Megadeth

Good? lol they were good only on 2 albums, rest is classic and fire from the ass

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I thiiiiink he meant to say gods...

Everyone buy Endgame! You can make it Megadeth's first number album ever!

I'd buy it if THEY WOULD FUCKING BRING IT HERE ON ITS RELEASE DATE

NEW ALBUM LEEEEEEEEEEEEAKED

im definately buying it when it comes out though....FO SHO

Cheese wrote:

NEW ALBUM LEEEEEEEEEEEEAKED

im definately buying it when it comes out though....FO SHO

Already?!

Yeah I downloaded it yesterday and gave it a spin, it's not bad but not a new rust in peace.

downloading it now will tell ya what i think

This will be one of my favourite Megadeth's album for sure, Broderick should stay with them forever, Drover too.

It's not bad. Typical Megadeth.

Heat wrote:

It's not bad. Typical Megadeth.

pretty much... good, but nothing extra.

It's up on the blog, Grab it fast I'm sure Google will rip it down soon. If they do PM me for the link.

I listenend to it...i liked it. i loved the first instrumental track. yeah...its typical megadeth...thats why its good XP

i agree with lottledoom though...it aint a new rust in peace

"Endgame" is orgasmic! I mean, sure it ain't another RIP or "Peace Sells", but it's still great. But I'm definitely buying the album when I can

I'll tell you, the more I listen to it the more I am really really liking it.

Good job dudes.

yaay! keep listening then!

Downloaded two songs from Endgame and it sounds promising. The production is top notch as usual from Andy Sneap. He's really good at capturing the trademark sound of the bands he produces.

Just a thought...Metallica should hire him to produce their next album.....

Vogg, the album is on the bloog

Here are some interesting tidbits from Dave Mustaine you may enjoy. It's no wonder that people think he's a pompass ass.

Germany's Bonedo web site recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. The entire chat can be viewed at this location. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow below (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On how MEGADETH's sound has evolved over the years:

Mustaine: "We were trying to go back to our roots after Marty [Friedman; guitar] left. And it was a lot easier because you had one guitar player you were making happy, and that's me. And when Marty left, we had a guy named Al Pitrelli come in, and he was no replacement for Marty. But Chris [Broderick, current MEGADETH guitarist] is quite the replacement; Chris is probably twice the guitar player that Marty is.

"I like Marty; he's a good kid. He's a little strange, but he was a good guy. He helped me get to where I'm at, to a degree, and I wish him well."

On MEGADETH's new album, "Endgame":

Mustaine: "We are doing basically what we wanna do right now. I think the record is exactly what my career needed at this point. I think it's exactly what the music industry needs for a shot in the arm again.

"The heavy metal community's got so many talented people, and we needed someone like me or any of the other three of the 'Big Four' [of '80s thrash metal; a list that also includes METALLICA, SLAYER and ANTHRAX] to get out there and make a record like this. So I did my share. [laughs]"

On his guitar playing:

Mustaine: "I play a lot in the pentatonic scale, but I play a lot in minor scales, too. Some people will say that that's where my limitation is, and you know...

"I'm a very highly rated guitar player. Right now, there's a lot of charts out that are rating all the guitar players in heavy metal. I'm Number One for a reason. And if you read the latest book from Joel McIver ['The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists'], I'm Number One in that book, too. Look at all the descriptions about it; it talks about everything that I do with a guitar.

"Now I don't have any one thing that I do too much, and I try and do a little bit of everything with the guitar, and I think that that's what secured that position for me.

"There's a lot more guitar players that are better than me — I know that — but as far as what the charts say right now, there's not."

On how drummer Shawn Drover came to join MEGADETH:

Mustaine: "Shawn Drover got into the band in a very peculiar way.

"I had asked Nick Menza [former MEGADETH drummer] to come back to MEGADETH [in 2004], and he'd come out and we were playing, and he kept disappearing. And it was really weird, because he would leave, he would go to the store, and sometimes he'd come right back, sometimes he would never come back. And his drum tech disappeared one day. So we said, 'The guy's gone. We've gotta get you another drum tech.' So Glen [Drover, then-MEGADETH guitarist] says, 'My brother's a drum tech.' So we call up Shawn. Nick's laying on the couch in the office at the studio [while we were calling Shawn on the phone]. And Glen goes, 'Hey, Shawn, it's Glen.' [Shawn] goes, 'Hey, Glen, it's Shawn.' [Glen goes] 'Here's Dave.' [I go] 'Hi, Shawn, it's Dave.' [Shawn goes] 'Hey, Dave, it's Shawn.' [I go] 'Here's Nick.' [And Nick says] 'I don't even wanna fucking know you.' And we were like, 'What did he just say?' He said, 'I don't even wanna fucking know you' to Shawn Drover while his brother was standing right there. And [Glen] looked at me like Nick just clogged the toilet. And I went outside with [Glen] and [Glen] goes, 'I can't play with this guy.' And I said, 'I know. I fired him once already too. Don't worry, I'll fire him again.' And I fired [Nick]. He got sent home. His girlfriend tried to mount some huge campaign to smear us, but that doesn't work; the truth came out. And Shawn came out, 'cause Glen said he could play the songs. I said, 'OK, what have we got to lose?' And he came out and in four days, he had the whole set down, the fifth day we drove to Reno, the sixth day he was playing with MEGADETH, and the rest is history."

