Megadeth - Warchest
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Free Music Review: Megadeth at its Best
Hit: 4 Stars
Your getting an amazing Megadeth package for a pretty good price. It spans from early work such as So far so good all the way up to new great tracks like Washington is next. The box was a little on the down side though. I had read it was going to be a tin box and of course just like slayers box set we get a plastic/paper shell. The booklet is cool giving you a look at everything they've released even the singles, great for people who want to go out and collect. An the video is good quality with plenty of great shots.Free Music Review: MegaDeath Warchest
Hit: 4 Stars
If your looking for that compilation set that has the hits then this is the set for you. It does a nice job of rounding up Megadeath's hits over the years.Free Music Review: Can't help but feel a little jipped...
Hit: 3 Stars
First off let me say that I am a HUGE Megadeth fan. I've seen 'em live 3 times, own every album, bought all the remasters, bought the darned VHS' and the Dvds. It's safe to say that Megadeth is my favorite band. I LOVE these guys. Their songwriting is out of this world! Megadeth is one of those bands that truely developed their own sound. Megadeth is one of the most unique bands I've ever heard. From the super angry agressive days of the 80s to the technical masterpiece of 1990s Rust in Peace to the more guitar hook driven stuff of Countdown and Youthanasia, I always loved Megadeth and loved how they crafted their songs. They were so advanced for a group that only wrote about 4 minute songs. You can go on and on about who's the BEST heavy metal band but I always thought Megadeth were something special. No one put more into a 4 minute song than these guys and their riffs and songwriting was amazing. So you get the picture, I'm a HUGE fan. So why the low score?
Over half if this DVD is stuff I already have!!! What's up with that!? The first three discs are pretty much useless. Its mostly songs from the albums I already own!! The demos are interesting but not enough to justify the cost of three CDs. I'll never listen to these. I'll just get the albums that they're already on. For that I had to knock off two stars, because there's nothing really new on the first three discs. Come on guys(Dave Mustaine) what were you thinking? Couldn't they have included one disc just with all the demos and then maybe had another live DVD on there!!!???
Although the first three discs are a major negative, let me go on to the postives: the last two discs:
Disc number four rules. A live show of Megadeth with their best lineup (Mustaine/Ellefson/Friedman/Menza) during their best years. (1990) This one is off the Rust in Peace tour so it's a killer 15 track live concert caught on tape. This one's all classic metal Megadeth and captures the band when their live set was truely worthy of the moniker: "world's state of the art speed metal band." It's awesome to hear all classic deth being played live with "The Conjuring", "Skull Beneath the Skin", and "Black Friday" all making the cut. The sound quality is fantastic here and I don't doubt that they remixed and remastered the original soundboard recording, because I know for a fact that 1990s soundrecordings never came out this good.
Disc 5: the DVD. Oh this is what I was waiting for. Live footage of Megadeth at their best! 1992 fresh off the Countdown to Extinction tour. Fantastic set list and performances by all. Great sound quality and great to see Marty Friedman ripping the solos to shreds. Only criticism is that it's PAINFULLY short! Only 10 songs clocking in at less than 50 minutes! Ouch! Just barely enough to satisfy the hardcore fan. Still other than that its what you'd expect. A great concert from the band during arguably their best years.
All that said, it's too hard to see this as a complete box set for Megadeth. As I said before the first three discs are a wash pretty much although the last two will please any long time fan. Still this is FAR from the definitive Megadeth collection that i thought it would be. I felt kind of jipped by the Arsenal of Megadeth as well and I can't help but feel a little cheated by this one. No live footage from the 1980s? Only one DVD with only 10 songs? A great live CD yes, but not enough. And way too much of the same stuff. They could've cut it down to three discs and lowered the price to around $30.00 and then you would've had a great collection. Either that or they should've added another live concert DVD, but given the material of the disc, honestly it barely makes the grade. I probably would've graded it lower but I'm too much a Megadeth fan to rate it any lower than three stars. Still, you have my thoughts on this. If you're a really hard core Megadeth freak you'll probably like it. But I'm a pretty big Megadeth fan and I still can't help but feel a little jipped...
Free Music Review: 3 Stars
Start by saying this is a great 5 cd/dvd set.
the unreleased stuff is great, the dvd is amazing, the live at hammersmith is fantastic cd. many rare tunes to listen to.
BUT....more than half of this is available on the album releases.//why release a box set of stuff already released, th is I dont understand,...if your gonna release a 4 cd/dvd set,..pack it with stuff never released, japan bonus tracks, ALL demo material( from 82 to date )
studio sessions of songs not on the releases, or that didnt make the final cut to album, stuff that is not or may never be available again, t his set is great but more than half i already own on their releases.
Where is Killing is my business, and Hidden treasures w/ the Japanese bonus tracks. all the singles that have a different sound/producer, Megadeth has so much material, why not just release ALL OF IT for the fans that give Dave his nice home in the southwest, and pay for vacations and nice cars etc etc. There is TONS of material out there by Megadeth,...so we will have to wait longer now for those lost gems.
but t his set is good for fans, I do enjoy it, albeit the shortcomings.
Free Music Review: Disc # 1 Problems
Hit: 3 Stars
The music is great, but I had a problem with disc 1. If I played the cd in my car cd player it worked perfectly fine, but if I played it on my pc the last 3 songs on the disc would stutter and skip. Has anyone else run into this problem? I also didn't care for the plastic outer sleeve packaging I had problems trying to get the cd's back into it.