- heavy metal, rock, metal, thrash metal
- 58 min
- 12 tracks
- Metal-is Records
The World Needs a Hero is the ninth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released on May 15, 2001, by Sanctuary Records. After the critical and commercial failure of the previous album Risk (1999), The World Needs a Hero represented a change back to a heavier musical direction. Subsequently, the album charted at number 16 on the Billboard 200 upon release.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- AllMusic2.5/5 ★
- Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles7.5/10
- Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10
- Metal Forces7/10
- Q3/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 ★
- Rock Hard7/10
- Sputnikmusic3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Disconnect5:20
- 2The World Needs a Hero3:52
- 3Moto Psycho3:06
- 41000 Times Goodbye6:26
- 5Burning Bridges5:21
- 6Promises4:29
- 7Recipe for Hate... Warhorse5:19
- 8Losing My Senses4:41
- 9Dread and the Fugitive Mind4:25
- 10Silent Scorn1:43
- 11Return to Hangar3:60
- 12When9:14
12 tracks, 58 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Megadeth
- Label
- Metal-is Records
- Released
- 2001
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- FR
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