The dystopia of Megadeth in the age of the NSA

So far he has released two videos to promote Dystopia Megadeth have a common aesthetic. In the audiovisual piece for the title track and "The Threat Is Real" the characters of the band survive a post apocalyptic world. The dream of harmonious city is coming down, the little remaining humanity subjugated and persecuted by police robots with skeletal face.

There is some hacker aesthetics of movement in the videos, which was already seen on the album cover unveiled last year. Finally in January the fifteenth album of the group led by Dave Mustaine was published.

The launch takes place a few months after the Pew Research Center published in May 2012 a survey on what Americans think of surveillance citizens by the National Security Agency US, indicating that approximately 54% of the inhabitants of that country disapproves of the government gather information from Internet and private telephones as part of the fight against terrorism. While 42% of respondents, approves.

It is the era after the revelations of Edward Snowden, who gave certainty what many knew or knew superficially. But Pew is not only refers to the White House and followers in activities snooping, the organization studies there to distrust large corporations and violations that they have the privacy of each.

In this context Dystopi to a disc loaded with lyrics full of anxiety, paranoia and distrust in a bleak context, where there is no place to hide, accompanied by the news of this occasion is published: joining the band of guitarist Kiko Loureiro and drummer Chris Adler.

Both are perfectly interpenetrate to underline that message Mustaine, essentially in the first five songs of production: "The Threat Is Real", "Dystopia", "Fatal Illusion", "Death From Within" and "Bullet To the Brain". The following is a downer. "Post-American World" begins with platitudes without dressing to which one loses track them until only begins the final minutes.

The interest returns in "Poisonous Shadows" where a battery percute the anguish of who flees from dark nightmares and fear of paying all that has been done. It is one of the most introspective songs and once more accusatory disc, plus one of the best, like the instrumental "Conquer ... or Die!", even for a few seconds to remember "The Call of Ktulu".

In "Lying In State" Mustaine returns to the load of questions against the system and what it considers distraction strategy to deceive people. It relies mainly on Chris Adler, good ally on a disc that repeatedly encouraged to launch the world through the window, as with "The Emperor," a metalera ode to the story "The Emperor's New Clothes" with single consecutive Loureiro and Mustaine that they have nothing to waste.

Dystopia ends with a cover of the Lee Ving, "Foreign Policy", simple and direct against the bellicose foreign policy.