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CRAPPY QUALITY FOOTAGE OF A NEW MEGADETH SONG

 Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 1:58pm by

So that whole Slayer/Megadeth tour kicked off this week – still no U.S. dates announced, by the way – and, as is the general course of things these days, Megadeth played a new song, someone filmed that new song and stuck it up on YouTube, then it wound it up on Blabbermouth, and now I’m posting it here. Anyone else remember when video bootlegs were a somewhat more difficult item to come buy, purchased at shows and sometimes shitty flea markets and then inevitably shared and swaped with friends ? Oh, the joys of VHS to VHS recording!

ANYWAY, so this new Megadeth song is called “Headcrusher,” and I can’t hear it very well, but on the whole I think it sounds pretty cool. I mean, the guitar playing definitely shreds. I wish I heard a stronger chorus ’cause all the best Megadeth songs have strong choruses – but, again, this is a shitty bootleg, not really something to be judged.

Now, I could judge the studio recording of the song by calling up 866.597.6342, but my feeling about numbers like that is there’s almost always a catch, and whether out of marijuana-induced paranoia, Jewish neuroticism, or just plain old sloth, I have not called the number. If any of you do, let me know how the song is.

Meanwhile, Dave Mustaine recently called the new ‘Deth record, Endgame, “the record of my career” (which would include Metallica, I suppose) and “the best Megadeth record I’ve ever done by far.” I always think that statements like that are dangerous, especially when you’ve had a career as illustrious as that of Mr. Mustaine – but, hey, I hope he’s right. One way or another, I’m 99.9% sure it’s gonna kick Death Magnetic‘s ass.

-AR

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  • Jim Flames

    The constant bashing and snide remarks towards Metallica are so tiresome. For a metal site that I believe claims to pride itself on ‘intelligent’ coverage and discussion, this sure is tiresome. Also mentioning Metallica in a Megadeth related post is nothing short of lazy journalism/reporting/whatever you want to call it.

    • FUCKYOU!!

      dont be a pussy

    • Mike

      I agree with you, but MetalSucks prides themselves for being biased and “unfair” (I know it’s not the right word, but you understand what I’m saying…)

    • Awfrick

      God, go back to sucking off Hetfield already.

    • AxeRipper

      If Metallica didn’t suck, Axl wouldn’t feel the need to bring it up all the time. Not his fault.

    • Cisco

      This is MetalSucks man, go get a life…

  • yanky

    gonna see this shit in winnipeg
    no clue how to get there from ny though

  • Mike

    by the way, i have called, and it is crappier quality than the video, cause, you know, cellphone speakers are not high-tech…

  • AxeRipper

    Sound quality is still better than Death Magnetic.

  • braincake

    “death by the headcrusher”

    sounds like it would hurt.

    • gnarlk

      a great kids in the hall sketch dishonoured by a crappy band….

  • Randy

    I’ll fight for Metallica. The band puts on a hell of a live show. Dave Mustaine just stands in place on stage looking like he has to take a shit and kind of sounding like it too.

    Actually I like em’ both, but live Metallica wins no contest!

  • Sean

    I’m stoked for this new record, but with the exception of Risk I’ve liked all the releases so I’m probably biased.

    As far as live goes, I’ll take Megadeth over Metallica any day of the week, mainly since the second half of the Metallica catalog blows. However, up until Black came out my answer would’ve been more difficult as then both threw great shows.

    And you can’t really complain much about mentioning Metallica with Megadeth, they are so tied together given their history that its to be expected.

  • bretton

    I was there, that was pretty badass. still no US dates announced being the general course of things? how about Canada? You guys down in the US get every freaking tour, ’bout time we got our own.

  • phale

    i was there too. i couldnt resist doing the kids in the hall thing to dave when he was playing this.

    i didnt think much of the song– no melody, no dynamics. but it sounded like the band wasnt well-rehearsed in it yet. also, the current band lineup is not very impressive. second guitar broderick only shone when playing simultaneously with mustaine– the on-stage mentoring was very visible, which i found strange.

    mustaine himself was awesome in pretty much every way. this gig was all about guitar theatrics, and mustaine is king. you cant see it, but hes wearing a shirt that displays the face of einstein with crossed bones behind it.

    araya, by contrast, was wearing his own bands shirt. boo. but slayer is far and away the better band. even though i only know their early albums, and they didnt touch on them much, they pretty much held my full attention for the entire set. they can do whatever they want and it sounds great because theyve been playing together for 25 years. nowhere near enough soloing, though.

    i dont think mustaine will ever be able to assemble a real band, just because he has socially alienated too many people. he needs to lock up dave grohl in a basement and make him play everything like probot.

    rob flynn wins the crowd pleaser award. he kept trying to throw cups of beer at the crowd, but he couldnt get it beyond the front of the pit. ‘fail,’ he said, ‘epic fail’. much laughter. eventually someone threw one back. ‘you threw it back without drinking it?’ he said, ‘thats alcohol abuse’. more laughter, ftw.

  • Fufkin

    Dave has teased with a thrashy taster for the last two albums so colour me qual shades cynical and hopeful, still can’t be worse than re-recording A Tout La Monde to give it ‘another chance at success’.