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Megadeth – Peace Sells
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This song is the Mustaine’s way of dispelling many of the stereotypes about the band and heavy metal fans in general. More specifically, that they are lazy, anti-government, and
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Megadeth – High Speed Dirt
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This is a skydiving song. Dave Mustaine has talked about skydiving in many interviews and official video releases, and was filmed on a jump for MTV. The footage was included with
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Megadeth – Tornado of Souls
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“Tornado of Souls” of 1990’s Rust In Peace takes a dramatic turn thematically; while many of the album’s songs involve aliens, magic, war and other topics of the sort, this is
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Megadeth – The Conjuring
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This song describes some kind of ritual, probably inspired by Mustaine’s involvement with witchcraft at this stage in his career. The last several verses are from the point of view
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Megadeth – In My Darkest Hour
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This song is about Dave Mustaine’s former girlfriend who didn’t pay enough attention to him. He tells her how important she was to him, but how she was never there for him.
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Megadeth – Hangar 18
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Off Megadeth’s Rust in Peace album, “Hangar 18” is about the story of an Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio where some people believe the alien bodies were taken when a UFO supposedly
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Megadeth – Back in the Day
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This talks about the 4 corners of the US that mattered. San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Old Bridge. San Francisco was Exodus, Los Angels was Slayer, Metallica and Megadeth
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Megadeth – Skin o' My Teeth
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This song talks about escaping death. It covers the many crazy things that happen to rockstars that nearly kills them such as drug overdose and automobile accidents.
Dave Mustaine
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Megadeth – Sweating Bullets
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“Sweating Bullets” is the third single from the album, Countdown to Extinction. The song lyrics are from a first-person outlook of someone suffering from schizophrenia and being
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Megadeth – Dread and the Fugitive Mind
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It’s about judgment. The great paradox is if there isn’t a God and you live your life like a good person, you haven’t lost anything. If there is a God and you lived your life like
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Megadeth – Reckoning Day
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This song is about retribution, about being paid back for the evil deeds that you have done in your life. A day of reckoning is a day of settlement and resolution. It’s that day
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Megadeth – Architecture of Aggression
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This song was inspired by the massive bombing of Iraq on January 16, 1991 that initiated Operation Desert Storm. The sound samples at the end of the song are the voices of CNN
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Megadeth – Five Magics
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The lyrics for this song were inspired by the 1980 fantasy novel ‘Master of the Five Magics’ by Lyndon Hardy.
The hero of the story has to master the five magics to overthrow the
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Megadeth – A Secret Place
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This song is about getting lost inside a secret place in your own mind and losing touch with reality.
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Megadeth – Ashes in Your Mouth
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This song is about general hopelessness for the future of humanity. The song says that since man has always turned to war in the past, war is the only thing that we can expect in
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Megadeth – Mechanix
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“Mechanix” is a euphemism for sex, as the song uses metaphors to describe the action.
This was originally a Metallica song written by Dave on the Power Metal and No Life ‘til
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Megadeth – Youthanasia
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This song is Youthanasia’s title track. The title is a mix of the words youth and euthanasia.
The lyrics are about how the next generation is being screwed by the previous ones
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Megadeth – Trust
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This song is about a toxic relationship. The narrator has been unfaithful, and likely the other party has been too. As a result they are unable to trust each other.
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Megadeth – Looking Down the Cross
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This song is about the last thoughts of Jesus Christ before being crucified.
Explanations of the content of this song frequently reference the controversial Martin Scorcese film
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Megadeth – Prince of Darkness
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This song to the layman, to someone who’s not really going to look very much farther than what they are listening to, it’s gonna sound like it’s about the devil. But for me, it’s
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Megadeth – Foreclosure of a Dream
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The second of four singles released from the smash hit Countdown to Extinction, “Foreclosure of a Dream” tackles themes of government waste, harsh economic realities and political
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Megadeth – Rust in Peace... Polaris
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“Rust in Peace… Polaris” is the closing and titular track from Rust in Peace. At first, called “Child Saint,” it was written by Dave Mustaine before 1983, long before he had even
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Megadeth – Elysian Fields
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This song is about God and man, Heaven and earth, life and death. The lyrics are about how it is man’s nature to fight. In the song, Mustaine says that mankind rejected Jesus
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Megadeth – Lucretia
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The song is about a ghost named Lucretia that Dave Mustaine believed had lived in his attic for some time. And so, she got a song.
The song uses an alternative vocal track for the
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Megadeth (Ft. Ice-T) – Night Stalkers
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“Night Stalkers” is the second single off the Megadeth’s sixteenth studio album, The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!. It is also the second chapter of the Megadeth’s trilogy of
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Megadeth – Good Mourning / Black Friday
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“Good Mourning” was an instrumental that I wrote. “Black Friday” was inspired by a great drummer named Dijon Carruthers whose father was Ben Carruthers from the movie The Dirty
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Megadeth – My Last Words
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“My Last Words” is the closing track on Megadeth’s second album. This song is about a game of Russian roulette, a deadly game of chance where each player aims at their head with a
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Megadeth – Wake Up Dead
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[Verse] / I sneak in my own house / It's four in the morning / I've had too much to drink / Said I was out with the boys / I creep in my bedroom / I slip into bed / I know if I
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Megadeth – Bad Omen
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“Bad Omen” is another dark and wicked track off of Megadeth’s second record. The song begins with a semi-melodic introduction accompanied by menacing sinister guitars and captures
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Megadeth – 13
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This song is about Mustaine’s connection with the number 13. It’s the thirteenth track on Megadeth’s thirteenth album and he started playing the guitar when he was thirteen years
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Megadeth – Dawn Patrol
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This song is a short and somber warning about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust; more specifically, what life would be like after the incident. Humans would be forced to live
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Megadeth – Angry Again
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This was originally written for the 1993 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Last Action Hero and was later released on the Hidden Treasures compilation album along with a couple of other
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Megadeth – Kingmaker
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“Kingmaker” opens the album Super Collider with an enigmatic bass introduction and instantaneously embarks on a hot tempo guitar riff.
The song’s lyrics are based on painkiller
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Megadeth – The Skull Beneath the Skin
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This song is about the creation of Vic Rattlehead, Megadeth’s mascot.
Someone is being tortured while there’s black magic going on. The metal visor, ear muffs and jaw-hooks on
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Megadeth – Devils Island
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This song expresses the thoughts of a prisoner on Devil’s Island about to be executed. In the song, the prisoner’s life is spared by God right before he is about to be killed, but
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Megadeth – We'll Be Back
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[Verse 1] / The timing is right to exact my revenge / Spilling enemy blood, I will fight to the end / No more lying-in wait, just to even the score / There's a price to be paid
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Megadeth – Victory
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This song is about Dave Mustaine’s struggle with drugs and the moment he finally beat them, a victory.
The lyrics mainly reference song titles from previous Megadeth albums.
Dave
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Megadeth – Promises
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There’s one ballad, and it’s very intense in concept. It’s about prejudiced relationships, a Catholic and a Protestant that can never be together in Ireland. It could be a metaphor
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Megadeth – This Was My Life
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This song is about Mustaine having wanted to kill someone he had an affair with, but didn’t because he knew he’d then go to jail. This is a confession of the madness he felt at the
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