Super Collider (Album)
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Super Collider ( English for " super-particle is"), the 14th studio album of American thrash metal - band Megadeth .
Emergence
After rumors circulated in early 2012 that the 2011 album Th1rt3en would be the last Megadeth album, Mustaine assured via Twitter that there would be at least one more album. It was announced on June 14th that the band would be working on a new album. At that time, however, the band was not yet in agreement about the musical direction. On February 1, it was announced that the album would be mixed. Shortly afterwards, the band posted videos on their YouTube channel, which showed insights into the work in the studio. The title was announced a little later. The complete track list was available in April. The cover could be revealed as "album cover memory" on Megadeth's website. There was also an excerpt from the song Don't Turn Your Back ... On April 23, the first single with the title track was released. An accompanying music video was shot on May 11th. On May 18, the band released another song with Kingmaker , which will also be released as a single.
The album was produced by Johnny K like its predecessor. While the last three studio albums were released through Roadrunner Records , Mustaine preferred this time to market the album through his self-founded label Tradecraft in cooperation with Universal Music.
Guest musician
Notable guest contributions were the collaboration with Disturbed singer David Draiman on Dance in the Rain and Bob Findley, who was already heard on the instrumental Silent Scorn on The World Needs a Hero , plays the trumpet on A House Divided . Sustaines daughter Electra sings in the background with Forget To Remember and Beginning of Sorrow . Other guest musicians are:
- Yao Zhao: Cello on Dance in the Rain
- Tom Cunningham: violin on The Blackest Crow and violin on Dance in the Rain
- Brian Costello, Sean Costello and Mary Kate Peterson of The Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band: Bagpipes on Built For War
- Sarah Phelps: Backing vocals on Beginning of Sorrow
- Willie Gee: Guest speaker on The Blackest Crow
Cover design
The cover shows the interior of the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector . The variant of the deluxe edition is in 3D. The mascot Vic Rattlehead, which has been featured on eight of the 14 studio albums so far, is therefore not on the cover sheet like its predecessor, but only in the booklet and on the back of the album cover. The artwork was designed by John Lorenzi and Dave Mustaine.
Track list
The standard version contains eleven songs, which is two songs shorter than the previous album. However, special versions of the album contain two additional songs and some live recordings of already known pieces. The Japanese edition contains a live recording of Countdown to Extinction and the best-buy version of the album contains a live recording of Symphony of Destruction . It was also the first time since So Far, So Good… So What! (1988) that the band recorded a cover version (Cold Sweat by Thin Lizzy ) for a studio album. It is also the first time in a long time that the album was recorded with the same line-up as its predecessor. This last happened in the most successful Megadeth constellation, which lasted from 1990 to 1998 and consisted of Mustaine and Ellefson of Marty Friedman (guitar) and Nick Menza (drums), in which the albums Rust in Peace , Countdown to Extinction , Youthanasia and Cryptic Writings came about.
| # | title | length | comment | Songwriter |
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| 1 | Kingmaker | 4:16 | Text: Mustaine, music: Mustaine / Ellefson | |
| 2 | Great collider | 4:12 | First single | Text and music: Mustaine |
| 3 | Burn! | 4:11 | Text and music: Mustaine | |
| 4th | Built for War | 3:57 | Text: Mustaine, music: Drover / Broderick / Mustaine | |
| 5 | Off the edge | 4:12 | Text and music: Mustaine | |
| 6th | Dance in the Rain | 4:45 | feat. David Draiman | Text and music: Mustaine |
| 7th | Beginning of Sorrow | 3:51 | Text: Mustaine / Ellefson, music: Broderick / Mustaine / Ellefson | |
| 8th | The Blackest Crow | 4:27 | Text and music: Mustaine | |
| 9 | Forget to Remember | 4:28 | Text and music: Mustaine | |
| 10 | Don't Turn Your Back ... | 3:47 | Text and music: Mustaine | |
| 11 | Cold sweat | 3:10 | Thin-Lizzy cover | Text and music: Lynott / Sykes |
| 12 | All I want | 2:54 | Deluxe Edition, Japan Edition and Best Buy Edition only | Text and music: Mustaine |
| 13 | A House Divided | 4:05 | Deluxe Edition, Japan Edition and Best Buy Edition only | Text: Johnny K / Mustaine, music: Mustaine |
reception
The album was recorded mixed. The album's preliminary single, the title track Super Collider , was already heavily criticized by fans. In the MetalSucks e-zine , the track was described as the worst song since Risk (1999), considered by many to be the weakest Megadeth album .
