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14 minutes ago, VH1986 said:

 I hope it's okay to jump right into the conversations.

Some rules are fluid, jump where ever you like.

I was listening to Dystopia yesterday or the day before, I kind of get the connection people are making between the two albums. I also get that many people thought Dystopia was a big come back for MegaDave, but I think the new one definitely has more connection to RIP era (+ or - a few years) than it does with Dystopia.

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25 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

No, but one or two of the riffs are definitely ripped from RIP and for me the feel of the album is there rather than closer to Dystopia. But although I like Dystopia I've never liked it as much as most people did so maybe that has something to do with it.

Also at least one riff ripped from Peace Sells too.

I like Dystopia except for its over sterile production.

 

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I finally got around to this album today.  It is horrendous.

It is half-hearted in delivery, lazily written and simply flat for large parts of the album were it just goes AWOL.  I know he's been unwell and most certainly is no spring chicken but Mustaine is lacklustre at best (his best performance being on the extended edition and the Dead Kennedy's cover but also Sammy Hagar is on this version on the cover of his own song - SAMMY FUCKING HAGAR??)

Fretboard wankery abounds on a few occasions here and it brings nothing to the compositions whatsoever.  DiGiorgio might as well not be here, just like most other Megadeth albums I cannot hear the bass regardless of who is playing it.  A horribly tired and ill-conceived album for a band that is about to clock up forty years of existence.

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3 hours ago, megamike said:

It's not good at all. There was all this hype as well as Dave saying well before the album even had a title that this was some of the fastest riffs the band has ever done and his hand was cramping up??

It's time to retire if he thinks that way! 

 

What did you honestly expect?!?!?

I've seen countless aging bands that have been well past their expiration dates announce or have some reviewer decry that their new album is a legit return to form. Has it ever been true? Maybe once or twice. Why do they lie? That's their job to say that shit because they're trying to sell records, it's called marketing.

Maybe if Dave had brought Sammy Hagar in to do vox the album would have been better?

I've stopped bothering with any of them. I prefer to remember the bands of my youth the way they were back in their hey-days and just jam out with the old stuff now and then. Except for Thomas Gabriel Fischer, off the top of my head he's the lone exception of a dude nearly my age who's been around for 40 years and can still get the job done. And Killing Joke, they've miraculously gotten better with age. I guess that's because they don't have record companies breathing down their necks to give them another money maker like Love Like Blood, they can just do what they want now in their old age. I want to say Overkill as well, but I'd be lying if I said I thought the newer albums (as good as they are) were every bit as good as to stand toe to toe with the classics.

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I love Dave and Magadeth as much as anybody (yes that was an intentional misspelling), but I'm not interested in anything past Rust. Maybe a song or 2 off of Youthanasia, but I can honestly live without them. Were still hyped to see them live a while back, but new stuff hard pass. I did watch the first video out of morbid curiosity. Was not impressed.

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There's definitely one riff pulled from Good Mourning/Black Friday off Peace Sells.  Not the first time Megadeth have done this.  

Generally not a fan of recycled riffs but there's enough original stuff here to make it a minor issue.

The speed seems more pure thrash ala Peace Sells or KIMBABIG than RIP.

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When you also read from some fans that say this new album sounds like older Megadeth.  it peaks your curiosity, of course when i listened to it, it was major disappointment. 

I should realize these fans probably were born after album like 20 years ago and love Risk and Cryptic Writings. Not the first 4 albums. Testament and maybe Sodom have released 1 maybe 2 albums not worthy enough. Other than that, those bands hardly disappoint! 

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