Especially, I think, when people first heard the first single « Super Collider ». Well, it was mixed, I have to be honest with you. What reactions did you get for this album so far? And when you listen to Super Collider as an entire album, it has a much different impact. « I don’t like just to listen to a song, I want to hear an entire album. It’s a question of being proud of what you did because it was that moment in time that you captured in recording. What are you saying? That it is a crappy album? You’re basically insulting my taste in music. » So I’ve learned over the years that when a band is thirty years of history like Megadeth does – thirty years this month actually – people came in to the Megadeth realm at different stages along the way and we learned – at least I have and think the band has as a whole – to be proud of everything we’ve done. So when some people are bashing Risk, saying it was this lightway pop album, another fan will stand and say: « Hey! That was the album I got know Megadeth on. I know a lot of people who came to know Megadeth during the Risk period. It isn’t like we just made one record with one style in music for an entire career. I think that’s what you hear on Megadeth records. It isn’t just pushing yourself, it’s pushing everybody else in the band. Like: « Come on! I can do better than that, I can come up with something more than that. » Especially when you’re committing to an album. Is it important for a band like Megadeth to keep itself challenged musically?įor sure it is! After a while, to go and just do « digidigidigidigi » (note: he’s imitating a basic thrash metal bass line) becomes easy, that’s second nature and you feel like you’re not pushing yourself. It’s just the album that came out at this particular time. Yeah, there are some things that are more broad beyond thrash metal of course, but it wasn’t a forced attempt to try to create a mainstream album. And I think that’s the difference with Super Collider. I think the thing we learned from that is: « Don’t try to make a record, just go, make an album ». It was kind of the climate of heavy metal in the United States at the time, which was really going through a big change at that time and that’s why Risk came out. I’m not gonna lie to you, I was because anytime that you try to go in a different direction… I think the difference is that Risk was a premeditated, attempted, something… And it was put to us by managements. ![]() Weren’t you actually afraid to fall back in a kind of Risk scenario where people don’t accept, or at least understand, the experimentations, the new elements in your music? That’s the emotion that you hear on Super Collider. There’s been a lot of success around the band, a lot of big shows and a lot of good will. And I think that’s inspired by past and recent activities. I think there’s kind of a positive uplifting feeling about Super Collider, which is probably why your hear some major chords (laughs). ![]() Did you feel the need at this point to try new things creatively?ĭave Ellefson (bass): Yeah, these albums, they just naturally unfold. Super Collider shows the band experimenting again and adding new colors to its music. Radio Metal: Endgame and Th1rt3en were very classic thrash oriented Megadeth. There are some things that are more broad beyond thrash metal of course, but it wasn’t a forced attempt to try to create a mainstream album. » « I think the difference is that Risk was a premeditated, attempted, something… And it was put to us by managements. It was a good opportunity to decipher the new album, compare it to Risk and put it in perspective with the rest of the band’s discography. On 9th June, during Sonisphere France festival, we were lucky to interview bass player Dave Ellefson, who has revived his old friendship with Dave Mustaine and confirmed his return in Megadeth with the album Th1rt3en. In a way, in terms of risk-taking if not of style, this is exactly what happened with another one of the band’s album: the much maligned but aptly named Risk. On the limited edition of the album, one track, “A House Divided”, even includes a trumpet!Īs was expected, criticisms were not long in coming. ![]() Even though Megadeth’s sound and typical riffs are well and truly present, some of the songs go farther than thrash, using elements from various worlds and even going as far as experimenting. Not only because it’s the latest offering from one of the most influential American thrash bands – and a member of the Big 4, no less –, but also because the band are taking their audience to unexpected places. Megadeth’s new album, Super Collider, is an event in and of itself.
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