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Megadeth – Paranoid
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This song is a cover, originally performed by Black Sabbath on the 1970 album Paranoid.
The lyrics are about a band member’s feelings as a depressed teenager and him thinking he
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Black Sabbath – Paranoid
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This song by Black Sabbath is consistently ranked as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time. Maybe the biggest hit of Ozzy’s group, along with “Iron Man.”
The lyrics
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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 – Sweating Bullets (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Hello me, meet the real me and my misfits way of life / A dark, black past is my most valued possession / Hindsight is always 20-20 / But looking
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Megadeth – Sweating Bullets (Live Trax II)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Hello me, meet the real me and my misfits way of life / A dark, black past is my most valued possession / Hindsight is always 20-20 / But looking
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Black Sabbath – Paranoid Covers
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See all of “Paranoid” by Black Sabbath’s covers
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Megadeth – Sweating Bullets (Live from the Cow Palace, San Francisco)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Hello me, meet the real me and my misfits way of life / A dark, black past is my most valued possession / Hindsight is always 20-20 / But looking
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Megadeth – Sweating Bullets (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Hello me, meet the real me and my misfits way of life / A dark, black past is my most valued possession / Hindsight is always 20-20 / But looking
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Black Sabbath – Iron Man
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The guitar riff on this song is considered one of the most famous in rock history, and it is what the entire song was written around. And no, it’s not related to the Marvel
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Megadeth – Capitol Punishment
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[Samples from the other songs on the album]
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Megadeth – Breakpoint (Session Take)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Make the rules for me to live by / Rules you break and just let it slide / You try to find you inside of me / Be as great as you want me to be
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Megadeth – Never Say Die (Live)
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[Verse 1] / People going nowhere, taken for a ride / Looking for the answers that they know inside / Searching for a reason, looking for a rhyme / Snow White's mirror said "
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Megadeth – Problems
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This song is a cover, originally performed by The Sex Pistols on the 1977 album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.
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Megadeth – No More Mr. Nice Guy
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“No More Mr. Nice Guy” is a cover of Alice Cooper’s classic with additional lyrics. This song was recorded in 1989 for the horror movie Shocker. It was also the first Megadeth song
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Megadeth – Diadems
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This song was originally recorded during the making of the Youthanasia album. The band decided that it didn’t fit with the rest of the album, so they let it be used in the
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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 – 99 Ways to Die
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This song is against guns and the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, which protects the right to bear arms for civilian militias. Dave Mustaine has since then
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Megadeth – Strange Ways
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This was originally included on the Best Buy version of 2004’s The System Has Failed.
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Megadeth – Architecture of Aggression (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Born from the dark in the black cloak of night / To envelop its prey below, deliver to the light / To eliminate your enemy, hit them in their sleep / And when all is
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Megadeth – Capitol Punishment Samples
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See all of “Capitol Punishment” by Megadeth’s samples
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Megadeth – Five Magics (Demo)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Bestow upon me knowledge / Wizard, all-knowing, all-wise / I want to rule this kingdom / Make sweet the breeze, now defiled / Dethrone the evil
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Megadeth – Sweating Bullets Live Versions
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See all of “Sweating Bullets” by Megadeth’s live versions
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Vents (AUS) – Hard to Kill
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[Turntablism] / "As I come back" / "Vents One" / "As I come back" / [Verse 1] / Word 'em up yo / Hard to breathe and hard to chill / The balaclava mask appeal / Eighty-nine pop
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Cypress Hill – Cock the Hammer
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Released on Black Sunday 1993.
The song is about pulling back the hammer of a gun making it ready for action.
Samples from:
Flora Purim – Uri (The Wind)
The Emotions – Blind
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Black Sabbath – Hand of Doom
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“Hand of Doom” describes addiction, specifically intravenous drug abuse such as IV heroin. The light bass that opens the song sets a tone of impending doom. Ozzy claims that there
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Destruction – Conductor of the Void
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Daily we get fooled by the persons we trust / They want conformity - we have to adjust / Screams of desperation - stay unheard / Who is to believe in the drama of the absurd
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Megadeth – Tornado of Souls (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / This morning I made the call / The one that ends it all / Hanging up, I wanted to cry / But dammit, this well's gone dry / Not for the money / Not for the fame / Not
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