Megadeth United Abominations Album Review

The new Megadeth album, "United Abominations", is considered as a sonic assault, in the first album which featured a stable line up since their album "The World Needs A Hero" David Mustaine speaks up his mind on nuclear war and government corruption in the United States.

In first impression, the songs in the album are similar to other Megadeth's late albums. The music focuses on the song structure and the guitar rhythm without insane speed and technique. Megadeth is an old rock band, but they can play with the same intensity with other groups younger than their age. The album is steady and easygoing while full of lyrical message. Mustaine tries to deliver instead of the skill show-off as in "Rust in Peace."

The album starts with a song with a catchy tunes in "Sleepwalker". This is the typical song same with the opener of the previous album "The System Has Failed", the song full with unique lyrical structure that unfortunately never reach the peak as Megadeth's songs use to be. "Washington Is Next" has catchy chorus and faster speed. "United Abominations" is definitely the catchiest song in the album, as it becomes the title of the album. Next comes "Never Walk Alone...A Call To Arms," a long paced song slipping in the middle of the album. The songs after "United Abominations" unfortunately get worse in comparison to the previous songs. "Gears Of War" is full of metal frenzy yet too amateur for Megadeth's reputation. The same music also goes for "Blessed Are The Dead" and "Play For Blood." The next remake of "A Tout Le Monde" which features Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil fails to impress since it is played the same with its previous version in "Youthanasia." Cristina Scabbia's voice barely heard in the song and Glen Drover's guitar solo are lame and out of technique. The last three songs "Amerikhastan," "You're Dead," and "Burnt Ice" do not come any better. The closing of the album gives an impression that the album completion is rushed so that they just grab any song to fill in the album. The guitar solo is painful to hear and lack of creativity. Dave's guitar sounds chaotic, but Drover's is actually good, only he's an artist who can only re-create others' works and without creativity.

The sound quality in "United Abominations" is no good compared to "The System has Failed" album. The album sounds as if it is made not in a professional recording establishment, but in a home studio. The good thing about this album is that it can easily be listened to. The sound is average and not full of music and instrumental distortion.

To Megadeth fans, even though they buy the album, this album is disappointing. The songs are not as what they may have been expected. There are no heavy metal music, only simple hard rock. Mustaine fails to do a great job this time.

Gretchen Gordon loves rock and roll and other pop music.

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Review of Heavy Metal - Music From the Motion Picture

Of all the music I own, this collection of tracks in Heavy Metal, has to be one of, if not, my favorite. I have constantly upgraded the media - from wax to CD - ripped the CD to mp3s - lost the CD - accidentally deleted the mp3s - downloaded from iTunes. The music from this album, release in 1981, has held up well over the years.

Some will argue that the music is not "metal" and to an extent this is true. But the "metal" in the title is from name of the movie "Heavy Metal" of which this album is the soundtrack. There are some tracks that are early versions of metal (Nazareth, Black Sabbath for example.) These, mixed with the other tracks, provide a good cross-section of the music of the early eighties - metal, hard rock, pop, and I guess a Devo category which defies categorization (new wave maybe.)

Heavy Metal the movie is an animated collection of vignettes released in 1981 with the sci-fi and fantasy magazine Heavy Metal serving as its inspiration. The magazine was and is famous for its nudity and violence and the movie contains an ample portion of each though not to extent of the magazine. The soundtrack to the movie is sixteen tracks from a variety of artist and was released on a double album.

The songs from the solo artist rival, or in some instances, are much better than anything they have done elsewhere. Blue Lamp is one of Stevie Nicks' best solo releases ever. Donald Fagan, just coming off the breakup of Steely Dan, shows his jazzy style in True Companion. What Don Felder does here is just as good or better than anything he has ever done, with or without the Eagles.

Blue Oyster cult wrote several songs for the soundtrack to the movie but it was a song they didn't write for the movie that made the cut. 'Veteran of the Psychic Wars', cowritten by BOC's Eric Bloom and the science fiction/fantasy author Michael Moorcock, has been covered by the Finnish metal band Tarot and by Metallica.

Tracks from early metal bands (but not too early) Black Sabbath and Nazareth blend well with the hard rock from Riggs and Sammy Hagar. Hagar is at the height of his solo career. The two songs from Jerry Rigg's pseudonynous band are better known than anything else they have ever done. The song Prefabricated, is translated from the french and is by the band, The Trust.

Cheap Trick recorded "Reach Out" and "I must be Dreaming" for Heavy Metal. Power ballad "Open Arms" from Journey also appeared in the soundtrack to the movie "The Last American Virgin."

The high quality "Queen Bee" was probably Grand Funk Railroad's most notable track during their early eighties reunion. Grand Funk was one of my favorite bands from the 70's (it's also Homer Simpson's favorite band.)

Hard rock, guitars, keyboards, strong vocals - if you're looking for this sound, it's all here.

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