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| United Abominations | 
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| Artist: Megadeth
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  205 reviews
Sales Rank: 1680
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 180292
UPC: 016861802929
EAN: 0016861802929
ASIN: B000OCXFCO
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new, never opened, in stock in our warehouse, and ships right now. Case may have a small crack - still a giftable item.
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| Tracks:
| • | Sleepwalker | | • | Washington Is Next! | | • | Never Walk Alone...A Call To Arms | | • | United Abominations | | • | Gears Of War | | • | Blessed Are The Dead | | • | Play For Blood | | • | A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free) | | • | Amerikhastan | | • | You're Dead | | • | Burnt Ice |
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Amazon.com
Nearly 25 years after its formation, Megadeth is making its most brilliant work, a feat that some acts find unthinkable--maybe impossible--after half that time. When Mustaine sings about politics it's never in the abstract, faraway sense; his lyrics are riddled with references to the here and now--the boundaries and bombs that make the threat of war--or the threat of doom-- real. So it's no real surprise that this release features lyrics liberally peppered with references to Afghanistan, 9/11, NATO and the like.
Of course, no one buys a record or a ticket to a show specifically to hear five-minute polemics and that's where Mustaine's real talent--a talent for creating ear-perking riffs and solid, carefully constructed songs--comes in. The album may require that you read the newspaper on a regular basis but it also allows you to let loose with abandon and excitement. "Never Alone... a Call to Arms," "Gears of War" and "Play for Blood" are remarkable because they recall the classic metal of Judas Priest, Diamond Head, and the like and prove that there's nothing quite like an overdriven boogie-based riff to excite the most primitive impulses in the listener. Mustaine makes a bid for commercial radio by revisiting Youthanasia's "A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)" with Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia. It's his most emotionally honest vocal performance to date and one that will no doubt finally earn him wider critical recognition. --Jedd Beaudoin
Album Description
"United Abominations" is an album that throws back to the sound and energy of classic albums. With songs like "Washington Is Next!" and "Amerikhastan" it is a commentary on today's tumultuous world and the United Nations.
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 Album of the year May 16, 2007
55 out of 70 found this review helpful
A number of established bands have taken a more political stance than ever before the past couple years, and Megadeth is no different. Since Dave Mustaine re-formed the band (with a new lineup yet again), he's back on track and looking back to the glory days of 80's thrash metal that he helped pioneer. "United Abominations" is just that, as Megadeth makes their debut on Roadrunner Records with this raw sounding, politically laced treat that may very well be the album of the year. Opening track "Sleepwalker" slams forward with Mustaine's scratchy voice and ripping guitars, while "Washington is Next!", "Never Walk Alone...A Call to Arms", "Play for Blood", and the title track are all excellent metal blasts as well. What longtime fans of the band will notice right off the bat however is a remake of Megadeth's mid-90's hit single, "A Tout Le Monde". Here, we get "A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)" which is a faster, more driven version of the song, and it also features Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia on vocals as well. This is Megadeth at their most raw and primitive sounding since "Peace Sells...", which in itself is really saying something. Undoubtedly the best metal album of the year so far, "United Abominations" is a metal masterpiece.
The Real Megadeth is back! May 17, 2007
40 out of 53 found this review helpful
If you've been with Megadeth from the beginning, you've been craving an album where Dave finally goes back to his roots...and it's arrived! If you've been a fan of the "progressive" Megadeth of the past decade, this one's going to send you running for cover!
I'm surprised this was advertised as a "cast" album...I don't see from where that label came. This is 100% pure Megadeth, as they began in the mid eighties...fast and heavy, with signature Mustane complex rifts. It seems that Dave has found a younger, more energetic band to back him up (none of the regulars that have appeared over the years), and the youth comes through. I won't go over the track list, but they are all different...the only thing longtime fans might take as a recycle is the inclusion of "A Tout Le Monde". Do not be fooled. This isn't the same old ballad...it's faster and heavier than the original, and not only that, but it's a duet with Cristina Scabbia...the new version is unbelievable!
This one will leave you speechless. Dave, I bow before you, and thanks for giving us pure metal in an age of mindless ghetto garbage! Everyone, just say I warned you if your stereo erupts into smoke and flames before the CD is finished!
Megadeth Returns For Another Lesson In Sheer Metal!! June 26, 2007
25 out of 33 found this review helpful
The one thing I like the most about Dave Mustaine and Megadeth is that they're very consistent. No games played here. No punches pulled. They came to rock and that is that. This is metal you can believe in. Dave is gonna tell you a story of what he believes and what he doesn't, what he likes and dislikes. Oh yeah! Metal riffs aplenty! School is in session.
Sleepwalker - Great opening song. Much akin to Skin 'O Your Teeth or Reckoning Day. Straight-ahead rocker. No one is safe, when I close my eyes ... I come to take you alive! Perfect!
Washington Is Next! - Over the years Dave's political views have overshadowed the potency of some of the songs with his rhetoric and rantings, but not this time. Washingtone Is Next! is clear and concise and valid. Plus, it rox! Another killer tune. Great hooks.
Never Walk Alone...A Call To Arms - The opening riff sounds like something off of Peace Sells or Rust In Peace. Rocking. This is a cool tune. Great chorus. Grows on you. I know your enemy once was me!
United Abomination - It took four songs before Dave got to do his mock newscast. Last album it was the very first song. This little trick has become a Megadeth staple. This time it still works. United Abominations as a whole album is very politically tinted. This song rocks all the way up to the final part where Dave goes into his THERE WAS NO U.N. speech.
Gears Of War - Great intro. Another song that's just a straight-forward rocker. Electric, concise, driving. Gears of War!!!!
