Metal Reviews

Haha.

I agree that some thrash singer are better than some Power Metal singer, but I mean that Thrash Metal was never about nice, clean and correct singing. The vocals have to be aggressive. And mean. And more aggressive.

In addition to Black Rain, I also listened to this album for the first time yestarday. Whereas Black Rain disappointed me, this album actually surprised me. I loved The System Has Failed (in fact, I'd say it sits with Youthanasia and Rust In Peace as my three favorite Megadeth albums, with Peace Sells and Cryptic Writings tied for number 4), but Gears of War sounded too much like Dave going back to his World Needs A Hero sound (this coming from one of the few people who thought TWNAH was a very good album - I listened to it just this morning, in fact) without really doing anything unique. Surprisingly, however, the final album turned out to be a great heavy/thrash metal album. It has a considerably darker and less accessible sound than The System Has Failed, which isn't a complement or complaint (just an observation). The guitar work is probably Megadeth's most complex since Rust In Peace. And Dave's never sounded better.

Whether this is better than The System Has Failed is up for debate, but overall I'm very pleased with the album. It's definitely on my to-buy list.

This is probably their best album in the past decade by far. It has that dirty tone I really like with Megadeth ( Endgame could have been great but the production sounded too clean to me ) and most of all it has that trademark Dave Mustaine anger because he found a subject that really drove him to write. You can really feel it in a lot of the music in my opinion.

Pretty much love every track on this album. Sleepwalker should have been a B side or something, and it'd be really a perfect album.