Top 5 Megadeth Albums (Ranked)

Post author:Alex Knight
Post published:January 24, 2016
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So we’re finally at the end of Megadeth week! It’s been a great journey filled with exciting news and updates, culminating in Friday’s release and review of their 15th studio album, Dystopia. My review rated the album highly as I was incredibly impressed with the new offering. To put this review into context, I thought I’d run through my top 5 Megadeth albums, in order to see if dystopia made the cut.

5. United Abominations

As mentioned in a previous post; this was the first Megadeth album released after I got in to Megadeth, and probably the first I thoroughly listened to on repeat for days! It undoubtedly had a strong influence on my entire musical tastes, and definitely when it comes to Megadeth. Tracks like Sleepwalker, Washington Is Next, and Play For Blood are standout tracks; with very few that disappoint on the album. There’s also a wealth of guitar solos throughout for the guitarist in me to fall in love with. Maybe not everyone’s favourite, but definitely up there for me.

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Top 10 Megadeth Songs (Ranked)

Post author:Alex Knight
Post published:January 18, 2016
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To celebrate the launch of Megadeth‘s new album, Dystopia, on Friday. I’ll be doing a series of posts about the behemoth thrash metal kings. There seemed only one sensible place to start, and that’s with a rundown of my Top 10 Megadeth Songs! I’m going to preface this list by saying how difficult it was to choose just 10, and then try to rank them! I considered doing 20, but it seemed far too much.

10. Dread And The Fugitive Mind

To kick us off, is a song from an album I’m not the biggest fan of: The World Needs a Hero, not sure why, just never connected with it. This song still took a few goes to really enjoy, but it’s so much fun to play on guitar! I love the verse riff, it contains so much space which Mustaine‘s gnarly vocals happily fill with short snappy lines. The change of texture for the pre-chorus/ chorus is really great as well: The vocals becoming more continuous, and the contrast between this and the staggered section before is great. Then I love how it seamlessly moves back into that aggressive verse again. The middle section begins by sounding slightly like Metallica‘s One, but then starts to make use of the chorus material, with the guitar solo just fighting its way to the surface, before erupting into that fantastic melodic solo. The song rounds off perfectly, varying the verse riff material to bookend the track.

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Top 5 David Bowie Songs

Post author:Alex Knight
Post published:January 11, 2016
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Today the world of music lost one of the influential people ever in the industry. Bands like Queen (Under Pressure); The Arctic Monkeys, Motley Crue, U2 (to name only a…

Top Lemmy Kilmister Moments

Post author:Alex Knight
Post published:December 29, 2015
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The tragic news of Lemmy’s death in the small hours of this morning was harrowing to wake up to, and I’m sure I wasn’t the only person to feel like this. Therefore I’ve decided to dedicate a blog post to some of Motorhead’s finest moments as well as some of Lemmy’s work with other artists.

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Christmas Songs Of 2015

Post author:Alex Knight
Post published:December 25, 2015
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Hope you're all having a fantastic Christmas day! As a special Christmas treat, I thought today I run you through some of the Christmas songs released in 2015;…

Favourite Christmas Songs

Post author:Alex Knight
Post published:December 22, 2015
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Hey guys and gals! As you all seemed to like my post about the worst Christmas songs, here’s another list about Christmas songs!

Hopefully you’ll actually enjoy some of these, as they’re actually my 10 favourite Christmas songs! Anyone that knows me will probably know that I love Christmas songs, the cheesier the better, so you’ll probably have heard most of these before. Enjoy! (more…)

Top 10 Worst Christmas Songs

Post author:Alex Knight
Post published:November 14, 2015
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So this weekend, Christmas Markets opened in cities up and down the UK. I’m a big fan of christmas, who isn’t, but it’s mid-November, Halloween’s only just happened and Supermarkets are already playing Christmas songs! I love Christmas songs, but only when it’s Christmas, therefore I thought I’d share my Top 10 least favourite Christmas themed songs! The list is in no particular order, so enjoy! (more…)