foxman666 wrote:id have to disagree on that i think the worst outta the group is metallica . i have seen megadeth and slayer live together and dave sounded great sure his vocals arnt as good as they used to but lets remember the guy is almost 50 . Megadeths endgame is a great album showing daves ability to work with some new blood in the band ( even if he does that almost every album ) Cris Broderick is a great guitarist and works well with daves style of playing and live its even better to see them live to understand . Slayer is also a great band of the big 4 because of the fact they took what metallica and megadeth laid down and ran with it to a whole new level by adding more darkness to the lryics of the songs and speeding up the tempo even more then early metallica and megadeth's break neck speeds.
I have too, saw them with Testament in Cleveland. Dave's vocals were never really anything to crow about, but they've reached far beyond pathetic live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyLBqkmups&#t=3m03sSeriously, I don't know where he thinks that's even acceptable.
About Megadeth's recent work, System really was their last great album. Hell, even ST. ANGER was better than United Abominations, and that's saying something. Endgame had some alright songs, but a lot of it was boring wankery, throwing in a generic shredding solo every 5 seconds. The inability to make out a single memorable riff on many of the songs, along with Dave's drivel of endless talking and grunting over it, instead of actual singing (see: "This Day We Fight!") kills what could have potentially been a much better album. There were a few highlights though. Dialectic Chaos, 44 Minutes, Headcrusher, and How The Story Ends were all pretty cool. Maybe the title track too. As for Broderick, yes, he's an amzing guitarist (nothing on Marty), but not within Megadeth. Dave watered him down, his solos on Endgame were just tasteless, generic shredding. He has some amazing talent that he's shown in his work outside of Megadeth, but Dave, it seems, killed that.
Anthrax is one of the most under rated thrash metal bands ever i mean they were the first metal band to do a metal and rap type song when they did bring da noise with public enemy and guess what they got hit hard for that but look what came out a few years later NU metal with most of it is **** but there are the few bands in there that arnt half bad . The biggest failures of the big four have to be metallica there older stuff was good dont get me wrong but after they lost cliff burton they should have stopped . Cliff was a major part of the bands early sound with out cliff metallica kinda started to suck they released one good album with out cliff and then boom what do we got now we got the black album that kinda sucks then load and re load the names fit the cds then we got some cover album that was ok then boom st anger the biggest pile of **** to hit the metal markets . so for me the big four should be Megadeth , slayer , anthrax then shittallica i mean metallica
Yes, they are extremely underrated, but nu-metal? Lolz. Sound Of White Noise was far from nu-metal. In fact, it was an amazing heavy/thrash album.
Regarding Metallica, they're certainly far from failures. Their best albums, live and studio, happened after Cliff Burton. Justice, Live Sh*t, and S&M. The change in direction wasn't because Cliff wasn't there, or some crap like that. They consciously chose to create a different style of music, because they felt they couldn't take the thrash style any further, they wouldn't have been able to top Justice, and would have ended up repeating themselves. The Black Album went 15x Platinum, so no, I wouldn't say it sucked in the least. If it sucked, what does that make The Ritual, Countdown To Extinction, Drift, Divine Intervention, and all the rest?
Anyway, Megadeth has consistently put out the worst albums after Rust In Peace, so I'd definitely say they're the worst of the four. That doesn't make em bad, just not as good.
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