Track Listing

1. Dialectic Chaos
2. This Day We Fight!
3. 44 Minutes
4. 1,320
5. Bite The Hand That Feeds
6. Bodies Left Behind
7. Endgame
8. The Hardest Part Of Letting Go...Sealed With A Kiss
9. Head Crusher
10. How The Story Ends
11. Nothing Left To Lose

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #930 in Music
• Released on: 2009-09-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
Heavy metal veterans Megadeth release their twelfth studio album, 'Endgame', featuring some of their most intensely hard-hitting work to date. For example, single 'Head Crusher' is a fierce thrash number that describes a medieval torture device. Vocalist/lead guitarist Dave Mustaine provides a performance that is arguably unmatched in the genre; his shredding solos and howling vocal lines are as gripping as ever.

Customer Reviews

The more you listen to it, the more you appreciate it!
Dave's voice is unique as always, but seems a little less hoarse this time round. Some have commented that Dave sounds angry in this album, and yes the music is very fast and heavy, but in my opinion lacks some of the raw emotion of the more in your face United Abominations. Endgame is more about pure heavy metal / thrash with less synths, instruments and samples compared to the 2007 album, although saying that Endgame does go very nicely from one track to another with mostly no gaps in between the songs on the CD. As a whole album it works very well, with no obvious flaws or mismatches in the track list, and it is an extremely polished album (unlike The System Has Failed, which had one or two seemingly odd / mismatched tracks). It could seem like there is little variation from song to song in style, which to an extent is true, but it's when you listen to each individual track that you begin to notice the differences in rythm and style.

Lots of very good tracks, and some standout awesome tracks, but this time it's because of the technical brilliance of the way the musicians and singer(s) come together, with excellent solos playing over great riffs, and lots of tempo changes, and variations in each track. The lyrics are not necessarily as raw as United Abominations, and there's not as much political energy this time round, but it seems as though they've moved more towards musical excellence in Heavy Metal / Thrash with this album, and that's got to be a good thing. Dave Mustaine and Chris Brodericks solos very smoothly roll into each other, and it's clear they work VERY well together, bringing a fresh sound to Megadeth. (Particularly with "Endgame" which also has some very clear nods to classic Megadeth riffs)

I've heard it said that you've got to listen to the guitar solo on such and such a track, or that the drummer is excellent on this track, and I think that this is perhaps one of the most impressive things you'll notice when listening to this ablum. No matter what your favourite instrument or player, you can really hear the excellence of each player, be it the excellent guitar solos in 44 Minutes, or the excellent drumming in Head Crusher, or the pounding bass lines in The Right to Go Insane, or the snarling growl of Dave Mustaine's voice in Endgame, it all comes together in each track, and throughout the album the sheer excellence of each musician is clear. A Definite MUST BUY! 9/10

Thrash-tastic
The first offering from this album was the mind blowing 'Head Crusher' and from this great things were expected. I am happy to say that this album delivers exactly the type of high quality metal you'd expect from the living legends that are Megadeth. A fast-paced, riff-filled metal masterpiece from the 'Deth. You'll want to listen to it again and again - but mind your neck as you'll want to mosh HARD.

A real return to form
A new Megadeth album - all the pre-release talk of it being a return to the style of their earlier albums; been here before, obviously, and didn't hold out much hope .

A few listens in now and I can safely say it is pretty much a return to classic form! Yes, really!

First things first; it's definitely a much thrashier album than the band has released in quite some time, which, for me at least, is a good thing. As with 'Death Magnetic' by Metallica and 'Christ Illusion' by Slayer this sounds like a band rediscovering it's roots. Mustaine has obviously been revisiting his classic albums from the Eighties and early Nineties (as well as the influences that shaped those albums - the opener is pure 'Powerslave' era Maiden whilst 'Headcrusher' recalls Judas Priest).

The musicianship is, it goes without saying, fantastic; with crunching riffs and dazzling solos. Even Mustaine's vocals are OK (always a bit weak IMHO)!

So, all-in-all a surprising return to form.