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| Released = October 1990 |
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| Recorded = 1989–90<br />"Take No Prisoners" vocals re-recorded in 2004 (remastered version) |
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Rust in Peace is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released on September 24, 1990. It was their third album distributed through Capitol Records, and their only collaboration with record producer Mike Clink who was the first producer to successfully produce a Megadeth album from start to finish, without being fired. It was the first album to feature guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza, following the firing of both Jeff Young and Chuck Behler in 1989.
There are nine tracks on the album, with lyrics inspired by subjects ranging from nuclear fallout, war, religion, Area 51, and fantasy. Two singles were released from the album: "Hangar 18" and "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", which have become staples of the band's live performances. Rust in Peace was very well received by both critics and fans and was responsible for bringing Megadeth to the attention of a mainstream metal audience, and it is considered one of the most influential heavy metal albums of all time. The album was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 33rd Grammy Awards, and "Hangar 18" was nominated for the same award at the 34th Grammy Awards.[1][2] Allmusic described the record as "easily Megadeth's strongest musical effort", and it was noted as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It is also the first Megadeth album without an ellipsis in the title.
A remixed and remastered version, featuring several bonus tracks, was released in 2004. A limited edition 180g LP using the original mix was issued in the US in 2008 by Capitol Records. In addition, in January 2010, the band announced that they would be doing a North American tour to commemorate the album's 20th anniversary. They performed the whole album live, including three tracks that had never previously been performed live, "Five Magics", "Poison Was the Cure" and "Rust in Peace... Polaris". Their performance at the Hollywood Palladium was filmed and released as Rust in Peace Live later that year.
Background
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, performing to an audience of more than 100,000 people.[3] The band was soon added to the "Monsters of Rock" European tour, but dropped out after the first show due to bassist Dave Ellefson's drug problems.[4] Due to further issues within the band, Dave Mustaine fired both drummer Chuck Behler and guitarist Jeff Young, and canceled their scheduled 1988 Australian tour.[5] The following year the band had hired drummer Nick Menza and guitarist Marty Friedman to join the band, creating what would become the band's first stable line-up. Ellefson and Mustaine were the only remaining members from the original line-up from 1983.[5]
The title "Rust in Peace" was inspired by a bumper sticker that Mustaine saw on the back of a vehicle.[6] In an interview from 1990, Mustaine remarked, "I was driving home from Elsinore... um, Lake Elsinore. I was tailgating somebody, racing down the freeway, and I saw this bumper sticker on their car and it said... you know, this tongue in cheek stuff like, 'One nuclear bomb could ruin your whole day' and then I looked on the other side and it said, 'May all your nuclear weapons rust in peace' and I'm goin', Rust in Peace. Damn, that's a good title. And I'm thinkin' like, what do they mean, rust in peace? I could just see it now―all these warheads sittin' there, stockpiled somewhere like Seal Beach, you know, all covered with rust 'n' stuff with kids out there spray painting the stuff, you know."[6] A revitalized Megadeth entered Rumbo Studios in March 1990. They were joined with producer Mike Clink, who had previously produced albums with Whitesnake, Guns N' Roses and Metallica.[7]
The album's artwork was created by artist Ed Repka, who previously had designed the cover for Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?.[8] The singles, "Hangar 18" and "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" had promotional art created by Repka as well.[8] The cover features band mascot Vic Rattlehead and the leaders of the "five major world powers" of the early 90's.[9] The world leaders, from left to right, are former British Prime Minister John Major, former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, former Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and former American President George H. W. Bush.[9]
Content
The opening song, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" finds its thematic inspiration derived from the Northern Ireland conflict, in which the largely Catholic nationalist community were in conflict with the mainly Protestant loyalist community over the sovereignty of the six counties of Northern Ireland. Mustaine's feelings concerning religion, amongst other things, are outlined in the song.[10] In an interview with the UK magazine Guitarist, Mustaine says that he was inspired to write the song in Northern Ireland, when he discovered bootlegged Megadeth T-shirts were on sale and was dissuaded from taking action to have them removed on the basis that they were part of fund raising activities for "The Cause'.[10] He liked how "the cause" sounded and unknowingly dedicated a performance of "Anarchy in the U.K." to it, where the audience quickly started to riot. Megadeth was forced to travel for the remainder of the tour in a bulletproof bus.[12] This incident further inspired the song, with the popular Marvel comic book character, The Punisher acting as a lyrical inspiration.[13]
