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MEGADETH’S TH1RT3EN ALBUM ART: VIC RATTLEHEAD TURNS HIS BACK ON YOU

 Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 12:00pm by

We got an almost funny number of e-mails complaining about the title of Megadeth’s new album, TH1RT3EN*, after it was announced. And, yes, it’s a very silly album title, and, yes, it seems to be stolen and only slightly altered from the name of a very boring horror movie. But, really, what does it matter? I thought The System Has Failed was overrated, but United Abominations was pretty good, and Endgame was a complete return to form for ‘Deth. If Mustaine and company can maintain (or maybe even surpass) that level of quality, they could call the album We <3 Hollywood Undead and it wouldn’t bother me that much.

Now the band has unveiled the cover art for TH1RT3EN, and, uh, okay. I know I’m one of the last .0001% of the population that actually cares about cool album art, and like I was just saying, if the record is good it really doesn’t matter, but… yeah this is pretty much a total bummer. The concept isn’t necessarily terrible, but the execution… maybe it’ll look better when the large, high-res version is released, but right now it looks like someone who isn’t very good at Photoshop (like me!) cut out the image of Vic and pasted it onto something else. This is the kind of sloppy thing unsigned bands usually send us — not legends like ‘Deth.

In fact, I actually prefer the cover art for the first single from the album, “Public Enemy No. 1″:

TH1RT3EN comes out November 1 on Roadrunner, and hopefully it’s good enough that we forget all about the album art.

-AR

*You have to capitalize the title, or otherwise it looks that much more ridiculous. Th1rt3en. See?

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  • RomuluXX

    Mother of God…

  • Anonymous

    It looks decent. Not as bad as you are making it out to be.

    I just wish bands would go back to using actual paintings instead of digital artworks. If it were a real painting it would be neat, but as it stands it’s just ‘Eh’.

    • Chris

      I agree like Maidens dance if death album cover could possibly be the worst album cover ice ever seen

      • Chris

        I’ve*

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1508823036 Matt Rafferty

        The Blaze Baily era covers were pretty damn horrible,  Maiden needs Derick Riggs back(even thought The Final Frontier cover was damn bad ass)

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1508823036 Matt Rafferty

        The Blaze Baily era covers were pretty damn horrible,  Maiden needs Derick Riggs back(even thought The Final Frontier cover was damn bad ass)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/TacticOgre TacticOgre

    Horrible image quality.

    • Anonymous

      It makes it look like the start menu for an old video game.

    • Anonymous

      It makes it look like the start menu for an old video game.

  • Matthew Grant Anson

    Circa ’96 cover art. 

    • http://flavors.me/cognomen Cognomen

      More like ’92, but I see your point.

  • Federico Balls

    Pretty sure this is the result of Kewl Dave letting his Kewl Son pick the cover art or something. It looks like an early Staind album. And the single cover art isn’t any better.

  • Ryan

    Probably not a good idea to be ripping off album ideas from Anvil.

    And just from a sales perspective, does Dave really want to go head to head with the Lou Reed/Metallica album?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000513072818 Jeremy Schnoor

      Dave writes music better than Lu’tallica any day. But that’s just my opinion.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=582086079 Kyle Timothy Palmer

    Did you guys notice that there are 13 candles on the cover?!?

    • Nich43

      did you notice that there are thirteen letters in thirteen?

  • Igottawocket

    I’ve always loved Megadeth’s album covers, but really? This and Endgame are just awful. The System has Failed and United Abominations had awesome covers.

  • Whoz Gonna Burn

    On the cover
    The album covers have really gotten bad lately…across the board…all bands
    It used to be the benchmark of a killer album, now it just marks an album
    On the Album
    This has got to be the end of the line.
    I’ve always been annoyed that Dave rehashes riffs and turns them into new songs.
    ie Tonadoe of Souls/Of Mice and Men…I digress
    Anyways, it’s just getting plain lazy now.

    01. Sudden Death - Not a new song (Guitar Hero’s swan song…fittingly)02. Public Enemy No. 1 – …meh03. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)04. We The People05. Guns, Drugs & Money06. Never Dead07. New World Order – from the flippin’ Train of Consequences single!!! 08. Fast Lane09. Black Swan – what makes it good enough for this album and not UA10. Wrecker11. Millennium Of The Blind12. Deadly Nightshade13. 13

    And now given Dave’s penchant for stealing from himself I’d say the other songs are probably made up of riffs SFSGSW and Peace Sells.  So maybe HALF of the album will be new shit.

