All fans of Megadeth and metal alike look no further. This is the penultimate manifestation of the Megadeth menace.
This album contains 9 tracks of thrash glory (8 if you don’t count the slow bass-and-vocals ’Dawn Patrol’), many of which became known as Megadeth’s greatest songs, e.g. ’Holy Wars...The Punishment Due’, ’Hangar 18’, and ’Tornado of Souls’. It also contains many highly under-rated tracks such as ’Five Magics’ and ’Take No Prisoners’.
With newly-recruited guitarist Marty Friedman playing rings around every other musician on the map, new-recruit drummer Nick Menza beating up some classics drum tracks, Dave Mustaine creating classic and extremely complex rhythms and very socially/politically relevent lyrics, and Bassist David Ellefson lending his talent to occasional ’lead bass’ licks and providing a thumping support to the songs, Rust in Peace is everything any thrash fan could want. Fast songs, flurrying, intricate solos, lyrics with a message, and some pretty crunching riffs (Rust in Peace, Take No Prisoners) Rust in Peace is metal mastery.
Rust in Peace is Megadeth’s opus. Their equivalent of Master of Puppets if you will. The album holds many classic moments, such as the intro to Holy Wars, the solo trade-off in Hangar 18, Friedman’s classic guitar solo in Tornado of Souls (which is in itself a journey to listen to).
In two sentences - if you don’t have it, GET IT NOW!! If you’ve got it, GET IT FOR A FRIEND. Spread the word people, thrash begins and ends with Rust in Peace.