Flexing their more than considerable creative muscles early and often, the group brazenly engulfs the proverbial average listener (most notably you, the increasingly faithful reader) amid a veritable avalanche of of soaring vocals, blistering fretwork and imaginatively punishing rhythms. On the stellar Super Collider (2013), an expertly assembled eleven song collection of multi-dimensional Heavy Metal, each track, beginning with the deliciously shred-laden lament ?Burn!? and the bile-spewing, self-explanatory tirade ?Built For War?, immediately commands the rapt and undivided attention of all parties involved, myself most definitely included. Now, nearly thirty years (!) later, the group, appearing as resilient and as ever, have returned with a bloodthirsty vengeance, issuing the highly-anticipated Super Collider. Furthering their rapidly-arcing career trajectory with the release of the multi-Platinum Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying (1986) and the curiously-underrated So Far, So Good…So What?! (1988), the group quickly established themselves as pioneers of a volatile new sub-genre. Fortunately, Mustaine, armed with guitarist Chris Poland, bassist David Ellefson and drummer Gar Samuelson, wasted little–if any–time launching the soon-to-be-groundbreaking Thrash Metal group Megadeth, unleashing their stunning full-length debut Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good in 1985. When guitarist Dave Mustaine was ousted from ‘Big Four’ Thrash Metal icons Metallica amid less-than-amicable circumstances in 1983, many wondered what would become of the notoriously-mercurial axeman.
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