Cryptic Writings Review

Band	Megadeth
Album	Cryptic Writings
Type	Album (Studio full-length)
Released	May 30, 1997
Genres	Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Labels	Capitol Records
Length	46:45
Ranked	#14 for 1997 , #615 all-time

Reviewer :  mhvasconcelos         Rating :  85 / 100

Dave said he had some reservations about this work in his book. According to him, this would be a more commercial work, even mentioning Metallica, wanting to "sell their soul" to the mainstream. Dave knew he would be "betraying" thrash metal. The work involved guys who worked with Bad Company and Foreigner (at their peak). I'm talking about Bus Pradger. Of course, many fans will complain. But musically, it is a great album. The 90s were very strange for Metal. Some bands like Sodom going on the crossover-thrash wave. Slayer releasing "Diabolus in Musica", Metallica with the Black Album, Iron Maiden falling from the top and the advent of controversial New Metal. Within all these oddities, "Cryptic Writings" appears to me as one of the most musically appealing. Trust was a commercial success, although the album as a whole did not achieve the expected success, as Dave himself admits. Even so, it was an album that was well received by open-minded fans and even new people. She-Wolf is another classic
but "Almost Honest" and "Have Cool Will Travel" are also incredible. But there is no song on the album that "gets in the way" of the experience. In short, it is not that overwhelming work like "Youthanasia", "Rust in Peace" and "Countdown to Extinction", but it is a good album if we analyze it in isolation without comparisons.