Megadeth Angry Again

Because I wanted to play 4 songs today for the Razor 3-Way and Roxanne didn't let me. This is a classic from the Last Action Hero Soundtrack

Mustaine still can't beat Metallica's Black Album

This is from Loudwire. I'd rewrite it and put in my own words but they have already done such a great job.

Here’s some news that may or may not surprise you. Since Megadeth‘s released Super Collider, two months ago, album sales have been somewhat disappointing. In fact, ‘Super Collider’ was outsold this week by Metallica‘s ‘Black Album,’ which is 22 years old.

Metallica's self-titled Black Album is not only one of metal’s most successful albums, it’s the highest selling record of the last 22 years, period. With approximately 16 million copies of the ‘Black Album’ sold, the full-length classic is the most popular album of the Soundscan era, which began in 1991. As pointed out by Metal Injection, the Black Album routinely sells around 1500 copies each week, and as Megadeth’s Super Collider has dropped in sales, the 2013 disc sold less copies than the Black Album did this week.

Megadeth’s Super Collider has been panned by both critics and fans, although there are many who stand behind the latest Megadeth release. Super Collider has sold just over 60,000 copies since it dropped early in June — 1,713 of which were scanned this week. How many copies did the ‘Black Album’ sell this week? The official count is 1,737. As you can see, Metallica’s 22-year-old Black Album charted higher than Megadeth’s two-month-old Super Collider.

Megadeth’s 2011 full-length, TH1RT3EN, debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 42,000 copies its first week. The album has since sold around 120,000 in the U.S. as of December 2012. Although Super Collider debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, only 29,000 copies were scanned its first week.

I have one word for Dave Mustaine, ouch!

I love Megadeth but what the hell?

Over the course of the last year or two it seems that the main man in one of my favorite metal bands Megadeth is losing his mind. I'm talking Dave Mustaine of course, and although I love the band I don't think I can be a fan of this man anymore. From his musings about the government, and we are all entitled to our opinions, but some of what he has said is mind blowing.

Here's Mustaine on Obama and some of the recent tragic public shootings:

"Back in my country, my president, is trying to pass a gun ban so he's staging all of these murders. The 'Fast and Furious' thing down at the border. And Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there. And now, the beautiful people at the Sikh temple."

On his Men's Warehouse gift-card not showing up:

I really think that it sucks when people make false claims, that they don't care to make good on a problem that is clearly their fault, and with all of the "ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE IT" crap I just had to say something. We are all living in very tight financial times right now, and like I said, you may not wear a suit for your job or for an event or occasion, but if you do, I would strongly recommend you wear someone else's suits. Go to Jos. A Bank instead. I for one, will never set foot in a Men's Warehouse, even for shelter from a blizzard.

On the possibility of chemtrails: 

"Shame on the pilots spraying the grid lines in the once beautiful skies of San Diego. Shame, shame, shame! It's aluminum oxides & barium salts. They know what their cargo is. Only a fool or an accomplice would argue the unarguable. #chemtrails."

Oh what are chemtrails? Conspiracy theorists believe that the line of condensation from jet airplanes are actually chemicals being sprayed to effect the climate.

Looks like nothing is safe from the musings of Dave Mustaine, and I guess I now have time to listen to other bands since I may not be as excited to listen to Rust in Peace or Countdown to Extinction as I once was.