Rust in Peace

Rust in Peace

Track Listings

1. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due

2. Hangar 18

3. Take No Prisoners

4. Five Magics

5. Poison Was the Cure

6. Lucretia

7. Tornado of Souls

8. Dawn Patrol

9. Rust in Peace...Polaris

Tracks:

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
My Creation - previously unreleased
Rust In Peace...Polaris (Demo) - previously unreleased
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due (Demo) - previously unreleased
Take No Prisoners (Demo) - previously unreleased

Customer Reviews:

The Best Metal Album Ever!.......2007-07-10

Megadeth's milestone album starts with two all-time ever green classics: Holy Wars and Hangar 18. They are both true Megadeth tracks with a message about the United States. The wars are a topic in the tracks of this album. "Take No Prisoners" and "Rust in Peace...Polaris" are the tracks about wars. Also "Five Magics" and "Poison Was the Cure" are a little bit war tracks I think. The riffs in this album are so great I could cry...how they can make these kind of tracks. "Dawn Patrol" and the end of "Hangar 18" (guitar solos) are absolutely amazing. Try also the albums "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying", "So Far, So Good, So What!", "United Abominations", "The System Has Failed", and "Countdown to Extinction".
Stars: Holy Wars...The Punisment Due, Tornado of Souls, Hangar 18, Take No Prisoners, Rust in Peace...Polaris

the best metal album in the world.......2007-06-17

This is masterpiece from dave 'metal pioneer' mustaine. Nothing to say because RIP is near perfect. The bonus track make it more exclusive. Buy it now and enjoy the cd.

Nothing New To Say.......2007-05-20

I can't really say anything that hasn't already been said.

This is Megadeth's best album and if you are a fan of metal or Megadeth (although, chances are if you are a fan of theirs you already own this). If you don't own this album and are/want to be a Megadeth fan, stop reading now and buy it.

My favorite songs (in no particular order):
- Tornado of Souls
- Poison Was The Cure
- Dawn Patrol
- Hangar 18

Not a single track on here that I don't like (although the demo versions on the reissue are kinda unnecessary, in my opinion) but those above are just my personal favorites.

Good thrash.......2007-04-19

Mustaine is a excellent guitar player and this cd has amazing riffs. The problem with the cd is the vocals. Mustaine has never really been my faviorte singer but still enjoy the music.

Mustaine and Friedman dominate.......2007-04-09

This thrash classic is considered by many to be the greatest thrash metal album ever recorded, and they have excellent reason to think so. This is Megadeth at it's finest and the only album to even come close to this masterpiece is Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? Even that isn't quite as good as this though. The real spotlight on this album is the guitars which Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman just shred on. This is pretty much a guitar players' dream. Just listen to Hangar 18. That song alone has enough solos to occupy a whole record alone. They're just insane. I don't know how those guys get their fingers to move that fast. This is exactly what thrash metal is supposed to sound like. So Far So, So Good...So What! was released two years prior to Rust In Peace and on that many problems arose, mainly due to Mustaine's drug addiction. And seeing that he is the front man, those problems kind of trickled down throughout the band. So what they released was a very good, but not great album. Rust In Peace marked a milestone for Megadeth in the sense that it was the first time the band worked sober in the studio writing music. What did that make for? An extraordinary, better than ever before album. This was also a hit to fans and most critics alike, marking it their strongest album to date.

The musical complexity on this album is unparalleled to almost all other albums. I don't know how Dave can sing and play guitar at the same time on these songs live. All the instruments are intrically played and extremely tight together. You would've thought Friedman and drummer, Nick Menza, were in this band for numerous years. There are three fan favorites on here, those being- Holy Wars, Hangar 18, and Tornado Of Souls. Tornado is my all time favorite Megadeth song. The whole thing is fast, agressive, non stop in-your-face metal, as is most of the album. There is real cool background singing about 1/3 of the way through chanting "who" when Dave belts out the rest. Holy Wars would be my second favorite song on here and maybe second favorite song ever by Megadeth. Of course it's a live encore staple. Hangar 18 is probably the most overall complex song on here, mainly because of the near ending, countless amount of solos. Five Magics is also a cool song with mythological lyrics. Take No Prisoners is lightening fast and the ending has an awesome metal chant. The only mediocre song whatsoever is Dawn Patrol, which is a tedious/noneventfull song with no guitars. Just drums, bass, and Dave talking the whole way through with a droning kind of voice. The bonus tracks are a cool extra, but I usually just stick to the studio tracks. My Creation is a real cool song though that would've have been a much better replacement for Dawn Patrol.

