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Warhead - Perfect/Infect

Peerless and pointless Megadeth rip-off. - 30%

Corimngul, March 14th, 2005

And whom was this supposed to make happy? Not even masochists will enjoy it. Warhead is a more faint-hearted copy of Dave Mustaine with some occasional elements sounding like hymns and D.A.D. But mostly Dave Mustaine. The vocalists sound like him, with just a little more range and a lot less emotion (well, anger). And that’s interesting, as they don’t sound like they’re imitating him, more like being watered-out incarnations. Carbon copies.

Just like Megadeth, Warhead has put guitars and bass in the frontline, louder than the drums. There’s no bad in doing so, but you really could try to be innovative, write some new riffs yourself instead of using the most simplistic Megadeth riffs a few more times in a row than Megadeth did. When you add a typical angry Megadeth rhythm to it, with the Mustaine-like vocals and even lyrics tasting of Megadeth, then your integrity is very much questioned.

But they differ from Megadeth in a few places. The short but slow intros, featuring keyboards and childish vocals are a few examples. The production is another and that’s was really confusing. Without the digitalness and heaviness to the bass this would’ve felt like another mid-tempo Megadeth album.

But sure, they try to conceal it. Like adding a lousy growl, some sound effects to the vocals – but who do they think they deceive? It’s hard to cover up having the same rhythms, compositions, ways to mask pop songs as metal, vocals, riffs etc. Even the spoken part in Scream (sounds ironic already) with its slow, psychic drums and down-tuned guitars sound like Megadeth, Dawn Patrol to be specific. For a reason unaccounted for we get a spoken part sounding just the same in the song after Scream!

Sure, it’s consistent, but when you’re consistent in ripping of another band… Well in that case consistence just isn’t a word as positive as before. And that’s the problem with Perfect Infect; it’s a Megadeth rip-off from the beginning to the very end. One could actually wonder which band gets most royalty money from this record.