On MEGADETH's songwriting process:

Mustaine: "When you write songs, for some people there's two parts: there's the music and the lyrics. For other people, it's the music and the melody and the lyrics. And that's the difference between bands that are really simple bands and bands that are really complicated. One of the things that is a huge bone of contention is lyrics.

"We had a song called 'Reckoning Day' [on 1994's 'Youthanasia']; I wrote the entire song, and David Ellefson [former MEGADETH bassist], Junior, had said, 'Hey, why don't we call that song 'Reckoning Day'?' So, because of the way he is, I know if I would have said, 'I was gonna call it 'Reckoning Day',' he would have said, 'Well, I said it first'; this kind of childish crap. So I just said, 'Alright, whatever.' So I surrendered and let him call the song 'Reckoning Day'. The same thing he did to Nick Menza's song. Nick wrote the lyrics to 'Countdown to Extinction' [the title track of MEGADETH's 1992 album], I put them all in order, and Junior goes, 'Hey, let's call it 'Countdown to Extinction'.' 'Cause he started to develop this real uncanny knack for being like a vulture around us while we were songwriting. And he got credit for coming up with the title for 'Countdown to Extinction' too. And in print it looks like he did something. The truth is he was digging through our lyrics and basically took the title out of our words. That's not cool. But you know what?! That's why he's in the little baby bands that he's in right now. He'll probably never be back in the level that he was."

On his current relationship with David Ellefson:

Mustaine: "I forgave him, but I have zero interest in ever seeing him again. He sued me; don't forget that. He tried to destroy MEGADETH. So as far as I'm concerned, as far as the fans are concerned, he should be persona non grata."

That's just Blabbermouth taking Dave out of context as usual. Don't judge if you don't know he full story.

Not saying Dave is perfect, but he IS made out to be MUCH more of an ass than he probably is.

I love megadeath, the nw album is amazeng one of there best albums ever. ONly Youthsinasia and Rust in Piece canrop it. I dont like the inro though.

Former MEGADETH guitarist Jeff Young has penned an open letter to the band's mainman Dave Mustaine, accusing him of, among other things, "dissing, exaggerating and just plain lying on some level about nearly every talented musician that has passed through his dysfunctional little ensemble."

"Until now, I chose to keep my mouth shut, even for the VH1 'Behind the Music' episode," Jeff writes on his official MySpace blog. "And boy, could I have eaten up some serious air time with the truth about what REALLY went on 'behind the music' in MEGADETH. But it's been well over twenty years and the guy just can't seem to stop himself.

"Here [Mustaine] goes again, bragging in the pages of Guitar World about how he allegedly sings the solo melodies to all his lead guitarists!!

"Seriously, folks? This guy should take his comedy act on the road, if you'll pardon the pun.

"I can't speak for the others but as exceptional as all the MEGADETH lead guys have been, I don't believe his preposterous yarn for a second.

"Regarding the 'So Far, So Good, So What?!'-era sessions: Mustaine was nowhere in the building during any of my rhythm or lead tracking sessions. And since I came into the process at the last minute, there were also NO band rehearsals whatsoever. So when, exactly, did he sing me those solos?

"Fact is, from what I heard of his unedited 'So Far, So Good, So What?!' lead tracks, the guy can barely play his own lead lines, let alone sing some of the stunning lines that Chris [Poland], Marty [Friedman] or Glen [Drover] played."

Jeff then addresses Dave directly, stating, "Let's be clear for the record: you were not in the studio with me during any of my tracking... not one song — not one second. You know it and I know it. You need to stop blatantly lying to your fans and in the media.

"Perhaps next time you look in the mirror with the ole' 'hello me, meet the real me' crap — you'll pause to consider why you feel the need to continually perpetuate ridiculous bullshit and belittle others in order to make yourself seem more significant or talented.

"You consider yourself a 'genius,' yet after all these years, you're still not smart enough to comprehend that when you diminish others, you dimish yourself most of all — even as you clearly telegraph your raging insecurity for anyone with an ounce of insight to see. You may also want to go back and re-read the lyrics you wrote in 'Liar'. Then consider the giant glass house you've built for yourself and put your silly little stones down, once and for all. At the very least for all the players that helped create all the success you now so arrogantly and selfishly enjoy."

Young concludes his missive by stating, "Oh, and while we're at it: you may want to stop telling the world that you invented the 'spider chord!' Classical guitarists commonly use that approach and it is considered part of the standard classical guitar technique, you fool."

Source: Blabbermouth.net


You can't tell me that Blabbermouth took any of that "out of context." Dave Mustaine is a great musician, but he still has a ton of issues. For somebody that is apparently 'stable' or 'at peace' or whatever he claims to be this week, he sure does open his mouth a lot and unnecessarily rag on other people. I think Jeff hit the nail on the head when he said, "when you dimmish others, you dimminish yourself most of all."

Is Dave Mustaine an asshole? Do Jeff Young tell the truth? We don't know...and I guess they were so wacked out at the time so no one really remember what's the truth anyway. What's really matters is the great Megadeth albums. Who played what or didn't, is basically of no interest for me.