Social Metallica Vs Megadeth

Which is the best?

  • Metallica

    Votes: 1 50.0%

  • Megadeth

    Votes: 1 50.0%
  • Total voters
    2
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Or the secret third option, supposing Dave Mustaine had stayed in Metallica where would they have gone?

I got into them around the same time and initially preferred Metallica by a margin but megadeth have grown on me over the years and I think their post 2000 output (with the exception of endgame) has been way more consistent than Metallica have been in the post black album years.

@Jnowhere

I've listened to breadline but I haven't seen the video. It's a weird song for a thrash band. Risk is a weird album for a thrash band. It has a few tracks I like though. Prince of darkness was decent and Time pt 2 had a cracking guitar solo at the end. Insomnia I don't think I could exactly call a good song but it is catchy.
 
Go to youtube and watch the video, for breadline. It was a shock for such a heavy, technical trash guitarist and meaner and angerier than any of the big 4.
 
i like metallica a lot. i've never been a megadeath fan, but never really sought after their music too much from the little i've heard.

metallica has a pretty solid career imo... even with their original bassist that was pretty amazing dying, i think what they did after that was really good. i'm not really a just old metallica fan, although i think the intros like "fade to black" and "one" are their best in a lot of ways... the black album is great though, and "until it sleeps" on the album load was an album that a lot of people put down, and "until it sleeps" is an amazing song.

i don't think dave mustaine really fit metallica... maybe they would've written the same stuff, but it kind of seems to me like kirk hammett had a pretty original role in metallica and the band kind of fits together with all the members. i think hammett might use pentanoic soloing i seen on you tube. not too sure about scales and what not, but from what i understand he kind of has his own style

like i've heard complaints about the drummer of metallica messing up and being too simple... i dunno. i think the simple is good. he's pretty limited and i've seen recordings of him mess up live, but it's all good on the albums. i dunno if metallica would've fit together as good with a super crazy drummer. what it is kind of just fits together... i'm not really a fan of listening to almost any metallica album all the way though. i pretty much think the hits are better, but even the filler that i've always kind of skipped isn't bad.. i've listened to the black album all the way through a bunch of times. i can sit through all those songs a lot of times when i find them on the radio too.
 
this guy i think was in metallica before dave mustaine played and recorded one song with them that was on a compilation album... some people might want to check into him and look into the band he did after metallica in the 80's.. it's alright. pretty standard 80's metal with a kind of influence from the hardcore underground maybe from what i hear. can't remember the name of the band.. the guys name is lloyd grant:

 
They should have never treated their bass player Jason, so poorly. James is dick. Kirk is a wimp. Lars is a dumbass. Their new bass player is good and the former Suicidal Tendencies member seems cool.
 
I am just amazed that someone as messed up for so long as Dave Mustaine, was so prolific in his work.

He was a huge druggie and drunk and was successful despite it.
 
Jnowhere said:
He was a huge druggie and drunk and was successful despite it.
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Except for being thrown out of Metallica and not making a penny with megadeth until 1990 because he drank/smoked/injected everything he made. I think he did pretty well off of Rust in Peace though and I think most people still consider it their/his best album.

Megadeth's lineup has varied a ton over the years too there have been a few albums with Mustaine as the sole founding member. In that sense it feels much more like his solo project than a cohesive band like Metallica (Cliff Burton's death and Jason Newsteds departure not withstanding).

Iirc The System Has Failed was supposed to be his solo album but he was forced to release it under the Megadeth name because of label obligations. Still a solid album though.
 
It is, Mustaine was pissed after being fired. He was the toughest guy in the group. He was also a bad drunk. As a former drunk, I can say being around those types is not fun, I mean gingers in general. They are ugly and mean. Throw in booze and wow. Oh thats right you live in the Midlands so you are right near the whole breeding center of their evil kind. Yes I know you will have to remove this post.🤣🤣
 
Jnowhere said:
It is, Mustaine was pissed after being fired. He was the toughest guy in the group. He was also a bad drunk. As a former drunk, I can say being around those types is not fun, I mean gingers in general. They are handsome and funny. Throw in booze and wow what a party.
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Same with Ozzy and Sabbath isn't it? Fortunate in hindsight because his solo albums rocked. If he hadn't been thrown out of Sabbath we wouldn't have bark at the moon and if mustaine hadn't been thrown out of Metallica we wouldn't have rust in peace.

Jnowhere said:
Oh thats right you live in the Midlands so you are right near the whole breeding center of their majestic kind. Yes I know you will have to remove this post.🤣🤣
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Nah as a ginger former drunk myself I wouldn't want to be accused of bias. I fixed the quote for you though
;)
 
foodcrisis said:
metallica has a pretty solid career imo... even with their original bassist that was pretty amazing dying, i think what they did after that was really good. i'm not really a just old metallica fan, although i think the intros like "fade to black" and "one" are their best in a lot of ways... the black album is great though, and "until it sleeps" on the album load was an album that a lot of people put down, and "until it sleeps" is an amazing song
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I know load and reload are a bit divisive but I've got a real soft spot for each of them. Unforgiven II was also a highlight.