    It’s sad that I’ll buy this regardless……..for cryin’ out loud,I own Risk……honestly, I only spun it twice, it would’ve been once but I thought maybe I had the wrong CD?

    Yup, 13 candles/albums and Vic/Dave has turned his back on us = Finito

  • Whoz Gonna Burn

    On the cover
    The album covers have really gotten bad lately…across the board…all bands
    It used to be the benchmark of a killer album, now it just marks an album
    On the Album
    This has got to be the end of the line.
    I’ve always been annoyed that Dave rehashes riffs and turns them into new songs.
    ie Tonadoe of Souls/Of Mice and Men…I digress
    Anyways, it’s just getting plain lazy now.

    01. Sudden Death - Not a new song (Guitar Hero’s swan song…fittingly)02. Public Enemy No. 1 – …meh03. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)04. We The People05. Guns, Drugs & Money06. Never Dead07. New World Order – from the flippin’ Train of Consequences single!!! 08. Fast Lane09. Black Swan – what makes it good enough for this album and not UA10. Wrecker11. Millennium Of The Blind12. Deadly Nightshade13. 13

    And now given Dave’s penchant for stealing from himself I’d say the other songs are probably made up of riffs SFSGSW and Peace Sells.  So maybe HALF of the album will be new shit.

    It’s sad that I’ll buy this regardless……..for cryin’ out loud,I own Risk……honestly, I only spun it twice, it would’ve been once but I thought maybe I had the wrong CD?

    Yup, 13 candles/albums and Vic/Dave has turned his back on us = Finito

  • Whoz Gonna Burn

    On the cover
    The album covers have really gotten bad lately…across the board…all bands
    It used to be the benchmark of a killer album, now it just marks an album
    On the Album
    This has got to be the end of the line.
    I’ve always been annoyed that Dave rehashes riffs and turns them into new songs.
    ie Tonadoe of Souls/Of Mice and Men…I digress
    Anyways, it’s just getting plain lazy now.

    01. Sudden Death - Not a new song (Guitar Hero’s swan song…fittingly)02. Public Enemy No. 1 – …meh03. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)04. We The People05. Guns, Drugs & Money06. Never Dead07. New World Order – from the flippin’ Train of Consequences single!!! 08. Fast Lane09. Black Swan – what makes it good enough for this album and not UA10. Wrecker11. Millennium Of The Blind12. Deadly Nightshade13. 13

    And now given Dave’s penchant for stealing from himself I’d say the other songs are probably made up of riffs SFSGSW and Peace Sells.  So maybe HALF of the album will be new shit.

    It’s sad that I’ll buy this regardless……..for cryin’ out loud,I own Risk……honestly, I only spun it twice, it would’ve been once but I thought maybe I had the wrong CD?

    Yup, 13 candles/albums and Vic/Dave has turned his back on us = Finito

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000513072818 Jeremy Schnoor

    I don’t give two fucks about the album art personally, it’s actually not the worst and not the best, more or less a middle ground for me. However, if Megadeth puts out another great album, I will continue to remain the fan of Megadeth that I grew up to be. (Grew up listening to Megadeth)

  • Shal

    dr00gies11!

    Ugh. So many recycled songs on this. He is really out of ideas. I want to believe this will be good but something tells me from all the pre-press theyve done it won’t be. 0 for 2 now Big 3/4/5. Anthrax and now this. 

    Testament better bring it! I have confidence more so in them now.

  • http://twitter.com/sixsixsixqueen Amélie Pelletier

    Better than Lulu !! ;)

  • Steverazorberry

    I can longer stomach this megalomaniac, douchebag, born-again xian, conspiracy theorist and his stolen riffs. 

  • fig nuts

    Dave mustaine can eat a megadick

  • BLACKY

    MEGS had two better choices than this one that will be on two picture discs.

    #1, GRAVEYARD, blue & spooky with Herses & trees with MEGS w/the dead.

    #2, VICS FUNERAL, lots more than TH1RT3EN candles there, pretty cool! 

  • bierko

    It appears that small, underground bands still care about album art.  Look to Triptykon for that.

    Big, rich bands give a flying fuck about the art, and sometimes even less about the music.

  • Missishitty Sludge

    The cover art looks fine, and stop referring to Megadeth as ” ‘Deth”.  Their name is Megadeth, if you said ‘Deth to someone they would probably think your are talking about Death.  Its not to hard to say or write 2 extra syllables.

  • Missishitty Sludge

    The cover art looks fine, and stop referring to Megadeth as ” ‘Deth”.  Their name is Megadeth, if you said ‘Deth to someone they would probably think your are talking about Death.  Its not to hard to say or write 2 extra syllables.