If you don't have this album yet, you are missing out on a huge part of thrash metal and metal history for that matter. This is one of the finest metal albums ever recorded and it is a must have for everyone. If you haven't heard Megadeth much and want to get into them or here more stuff, what better place to start then Rust In Peace. Believe me when I say that this album WILL NOT dissapoint.

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One of the Best
Mega masterpiece
Definetely MEGADETH's best album !!!
Don't Look Now to Is-Ra-El, it Might be Your Homeland
One of the best metal albums ever.

Rust in Peace
Megadeth
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002UUX
Release Date: 1990-09-17

Tracks:

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

Amazon.com

With Rust in Peace, Megadeth reached musical maturity. While not as slick and stripped-down as their later releases, it does bring the style developed on their earlier albums-basically, high-speed progressive metal-to a high point. Guitarist and singer Dave Mustaine and guitarist Marty Friedman are in fine form here, making technically complex passages sound easy. The lyrics aren't as smooth, but it's almost not worth quibbling over when the music is so good. It's all gut-wrenchingly aggressive, from "Holy Wars" to "Lucretia" to "Five Magics" to "Dawn Patrol," but "Hangar 18" and the title track are two high points, standing above the rest on what is already a fine album. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

One of the Best.......2007-06-27

One of the best metal albums of all time, Megadeth hit their peak on this album. The opening song "Holy Wars" is filled with classic thrash metal riffage, followed by the great solo work of "Hangar 18". It'd be hard to maintain the brilliance of the first two songs, but the next seven do a fairly good job, with great thrash songs like "Five Magics" and "Tornado of Souls," and a couple off-color songs like "Poison Was the Cure". The only less than stellar song on the album, IMO, is Dawn Patrol, though even that isn't bad. The music here isn't the fastest, or the heaviest, or even the most technically amazing (though Mustaine certainly is a riff-master), but it's definitely among the best music the metal genre has ever offered. It's been 17 years since this album debuted, and it's just as enjoyable today as it was when it was first released.

Mega masterpiece.......2007-06-02

And so it arrives, the crowning achievement of the Megadeth catalogue, one of the contenders for album of the decade and really this is start of the art metal for 1990 and still sounds cutting edge at the time of writing. Produced by Mike Clink and Mustaine with mixing by Max Norman this is an album that can be listened to from beginning to end, there are just no dud tracks at all.

Holy Wars...the Punishment Due kicks off proceedings with one of the finest slices of metal you'll hear anywhere. It moves through a number of sections and guitar attacks finally descending into a maelstrom of metallic fury. And a pretty cool video for it didn't hurt sales figures one little bit.

Hanger 18's video was not so widely loved but was indicative of the sort of budget Megadeth now commanded. As for the song itself it consists of Mustaine and Friedman trading licks in a synchromeshed six string symphony, - awesome stuff. The trend continues with Take No Prisoners in that it's an excellent tune but, again, different to Holy Wars just as Hanger 18 had a different feel to it. And ultimately that is one of the main reasons this is such an excellent album, ie the tunes are different but each one is great metal. Five Magics is a simple rivethead workout, Poison was the Cure is a denser listening experience whereas Lucretia and Tornado of Souls hit the nail on the head with typical Mustaine lyrical and musical aggression.

Things are slowed down considerably for Dawn Patrol which is almost totally dependant on a steady bass line and it's unsurprising this was one of the tunes co-written by Ellefson. The tune has a stripped back feel utterly different to the rest of the album and a thoroughly different pace. It essentially is a vision of a post apocolyptic world as envisaged by team Megadeth.

Rounding out the album is Rust in Peace... Polaris. A tune where some of the lyrics don't seem to flow too well and the aggression seems somewhat forced providing for a jarring effect on the listener increased by the fact that the drumming is also riding a stop/start rhythm. After the bare bones Dawn Patrol it provides a different metal experience to finish the album.

All up this entire album is pretty much the definitive Megadeth statement only challenged by Countdown to Extinction for supremacy in the bands catalogue. An album that showed the band had outgrown thrash and segued into pure metal built on the foundations of solid chops and a will to conquer. The ensure tour levelled cities.