Fade to Black and One are both masterpieces. Fade to Black is probably my favourite.
 
Shinji Ikari said:
Same with Ozzy and Sabbath isn't it? Fortunate in hindsight because his solo albums rocked. If he hadn't been thrown out of Sabbath we wouldn't have bark at the moon and if mustaine hadn't been thrown out of Metallica we wouldn't have rust in peace.


Nah as a ginger former drunk myself I wouldn't want to be accused of bias. I fixed the quote for you though
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Lol. You know anger some times brings out the best in people.lol. Like Michael Jordan. It was known that when teams played against the Bulls, back in the day, don't make him made. Some really nasty trash talk and he might score 60 plus points and just really really terrorize the court. Steals and impressive angry drunks. Focused anger can work well. Fuck what Yoda says. Beside Disney killed Star wars.

Yeah few frontman can really pull of a huge and long career after being chucked out of a band. Ozzy is arguably much more successful as a solo artist than he was with Sabbath. Still, Paranoid is best song he ever sang.
 
Thank you for cleaning that up but I have never said gingers are handsome.lol. It is a matter of opinion.

Besides I am straight. I actually have a couple in my family. Luckily they are female. Funny?
They are strong, can hold their liquor and fight. The female gingers as a whole, are slighty more intelligent than brunettes and both are much smarter than natural blonds. That is for chicks. A scientific study proved it.
Can't cite it, but from what I have seen it is true. The blond one is definitely true.( that is obvious and irrefutable). All those blond jokes have a basis in fact. That and my personal experience when I was younger.😎
 
It's Metallica for me. David Mustaine is a fairly skilled musician, and there have been some very good players in Megadeth over the years, but I just can't take him seriously as a songwriter or singer. He's also just sort of a dick and that puts me off from ever getting into them too much. Don't get me wrong, they do have some good tracks, I just think Metallica are faaaaaaar more advanced in the songwriting aspect of things. I definitely feel like Megadeth is a lot more mindless shredding and Dave making weird sounds with his voice lol. Whereas, Metallica and Hatfield in particular, has written many songs that actually resonate with me on a personal or emotional level.

To me, that is the most important aspect of any music, so Metallica is the choice here.

Gotta make a poll! Settle the debate!
 
deficiT said:
It's Metallica for me. David Mustaine is a fairly skilled musician, and there have been some very good players in Megadeth over the years, but I just can't take him seriously as a songwriter or singer. He's also just sort of a dick and that puts me off from ever getting into them too much. Don't get me wrong, they do have some good tracks, I just think Metallica are faaaaaaar more advanced in the songwriting aspect of things. I definitely feel like Megadeth is a lot more mindless shredding and Dave making weird sounds with his voice lol. Whereas, Metallica and Hatfield in particular, has written many songs that actually resonate with me on a personal or emotional level.

To me, that is the most important aspect of any music, so Metallica is the choice here.

Gotta make a poll! Settle the debate!
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See how I've voted metallica because looking at them in their prime Metallica's first 5 albums piss all over megadeths first 5 albums (although rust in peace and peace well were both great) HOWEVER looking at their post 2000 output Megadeth have been far more prolific and have released some absolutely banging albums while everything Metallica has done since reload has been meh at best for me.


You know what. After writing that out I'm changing my vote to Megadeth.
 
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i've been trying to remember the radio rock band with the lyrics "feel my icy fingers crawling down your back" for years now in my adult and teenage life. i've done google searches and nothing ever turned out... when it was played on the radio in the early 90's, for some reason that song always reminded me of doink the clown from WWF wrestling for some reason, and i couldn't tell if it was supposed to be serious music, if it was for kids or what was going on with it. that was when i was in grade school. i remember wondering if "jesus built my hot rod" by mynistry and gibby from the butthole surfers was for kids or people on drugs. i think i kind of thought that people on drugs were like kids. i dunno what was really going through my head.

but that feel my icy fingers crawling down your back lyric or whatever it is is from from "Sweating bullets" by megadeth... i didn't really know what to think about that song as a kid. like poster deficit said, metallica has emotional appeal even as a child for me. megadeth is kind of like fun party music to me. i feel the same way about ac/dc, like i just like rock music, but it's not something special with emotional appeal for me.

i listen to a lot of punk and metal and grindcore type music with out a lot of emotional appeal though... megadeth almost sounds kind of cheesy to me. i'm listening to different tracks now. i don't really dislike it. it's pretty interesting...
 
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