Perfect once more.

Review Score:

(10/10)
Youthanasia is one of the three best Megadeth records ever. The other ones are: Countdown to extinction and Rust in peace. Not one of theese three records sounds like the one before at all and that's great. The sound on this one is not as sharp as on the previous ones and on several tracks the guitars are downtuned. If Countdown.. was a little more commercial than RIP this is a little more commercial than Countdown.. But don't get scared now, this is still a band at the peak of their career thrashing everything that gets in their way. The songs are of different nature and each one has a unike touch. One big differece was that all bandmembers have written much of the material on this one. This helped the record to have a very personal profile. All the songs are unike, the only complain I have is that the first half is better than the second half where some songs sound a little to similar and gory. Still there are no fillers on this album, buy it now!

A track analysis:

Reckoning Day:
Oh man what a blast. Full on riffing with very melodic midle part.

Train Of Consequences:
Heavy as hell, similar to Metallicas sad but true

Addicted to chaos:
What a songtitle, cool heavy song with good vocals.

A Tout Le Monde:
Megadeth records a ballad! Well... Allmost. A true live classic.

Elysian Fields:
Not much to say, good standard song.

Killing Road:
A song about touring with Megadeth, supercool riffs.

Blood Of Heroes:
One Of My Favourites, emotional but still heavy.

Family Tree:
Melodic and good, one of the favourites.

Youthanasia:
Not bad but not supergood. It sounds very dark and slow.

I Thought I Knew It All:
Well.. Good, but...

Black Curtains:
Depressivly downtuned and angry still with a touch of everything that made this album so special.

Victory:
After a serie of less good songs starting with the title track Victory was a killer. Right on with intensity and energy and the lyrics are very cool. Mustaine sings about victory and throws in several titles from erlier Megadeth Albums. This was also the end of the really angry side of Megadeth. From now on they were gonna experimint a lot, starting with the next record: Cryptic Writings, or Hidden treasures actually.

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