Dave's covering Ride the Lightning on the last Megadeth album.

I know he’s not known for his sense of humour but I honestly think he’s deliberately winding Metallica up with this final album.
Let there be shred could easily be a track from Kill em All era. It’s almost as he saying I can pull riffs and cheesy lyrics like this out of my (Metal up your) Ass as easy as breathing.
 
Sounds like the drums were recorded on a potato. Riff sounds tight n' shreddy. Lyrics sound like something Dream Evil would come up with though... And yeah, the whole track feels like a Texas Sized middle finger to Metallica.
 
Other than some of the modern mixing and editing stuff that can be irritating, I kind of like the song :ROFLMAO:. I think it's catchy.
 
I'm generally kinda lukewarm to Megadeth, but I got no gripes with this tune. It's got plenty of energy for a dude his age and if this is to be the last Mega album it's cool he'll end it on a note like this. I'd have to think this would get all the old school Megadeth fans stoked?
 
Jesus, Metallica version is much, much better than this one on every aspect, starting from the producion.

I hoped for a super powerful/brutal/defenitive alternate version of this masterpiece but no....
We have this little thing here that sounds weak and lacks character.

I hear the notes but I miss the soul.

What have you done Dave?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯:facepalm
 
HotRats said:
Jesus, Metallica version is much, much better than this one on every aspect, starting from the producion.

I hoped for a super powerful/brutal/defenitive version of this masterpiece but no....
We have this little thing here that sounds weak and lacks character.

What have you done Dave?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯:facepalm
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this is a poor cover of a great band
not megadeth type
 
HotRats said:
Here it is

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Yikes. At first I thought it might have something to it, but his voice sounds shot and the production/mix is so flat. Just sounds like a rehearsal room goof. Kind of shows how metallica were capturing lighting (puns all over the gaff) in a bottle at that point in time.

Guitar playing is very good though.
 
Guitar sounds good.

Metallica cover so disappoint - no balls to the mix, the kick and toms sound anemic (all of the drums and is there even a bass?).
 
I've listened to the new album a few times. Musically its a good mix of 90s Megadeth with flashes of Dave's recent output that calls back to the more technical stuff. Other than this oddly note for note cover; I like it.

The musicianship is top tier. Temu is a better Marty Friedman than Friedman himself. I don't know of anyone that crafts a better bed for melodic metal soloing than Mustaine. As far as the bad; the lyrics on this go round fall into the suck pile a lot of times and Dave's voice is shot and sounds like Corey Feldman. It's probably good that they're winding down.
 
FuzzyAce said:
Yeah, I think it sounds good. To be honest, and don't flame me, I was never a huge fan of the original anyways.

:sofa
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Metallica didn’t really do it for me either. I remember when they first started getting big a few of my buddies thought they were great, but they were just a bit too fast and aggressive for me. Motley Crue was climbing the ladder at around the same time, and they absolutely struck a nerve in my 13 year old horndog self.
 
Frodebro said:
Metallica didn’t really do it for me either. I remember when they first started getting big a few of my buddies thought they were great, but they were just a bit too fast and aggressive for me. Motley Crue was climbing the ladder at around the same time, and they absolutely struck a nerve in my 13 year old horndog self.
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Yeah, it's weird because I liked a lot of thrash metal but never really connected with Metallica that much. I was more into Anthrax and Megadeth, Testament. I was just never a huge fan of Hetfield's singing. I'd much rather hear an aging Mustaine's voice instead. :grin
 
FuzzyAce said:
Yeah, it's weird because I liked a lot of thrash metal but never really connected with Metallica that much. I was more into Anthrax and Megadeth, Testament. I was just never a huge fan of Hetfield's Singing. I'd much rather hear an aging Mustaine's voice instead. :grin
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I was already pretty solidly into Priest and Maiden, so Metallica was just on another planet that I had no interest in. Queensryche’s original EP was another big one in my world.
 
Frodebro said:
I was already pretty solidly into Priest and Maiden, so Metallica was just on another planet that I had no interest in. Queensryche’s original EP was another big one in my world.
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Definitely. There was plenty great hard rock to go around back then.
 
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