Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkJ5jJuraLQ

Not the worst. Very much the same vibe as The System Has Failed, being, as far as I know, their last "back to the roots" style album. Prob won't incite me to listen to the whole record though tbh.

[Trev]

Decent enough alright, I'll probably give it a listen just because Digiorgio did the bass tracks although I'm not sure how much input he'll have actually had

[ldj]

As far as I know he just re-recorded Ellefson's bits (his bass bits!) note for note.

[hellfire]

Decent enough alright, I'll probably give it a listen just because Digiorgio did the bass tracks although I'm not sure how much input he'll have actually had

Yeah, I thought the same thing myself. From that track it sounded like he is not playing lines he wrote. I hope he was at least offered the bassist job. They have some other lad joining as a full time member. I can't think of a better metal bass player than Mr Digorgio.

[Bürggermeister]

A continuation of Dave's war porn fetish. Good solos from Kiko, completely unnecessary rapping from Ice-T lumped in there, too. You win some, you lose some. Could be worse, could be better. Typical Megadeth, so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAqc_zfmML0

[Born of Fire]

Awful lot of wasted potential in that song. Some class speedy riffs, tasty solos, lovely bass lick part way through but the vocal phrasing is so jarring. Mustaine trying to cram in far too many words to describe how aroused he his by American military. Ice T might as well have not been in the song for the few seconds he got.

[Carnage]

Few seconds too many, it was fucking cringeworthy. Has its moments but Mustaine's voice (which was never great TBH) is just gone, and it's all kind of... generic, really.

[Giggles]

Them leads are class tho

[Slaughterday]

Lead playing on these tracks are technically great but fuck me the songs are woeful. Why are the vocals so high in the mix when they're clearly shite?

Lazy lyrics, awful vocals, whole sections lifted from Good Mourning/Black Friday, shite sterile production, shitty album art. Wasted potential is the perfect description - Mustaine's playing has always been technically head and shoulders above the likes of Slayer and Metallica so I always expect more from a songwriting perspective, but I'd put this on a par with the recent output from both those bands.

[Giggles]

I'm enjoying them songs more on repeat listens. Probably the first Megadeth songs I've bothered to give repeat listens to since United Abominations. Kiko's style is fairly tasty.

I didn't realise Ice T was in the track until this thread. I just thought his part was a sample or something 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That song is absolute shit, and the leads don't in any way save it. In other words, no way I would listen to the tune again just to hear the solos.

[Trev]

That's pretty shite alright. Mustaine vocals are absolutely shocking, can only imagine how bad they'll be for live shows

[Born of Fire]

An even bigger travesty is that the original versions of the classic albums are gone off Spotify leaving behind only those atrocities of remastered and remixed editions

[Bürggermeister]

Not fit for a Youthanasia B-side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5M8K2Jm2bE

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Nor a The System Has Failed B-side for that matter, since it's totally in that mould again.