Track list.
1. Skin O' My Teeth
2. Symphony of Destruction
3. Architecture of Aggression
4. Foreclosure of a Dream
5. Sweating Bullets
6. This Was My Life
7. Countdown to Extinction
8. High Speed Dirt
9. Psychotron
10. Captive Honour
11. Ashes in Your Mouth
This is an interesting album. It garnered a lot of commercial success while still maintaining a lot of the traditional Megadeth sound. There was however a transition in sound after Rust In Peace, with CTE they focus more on melody and rhythm almost in a very hard rock sort of method.
Songs like Skin O' My Teeth, Architecture, This Was My Life, do retain a lot more of the thrashy side of things. Symphony of Destruction, Psychotron and several others do more of the transitional sound to rhythm. Then you get great melodies like Foreclosure of a Dream which have a very ballad feel to it whilst not actually being one.
For me this album was something where Dave Mustaine wanted to master another style of thrash, he pretty much showed his craft at doing some of the most complicated and heavy thrash compositions such as on Rust in Peace and Peace Sells but this one he really is able to do that but more on a groovy sort of sense. It is a really good album front to back. Hard for me to fault anything on it.
Summary, great album, really good transition for Megadeth. Ill post my 4 favourite songs.
My video review as well.