Hey, hey! A new Megadeth album is out! I’m sure my faithful readers know my love of Megadeth as the kings of heavy metal. I dig them more than Metallica, that’s a fer sure.
This is a follow-up to their The System Has Failed album which brought Megadeth back from the dead when there were fears that Dave Mustaine had put the beast to slumber due to him losing mobility in his arm. But he fought back and he is back with a vengeance with both his last album and this one.
I have listened to it a few times and I must say it may become one of my faves. As always, Megadeth have politicized lyrics and this album is no exception as we enter the atrocity of the current state of affairs. Their tunes Washington Is Next is reminiscent of Holy Wars (but not as good, of course!). They also re-record one of my favourite tunes – A Tout Le Monde featuring Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil on co-vocals. An excellent re-recording of the track although I prefer the solo from the original. It’s interesting to note that for the longest time everyone thought this was a song about suicide but it was really about a person facing their death – like an older person sitting there realizing that death is upon them. It’s an interesting note.
Overall, an excellent Megadeth album and I can see the new lineup in the band may become one of the better ones (alongside the classic lineup of Marty Friedman, Nick Menza and David Ellefson).
iplaying: She Likes The Weather – The Himalayans (She Likes The Weather)
2 replies on “Review: United Abominations – Megadeth”
It’s interesting that you mention the popular misconception regarding the meaning of the song À tout le monde.
John introduced me to Megadeth, does anyone else find it upsetting that it’s not death… is deth a word? Anyhoo, in the past I had never considered listening to it because of the heavy metal label and the name MEGADETH but I must say that I loved this song and immediately downloaded a bunch more … scratch that… I immediately bought a bunch of albums… much better…
Back to the point, John suggested the band learn the song as it is bilingual, upon first listen I thought it would be an awesome song to close a concert with because you are saying goodbye but then I was like what a minute I think it’s about suicide, still an awesome song but not a show closer.
That is all… Good day
Man, John and I are HUGE Megadeth fans. We even like to whip out a little Captive Honour once in awhile. Do yourself a favour and get the Countdown to Extinction album…that will be a good segue way into some classic ‘Deth for a first timer. Then we can talk about you ‘borrowing’ the rest of my albums.
As for the song being a show closer…yeah I see what you mean. Let’s be honest. Everyone thinks it’s about suicide. Not hard to misinterpret that.