Nick Menza thought of the concept for "Hangar 18", a song about UFO conspiracy theories, Area 51 and Hangar 18, a film which was later featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.[14] According to Menza, "Hangar 18 is a military installation that holds UFO artifacts and alien creatures as far as we know."[11] Mustaine remarked that "The idea's based on a place in the four corner state region of the United States... it's a place where the military intelligence is housing alien aircraft and alien life-forms. Not that I subscribe to this point of view or any of that kind of BS, but Nick is way into it."[11]
Politics, warfare, and the environment are some of the main topics explored throughout the album. The track, "Rust in Peace... Polaris", covers the topic of intercontinental ballistic missiles and their effects on the world with "Polaris" referring to Lockheed's Cold War Polaris missile.[15] Mustaine revealed in a March 2012 interview that the track was his third song ever composed while still a teenager prior to joining his first band and was originally titled "Child Saint".[16]
"Take No Prisoners" is a song about Prisoners of war and the killing of not just the enemy, but one's own soldiers, while "Dawn Patrol" is a song about the environment being destroyed by global warming and greenhouse gases, and the life of humans after a nuclear war.[11] "Five Magics" and "Lucretia" are fantasy inspired songs; "Five Magics" is based on the novel Master of the Five Magics and "Lucretia" is about a "ghost who lives in Mustaine's attic".[17] "Tornado of Souls" is about dysfunctional relationships and the hardship of breaking up, and "Poison Was the Cure" is a song about Mustaine's issues with heroin addiction.[11]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Daily Vault | (A)[19] |
Entertainment Weekly | (B+)[20] |
The Metal Crypt | (5/5)[21] |
Rolling Stone | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Sputnikmusic | (5/5)[23] |
Rust in Peace was released on September 24, 1990, and debuted at #23 on the Billboard 200, as Megadeth's highest charting album up to that point.[24] It was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA in 1994.[25] The album was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 33rd Grammy Awards, and "Hangar 18" was nominated for the same award at the 34th Grammy Awards.[1][2] These were Megadeth's first two nominations, and was the only time when a Megadeth album would receive two nominations.[26]
Rust in Peace received very positive reviews by both underground and mainstream music critics. Reviewing for Allmusic, Steve Huey awarded the album four and a half stars, describing it as "easily Megadeth's strongest musical effort."[18] Entertainment Weekly critic Jim Farber awarded the album a B+ grade, calling it "brutality inventive" as well as "what can only be called nihilistic whimsy."[20] Mike Stagno from Sputnikmusic wrote that Rust in Peace is "widely considered to be one of thrash metal's finest albums."[23] Mike further remarked the song "Five Magics", "has a blistering two minute instrumental before Dave Mustaine's vocals kick in, leaving the band an excellent opportunity to show their stuff."[23] MusicRadar ranked the album at #6 on their list of the "50 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time."[27] IGN named Rust in Peace the fourth most influential heavy metal album of all time, after Metallica's Master of Puppets, Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast.[28] It was also declared as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[29]
Christopher Foley of The Metal Crypt observed that: "'Holy Wars' is such a superb album opener, featuring many immense riffs and Dave Mustaine's oh so original vocal delivery – I love the way this guy snarls his lines out and they're so damn fun to imitate."[30] He further noted, "There's honestly not a bad word to be said about Rust in Peace. Just look at any track - they all have something special to offer, be it the ultra cool intro to "Lucretia" and the awesome riffage of "Tornado of Souls" and its ultra melodic feel."[30] Rolling Stone magazine described the album as one of Megadeth's "most beloved albums" and that "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" was a "classic".[31] When asked if Rust in Peace was his favorite Megadeth album, Dave Mustaine replied: "Yes actually, it’s a fun record for us to play. Sometimes you’re playing a record and it can be a little tiring, but we’ve been really excited about getting back down there and playing it some more."[32]
2004 remaster
In 2002, Mustaine remastered Megadeth's debut album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!.[33] Inspired by the positive reception of the re-release, he worked to remaster all of the subsequent Megadeth albums which had been recorded with Capitol Records, which included Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? up to Risk.[34] Rust in Peace was re-released in 2004 with a new sound, four new bonus tracks and a slightly different version of the cover art.[35] During the audio mixing process, Mustaine found that the original lead vocal tracks for "Take No Prisoners", "Rust in Peace... Polaris", "Five Magics" and "Lucretia" were all missing, which meant he had to re-record the vocals on "Take No Prisoners" and "Rust in Peace... Polaris" and use alternate takes for "Lucretia" and "Five Magics".[35]
Legacy
