TH1RT3EN(Thirteen)

麦加帝斯合唱团 / 第13章

＊ 缔造全球逾3000万张专辑销售，与Metallica、Anthrax、Slayer并列为Thrash Metal四大天团，多达9次荣获葛莱美奖‘最佳金属团体’大奖提名的超级重装部队，2011全新力作！

＊ 第13张录音室大碟，也是创始黄金贝斯手David Ellefson离团8年后首次归队的录音作品！

缔造全球逾3000万张专辑销售，连续6张专辑获颁白金唱片认证、拥有19首驶入告示牌主流摇滚榜Top40的单曲，并多达9次荣获葛莱美奖‘最佳金属团体’大奖提名，与Metallica、Anthrax、Slayer并列为Thrash Metal四大天团的超级重装部队Megadeth，无论潮流如何变迁，依旧坚守传统鞭笞金属悍劲、侵略性极强的追求速度快感，以及技巧性的提升琢磨，故至今走过28个年头，仍持续撰写属于Megadeth的风光音乐史记！

1983年崛起于加州的Megadeth，由曾在Metallica磨练些许日子，入选‘最伟大的百位金属吉他手’一书名单冠军的Dave Mustaine领军，1986年发行的专辑“Peace Sells...But Who’s Buying”，便名列‘死前必听的1001张专辑’一书推荐，也是Megadeth正式扬名立万之关键。进入90年代，虽然Grunge风暴群起肆虐，Megadeth仍能交出里程碑大作“Countdown To Extinction”，抱走美国人道主义协会颁发‘创世纪奖’，成为得到此项殊荣的唯一重金属乐团！转换新东家Roadrunner旗下呈献的“United Abominations”，空降美国Top8，入主Guitar World杂志‘2007年最佳金属专辑’冠军，Kerrang!杂志也给予四颗星近满分推崇。葛莱美提名，登记告示牌第9名的“Endgame”，超过十家媒体一面倒的送上近满分高度评价！

第13张录音室大碟“TH1RT3EN”，是创始黄金贝斯手David Ellefson离团8年后首次归队录音！邀请获葛莱美奖提名，并一肩扛起卖座摇滚团体Disturbed、3 Doors Down畅销作品的Johnny K执行操盘。Dave Mustaine解释：“和之前作品百分之百不同，吉他部分处理的相当现代感，可说是老经典的Black Sabbath加入些许Queens Of The Stone Age之精华。”除此之外，13首曲目中，包含多支先前即已问市的作品，包括：2007年乐迷专属预购“United Abominations”的加值曲“Black Swan”、原本写于1994年“Youthanasia”专辑的“Millennium Of The Blind”以及“New World Order”之Demo，直到2004年重新Remaster版本才告曝光、电玩游戏《NeverDead》同名主题曲“Never Dead”。第一波主打“Public Enemy No. 1”，剽悍的吉他Solo飙奏紧扣双耳，火辣的鼓击狠狠敲打，绝对勾起热血澎湃的聆赏情绪；“Whose Life (Is This Anyways?)”和“We The People”紧追在后连续痛快冲撞，Megadeth不负众望，再造事业经典乐章！

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Thirteen (stylized as TH1RT3EN) is the thirteenth studio album by the American heavy metal band Megadeth. The album was released on November 1, 2011, making it the second Megadeth album (after Youthanasia in 1994) to be released on that date. The album was released on October 26, 2011 in Japan. Thirteen is the third and final album due in the band's current contract with Roadrunner Records. It is the first Megadeth studio album since The World Needs a Hero (2001) on which bass guitarist and founding member Dave Ellefson performs.

The lead single from Thirteen was the Al Capone-inspired "Public Enemy No. 1". This was followed by "Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)" about a month later. A third song from the album, "Sudden Death", was released as a single prior to the announcement of Thirteen to promote Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Both "Sudden Death and "Public Enemy No. 1" received Grammy nominations, as did "Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)". "Whose Life" and "Public Enemy No. 1" were nominated for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance at the 55th and 54th Grammy awards, respectively and "Sudden Death" was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 53rd Grammy awards.

Thirteen debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold about 120,000 copies in the United States as of December 2012. The album has received mostly positive reviews from critics and has a Metacritic rating of 71/100. (wiki)

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by James Christopher Monger

Megadeth's 13th studio album, and first since 2001’s The World Needs a Hero to utilize the talents of bassist/founding member Dave Ellefson, was produced by Johnny K (Staind, Disturbed) and features a combination of newly composed tracks, along with older cuts written years ago but never put to tape. Darker, heavier, and more immediate than 2009's Endgame, Dave Mustaine's snarling vocals ride higher in the mix this time around, but fans need not fear, as his fleet fingers are still possessed with the power to conjure the dead. Much of the aptly named Th1rt3en feels vintage, from the familiar political themes on “We the People” and the tightly wound, Dio-esque riffing on “Public Enemy No. 1” to the soft, melodramatic military snare intro of “Never Dead,” which eventually explodes into a wicked blast of retro-thrash that feels positively invigorating, not redundant. Elsewhere, the melodic slow-burn “Millennium of the Blind” fuses Ten Years After's “I’d Love to Change the World” and Metallica's “Fade to Black” into an anti-corporation/war rant that calls out the “millennials” on their submissiveness, the snaky “Black Swan” casts long shadows that mimic “Symphony of Destruction,” and first single “Sudden Death” stands defiant before the skeptics who thought that Mustaine's newfound faith would render him bereft of the old ultraviolence.