This is easily the best and most consistent Megadeth album in years.

I feel like this album showcases by far the best guitar work these guys have done in decades. While I do admit to praising their instrumentation in the past couple of albums, none of them compare to the masterful performance presented here. I would go as far as to argue that some of the guitar solos here are even better than some of the songs on earlier albums, like Killing Is My Business, Countdown To Extinction, and maybe ... read more

Meh. This album is really far from bad, but it isn't all that good neither. This is just a huge nothing album.

So, there were a couple of really good moments. I quite liked tracks like Sleepwalker, Never Walk Alone and Play For Dead. I also really liked the reprise of À Tout Le Monde - a track that was previously on Youthanasia, and it ended up being one of my favourites there as well - but it does kinda feel like a waste of space here. It was already great on that album, and while it ... read more

Y'all underrate this too much. This album is actually good! Granted, it may just be because I'm come off of two sub-par Megadeth albums which may have just made me enjoy the first thing that actually sounds like a competent record. Also, I do have to admit that this is far from the best thing that Megadeth have to offer. But still, I think this is actually a pretty good thrash album.

For the first time since Rust In Peace, Megadeth actually impress me with their instrumentation. I mean, they ... read more

While this is significantly better than their previous album, it's also significantly worse than much of what they had released prior to this.

I feel like The World Needs A Hero is the definition of dumb fun: right at the start when I was focusing on the music it bored the hell out of me and was just painful to listen to. But when I just started listening to it as background music, it became fun. Songs like the title track, 1000 Times Goodbye, Losing My Senses and Return To Hangar were just so ... read more

Oh god. I knew that this would be the worst I would hear from Megadeth this early in their discography. Hell, that cover looks fucking terrible. But I don't think I was mentally prepared for the shitstorm that just attacked my ears. I'm honestly tempted to call this Megadeth's St. Anger, but because I haven't listened to Super Collider yet I'm going to refrain myself from doing that just yet.

It's not often that an artist opens up their album with such a terrible song. That was the first sign ... read more

Is it bad that I actually liked this?

Well, this EP came out of nowhere. I was not expecting anymore Big Baller B releases (outside of maybe some singles) this year, especially during his break. As soon as the intro came on, I knew I was getting myself into something. Not only does the intro prepare you for what you're going to listen to - calling "terrible meme emo music" - but it also gives a serious message, and it does so much better than any other depressed emo rapper ever ... read more

While I think that calling Cryptic Writings a bad album is a bit of a stretch, I do think that this album is the weakest I've heard from Megadeth yet.

I can't say that I hate any of the songs on here, but I don't necessarily like them either. There really aren't many that stand out at all for any positive reasons. I did think that most were fairly inoffensive thrash songs, but they weren't great. The opener, Trust, I can't even deny was a pretty fun way to open the album, but it left ... read more

While I do think that this is one of Megadeth's weaker projects so far, I can't deny that this is definitely an extremely fun listen.

I feel like, as a whole, Youthanasia works really well. All of the songs presented here are really enjoyable thrash songs, and in its fifty-minute run time - the longest in their discography so far - it rarely ever slows down. There wasn't a single point in this album that I could say I was bored or just not interested, which isn't something that I can say for ... read more

Megadeth releases another great record with Countdown To Extinction. There's so much to love here and so little that I actually dislike.

For starters, every track on here was really fun. Whether it was the classic Symphony Of Destruction, the fantastic Sweating Bullets, or even the extremely entertaining opener Skin O' My Teeth, no song on here fails to meet my expectations. No song on here is bad, all of them are great and are fun for most of their duration. My other favourites are ... read more

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting this. I wasn't expecting that I would rate this as high as I did. I also wasn't expecting to be seriously considering any more King Crimson albums to be as high as The Court Of The Crimson King. I was actually considering giving this a higher score than that album, but a few things did make me decide to go a few points below that one.

So, this track listing is damn near flawless. Every track on here was perfect. The intriguing opener and title track; the ... read more

Rust In Peace shows Megadeth's peak quality at the moment, and is their most consistently great album to date (and that's including Peace Sells!).

