I bought these two albums at the same time. Upon my first several listens I would have said anthrax, but 'Deths platter has me coming back way more often these days. Thirteen has alot more staying power than worship music does. once I got over the fact that thirteen has some recycled material and just started enjoying the songs for themselves it became a very entertaining collection of songs.

Oh, and Engame KILLS!!!

Both are surprisingly good; i don't know what to vote; especially, i was surprised by the catchiness of Thirteen, since my expectations were pretty low, after Endgame.

I think Thirteen is MEGADETH's "contract fulfillment album".

I like both of these albums, but Anthrax is getting my vote. I will say that upon first listen I was disappointed with Worship Music. After hearing the first couple of songs I thought it was going to be more of a full on thrash album. Once getting over that, I grew to enjoy the album alot. In fact I enjoy the non thrashier songs the best. My expectations were low for this album so that probably helped to sway my vote.

The first couple of times I spun Thirteen it was done in the background while I was doing other things. The only thing that was sticking out was the vocals. They are too loud in the mix. I finally had to concentrate on just listening to this album. I will say that I am enjoying this more than Endgame (I like Endgame, but don't love it), but it isn't necessarily "WOWing" me either.

Maybe over time I may feel differently, but I'm comfortable giving my vote to Anthrax.

I agree with Shawn. I bet Mustaine simply wanted to finish the record so he could get the hell out of his contract w/Roadrunner, so rather than bust his ass coming up with four new songs, he decided to polish up a couple of little-heard older tracks in order to pad it out and get outta Dodge.

...which was fine by me personally, because till TH1RT3EN came out I hadn't heard any of those songs, so they were still "new" to me.

Besides, Thirteen is a better album title than Nine.

I have no problem with the "old" tunes on Th1rt3en since I had never heard any of them before either. What's the big deal ? Take away those 3 tracks and you still have a fantastic 10 track listen.

What kind of deal did Mustaine sign with Roadrunner anyway?

Porcupine Tree is on Roadrunner, but they retain the ownership of all their music, they just use Roadrunner for distribution. I think Opeth might have a similar deal.