Well the album finally leaked and I just download it.
'Dialectic Chaos': a great guitar driven instrumental that serves as intro to
'This Day We Fight!: awsome, crushing, powerful mean thrash. Like something out of RIP but the voice of Mustaine is grittier.
'44 Minutes': mid-paced song with really good guitar work (if this is Broderick the man slays!), a heavy dark atmosphere, kind like 'Go To Hell' but slower.
'1,320': this one has been listened too already by many here, but now sounds better yet. In a way the music has taken over the vocals and Mustaine has changed a bit his sound. This song again is more thrash akin to RIP than following albums. Love the drum work on this one.
'Bite The Hand': another powerful song, still the mix sounds like higher on drums and lower on vocals (wonder if this is the final mix that made the commercial CD). Guitar work is fabulous and the song has good grip.
'Bodies': a more melodic song but definitively metal, again the guitar work is astounding. The best since the high days of Friedman.
'Endgame': like '44 minutes' starts with some sampling (that I'm not very fond of) and then goes this mid-paced heavy song that gain speed at 1:33 mins going very thrash always with the guitar driven majesty I mentioned before, catchy chorus too:
this is the endgame, this is also the longest song of the album at 5:56, the rest are under 5 mins.
'The Hardest Part Of Letting Go...Sealed With A Kiss': starts with an acoustic guitar and goes into a soft singed haunting song ballad type until 1:43 mins when burst into a fast paced melodic thrash stuff that reminds me a bit of 'Tornado Of Souls', returning at 3:18 into the acoustic piece until it fades at 4:11. The structure is like Scorpions 'Holiday' (melodic-fast-melodic), but not as good
'Headcrusher': blows in your face as the previous one ends. Fast, energetic, heavy, well many have already listened to it, so you know what I mean.
'How The Story Ends': very heavy, mid-fast paced song, again the mix doesn't let the guitar shine as it should and the vocals are also a bit buried. But I'm sure the CD must be fabulous.
'The Right To Go Insane': very mean thrashy song, Mustaine seems to speak a bit more than sing but it is not like 'Amerikhastan' at all.
This should have been the album that have followed "Youthanasia", if you liked UA you will adore this one. IMO unlike the last one this has no fillers, no weak songs, no bad remakes and unlike TWNAH and TSHF this albums has one hell of a punch!
This is how a band returns to form, hope they can continue on this path because I really dig it, and Broderick sounds like the right man for the band much more than Pitrelli or Drover.
Final verdict: I'm gonna buy this puppy as soon as available and I suspect it's gonna make the top ten this year. Way to go Megadeth!
