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Rust in Peace
is the fourth
studio album
by American
thrash metal band
released on
September 24, 1990,
by Capitol Records.
It was the first
Megadeth album
to feature guitarist
Marty Friedman
and drummer
Nick Menza.
The songs
"Hangar 18"
and
"Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"
were released as singles.
A remixed
and remastered version
of the album
featuring
bonus tracks
was released in 2004.
Since its release,
Rust in Peace
has often been named
as one of the best
thrash metal records
of all time,
by publications such as
Decibel and Kerrang!,
and listed in the
reference book
1001 Albums You Must Hear
Before You Die.
The album was
nominated for a
Grammy Award
for Best Metal Performance
at the
33rd Grammy Awards.
At the 1991
Foundations Forum,
the album received a
Concrete
Foundations Award for
"Top Radio Album"
and the single
"Hangar 18"
won
"Top Radio Cut"
award.
Background and production
In 1988,
Megadeth appeared
at the
Monsters of Rock festival
at Donington Park
in the UK,
alongside
Iron Maiden,
Kiss,
Helloween,
Guns N' Roses,
and
David Lee Roth.
The band performed to
an audience of
more than
100,000 people
and was soon added to the
"Monsters of Rock"
European tour,
but dropped out
after the first show
due to bassist
David Ellefson's
drug problems.
Further issues
within the band
caused frontman
and guitarist
Dave Mustaine
to fire drummer
Chuck Behler
and guitarist
Jeff Young,
and cancel their
scheduled
1988 Australian tour.
Nick Menza,
previously
Behler's drum tech,
was hired
as the band's
new drummer.
The search for a
new guitarist
was a drawn out process;
Mustaine examined
a number of guitarists
for the job,
including
Dimebag Darrell
of Pantera,
who was initially
offered the job
before declining,
as he requested that
his Pantera brother,
drummer
Vinnie Paul,
also be hired.
Jeff Waters
of Annihilator
was also considered
Mustaine had asked
original Megadeth
guitarist
Chris Poland
to rejoin
the band,
with Poland
tracking
lead guitar parts
on demo versions
of all the songs
that ended up
on the studio album.
According to Poland,
he was
"99 percent going to join"
the band but was
talked out of it
by his manager.
According to Mustaine,
one of the last guitarists
he had heard about,
Marty Friedman,
had sent him a copy of
Dragon's Kiss,
on which
Friedman played.
Upon listening to the record,
Mustaine had Friedman
come in to audition
and hired him.
This would become
the band's
first stable line-up
and, as recognized
by fans,
the 'classic'
Megadeth
lineup.
The album title
Rust in Peace
was inspired by
a bumper sticker
that Mustaine saw
on the back
of a vehicle
while driving home
from
Lake Elsinore, California.
The sticker read:
"May all your nuclear weapons
rust in peace".
Mustaine liked the concept
and decided to use it
as a title for
Megadeth's
upcoming album.
Rust in Peace
was recorded at
Rumbo Recorders
with producer
Mike Clink,
while the mixing was
handled by
Max Norman.
Clink was brought in
for his work on both
Guns N' Roses'
Appetite for Destruction
and
UFO's
Strangers in the Night.
The producer's work
dealt mostly with the bass,
drums
and
Friedman's guitar.
In a 2002 interview,
Mustaine declared that they
"really didn't make the record with [Clink]"
as at the time he
was focused on
Guns N' Roses'
Use Your Illusion I and II
which were also being
recorded at Rumbo
and stated most
of the work
in the album
was done by himself,
Norman,
and engineer
Micajah Ryan.
Artwork
The album artwork
was created by artist
Ed Repka,
who previously had done
the cover for
Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
in 1986.
It references
"Hangar 18",
and depicts band mascot
Vic Rattlehead
and world leaders
of the era
viewing an alien body.
In addition to creating
the album's cover,
Repka also supplied artwork
for the album's two singles
The object Rattlehead
is holding was confirmed
by Mustaine
to be a material
resembling
Kryptonite.
The men featured on the cover are,
from left to right:
an unidentified
British representative,
Japanese
Prime Minister
Toshiki Kaifu,
German President
Richard von Weizsäcker,
Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev,
and
United States
President
George H. W. Bush
TRACKLIST
(1990 Version)
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
Hangar 18
Take No Prisoners
Five Magics
Poison Was The Cure
Lucretia
Tornado Of Souls
Dawn Patrol
Rust In Peace...Polaris
BONUS
Breakpoint
1993
Korean edition
bonus track
Rust In Peace...Polaris
(Remaster Longer Version)
Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
(Demo)
Take No Prisoners
(Demo)
2004
Remix/Remaster
bonus tracks
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