When this was originally released way back when, it had Lee Ving on vocals, and to be quite honest it was this version of the album I was looking for when I was tracking it down. Unfortunately it has been extremely difficult to find. Thus, I have only the remastered version, which has Dave Mustaine redoing the vocals. In a way this was disappointing. It pretty much is now a Megadeth album, rather than a side project album as I was hoping to hear.
Anyway, enough of that.
What we have here is an album that is quite diverse from what Mustaine was doing with Megadeth, as you should expect being a side-project. Some of it is quite effective, while some of it falls rather flat. You can’t go into this looking for a Megadeth album or you will be sorely disappointed. In the end, you may be anyway. This is a different style of music, and perhaps works better with the original vocalist – one day I hope to find out.
As it is, this is an interesting experiment. In some ways you can see the beginnings of what became Megadeth’s Risk album here. Many will find that a chilling thought.
Best for me include “Day The Music Died”, “Designer Behaviour” and “The Creed”.
Rating: The original effort may have been more alluding. 3/5.
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