Megadeth

Released: September 19, 1986

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Randy Burns Dave Mustaine

Part 1: Good Mourning

[Intro]
Good mourning

[Verse 1]
Hey, I don't feel so good
Something's not right
Something's coming over me
What the fuck is this?
Whoa!

Part 2: Black Friday

[Verse 2]
Killer, intruder, a homicidal man
If you see me coming, run fast as you can
Bloodthirsty demon who's stalking the street
I hack up my victims like pieces of meat
Bloodthirsty demon, sinister fiend
Bludgenous slaughter's my evil deed

[Verse 3]
My hammer's a cold piece of blood-lethal steel
I grin while you writhe with the pain that I deal
Swinging the hammer, I hack through their heads
Deviant defilers, you're next to be dead
I unleash my hammer with sadistic intent
Pounding, surrounding, slamming through your head
Yeah!

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]
Bodies convulse in agony and pain
I mangle their faces, 'til no features remain
A blade for the butchering, I cut them to shreds
First take out the organs, then cut off the head
The remains of the flesh now sop under my feet
One more bloody massacre, the murder's complete
I seek to dismember, a sadist fiend
Bloodbath's my way of gettin' clean

[Verse 5]
I lurk in the alley, wait for the kill
I have no remorse for the blood that I spill
A merciless butcher who lives underground
I'm out to destroy and I will cut you down
Cut you down
I see you, and I'm waiting for Black Friday

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 6]
Turn me loose!
Killer, intruder, a homicidal man
If you see me coming, run fast as you can
Bloodthirsty demon who's stalking the street
I hack up my victims like pieces of meat
Bloodthirsty demon, sinister fiend
Bludgenous slaughter's my evil deed
A merciless butcher who lives underground
I'm out to destroy and I will cut you down

[Outro]
It's Black Friday, paint the Devil on the wall
It's Black Friday, paint the Devil on the wall
It's Black Friday, paint the Devil on the wall
It's Black Friday, paint the Devil on the wall
It's Black Friday, paint the Devil on the wall
It's Black Friday, paint the Devil on the wall
It's Black Friday, paint the Devil on the wall
It's Black Friday, paint the Devil on the
Devil on the, Devil on the wall

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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