MEGADETH The World Needs a Hero + Hidden Treasures

Di dalam effort untuk melengkapkan koleksi Megadeth. First of all, album TWNAH pada aku antara album paling underrated dalam senarai album-album Megadeth. Line up ini kalau dikekalkan terus untuk album-album mendatang pun baik juga. Lebih baik dari Mustaine 'menyewa' pemuzik-pemuzik undangan di dalam album The System Has Failed. Sentuhan berkaliber dari gitaris Al Pitrelli (ex-Savatage) dan drummer Jimmy DeGrasso sungguh menakjubkan. Aku juga merasakan yang produksi album ini sangat padat terutamanya pada bunyi snare dan bass drum DeGrasso. Kebanyakan tracksnya mencengkam tetapi kalau nak pick up a few, aku cadangkan track Dread and the Fugitive Mind, Return to Hangar dan Moto Psycho.

Untuk album Hidden Treasures pula ialah senarai lagu-lagu rarities dan B-sides yang dikumpulkan di dalam satu. Apa yang menarik untuk album ini ialah kedengaran 'angst' dan 'playful' side of Mustaine. Sangat sesuai untuk Mustaine disebabkan hampir kesemua lagu-lagu di dalam album Megadeth membawa mesej berat. Dengan cover versions dan B-sides ini, Mustaine dapat release tension dan relax.


MEGADETH The World Needs a Hero

The World Needs A Hero is an album by Megadeth, released in 2001. It was marked as a welcome return to Megadeth's more heavy metal roots, after the commercial rock style of their previous releases, Cryptic Writings and especially Risk. However, it still retained a bit of the commercial feel from previous albums, as Mustaine claims the album was like "a ship lost at sea trying to return to its course".

"Return to Hangar" is a sequel to the song "Hangar 18", which was found on the Rust In Peace album.

Mustaine also dedicated the song "When" to all the nay-sayers on Megadeth's internet message board who spoke ill of him and the band after their recent attempts at commercial success (or, a "big f**k you to all the wishy-washy fans out there".) The song's intro riff is the same as a riff found in Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu", which Mustaine co-wrote during his days as Metallica's lead guitarist. The main riff of "When" is reminiscent of "Am I Evil?" by Diamond Head, which Mustaine has said was intentional, as an homage to Diamond Head and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement. ("Am I Evil?" was also, ironically, covered by Metallica to a degree of success).

Edited versions of the album put a black bar over the innards of the man Vic Rattlehead is seen emerging from to edit the violence.

1. "Disconnect" – 5:20
2. "The World Needs a Hero" – 3:52
3. "Moto Psycho" – 3:06 (sample (help·info))
4. "1000 Times Goodbye" – 6:25
5. "Burning Bridges" – 5:20
6. "Promises" – 4:28
7. "Recipe for Hate... Warhorse" – 5:18
8. "Losing My Senses" – 4:40
9. "Dread and the Fugitive Mind" – 4:25 (Originally appeared on Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years, later appeared on Greatest Hits: Back to the Start)
10. "Silent Scorn" – 1:42
11. "Return to Hangar" – 3:59
12. "When" – 9:14


MEGADETH Hidden Treasures

Hidden Treasures is an EP by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released in 1995. It is a collection of previously released non-album tracks, including soundtrack and compilation songs. The American version of the album is currently out of print, but the Japanese version is still available as of 2006. It was also released in Europe as a special bonus CD for Youthanasia, and was re-released in Europe on April 30, 2007.

If you look closely on the album cover many of the "cities" on the map are the names of the songs that appear on the album.

1. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Shocker soundtrack) – 3:02
2. "Breakpoint" (Super Mario Bros. soundtrack) – 3:29
3. "Go To Hell" (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey soundtrack) – 4:36
4. "Angry Again" (Last Action Hero soundtrack) – 3:47
5. "99 Ways to Die" (The Beavis and Butt-head Experience compilation) – 3:58
6. "Paranoid" (Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath compilation) – 2:32
7. "Diadems" (Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight soundtrack) – 3:55
8. "Problems" (A Tout Le Monde promo) – 3:57

English texts taken from wikipedia.