Metallica sold out? The biggest paradox in metal. Metallica's sales in albums plummeted after they "Sold out". The truth is that Selling out is one of the biggest myth in music scene. No band can control the number of sales by simply changing the style. Metallica is way more important to metal than Megadeth. Megadeth is just the "Dave Mustaine's Band", always in the shadow of metallica. At first Megadeth seems as an act of spite form Dave Mustaine, until Rust in peace and Countdown to extinction which contains the most stable and most talented group of musician that megadeth ever had, but Metallica was always lightyears ahead in innovation and experimentation.
Metallica's decline in my opinion, is a controlled chaos. They know who they are and what they represented in the eighties. But this material wouldn't worth anything if they hadn't change their style. This is when you start to appreciate romantically the old stuff creating a nostalgia effect. Their change was necessary.
In a summary. Megadeth NEVER was bigger or stronger than Metallica. Never ever.
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