Countdown to Extinction
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Perpetually pissed at everything — his former bandmates in Metallica, politicians, his own struggles with addiction, aliens (?) — Dave Mustaine eventually succumbed to his own paranoia, but here he aims his aggrieved whine at all the right targets: poachers, the military-industrial complex, predatory banks. While Steely Dan documented personal excess, Megadeth documented Armageddon. Future J-pop idol Marty Friedman trades licks with him on “Symphony of Destruction” and “Sweating Bullets” and the result lives up to the band name.