Notes Megdeth lyrics.

* "Last Rites" is instrumental, the title refers to the anointing of the sick tradition of the Catholic Church. In the live shows before releasing the album, the piano part played by Dave Mustaine started on guitar. The piano part is in fact an evocation of "Toccata" by Sebastian Bach. The rest of the song on the piano parts seem to "Steven" by Alice Cooper from his album "Welcome to My Nightmare."

* "Loved To Death" is about someone who killed his love and suicide, and finally ends up in hell. Dave Mustaine set the concept in the song "The boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, girl does not love the boy, the boy kills the girl"

* "Killing Is My Business ... And Business Is Good!" this is a killer, based on the Punisher character who kills her boss after you pay.

* "The Skull Beneath The Skin" is the black magic ritual, and explains the creation of Megadeth mascot Vic Rattlehead, explaining the steel visor, metal caps on their ears, and iron staples hold your jaw shut.

* "Rattlehead" is a description of a Megadeth concert.

* "Chosen Ones" is about a scene in the film Knights of the square table and their crazy fans, that King Arthur and his Knights fight against man-eating rabbits.

* "Looking Down The Cross" is about the crucifixion of Jesus and his final before he died. In the song, Dave says that Jesus could possibly have wished for vengeance, but only spoke of forgiveness.

* "Mechanix" is a wizard of a gas station. This song was re-written and re-recorded with new lyrics by Metallica as "The Four Horsemen for their debut album Kill 'Em All. The original "Mechanix", was titled "The Mechanix" and can be found in the demo of Metallica No Life 'til Leather

* Killing Is My Business ... And Business Is Good! had a giant war against Kill 'Em All due to the name and likeness of the songs.

James Hetfield

He was born on August 3, 1963 in Downey, California (LA County). His childhood was difficult in many ways. His parents, Virgil Hetfield (a truck driver) and Cynthia (opera singer) were members of a religious group of Christian Scientists (Christian Science). For this reason, most Hetfield's childhood revolved around religious practice and its activities.

Under the doctrine of the church to which his family belonged, the use of medicines for curing diseases was forbidden. James's mother died of cancer when he was 16 years, which marked a serious conflict between James and religious dogma practiced by his family and later greatly influence the lyrics of their next works ...
First bands [edit]
James.

In its nine years, James began taking piano lessons. Later, played drums in his brother, David, finally picking up a guitar in his years of puberty. In those years, James formed his first band, Obsession, inspired by bands like The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Queen, Thin Lizzy, Venom, among others. Obsession was composed of the Veloz brothers on bass and drums, Jim Arnold on guitar Hetfield on vocals. His friends Ron and Dave Mass McGovney fulfilled the role of roadies, and then join the band as members to the withdrawal of the Veloz brothers.

After moving to Brea, California, James met drummer Jim Mulligan at Brea Olinda High School. During lunch breaks, both trials, scaring fellow guitarists with their loud and heavy sounds hitherto unknown. One day, a student named Hugh Tanner was seen by James and Jim loading parts of a Flying V at school. The three formed the band Phantom Lord, with bearish indicators. The project lasted until the graduation of James, when the moved back to Downey.

At that time, James and his friend Ron McGovney moved to a house slated for demolition, then owned by the parents of McGovney. The house was the perfect place for James and Ron spend the time and rehearse. Ron convinced James to play bass, the band Phantom Lord disbanded, resulting in Hetfield's third band to be called Leather Charm. The only difference with the previous band Leather Charm was that James was no longer playing the guitar and Ron playing bass now, while Tanner and Mulligan retained their original instruments.

The band performing songs dedicated to heavy metal in some festivals and even managed to record a demo. After that, the band began to spread. The first to retire was Tanner, who was replaced by Troy James. Later, drummer Mulligan decided to join a band with more progressive style. In the absence of a drummer, James decided to dissolve his companions finally Leather Charm.

Although the output of Mulligan's what Hetfield determined to find a new drummer, Hugh Tanner who was also greatly influenced the musical life of James.

Hetfield did not consider at first take the role of vocalist in his previous bands. Finally, we invited John Bush of Armored Saint (then singer of Anthrax) to sing in the band.

Slayer

Slayer is a heavy metal musical group founded in 1981 by American guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King in Huntington Park, California. To complete his training, King and Hanneman recruited bassist and vocalist Tom Araya of Chilean origin and Cuban-born drummer Dave Lombardo. The latter has been fluctuating in and out of the band for several years. Slayer rose to fame thanks to the release of Reign in Blood, described as "the heaviest album of all time" by Kerrang!. Thanks to this reputation, the group was included during the early eighties in the Big Four of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax.

Slayer has been strongly criticized by religious groups to be a satanic rock band, because both his lyrics and the album covers topics such as Satanism, violence, murder, serial murderers and war, and has been accused of nazismo.Esta support the latter charge was made because the fans of Jeff Hanneman of collecting material and Nazi-themed lyrics and the song "Angel of Death", which is about the doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele. Group members have always denied these allegations, ensuring that they are merely interested in the subject.

Since its debut in 1983, the band has released nine studio albums, two live albums and two compilations, and has sold over four million albums in the U.S. only. He has received two Grammy awards: one in 2007 for the song "Eyes of the Insane" and another in 2008 for the song "Final Six" and have headlined music festivals worldwide such as Ozzfest and Download Festival.

Slayer was formed in 1981 when Kerry King met Jeff Hanneman while they were doing tests to get into a heavy metal band. They recruited vocalist / bassist Tom Araya of Chilean origin and Cuban drummer Dave Lombardo, who met while working as a pizza delivery. The band started to play songs from Iron Maiden and Judas Priest music clubs in Southern California. His early gigs included inverted crosses and satanic images, and other paraphernalia anti-Christianity. During one of these concerts, the band drew the attention of Brian Slagel, a journalist who had recently founded the record label Metal Blade Records, who offered a recording contract training. There is a rumor that the band originally called Dragonslayer due to the film of the same name (in English). However, this rumor was denied in an interview by guitarist Kerry King, who said: "We never call it that. That is a myth. "

The band was offered a gig opening for Bitch at the Woodstock Club in the city of Los Angeles, where he performed eight songs, six of which were covers of other artists. Brian Slagel was one of those attending the concert and was impressed by the staging of the band. Thanks to this, joined them after finishing the show to ask them to record one of the original songs they had played at the concert for inclusion in the compilation of the label, Metal Massacre III. The song "Aggressive Perfector" managed a modest reception in the underground culture, which Brian Slagel offered a formal contract the band to his label Metal Blade Records.