Biography

After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth. Mustaine's group distinguished itself from his earlier band by emphasizing instrumental skills, upping the tempo, and harshening the instrumental attack. By streamlining the classic thrash metal approach and making the music more threatening, as well as making the lyrics more nihilistic, Megadeth became one of the leading bands of the genre during the mid- and late '80s. By the early '90s, they had toned their music down slightly, yet that simply increased their following; all of their proper '90s albums debuted in the Top Ten. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• 99 Ways To Die

• A Tout Le Monde

• À Tout Le Monde (set Me Free)

• Almost Honest

• Am I Evil?

• Anarchy In The U.k.

• Angel Of Death

• Angry Again

• Antisocial

• Back In The Day

• Bite The Hand

• Black Swan

• Creeping Death

• Crush 'em

• Devil's Island

• Die Dead Enough

• Dread And The Fugitive Mind

• Elysian Fields

• Enter Sandman

• Fade To Black

• For Whom The Bell Tolls

• Foreclosure Of A Dream

• Hangar 18

• Hanger 18

• Head Crusher

• Holy Wars...the Punishment Due

• Hook In Mouth

• In My Darkest Hour

• Indians/heaven And Hell

• Insomnia

• Into The Lungs Of Hell

• Intro/rattlehead

• Kick The Chair

• Kill The King

• Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good

• Lucretia

• Madhouse

• Master Of Puppets

• Mechanix

• Moto Psycho

• Never Dead

• Peace Sells

• Peace Sells/holy Wars Reprise

• Prince Of Darkness

• Raining Blood

• Recipe For Hate...warhorse

• Seasons In The Abyss

• Set The World Afire

• Skin O' My Teeth

• Sleepwalker

• South Of Heaven

• Sudden Death

• Sweating Bullets

• Symphony Of Destruction

• Symphony Of Destruction [live At The Cow Palace '92]

• The Conjuring

• This Day We Fight!

• Train Of Consequences

• Trust

• United Abominations

• Use The Man

• Wake Up Dead

Discography

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• Th1rt3en

  Roadrunner Records

  2011

• The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria

  Warner Bros.

  2010

• Rust in Peace Live

  Shout! Factory

  2010

• Endgame

  Roadrunner Records

  2009

• United Abominations

  Roadrunner Records

  2007

• That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires

  Image Entertainment

  2007

• The System Has Failed

  Sanctuary

  2004

• Rude Awakening

  Sanctuary

  2002