30 years after his first visit to Argentina, Megadeth Last night he performed the first of his three concerts scheduled at the Movistar Arena as part of his world tour Crush the World (the next ones will be April 14 and 16).
A curtain with the image of Vic Rattlehead, the cadaverous character created by the leader Dave Mustaine, crowns in the background the stage of a micro stadium that housed more than 14 thousand people. The layout is always the same, a large central platform where the drummer is located Dirk Verbeurenand below, a large area freed up for the guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari and the bassist James LoMenzo They can walk through it from end to end during the entire show. Clear, Mustaine to the center, although it will also be moved to make room for its companions in the moments that indicate greater prominence for each one.
No big screens, no explosions, no confetti. a show of Megadeth It concentrates all its potential on the quartet’s musical interpretation, on its technical skill and on the brutal power of its sound. Added to that, the connection with their Argentine audience, a characteristic mark that the band printed since that first visit to the country exactly three decades ago with five Sanitary Works in a row. From that moment on, the romance between Megadeth and its Argentine audience was consolidated in such a way that the North American group is among those that visited Argentina the most times.
With a show that lasted more than an hour and a half, Megadeth He reviewed different stages of his career. Since his last album with The sick, the dying… and the dead!passing through classics like Skin o’ my teeth, Dystopia, Dread and the fugitive Mine, Hangar 18, Sweating Bullets and To All the Worldamong other thrash metal gems.
But without a doubt the greatest emotion of the night would come when the band performed the now classic Symphony of Destructiona song that the Argentine public managed to appropriate with the chant of “Megadeth, Megadeth, Aguante Megadeth” chanting the guitar riff, something that became popular worldwide and the audience at each concert of the band on the planet already has a must-see date of participation in that crucial moment of the concert.
A no less notable fact was the extraordinary performance of Mustaine. At 62 years old and more than 40 on stage, along with his past full of addictions and a battle won against throat cancer that had him on the verge of retirement, the metal star endures over time. His particular voice and his interpretation of his instrument make him, without a doubt, one of the most important living legends of the genre.
The artist, who was expelled from Metallica in the beginning due to his problems with alcohol and drugs, continues to stand, becoming one of the most powerful guardians of thrash metal.