Definetely MEGADETH's best album !!!.......2007-05-23

This is my favourite Megadeth album along with Countdown To Extinction. But Rust In Peace is still better than Countdown in my opinion.
Rust In Peace is right up there with Metallica's Ride The Lightning. I know many people prefer Master Of Puppets over Ride The Lightning, but I don't, and I don't prefer Megadeth's Peace Sells... over Rust In Peace.
It's all personal preference. I like this, you like that. But that's not what this review is about, so let me get back to the album at hand.
In Megadeth's 1990 album Rust In Peace, Megadeth have accomplished an album equal to Metallica's 1984 Ride The Lightning. Even though these albums are 6 years apart, I find them to be very similar. And I am not saying Megadeth ripped off Metallica or that Megadeth are slow learners. Anyway the similarities that I find most stand out are the overall blue colour of the artworks, the crisp yet harsh sound, and the perfect mix of trash and progression, and also I must add that all the songs on both of these albums are my favourite songs by both bands. There is not one song I do not like.
I can't help comparing Rust In Peace to Ride The Lightning, just look at the artworks. Then listen to the music, and you too may notice the similarities.

Rust In Peace & Ride The Lightning FOREVER !!!

Don't Look Now to Is-Ra-El, it Might be Your Homeland.......2007-05-03

To this day, Megadeth's "Rust in Peace" remains my all-time favorite metal album, one of the few that hasn't grown ridiculous and/or cumbersome over time. It deserves this in-length review, 17 years after its release.

The first track, "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due," kicks off with a galloping bout of E-minor scale triplets--summoned from Dave Mustaine's enviable black-polished Jackson Flying V--which are soon accentuated by Nick Menza's tom tom pummeling. There are riffs galore, for nearly two minutes, before Mustaine's neutered wail of "Brother will kill brother" enters the scene, riffs that fluctuate from feverish, stuttering leaps to crunchy half-time power-chord progressions. The vocals soar over a rhythm figure that took me two and a half years to learn how to play while singing; with off-kilter switching between thirds and fifths, it smoothly adds fusion jazz into a fiercely distorted, decidedly metal mix. An over-the-top (yet somehow appropriate) flamenca lead from frizzy-haired Jewish guitarist Marty Friedman (making his debut as the only talented Megadeth lead guitarist to date) leads into an atonal caveman stomp with Mustaine's characteristic robot growl, depicting a first-hand account from soapbox leaders turned suicide bombers. Then the melancholy E-minor to C major bridge (my reason for existing, practically, upon hearing it for the first time in 9th Grade) unfolds, its denseness broken up by gorgeous open-string ringing; the same chord changes are played two steps up, with palm-muted arpeggios, under the two screaming Friedman solos that separate the bridge's vocal passages. Out of nowhere, a riff alternating between natural harmonics picked at Mach 10-speed and an earlier figure played double-time obliterates all the gloomy aesthetics of the bridge, and Mustaine's outro solo proves his rage at being kicked out of Metallica seven years earlier had scarcely subsided. "Holy Wars" is an incredible opener, maybe the best metal album opener besides "...And Justice for All's" "Blackened."

"Hangar 18" continues on the subtle theme of Mustaine's harbored bitterness towards his former peers. The four rapidly downpicked chords in the intro are identical to those used in Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu," which Mustaine received a writing credit for. Obviously, he wasn't about to see his original song mangled without proper revenge. "Hangar 18" tells of aliens cryogenically frozen somewhere in the Nevada desert, but this song is not at all memorable for its lyrics. It features no less than EIGHT guitar solos, each of them unpredictable, sometimes downright whacky. Spontaneously, the song shifts into an Arabian raga tempo midway through, with Friedman breathlessly mastering his Arabian scales. The song's five solo finale renders "Hangar 18" a veritable guitar aficionado museum, a textbook for wannabe shredders.

"Take No Prisoners" is a bit of a throwaway track, certainly lyrically (hell, they ALL are lyrically!) and somewhat musically, with a lot of stop-and-start teasing...and these are generic F# riffs from Mustaine's own back catalogue. Still, there's joy to be had in Mustaine's yowl of "Got one chance!" and the robotic response section bellowing "Infiltrate them!" There are a lot of "-ate thems!" to come.

"Five Magics," about sorcery, for Christ's sake, has some beautiful tritonal arpeggios and a 5/4 stomp showing off Megadeth's versatility.

"Poison Was the Cure" has a bluesy bass intro (this is the only album where bassist David Ellefson's range is shown off to proper advantage) that leads into a mercifully short quadruple-time thrash about Mustaine's past heroin abuse (a common theme on the album, beautifully stated).