Up to this point in their catalog, this is their longest record, clocking in at just forty minutes. Yet this doesn't feel longer than any of their previous works. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that this feels shorter at times. So many of these 5+ minute songs just shot right by with how fun, energetic, and overall just great they were. With ... read more

So Far, So Good isn't a bad record by any means - it's actually quite good! - but it is definitely the weakest I've heard from the band yet.

There are a ton of really good thrash tracks on here. The instrumental opener Into The Lungs Of Hell was a cool little track that did a great job at setting the tone of the album. The follow-up to that was also a great song, Set The World Afire. Their cover of Anarchy In The U.K. wasn't the greatest song they've ever done, but it was decent enough ... read more

And with their sophomore project, Megadeth become one of the best thrash metal groups of the 1980s.

Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? is an album that somehow improves on their debut, which I already said I enjoyed beginning to end. From the amazing opener Wake Up Dead to the classic Peace Sells. From the long but never boring Good Mourning/Black Friday, the to fantastic closer My Last Words, this thing is unrelenting in its fun and extremely energetic thrash glory!

There is, of course, the ... read more

Megadeth's debut album is probably one of the more underappreciated thrash metal albums of the '80s. This whole album is just energetic fun!

Right from the start, I knew I was in for yet another one of those classic thrash albums that I love so much. When the intro to Last Rites started, I knew that I was going to have a good time with this record. Every song for the most part just tops the last one. Songs like the title track, The Skull Beneath My Eyes and especially Rattlehead stand out as ... read more

What's with Fantano and automatically giving noise rock albums a high rating? Not that I'm complaining, I wouldn't have even found this if it wasn't for his review.

Well, I had no idea what was even happening for the entire duration of this. I understood about 0% of what was being said. All I understood was that I was being screamed at in Japanese and I think at one point I was told to go to hell?

Itekoma Hits is mostly just a fun, hardcore-punk noise rock album. I didn't even know I wanted ... read more

The final release in such a legendary career. 13 is the final album from Black Sabbath, and the first one in 35 years to include most of the original line-up. The only difference here is that Brad Wilk from Rage Against The Machine is the drummer here. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler are all here, and it feels good to hear these guys go back to the way it was originally.

I can definitely understand why some people wouldn't like this album. This is far from Ozzy's best lyrical work. ... read more

The Devil You Know is unfortunately the final ever project Ronnie James Dio ever worked on before his passing in 2010. I am also going to consider this a Black Sabbath release as all of the members of Heaven & Hell are just the members of Black Sabbath during the Dio era. I mean, even the title of the artist is a reference to the first Sabbath record Dio worked on.

This album is the perfect send off for Dio. Tracks like Bible Black and Breaking Into Heaven prove that even in his late 60s ... read more

This album is unjustifiably bad. Even by late Black Sabbath standards, this is horrible.

Forbidden is Tony Martin's final ever project with Black Sabbath, and it's just about the worst way he could have gone out. Martin was far from my favourite Black Sabbath singer, but I do have to admit that he brought some decent enough contributions to the group. The Eternal Idol and Headless Cross are both albums which I believe to be some of the better outings in their late career. This, however, is by ... read more

After Dio's brief return in Dehumanizer, Tony Martin comes back as lead vocalist for his last two albums with the band. Cross Purposes is the first of these two. And, good god, it's bad. This is the worst Martin album yet.

Most of the songs that I "liked" were passable at best. Virtual Death was just about the only song on the whole album that I can say with confidence is actually decent. The rest were just boring, forgettable, but were at least listenable. The only highlight that ... read more

Edit: Real Review:
I really wasn't lying with what I said about the movie. It's easily in the top five greatest movies of all time, and no one can argue or prove me otherwise. This accompanying EP on the other hand... the best way to describe it is not very good.

So the EP starts off promising with the iconic and flawless Killer Klowns theme song. That song is amazing, easy 10/10. But then you wonder, why is it that that is the only song from this EP that is actually played in the movie? Well, ... read more