“I say let Metallica be Metallica, and let the symphony be the symphony,” he reasoned. “The two have more in common than not. Metallica’s music has often had elements of composers like ...

Megadeth was on a tear in 1992. The band released their iconic 1990 record Rust In Peace two years prior, and continued that hot streak with Countdown To Extinction. The latter contained some of the ...

Symphony Of Destruction (1992) “I was on my way back from martial arts class and going to get lunch. I’m driving away from the sushi place and I thought of the lines, ‘His head explodes ...

The first song Dave Mustaine remembers writing was “Jump in the Fire,” a foot-stomping rager, which he brought to Metallica in 1982, helping to set the template for thrash metal. “I was ...