Megadeth-United Abominations

Megadeth's eleventh album,"United Abominations", sees Mustaine return with a very much back to basics Heavy Metal album that sits more than comfortably with ‘’Rust In Peace’’, ‘’Peace Sells’’ and the multi-platinum "Countdown To Extinction’’.This album is such a welcome return to Mustaine’s visceral take on world events and he has plenty to spit his venom at. With much of his rancour directed to the political arena Megadeth has rarely sounded more potent or deadly. Opening with the rampant riffing of ‘’Sleepwalker’’ quickly dispels the feelings of waste that has perpetrated the previous few albums. This is bang on the button head banging Heavy Metal. The now (hopefully) solid addition of the Drover brothers (Eidolon) has pinned down the Megadeth sound to a bomb dropping barrage of resolute Metal. Not since ‘’Rust In Peace’’ has Megadeth laid down such precision riffing and concise song structures. ‘’Washington Is Next!’’ keeps up the relentless charge, although pinching from MAIDEN’S ‘’Wasted Years’’ this is polished slice of charging Melodic Metal. Featuring some fine guitar interplay between Mustaine and Glen Drover this is simply pure classic Megadeth in ‘Hangar 18’’ form.With Mustaine providing a top drawer vocal performance, his guitar playing is never in question, it’s the aforementioned Drover brothers that have injected the muscle into a Megadeth sound that was falling by the way side.

‘’United Abominations’’combines all the rudiments of the Megadeth sound from those early days and melds them into what is their best album since 1990.
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Band:Megadeth
Album:United Abominations
Genre:Heavy metal,Trash metal
Year:2007
rating:8.1/10