Megadeth

Released: October 1, 2015

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Chris Rakestraw Dave Mustaine

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Lost inside the system, locked away without a key
No one will ever miss a menace to society
A gross lack of potential, bad decisions made in spite
A touchy hair-pin trigger and such a wasted life

[Verse 2]
Trying to break the mold of a broken family
Fight against your failure and living on his knees
Guilty of a crime of non-conformity
A hanging judge and jury handed down the penalty
A lethal injection, now they watch the body jerk
Exterminate the problem, except it didn't work

[Verse 3]
No vital sign of life, they declared it wasn't there
Coroner never checked because he didn’t fucking care
Passing off the body, they all believed he died
Starting up the hearse now for a final drive
Like whistling passed a graveyard, when walking by at night
It's a fatal illusion to think that evil ever dies

[Verse 4]
In a darkened mortuary reeking of formaldehyde
Aroused from deadly slumber
Something opened up his eyes

[Verse 5]
Spilling of their blood was a promise that he'd keep
Hate so strong revived him
From a deep narcotic sleep

[Verse 6]
Clawing away the casket lid until his fingers bleed
He grabbed a knife
And set out on a vivisection spree

[Verse 7]
A butcher hell bent, massacring each one with his blade
From the first one to the last
He dispatched them to the grave

[Outro]
It's a fatal illusion
It's a fatal illusion
Evil never dies, It never dies

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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