Megadeth
Megadeth. More than Kilodeth. by a lot.
Just The Facts
- Started by the guy who got kicked out of Metallica. For being TOO metal.
- Has had more lineup changes than a dying minor league baseball team.
- Is known for political songs. and gory album covers.
- Vic Rattlehead, the band's mascot, can neither see, hear, speak nor smell evil due to an ingenious set up of ear-caps and pain-inducers.
Genesis
IN THE BEGINNING

James's garage
There was a band called Metallica. Once, in their garage evil secret lair, the band was hanging out and plotting their assault on the metal scene. Dave Mustaine, then their insanely metal lead guitarist had his also insanely metal leg peed upon by Lars Ulrich's dog. Dave then in turn kicked the dog. James Hetfield's mom then kicked Dave out. Before the sugar cookies were done cooling. Now most people would have waited for the cookies to cool and decorated them anyway, but Dave had more important, more politically charged dreams to achieve.
So Dave, went down to the nearest nuclear waste containment facility to find some new bandmembers. He repeated this tecnique many times, striving for the best combination of mutantcy for metal, but eventually gave up and took a more normal approach. He then hired the person who could either die earliest(drummer Gar Samuelson) or steal the most of his things to sell for drug money(Chris Poland). This gave Dave the musical talent he was looking for, and although the lineup has changed an awful lot since Megadeth's inception, the musical quality has been mostly epic.
Rust in Piece

The hippie-market specific album cover
Children, there comes a time when one discovers a state of zen. A state of serenity unparalelled by any other imaginable. Rust In Peace is not this state, but it sure is a kick-ass metal album.
Rust in Peace is one of those albums where, when you put it in the CD player, the CD player is too busy making sweet orgasmic love to the disc to play it. While that can be a problem, many have found the easiest way to get high off of it is to lick it and then stick it to your back. This way the essential oils of the music can sink deep in to your pores, exfoliating and cleansing as they enter. The album is considered the crowning jewel of the metal industry, and is unmatched by any other piece of culture ever produced. ever. The reason for this beauty and super smooth facial skin is that the man who played lead guitar on this album had the poofiest hair in thrash. This man was Marty Friedman. Unfortunately, Marty was unable to replicate this on later albums, and now practices Ho-Mo, the ancient Japanese art of kimono-folding.
Risk
Ladies and gentlemen, please remove all chapeauxs and please proceed to the cone of solemness. Risk was a dark time indeed for Megadeth, a time that was led astray, thrown from a moving train and crushed to bits by a charging herd of bison. In fact, Risk was such a serious mistake that even Oxy-Clean cannot remove its tarnish from the history of this band.

The album cover
This time was so tough that Marty left the band crying and soon after was found living in Japan, in an apparent career-icide.
Megadeth Today
Today, Megadeth is a booming industry, with many band's trying to copy them, as well as many UN officials trying to bring them down in supposed libel suits. Nowaday's, Dave Mustaine can be found releasing a new ablum called Endgame. This album, primarily about President Bush's Hitler obsession, is expected to debut on Sept. 15 2009.
Megadeth, also proprietors of what once was one of the interweb's more tolerable forums, has now killed its 'off-topic' board known as Total Anarchy. This type of fascism is ironically what Mustaine sang against on Endgame.






"The reason for this beauty and super smooth facial skin is that the man who played lead guitar on this album had the poofiest hair in thrash. This man was Marty Friedman. Unfortunately, Marty was unable to replicate this on later albums, and now practices Ho-Mo, the ancient Japanese art of kimono-folding."
Reply"This time was so tough that Marty left the band crying and soon after was found living in Japan, in an apparent career-icide."
Awesome.
No love for Chris Broderick? the guy is great :D
I'm gonna be 100% totally honest here. I like Broderick more than Friedman. *Prepares to be shot*
@metalgod96
Don't worry dude, you aren't the only one.
In my opinion, while a great guitarrist, no doubt, Friedman is a more "neoclassical/progressive metal" type of guy. He likes to experiment. I like some of his solo material, his phrasing is awesome and anyone interested in playing guitar should give it a listen [though what he does is not for everyone, and people that is looking only for pure shred music will not like it]. Anyway, I should note that I think he's not to blame for Megadeth's albums after "Rust.." [and the horrible musical disgrace known as "Risk"]. That was Mustaine's creative decision. I just find that part of the article funny :P
Broderick's style suits thrash metal better, for what I hear in "Endgame"....... Faster, more agressive. He's really clean and precise! I'd love to hear what he can come up with if he ever went solo.
I don't know if I could choose one over the other though. They are pretty different guitarrists...... This is all my opinion btw, other people will disagree for sure!
he didnt get kicked out metallica for beiing "too metal" he got kicked out cause he was a drunken a*****e, i love megadeth and metallica but it was deffintly not for being too metal
ReplyMetallica were drunken assholes at the same time. They kicked Dave out because, out of the four of them, he was the one drunken a*****e who knew how to party. BTW, I'm with you on loving both bands as well.
They kicked him out because he was pretty violent when drunk, Dave said it himself.
The worse parts of this are that all of them are assholes, and that Dave's ultimate life goal still is 'to beat Metallica'; he's still kind of butthurt about the whole deal. :(
And I also love both bands. Hell, yes.
I don't give a s**t what anybody says, Megadeth are THE thrash metal band. Kicking Dave out so that he could form Megadeth was the best thing that Metallica ever did.
ReplyAnd oh yeah, Endgame f*****g ruled.
great guys, but please please PLEASE do not take this page as an invitation to do megadeth vs. metallica. it's irritating and just unpleasant.
ReplyAnd repetitive, and useless.
Megadeth. metallica's bigger, smarter, faster, heavier, better, awesomer, angrier and more politically aware brother. Amazing work.
ReplyDude Metallica are my favorite band but Mega-D is more fast and politically aware. Kirk Hammett is awesome but Dave can shred more.
Kirk Hammett is a pretty average lead guitarrist.
MegaDave is an excellent rhythm guitarrist, but he doesn't stand out that much as a lead guitarrist.
IMO....