Megadeth - "United Abominations"

[BulletBeast]

Bom. O novo album de Megadeth sai daqui a menos de 1 mês e pelo pouco que tive a oportunidade de ouvir no MySpace, parece-me que será um album a ter em conta.

Curti os riffs da "Gears of War" e a "Washington is Next!!!" também me parece boa.
A "Gears of War" tem um feeling bem old-school. A faixa "Sleepwalker" tem riffs mesmo à Megadeth, bem "trashalhão". Mas nada como ouvir as versões definitivas em CD, quando este saír.

Eis a tracklist:
1. Sleepwalker
2. Washington Is Next!
3. Never Walk Alone...A Call to Arms
4. United Abominations
5. Gears of War
6. Blessed Are the Dead
7. Play for Blood
8. A Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)
9. Amerikhastan
10. You're Dead
11. Burnt Ice

[revolutionwithin]

Espero que seja um bom álbum...

Vou dar uma saltada ao MySpace deles...

[Gyroscope]

Até agora, so ouvi a Washington is Next.. e essa musica está sem duvida ao nivel dos grandes Megadeth.. por isso tou ah espera de um grande album.

[hell_above]

Ouvi o Sleepwalker e o Gears of War. Insípido.

[X-FrEaK]

a Gears of War ta mt boa

[hell_above]

a Gears of War ta mt boa

Consigo detectar algo do bom e velho espírito dos Megadeth no tema, mas a música não tem um único riff que me capte a atenção.

[coragem [RIP]]

acabei de o ouvir e sinceramente depois de tantas expectativas esperava melhor... dou-lhe 8 de 0 a 10

[Cyberquake]

Tou a ouvir... tou a ouvir.

[geiras]

Tou a ouvir... tou a ouvir.

same as here

[UnknownOne]

Para quem ainda não ouviu fica aqui uma primeira impressão de um tipo do forum da kerrazy

This album really sounds like leftovers from TSHF and it shows with how pedantic the riffs are in this record. The so called 'thrash' elements are in the first two songs of the album, then it goes into the same old midpace CTE-Youth Megadeth mode except that era has memorable riffs and the vocal hooks and lyrics were high quality.

The solos are abundant but they don't have cohesion with the songs, it doesn't have any punch - just a test of speed and scales. Drover is behind Jeff Young as the least memorable Megadeth lead guitar player that Dave has hired. He makes Al Pitrelli look real good since Al can definitely contruct a solo that's not as technically proficient, but has more feel and phrasing. Dave's lead playing is schizophrenic in a bad way - he goes into 'holy wars' mode in the last track which would have worked if there is a great rhythm attached to the song. Even the short solo in Washington is Next from Dave borders on 'sloppiness' that I can't believe that a guy as known as he is for being a control freak in the studio allowed that to be in his record.

The lyrics were simply third rate and because of that, the vocal hooks suffered from it. Amerikhastan and United Abominations would have worked if the lyrical structure were less obvious. Dave just tries too hard to go back into preaching about Politics when he should have concentrated more on how the lyrics will fit into the song. It really sounds awkward and tired coming from a man who was a great lyricist at one time in his career.

On the positive side, production is good which is typical of Sneap and there are songs that have more going for it even with the problems I mentioned above. United Abominations has some good tempo and structure, along with well placed solos and a chorus that would have been real good except when he crams the title song there like a third nipple at the end. Never Walk Alone is just ear candy that could have been placed on Cryptic Writings and Play for Blood has that groove going even though the solos were head scratching.

If I were a guy who gives ratings though I don't believe that you can put a subjective area as 'art' in a numerical basis IMO, I'd give this album a 2.5/10. Bottomline: the big 4 should retire from making albums and just concentrate performing live since they don't have anything significant/good to offer.

[geiras]

o Mustaine manda grandes riffs neste album, as letras tão fixes.
do melhor que ele têm feito desde uns anos para cá

[Cyberquake]

Esse tipo deve de estar é doido. Não deve de ter ouvido o mesmo álbum que eu de certeza. Não é um Rust in Peace II, mas isso já estávamos todos à espera. Achei um bom album... só nao achei grande graça à musica "United Abominations", mas pode ser q isso ainda mude. Grandes riffs, grandes leads (o senhor Drover fez os trabalhos de casa)... e pronto. Eles que venham cá um dia destes.

[UnknownOne]

Já tinha dito antes que as musicas não me agradavam e não eram nada de especial; vou agora ouvir o album a ver se se confirma...

[Gyroscope]

Sinceramente, tava ah espera de muito mais... tem aqui umas musicas porreiras e tal, mas nao passa mesmo disso..

[X-FrEaK]

tb tou a ouvir esta Gears of War "continua" excelente xD