Blessed Be The Dead - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Great song. This is typical Megadeth in fine form. As a whole you can tell that Dave's hired guns are starting to groove as a musical unit. Where The System Has Failed was a choppy in places with a lot of thrown-together songs, this album is cohessive and flowing.
Play For Blood - Another solid tune. God, we missed Megadeth. Dave brings such attitude to his lyrics. Great!
A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free) - This is one of Dave's favorite songs. He considers it to be his masterpiece. Many will argue against this (including me). But it is a killer tune. Did he need to re-do it here? Probably not. Could have been a stumbling block on an otherwise smoothly-flowing ablum, buts it's not. In fact, it fits right in. Sang as a duet with Lacuna Coil's Christina Scabbia, this version is very cool. Is it better than the original. Maybe. It grows on you.
Amerikastan - The rant is here. Oh yeah! You knew it was coming. Dave has to have one at least once an album. Most of the time this really detracts from the song and here it does. This song is so politically fueled that it's nearly comical in nature. I'm not sure if that's was what Dave was going for. Got some cool spots, but overall, it bites. Jihad Joe, we're coming to get you! Are you kidding?
You're Dead - Great opening riff. The Megadeth dudes are grooving together. This song is pertty much filler but it's Megadeth filler and that makes it better than most. One day I'll dance on your grave, even if you're buried at sea.... Hmmmmm. Missing hooks. Not going to be your favorite song.
Burnt Ice - Actually a good album-closer. This is coherent and concise. Swirling riff that reminds me a little of The Scorpion. Definitely a lot of metal here. The drums sound good, the riffs are drilling, and Dave's lyrics are, for the most part, pretty intimidating.
Overall, United Abominations is about war and death and political upheaval and doom and destruction. It is also very metal and that's what you came for if you bought a Megadeth CD. Well.....Mustaine delivers and Megadeth remain the North Star of metal, firmly planted in the heavens. Everything is right with the universe because Dave is pissed and Megadeth are coming to rock you into the ground.
Dig it!
Great name, great songs, this could be also called Countdown to Youthanasia May 16, 2007
24 out of 30 found this review helpful
This album starts right, with a great name, best in whole Deth's career, it's almost worth the 12 bucks alone. But it also continues right, since this is the best Megadeth release since the Countdown/Youthanasia era. And talking about those 2 discs, I find that Abominations fits exactly in their middle in terms of style, despite the press-releases and some reviews here.
What you see in Abominations is a mix of: 1) tons of inteligent, hooky, captivating and sometimes even cheesy vocal lines - probably Mustaine's best ever - that we saw in Countdown (remember Skin o'my teeth, Sweating Bullets, Foreclosure of a Dream, etc.); 2) those nice catching melodies that abounded on Youthanasia and Countdown; 3) lots of fast, melodic but aggressive solos that are placed everywhere, before the chorus, after the chorus, etc. like we had in RIP and Countdown; 4) a few well-positioned, interesting variations that we saw on Cryptic Writings; 5) Aggressive, full of hatred and indignation lyrics about war and politics, like we had from Peace Sells to Rust, and in System.
The band is strong, cohese, and the compositions are prime Deth stuff, like the old times. There's attitude, there's poise. Very few classic bands managed to come back to their signature style without sounding dated, like Mustaine's crew have done here. Abominations is no better than Peace, RIP and Countdown, but it does not let down metal fans. It's like Maiden's Somewhere in Time compared to Powerslave.
About the songs, Washington Is Next, with its very melodic guitars, awesome vocal lines and long chorus, is the best song here, already a classic, and that could well be on Countdown. Sleepwalker starts slow, but its a great opener, also showing lots of melody and catching singing. United Abominations and Amerikhastan practically have Mustaine speaking the lyrics, like in a protest, the first one is more melodic, the second a little more modern metal but no worries there, both very good. Gears of War is very aggressive, lots of riffing, a whispered chorus, great. The other new songs are also quite good, and any could be played live w/o problems.
And the A Tout Le Monde version with Lacuna Coil's singer (by far the hottest woman in metal's history) is good, but not as the original, which is THE benchmark for metal ballads. Cristina's singing fit quite well, but the song is played faster than before, which takes the emotion and desperation that Mustaine used to put in there with his unique voice. But a very bad version from any Megadeth song here is WAY better than a very good version from any Metallica's Saint Anger song.
The system has not failed and Deth will not rust in peace. Start the countdown to buying it.
Thrash Megadeth is back May 15, 2007
18 out of 21 found this review helpful
This album is awesome. I haven't been listening to Meagdeth for too long, but I have all of their albums from Killing Is My Business through Youthanasia, and The System Has Failed. For me though, I gravitate more toward 80's Magdeth, the real thrash sound, basically their first 4 albums. I was somewhat disappointed with Countdown to Extinction and Youthanasia, because they weren't really thrash, but they grew on me. The System Has Failed was a relief to me because they sort of went back to their thrash roots. But, this album blows it away. Thrash Megadeth is back! I've always loved how Megadeth has multiple solos throughout their songs. This album is a total solo-fest. Solos everywhere. This album is heavy, loud, and fast. It's a very political album, obviously, but Dave tells it like it is. If you like Megadeth you will love this album. If you like metal in general, you'll love it. It does not disappoint. Highlights for me are Washington Is Next!, United Abominations, Gears of War, A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free), Play For Blood, and Burnt Ice. Burnt Ice has blazing solos. The whole second half of the song is basically a solo. I was rattling my goddamn head so much I got dizzy. Hell yeah. Nowadays, Metallica only wishes they can make an album like this, considering their last effort had no solos whatsoever. Megadeth's bringing the thrash back. Rock on!
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