On Laut.de , the author Olaf Schmidt only awarded two out of five possible stars. For him it is "the most uninteresting Megadeth album ever". Super Collider would appear "boring and slack" because all songs would "feel" moving at the same pace. The only convincing comment was about Dance in the Rain and the collaboration with Disturbed singer David Draiman .
Rock Hard's Holger Stratmann is of the opinion that Mustaine, who made several negative headlines through political statements and strange live announcements, would have been forgiven for a lot “if he had this scam [the outstanding opener Kingmaker] over the entire album but the dream of an album that can play at eye level with the MEGADETH classics disappears surprisingly quickly. "Especially lyrically, he criticized the fact that rhymes like" fire "and" desire "nowadays every up-and-coming band" as embarrassment around the ears ”. However, the album also seemed musically uninspired and so Stratmann awarded seven out of ten possible points.
On Metal1.Info , Christoph Emmrich said that the band was “not necessarily predestined for musical experiments”, as in pieces like Burn! is made clear, even if the use of bajos and strings could definitely work. “Here the gentlemen show what they can do with their instruments and it is a real pleasure - but the whole thing with a return to its rough origins. However, that happens too seldom on 'Super Collider'. ”The rating was 6.5 out of ten points.
On Powermetal.de , author Marcel Rapp described Super Collider as a double-edged sword: “At the beginning it was a bit strange, the melodies and guitar runs open their arms over time and some great moments sprout out. Nevertheless, one is a little disappointed with some of the gifts of gods in the back catalog. What is missing are those certain bouncers, these can openers, these baits, with which MEGADETH has managed to attract the crowd in large numbers since 'Killing Is My Business'. Mustaine has certainly released poorer goods, but on the other hand there are numerous albums that sparked more clearly. So I hope that the successor will return to old, rougher and faster paces. So with "Super Collider" with its high percentage of melody it is difficult to find access and to put it on a par with "Endgame" and "Th1rt3en". ”He awarded 7.5 out of ten possible points.
In Metal Hammer, Anzo Sadoni even spoke of no real Metal album: "Here you meet 85 percent mid-tempo, plus a guitar sound that only goes through benevolently as mediocre (the solos are better mixed), and above all the nerve factor is enthroned luxe: Sustaines voice. Well, he has always growled, but in the end it was still something like “singing”. But when he starts to sluggish spoken chanting, the last supporter also has to realize that “the cheese is eaten here ". Lame songs, lame sound and soft-washed lack of vision culminate in an unfinished, diffuse compositional helplessness." He only awarded three out of seven possible points.
Editorial colleague Matthias Weckmann awarded two more points. In 2013, Mustaine could not be accused of "blinkered thinking", as especially Dance in the Rain and Forget to Remember "a very interesting, because melancholy-aggressive timbre, as you know from the mid-tempo songs of the mid-nineties albums." The thrashy moments of the album would also be particularly “toxic” in the end. One or two hits are missing, but it is "definitely one of the most stylistically versatile and therefore also most entertaining albums in the rich Megadeth discography."
Chart placements
The album placed in the charts similarly or better than its predecessor. In Germany, Super Collider placed 24th and was thus placed one position better than its predecessor Th1rt3en . In Austria the album reached number 26 (predecessor number 28) and in Switzerland it reached number 21 (predecessor number 23). In Great Britain, at 22nd place , it reached the best chart entry since Youthanasia (6th place). In the USA, the album climbed to sixth place, so it is not only the highest ranking since Youthanasia , but also the third-best ranking with an album on the Billboard 200 .
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CH21 (3 weeks) CH |
UK22 (1 week) UK |
US6 (6 weeks) US |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dave Mustaine announces first new riff from fourteenth album on twitter . Retrieved April 14, 2012.
- ^ Dave Mustaine announces that Megadeth's already working on their fourteenth studio record . Retrieved June 15, 2012.
- ↑ MEGADETH Begins Mixing New Album - Feb. 1, 2013
- ↑ MEGADETH Films 'Super Collider' Video - May 11, 2013
- ↑ MEGADETH: New Song 'Kingmaker' Available For Streaming - May 18, 2013
- ↑ The Title Track From Megadeth's Super Collider is Fucking Garbage ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Review by Laut.de
- ↑ Review of Rock Hard
- ↑ Review of Metal1.Info
- ^ Review by Powermetal.de
- ↑ Review of Metal Hammer 1
- ↑ Review of Metal Hammer 2
