As cringey as Skins is if you attempt to. Articles do not always include original photos, charts or graphics. Neil Gorsuch shows how much 1 vote matters on Supreme court. It was a combustible combination-musically and personality-wise-to be sure. And a renewed fire in his belly bassist David Ellefson, a recent transplant from Minnesota and Mustaine’s first recruit for his new band Gar Samuelson, a jazzbo drummer with a blossoming heroin addiction and guitarist Chris Poland, a similarly ferocious jazz-fusion player, who, according to Mustaine, was likewise dealing with his own substance-abuse issues. The cast of characters was extreme as well: Mustaine, fresh off having been unceremoniously kicked out of Metallica during a trip to New York, with little to show for it but a bus ticket back to L.A. For sure, few bands then or now combined instrumental dexterity with sheer speed and ferocity like Mega-deth, as first exemplified on Killing Is My Business.įrom the NWOBHM-on-amphetamines rhythms of “Chosen Ones” to the unrelenting thrash throttle of “Rattlehead,” the mudslide-down-a-mountain riffing of the title track to the all-out speed-metal madness of Mustaine’s early Metallica composition, “Mechanix,” Killing was the sound of a band playing (and, as it turned out, living) in the red, with everything cranked to 10 and pushed to the extreme. Released June 12, 1985, on the small, New York-based indie label Combat Records, Killing Is My Business announced to the metal world that there was a new player in town, and one that was arguably faster, more technically adept and straight-up crazed than any of its young peers-a not-unimpressive group that at the time included the likes of Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Exodus. (Image: © Paul Natkin/Getty Images) When Guitar World poses a simple, if admittedly obvious, question to Dave Mustaine-why the Mega-deth leader decided to revisit his band’s debut album, Killing Is My Business and Business Is Good!, in a new deluxe reissue-he has a simple and obvious answer: “It’s the one that started it all, isn’t it?” Indeed it is.
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