by Metal Child Media
Our Rating : 2/10 [ Very Bad ]
Due to the bad reception of Super Collider in 2013, Dave Mustaine was trying hard to get himself back to match fitness. Bringing together Kiko Loureiro (Angra) and Chris Adler (Lamb Of God) to realize his latest musical project - Dystopia. Thus the effort which has all the heaviness one would expect for a promising outcome but things didn't go as planned.
Megadeth has lost the sight of their intensive thrash metal core since the departure of Marty Friedman, without a strong and skillful guitar team mate, Megadeth didn't possess the magical chemistry of their '80s - '90s classiscs. Keep changing band members has been another reason that keep bringing detriment to the quality of their music.
The introduction of Chris Adler in 2016 became another big mistake. Chris Adler didn't play thrash metal drummings for this album, he sticked to his root (may be that was the reason why he was employed), clinging to groove metal drumming tightly, I can even hear metalcore rhythm everywhere. The dexterity or Dave's fast and furious fingerworks are fully engulfed in Adler's pedestrian drums. Groove metal drummings combined with thrash metal's guitars and vocals are clashing each other, totally unmatched and wasted, considered a serious disturbance. Dave's versatile vocals have gone stale and zestless is the third downer.
As far as I know, no thrash metal bands dare to create a fusion genre that combined thrash metal, groove metal and metalcore by far. Probably megadeth was the first metal band to do so in 2016. Tried and failed, Megadeth prove that losing faith in the original root is a bad thing, Groove Metal + Metalcore vs Thrash Metal = Stalemate !
The 1st track "The Threat Is Real", the 2nd track "Dystopia" and the 7th track "Poisonous Shadows" are above average (not even considered very good), the rest are fillers.
