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"There are other songs darker and faster. Now we do not know what to do, where we're going to end up, we are in a position where it is as if the world was ours and we will do what we believe. We will return to our roots thrash? We will experience and we'll take on the melody? "Said Dave Mustaine in 2012, while" Super Collider "was taking shape in the studio. Well, it is clear that Megadeth (or better: Mustaine, being the deus ex machina) have a rather clear and have focused on the melody, on a sharp corner and a sensitive use of colors less dark.
Not that Megadeth had never attempted this - in fact: among all the thrash titans of the school, since the eighties, were perhaps the first to adopt a sound approach in which the melody had a well defined space, the point is that with "Super Collider" has been lowered by a lot, and without much ado, the bar that marked the limits of the "too melodic": what we are, then, is a bizarre version of Megadeth in sauce almost AOR (not all! songs, but for the most part).
Not that we are in the realm of the bouffant hair, dust coats of leather, the boot python and the only melody that makes the horny fortysomething U.S. average, but we miss very little in certain situations (see the single that gives the title track, which know much philological of the eighties and glam metal / pop metal of the Sunset Strip, which almost no one believes). So the feeling is alienating, since Megadeth had never gone so well.
The real question is: "Super Collider" a bad drive? Difficult to answer without getting carried away by the irrational side. Certainly not the top of Mustaine, it must be said, and it's not an album thrash or speed metal. But it is not bad ... it's just different. With all the load of positive and negative adjectives that this implies, for example from the point of view of the fan more or less historical.
Melody aside, however, it is clear that Mustaine has really tried new ways: in "The blackest crow", of all songs, there is a feeling throughout southern folk / Cajun tasty and unusual. Then there are two collaborations with David Draiman of Disturbed and a cover of Thin Lizzy to enrich the overall picture.
Too bad this will become a bit 'out of focus, giving us an album that can only be described transition, with songs of robust metal hard rock a bit' too simple and linear to the standards of the band. Moreover, the evolution and the changes do not always occur in sudden jerks, but in fact require periods of adjustment, gray areas and neutral areas: this is - at least at the moment and unless future developments - "Super Collider". Maybe Megadeth are trying to deliver their soul rock band at 360 °, partially setting aside the rigid categorizations that after all this time, are likely to suffocate creativity and motivation ... so we await the next test and store "Super Collider" with a full enough, but bewildered.
TRACKLIST
"Kingmaker"
"Super Collider"
"Burn!"
"Built for War"
"Off the Edge"
"Dance in the Rain"
"The Beginning of Sorrow"
"The Blackest Crow"
"Forget to Remember"
"Do not Turn Your Back ..."
"Cold Sweat"