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The tracks "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" and "Hangar 18" have become almost permanent additions to Megadeth's live set, and are fan favorites.[36] In early 2010, the band announced a North American tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rust in Peace, with Testament and Exodus as openers.[37] The tour took place from March 1-31, 2010, and included 22 shows.[38] At every show, the band performed the album in its entirety and in order. The first concert on the tour was also the first occasion on which "Five Magics", "Poison Was the Cure" and "Rust In Peace... Polaris" were ever played live.[39] Due to the overwhelmingly positive response, the band announced that it would carry on performing the entire album in the South and Central American tour dates which were to follow.[40] Coincidentally, former long-time bassist and founding band member Dave Ellefson, who left the band in 2002, rejoined the band a short time before the tour began. He replaced James Lomenzo, sparking even more interest in the tour.[41] Ellefson stated in an interview for Classic Rock magazine that drummer Shawn Drover contacted him and stated that LoMenzo was leaving the band, and that "if ever there was a time for you and Dave to talk, now is it."[42]
In 2010, Shout! Factory released a live recording filmed on the Hollywood Palladium stop of the tour.[43] The release, titled Rust in Peace Live is the first Megadeth release since 2002's Rude Awakening to feature Ellefson. The live album was released on September 7, 2010 in Blu-ray, DVD and CD formats.[44] The album debuted at #161 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Billboard DVD charts.[24]
Rust in Peace in its entirety was released as purchasable downloadable content in the rhythm game Rock Band, a part of the their "Rust in Peace Download Package".[45] It was released a little more than a year after the release of Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? on the game's download store. A cover version of "Holy Wars" by Steve Ouimette was featured in Rock Revolution.[46] "Holy Wars" was also featured in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock,[47] while "Hangar 18" was featured in Guitar Hero II[48] and as downloadable content for Guitar Hero 5.[49] Both songs have been described as amongst the most difficult songs in the series' history.[47] In further pop culture, a reference to the ending of the "Hangar 18" music video was made in an episode of Duck Dodgers, an animated television series.[50] In the episode entitled In Space, No One Can Hear You Rock, the title character resurrects Dave Mustaine from a cryopreservation to play loud enough to overload an evil alien device.[51] Mustaine voices himself in the episode;[50] the song "Back in the Day" from The System Has Failed album is featured.
A sequel to "Hangar 18" titled "Return to Hangar" was featured on Megadeth's ninth studio album, The World Needs a Hero. It concludes the fictional narrative begun in "Hangar 18", where the life-forms said to be contained in Hangar 18 come back to life and kill those inside the building before escaping.[52] Both "Hangar 18" and "Return to Hangar" were played live consecutively on the live CD and DVD Rude Awakening,[53] and That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires,.[54] Also "Holy Wars" and "Hangar 18" were the two opening songs during Megadeth's performance at The Big 4 Live from Sofia, Bulgaria.[55] Marty Friedman, who recorded on Rust in Peace, covered the song "Tornado of Souls" on his solo album Future Addict in 2008.[56] Megadeth tribute band Primitivity performed an instrumental cover of "Hangar 18" on their debut cello rock album Plays Megadeth For Cello in 2010.[57] Russian thrash metal band DeadXheaD covered the same song on their debut album Regressive by Default in 2006.[58] "Hangar 18" was covered by Fairlight and "Holy Wars" was covered by Mind-Ashes on the Megadeth tribute album Megaded - A Tribute to Megadeth released in 1999.[59] Both "Hangar 18" and "Holy Wars" were also featured on the 2005 compilation album Greatest Hits: Back to the Start, where fans voted on the track listing.[60]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Dave Mustaine, except where noted
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" | 6:32 | ||
2. | "Hangar 18" | 5:11 | ||
3. | "Take No Prisoners" | 3:27 | ||
4. | "Five Magics" | 5:39 | ||
5. | "Poison Was the Cure" | 2:56 | ||
6. | "Lucretia" | Mustaine, Dave Ellefson | 3:56 | |
7. | "Tornado of Souls" | Mustaine, Ellefson | 5:19 | |
8. | "Dawn Patrol" | Ellefson | 1:51 | |
9. | "Rust in Peace... Polaris" | 5:44 | ||
Total length: | 40:44 |
No. | Title | Music | Length |
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10. | "My Creation" | Mustaine, Menza | 1:36 |
11. | "Rust in Peace... Polaris" (Demo) | 5:25 | |
12. | "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" (Demo) | 6:16 | |
13. | "Take No Prisoners" (Demo) | 3:23 |
Personnel
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Charts
- Album
Chart | Peak position |
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Billboard 200 | 23[24] |
ARIA Charts | 47[61] |
Canadian Albums Chart | 70[24] |
Japanese Albums Chart | 29[62] |
Swedish Albums Chart | 34[63] |
Swiss Music Charts | 29[64] |
UK Albums Chart | 8[65] |
- Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1992 | "Hangar 18" | Irish Singles Chart | 25[66] |
UK Singles Chart | 26[65] | ||
"Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" | Irish Singles Chart | 12[66] | |
UK Singles Chart | 24[65] |
RIAA Certifications
Date | Certification |
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December 13, 1994 | Platinum [67] |
Grammy nominations
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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1991 | "Rust in Peace"[1] | Best Metal Performance | Nominated |
1992 | "Hangar 18"[2] | Best Metal Performance | Nominated |
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