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Megadeth’s Rust In Peace | Remixed/Remastered

by Scott on July 11th, 2008

Whenever I get a new remastered version of a cd that was good in the first place I always want to make sure I got my moneys worth. Not that I could take it back to the place I got it but because I figure if you’re going to remaster/remix something that was good in the first place then the differences had still better be noticeable. Yesterday I got the remixed/remastered version of Megadeth’s Rust In Peace. On their remastered Peace Sells… I could tell a huge difference but that was something recorded in the mid eighties and it’s expected that the sound could be dramatically improved. With Rust In Peace, I thought that it had a really good, clean sound to begin with. I’ve only listened to the first few tracks and I can actually hear some differences.

With Holy Wars I noticed some backing vocals that I never did before and the guitars sound a wee bit cleaner.

On Hanger 18 I noticed a significant difference in the drum sounds. In fact it sounds as if the snare is way too loud.

Take No Prisoners has a noticeably louder bass guitar and it sound really good.

I love the fact that Dave Mustaine is such a perfectionist that he would go back through the old catalog and make something that already kicks ass, kick ass even more. The one thing I was severely disappointed with was that the only album he didn’t remix/remaster was Killing Is My Business. Perhaps there is good reason, such as the original master tapes are gone or something like that. I’m sure he probably wanted to but there just must have been something preventing it.

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