t/s: megadeth "rust in peace" vs "countdown to extinction"

I could stand never to hear Symphony of Destruction or Sweating Bullets again, but Polaris came on the college radio station when I was driving home at 3 a.m. recently and I sat transfixed in the driveway.

Mostly what I remember about CtE were stories about how they measured every pitch bend against a tuner to make sure it was perfect and took weeks to get the drum sound.

Yet neither can stand up to "The System Has Failed". The songs are extremely well written. Mustaine's voice is actually very melodic on their latest disc....at least as melodic as possible for him. He sings, not growls or barks. He should be extremely proud of how good he sounds on this and how far he has come as a musician.
Chris Poland rips loose with some intelligent jazz fusion influenced solos and Mustaine's guitar soloing compliments the songs perfectly.
And the biggest improvement over any previous Megadeth release is the rhythm section. The bass actually provides bottom and grooves in a vein that was never before evident on a Megadeth disc.
The drumming is just awe-inspiring. This drummer learned the songs, devised his parts and recorded the tracks in only three days. That's a world class pro at work there. And the playing is just so friggin' exact, so friggin' precise, and again the songs groove in a way that Megadeth never has before.
It is rare when a band can return with such a solid work to put out as product for the public. This disc is definitely one of those rare occasions. Best disc of 2004, in my opinion.

the last word in technical thrash metal

dunno about that. deathrow, coroner, hellwitch, atheist, sadus, hexx, forbidden, watchtower, c'mon...

"Holy Wars" is the best song Megadeth ever wrote. And "Polaris" is in the top three, top five.

CtE is the album that made me stop listening to Megadeth.

polaris has some pretty lame lyrics though

DISCHARGE MY!!! PAYLOAD!!!!

come on, mustaine was ahead of the game when it came to nuclear warfare!!!!

oh, to be 13/14 and still under the impression that metal would take this planet by storm...

Didn't you watch Eurovision?

haha those sneering heavy metal cellists to kick off the voting were amazing.. also moldova had some kind of operatic metal thing goin on

i think "rust in peace" was remastered?? does anybody have any opinions on the differences, if there are any?

I don't know, but thePeace Sells remaster sounds really good.

"Holy Wars" is the best song Megadeth ever wrote. And "Polaris" is in the top three, top five.

Absolutely, and Tornado of Souls is up there too.

'take no prisoners' is an awesome live song. and awesome on disc for that matter.

'five magics' is pretty damn blissful

i think they remaster all the 80's MD, w/ bonus tracks no less!

i think "rust in peace" was remastered?? does anybody have any opinions on the differences, if there are any?

actually, buyer beware--parts of Rust in Peace were actually *re-recorded* when it was remastered

listening just now, the original so far, so good... has terrible production

what the hell went wrong there?

They're still great in concert. I saw them Saturday.

did he rerecord the bass parts or am i confusing megadeth with mayhem?

what the hell went wrong there?

If I recall correctly, the budget ran out before the final mix so the band did it themselves.

Was Polairs some kind of response to Metallica's Orion?

not really. '...polaris' was about nuclear war. i'm not even sure what 'orion' was about, given the lack of lyrics.

So Far, so Good... is actually my favorite Megadeth album, and I love Megadeth a lot. I was never bothered by the production or the cover, because the rest of the songs were so damn good. "Holy Wars" is one of my least favorite Megadeth songs, though. Never quite clicked for me.

doesnt mustaine have writing credit on orion?

jeff treppel i think you might be bizarro-me.

Sweating Bullets is still such a ridiculous song

rrnnrnrrACTin LIKE a RO-BOT

Hearing RIP for the first time in > 20 years and it kicks ass

It certainly does! Excellent production, too.

watchiim beecome a ghaAUud

the shouting men's chorus on 'take no prisoners' kind of sounds like a boisterous night at kiwanis

Rust in Peace is the best Megadeth album by a ludicrous margin.

RiP = MoP
CtD = AJFA

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000014770/polls_Mop___Firing_Squad_front.jpg_5539_352112.jpeg_answer_2_xlarge.jpeg

CtE = The Black Album surely.

Humanity Still Producing New Art As Though Megadeth’s ‘Rust In Peace’ Doesn’t Already Exist

oops CtE. Youthanasia is totally the black album though!

http://991.com/newGallery/Megadeth-Rust-In-Peace-499337.jpg

I just noticed that the chains on the side of the head of the dude look kind of like the curly hair style that some Jewish men have. Surely this is just coincidence?

i'm always surprised by how "Wacky" megadeth vocals are... reminds me of like, nomeansno

oh, i never looked that closely, i thought the skeleton was wearing headphones

Why does the remaster of Rust In Peace say "remixed and remastered" so prominently? How different is the mix?

very. it's super punchy

it sort of makes it sound like a clean and precise modern metal record but it kinda sucks the air from the room imo

Is it significantly worse off for that?

Whatever the case may be, I listened to this version and liked it a lot. Even the bonus track "My Creation" is amazing. He's a much better singer than I expected too.

Surprised Mustaine hasn't been on Joe Rogan.

Is it significantly worse off for that?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, September 3, 2015 12:22 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry it took me three years to answer this question but: no, not really, i don’t hate the megadeth remixes even though i prefer how the records originally sounded

Forgotten to mention Mustaine in the notes saying he wanted to change Marty Friedman's last name because it didn't sound metal enough, then added "Oy vey!"

lol. was that on the original or a reissue?

Reissue

Never liked the reissue of Rust In Peace. He also changed the words to some songs, since they had to rerecord the vocals since the original vocal tracks were lost or something.