once again, does not feature Vic Rattlehead. See "Off the Edge" and marvel at how a song so catchy could also be so cold and unlovable - this is the frustration of modern Megadeth. From there, mid-tempo rules, with Mustaine constantly trying to write something that's going to both keep his credibility intact (um.) and be a radio hit, when both are impossibilities at this point. (Mustaine's vocals do not jive with music like that.) And it's the title track. So, it starts strong enough, but then track two comes along and right when the band need to drop a heavy thrasher, they plop down a textured radio rock tune that absolutely not one person on the face of the planet will enjoy. Here, opener "Kingmaker" starts things off with a relentless enough, speedy gallop, sounding like something off of Countdown to Extinction (the excellent production recalls that release as well), which may not be the form most were hoping this long-suffering band would return to, although that mix of radio rock smarts and streamlined mature thrash is a winner. And the band - the tunes - well, for a number of albums now he's been in a strange zone where a record drops and we say, "Wow, that's actually not bad," then totally forget anything about the damn thing, except that it resolutely wasn't a "return to form" like the man had promised. The man is the biggest train wreck in metal, our collective hearts breaking over his most recent shenanigan. Super Collider is the fourteenth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth. Super Collider (2013) It was all going so well, wasn’t it The follow-up to the widely acclaimed Th1rt3en should have been another corker, not least because Dave Mustaine’s mojo was very much perked up after his band’s mid-noughties revival, but Super Collider was a hideous disappointment. You just want it to stop: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine's constant and very public falling apart at the seams. ![]()
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