"Lucretia" may be the jazziest song in metal history.

But the album's true highlight is "Tornado of Souls," a song adored by metal nutjobs and indie snobs alike. B-minor harmonics pave the way to the song's central riff; spidery yet simple, crunchy yet steadily soaring, it's laid out in the key of B, but later on, the same riff is played under shifting chords that clash perfectly with its notes. A very similar progression, just different enough to warrant attention with its harmonized thirds, leads into perhaps the best metal solo of all time: never too much nor too little, with octave chords, sweep picking and (tasteful) finger tapping, the solo is the ultimate manual for how to reign in rock god excess.

"Dawn Patrol," I believe, could have easily been excised from "Rust in Peace." Gimmicky and lame, it's dominated by irritating Cockney-accent vocals and a show-offy blues bass riff.

Who knows what to make out of the lyrics on the album's final track, "Rust in Peace/Polaris"? "Eradication of/Earth's population loves/Polaris." WHAT?! But never mind that. Alternating between tribal triplets and funky stomps, made memorable by Mustaine's crude yowl of "I spread disease like a dog," it's a fitting closer to an exceptional album. The band was never in finer form, before or after, and it's pretty much the only record in which it's evident that the volatile Mustaine kept his ego in check.

One of the best metal albums ever........2007-03-08

Marty Friedman makes this album what it is. I'm so glad they let him loose on it, otherwise it wouldn't be the classic it is today. Definitely check out Marty's album Dragon's Kiss and his Cacophony work with Jason Becker.
Rust in Peace has brought tears to my eyes at times...it's THAT awesome.

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Rust in Peace
Megadeth
Manufacturer: EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002FQM8M

Tracks:

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
My Creation [#][*]
Rust in Peace...Polaris [#][*]
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due [#][*]
Take No Prisoners [#][*][Demo Version]

Album Details

Digitally Remastered with Four Bonus Tracks

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Rust in Peace

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000295V7Q
Release Date: 2005-05-17

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Leap of Faith

Manufacturer: Julie Rust
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAD0QY
Release Date: 2004-12-21

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?/So Far, So Good...So What!/Rust in Peace

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Great Music
This C.D. kickes @$$

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?/So Far, So Good...So What!/Rust in Peace
Megadeth
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000076GW
Release Date: 1998-11-03

Tracks:

Wake Up Dead
The Conjuring
Peace Sells
Devils Island
Good Mourning/Black Friday
Bad Omen
I Ain't Superstitious
My Last Words

Tracks:

Into The Lungs Of Hell
Set The World Afire
Anarchy In The U.K.
Mary Jane
502
In My Darkest Hour
Liar
Hook In Mouth

Tracks:

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

Customer Reviews:

Great Music.......2005-01-09

This a decent box set, but I give 5 stars for the music.

Song ratings:
-Disc 1-Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?-
1. Wake Up Dead 5/5
2. The Conjuring 5/5
3. Peace Sells 5/5
4. Devil's Island 5/5
5. Good Mourning / Black Friday 5/5
6. Bad Omen 5/5
7. I Ain't Superstitious 5/5
8. My Last Words 5/5

-Disc 2-So Far, So Good...So What!-
1. Into The Lungs Of Hell 5/5
2. Set The World Afire 5/5
3. Anarchy In The U.K. 5/5
4. Mary Jane 5/5
5. 502 5/5
6. In My Darkest Hour 5/5
7. Liar 5/5
8. Hook In Mouth 5/5

-Disc 3-Rust In Peace-
1. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due 10000000000000000000000/5
2. Hangar 18 5/5
3. Take No Prisoners 5/5
4. Five Magics 5/5
5. Poison Was The Cure 5/5
6. Lucretia 5/5
7. Tornado Of Souls 5/5
8. Dawn Patrol 5/5
9. Rust In Peace...Polaris 5/5

This C.D. kickes @$$.......1999-05-15

The best thing that Dave Mustaine could have done is leave metallica in the early 80`s.All of the true thrash hits are on here!!!!!!Classic Dave at his best!!!!!!!!!!

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Cryptic Sounds / No voices in your head
Megadeth
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000LA1P8U

Product Description

Out of print 5 track exclusive Japan only release, featuring: Almost honest, Vortex, Trust, A secret place, She-wolf. 1997, Toshiba-EMI records Japan.

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