Comments From The Net About Megadeth and Metallica

This is best read alongside ENDGAME!


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Metalliga is the image of Megadeth in the “Bovine Eye”. It is true, Megadeth is difficult and needs some taste and cultivation to enjoy. Those who can’t make the effort there is always the plagiarized & diluted version.


Two
You are the great concert goer, concert junkie, and the veteran of the inveterate. Sure, all those wonderful things such as memory of mud living in your skin, macTallica organized neurons, and caves of violence in the place of teeth (your trophies). And, we, of course were not skateboarding when you bought Peace Sells: But Who’s Buying. And we were too young to buy those concert tickets.
However We have seen and heard what you could not due to the blood and mud stuck in your eyes and ears which won’t leave you despite ablutions. We hear the inaudible in Dave Mustaine’s creations. We see him leaving all the time, touching where dy/dx = 0, the modern history of music. We have “blood shot eyes”. Whereof, putting him as participant in your reveries of mud and in the league of those macTac makers of mud (who made mud even after a great deal of plagiarism) are no longer making any sense to us.
We grant you the respect for performing those acephalous rites as the concert goer at ‘the end of history’. But, we however snatch from you our freedom to see Mustaine crack those very “ends”. We seize from you, the concert junkie totem, the freedom to hear the inaudible crack in the history of music that Mustaine makes.


Three

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Internet is full of mercenary comments, which go up during the election season. If you recall the last big one there were devoted comment-mercenaries planting a barrage of cliches, inane slogans, and expletives. So, when you see what has been typed out you also see the 'hired hand'. Sadly most of those commenting for metallica seem just that. Hired hands which get paid per comment.

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just as their 'puppet masters' have always been plagiarizing to get by, the most 'innovative' of the hired hands, the puppets, plagiarize comments and observations made by MegaFans.

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There is no debate here at all, because there is nothing to debate. You don't go around comparing Goethe with Dan Brown, though Brown would like to do that. Megadeth is incomparable in modern musical history. That which extracts the singular from the inveterate is the act of the remarkable. Metallica in that sense is metal for the headless. There is such a species out there - The Acephalous Metalhead. Those comments? It is just business.

Rolling Stone On Megadeth

Rolling Stone magazine quite surprisingly got it right about Megadeth in the past. They knew the mode of properly appreciating Dave Mustaine. We know that RS is not quite almost entirely exactly RS today (I’m trying to be extremely diplomatic and tactful though what it is can be very much confusing). Now, selections (extremely diplomatic selections) from that archive should be a pleasure to read for any fan. So here they are …

Could you please share those statements about Megadeth that are not of the usual, though wonderful, variety, please?

[ BTW, these selections were deemed unfit for posting my the megadeth fan club - "inappropriate language. ]

Biography 

Megadeth long represented the dark and nasty side of American thrash. Between the manic precision of Mustaine's riffage, which unlike most thrash bands locked perfectly with the machine-gun pulse of the kick drum, and the inspired cynicism of his songwriting, Megadeth perfectly captured the mood of those metal fans who thought the world was going to hell, and frankly didn't give a shit.

Rust in Peace

Rust in Peace maintains a certain continuity in sound and attitude with the group's first records while demonstrating how much further the concept – nasty speed thrash with an almost jazzlike intricacy and drive – can go.

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 This is one thrashmetal band that jazzbos can get into, provided the snarl of Mustaine's lead vocals and the sustained level of anger and intensity don't send them running for the door.

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The arrangements, using multiple meters, multipart song structures, lightning-quick shifts in density, tempo and accenting, a variety of guitar overtones and sonics and occasional respites from the slamming, full-speed-ahead fervor, are consistently riveting. Many speed-metal bands are formulaic and boring; nobody can level those charges against Megadeth

Youthanasia

 Dave Mustaine has a yen for the majestic – and with spooky consistency, he succeeds in erecting towering sonic obelisks. Working this Wagnerian tip is dicey, but Megadeth's secret weapon – an oiled precision that suggests Stygian rehearsals – is calibrated to kill.

Cryptic Writings

In an era of alt-metal bluster, Megadeth have remained true to form, stirring up a snarling brew of nasal yowls, crunchy riffs and speed-of-light guitar solos that would paralyze Yngwie Malmsteen. Whether building atmosphere with ominous tribal beats and jangly acoustic guitar ("Use the Man") or going for the jugular with buzz-saw rhythms and hardcore tempos ("The Disintegrators"), Megadeth wrap their bundles of spite with enough melody to keep the grooves memorable. Make way for the real metal militia.