Tag: megadeth

I wanted a headline that didn’t beat around the bush. In a world where politics and corruption are the biggest dialogues of the day but people are still subjected to constant propaganda, the lyrics of Megadeth seem uncannily relevant and useful. When you hear the opening verse of “Symphony of Destruction”, you know exactly what Dave Mustaine means when he says “You take a mortal man and put him in control, watch him become a God, what people’s heads a-roll.” Our leadership class are men with competing God complexes and people die every fucking day as a result of their decadent decision-making. This tour was hailed as the biggest metal tour of the year with Hatebreed, Trivium and Lamb of God opening the show. Because we were commuting from Los Angeles and the show started early, we missed Hatebreed and the majority of Trivium, the latter I wanted to see purely out of curiosity to know if they should be lumped in with every other metalcore or New Wave of American metal band that danced with the scene/emo movement in the early 2000’s. Many of these bands don’t deserve this label and the reflexive snobbery against them, Trivium however, probably