Number 20
Megadeth
"Endgame"
Released: September 14th 2009
Key Tracks: "This Day We Fight" / "1,320" / "Head Crusher"
Forty-five minutes of sheer thrash. Dave Mustaine, Chris Broderick, James LoMenzo and Shaun Drover turn the clocks back twenty-five years and produce the best Megadeth album since "Rust in Peace". "Endgame" is the sound of eighties thrash reborn, and it honestly couldn't be any better.
Forget subtlety, its quite frankly not required here. Or wanted. "Endgame" is sheer brutaliy. Fast, frantic and never anything less than exciting. Mustaine's politics shine through once again in his lyrics, while the musical backdrop is just sheer power.
"Endgame" along with Metallica's "Death Magnetic" may well signal the era of modern thrash metal. What an age that could be.
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