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Jmal00
January 30th 2026


266 Comments


People just wanted good thrash again. But those days are gone folks time to move on and listen to Nightwish like men.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
January 30th 2026


118257 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

LMAO

Galbador
January 30th 2026


839 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Megadave doesn't sing anymore, he speaks or barely yells. He speaks in corny rhymes of asinine lyrics about nothing at all. This has few solid riffs and solos but not much more. Enjoyed this more than last Megadeth or Metallica... I guess that's the only race these tired old geezers are still on. Hardwired should be compared to Dystopia, as they are from same year. Those are pretty evenly matched and both bands could have ended there a decade ago.

Wildcardbitchesss
January 30th 2026


20100 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Metal died in 1984…

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
January 30th 2026


118257 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

The year is 1984. I first discover Ride The Lightning in November of the year. It was snowing outside and it was very cold men. I put record on,, It start with medival style music, and then when in calm place? Thunder guitar take control! This is great start for this record men. Lars Ulrich is the drums for this record and at end of song, he is the lightning with bass pedal and snare madness! After this song the name of record is a song and plays well. For Whom The Bell Tolls is up and it deliver best of Metallica riff by Cliff Burton. He play guitar men? hhehehe this is bass! I can believe this. Then best Metallica song is playing,, soft music and guitars. Fade To Black is hitting me hard and it build up with epic solo and chill feeling of depressed. Trapped Under Ice brings energy back to the life here with great open riff by James Hetfield. Escape is starting up and Kirk Hammett is playing on the leads here men. This is song of good structure and deliver a good fade out ending. Here we go men! This moment we wait for! Creeping Death! This song is Metallica well known effort and it is personal favorite of my listens today. This song is about the times of Bible in Christian lore men. I believe this happen and is scary song. The end is no vocals and has great style for close the album up. The Call Of Ktulu is epic! Dave Mustaine has wrote this song when he was playing with the Metallica men,, if you did know. The last riff of song end this record and it is best way to ever end. I have never listen to better ending for any recording and I listen to many metal! This is all I say about Ride The Lightning. Thank for reading and apology for english is not good.

TheSonomaDude
January 30th 2026


10134 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

it is funny to read people on the r/megadeth page calling this album "incredible" and "one of the best ever" without going into any detail.

arthropod
January 30th 2026


2369 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I did a "albums that top NSV" list, maybe I should have done a "albums that top Megadeth" list instead

although compiling such list would take until the heat death of the universe

troyofyort
January 30th 2026


152 Comments


man reddit pages for bands are such wankfest bullshit. Cant take those corny af places seriously.

heck
January 30th 2026


7608 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

god that Ride the Lightning cover is humiliating. sad to see a legendary band go out with a wet fart but it's probably for the best. I can only imagine how bad the next album would be.

JoyfulPlatypus
Contributing Reviewer
January 30th 2026


1359 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

@troy - I agree, band pages on Reddit are the worst lol. Each one basically devolves into thinking whatever they most recently released is the best shit ever, and anyone who disagrees with them are simply wrong or don't understand.

ScuroFantasma
Emeritus
January 31st 2026


12997 Comments


This isn’t so bad, couple good tracks early on a bunch of mid stuff but hardly offensive. A bit of a dull note to go out on but Megadeth have been tired on the songwriting front for ages now. They’re still awesome live though.

Titan
January 31st 2026


26639 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This serves its purpose. It’s projected to be #1 on the Billboard 200 and yes that’s a big deal in a pop and r&b infused market. It also triggered many of us to dig into the discography and the Megadeth threads have been flying up and down the front page.



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