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The Threat Is RealMegadeth

Released: November 25, 2015

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Chris Rakestraw Dave Mustaine

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Justified obliteration
No one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover-ups
Will leprosy touch their flesh?
For backroom meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest

[Chorus 1]
The clock runs out
The weakest link
A deadly strike
The threat is real!

[Verse 2]
See the burnished images
Of a crest fallen agency
Violent conditioning
Caused the nature of the enemy
Your terminal lack of vision
Blinded eyes see no light
A chronic lack of perspective
Their cancer now eats us alive

[Chorus 2]
A fatal shot
A lust for blood
The final act
The threat is real!

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 1]
Justified obliteration
No one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover-ups
Will leprosy touch their flesh?
For backroom meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest

[Chorus 1]
The clock runs out
The weakest link
A deadly strike
The threat is real!

[Chorus 2]
A fatal shot
A lust for blood
The final act
The threat is real!

Megadeth

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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