Megadeth

Released: May 15, 2007

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Andy Sneap Jeff Balding Dave Mustaine

[Intro]
A great sign appeared
Under the stars and the moon
Sounds of galloping horses
On clouds of lightning and thunder
A dark gathering storm
To scorch the earth for many generations
A nuclear winter
Worse than any cold or holy war

[Verse 1]
A white horse on the clouds of death
A red warhorse to end all wars
A pale horse and pestilence led by
A black horse with famine and scales

[Verse 2]
The doctrine of hatred
Nation will rise against nation
Wash me in blood
And let me be the firstborn of the dead

[Pre-Chorus]
A crowned rider with arrows and bow
A red rider with a great fiery sword
Plagues come from the one colored death
Horror and apocalypse follows

[Chorus]
Ride, won't you four Horsemen ride again
Before this kingdom's blown to kingdom come?
Ride, I hold fast to what I believe
Till I see my name in stone
Blessed are the dead

[Post-Chorus]
That they may rest

[Verse 1]
A white horse on the clouds of death
A red warhorse to end all wars
A pale horse and pestilence led by
A black horse with famine and scales

[Verse 3]
The synagogue of Satan
Nation will rise against nation
Wash me in blood and
Let me be the firstborn of the dead

[Pre-Chorus]
A crowned rider with arrows and bow
A red rider with a great fiery sword
Plagues come from the one colored death
Horror and apocalypse follows

[Chorus]
Ride, won't you four Horsemen ride again
Before this kingdom's blown to kingdom come?
Ride, I hold fast to what I believe
Till I see my name in stone
Blessed the dead

[Instrumental Outro]

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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