New Megadeth May Be Mega-thrashy

You’re probably wondering why I have a picture of David Lee Roth up here. I’ll get to that in a minute.

I’m anticipating this new Megadeth Album more than I was United Abominations. Why? Because when I waited for The System Has Failed I expected a great album because it had Chris Poland on it and I thought it would reach back in to the Peace Sells days. I was wrong as were most people that were expecting the same thing. I really didn’t like ‘System and found it really hard to listen to.

United Abomination was a breath of fresh air and now I’m eager to see what Chris Broderick has to offer. James Lomenzo recently commented: “At this stage, it’s very cool with an old-school kind of ‘thrash-y’ vibe.” (from Blabbermouth) This statement got me thinking because during the Thrash hay-day, Lomenzo was working with White Lion. Now I’m about to get way off subject here.

Now I’m not picking on or disrespecting James Lomenzo here. He’s a great Bass player, but I started to look at his history and images of the like and found it kind of funny. Lomenzo during his White Lion days took on the semi-glammish look of White Lion. No big deal, that was the look back then in bands like that. Then I kind of remembered him in Black Label Society, with David Lee Roth and now Megadeth. Check it out. I wish I could post the pictures here but they don’t belong to me.

James Lomenzo the glamster with White Lion from ‘84 to ‘91

James Lomenzo the Biker in Black Label Society from ‘04 to ‘05

James Lomenzo in the plain t-shirt and jeans look in Megadeth

Lastly you can see James Lomenzo playing with Diamond Dave in 2002 in the photo above.

You see the trend here? I don’t think I would have really noticed or made a big deal out of it if it wasn’t for the Black Label Society photo. I do hope that the new Megadeth will be thrashy in a Megadeth way and not so much in a Death Magnetic way. (I hate to bring that up, but that’s the first thing most will think of when they see James’ statement)

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