Megadeth

Released: January 22, 2016

Songwriter: Lee Ving

Producer: Chris Rakestraw Dave Mustaine

[Verse 1]
Eliminate the incompetents
Differences don't exist in harmony
Survival is superiority
We don't need no hands across the sea

[Refrain]
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[Verse 2]
The lines are drawn
Establish the new order
Suspect everyone
Know your enemies

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[Instrumental Break]

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[Verse 3]
Hatred is purity
Weakness is disease
Where we bury you
It's manifest destiny

[Outro]
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After being kicked out of Metallica, Dave Mustaine decided to form a Thrash Metal band that not only rivaled his former band, but played faster, more technical Metal. Along with bassist David ‘Junior’ Ellefson and a revolving door of guitarists and drummers, Mustaine set the world afire as Megadeth became known as the world’s state-of-the-art Speed Metal band throughout the 80s and the early 90s. One of the Big Four of Thrash Metal, Megadeth remains one of Metal’s most popular acts today.

However, Dave Mustaine’s fledgling band got off to a shaky start. Initially unable to find like-minded individuals, it was not until an altercation with his (underage) downstairs neighbours Dave Ellefson and Greg Handevidt, that led to him buying them beer and forming the first incarnation of the band with drummer Dijon Carruthers in 1983.

The band was named after a political pamphlet that referred to a “megadeath” (one million deaths by nuclear explosion):

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