Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good!
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May 1985 |
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December 1984 - January 1985 |
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| Label (s) | Combat Records , Relativity Records , Loud Records | |||
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31:33 |
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Dave Mustaine, Karat Faye |
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Indigo Ranch Studios, Malibu , California (USA) |
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Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! ( English for: " Killing is my business ... and business is going well! ") is the debut album by the US thrash metal band Megadeth . It was released on Combat Records in May 1985 . Singer Dave Mustaine called the pieces on the album "extreme Thrash Speed Metal". The vocals were still very raw, the songs were less complex than on the later albums.
Emergence
In 1984 Megadeth had recorded a three-track demo , according to band founder Mustaine under great time pressure. However, the response to this had been positive. As a result, Combat Records signed the band. Drummer Lee Rash was also replaced by Gar Samuelson before the recording. Mustaine went for Killing Is My Business ... And Business Is Good! has a much harder and better sound compared to the demo. Originally the album was supposed to be released in January 1985, but the band announced beforehand that they would take their time this time “to do everything correctly.” The design of the cover did not go according to Sustaines' ideas because the record company lost the original design and so the photo of a skull, the "mascot" Vic Rattlehead, came on the cover. The record was later re-released with a different cover picture. With Mechanix one song was included Mustaine, he already at Metallica had brought, where he played before founding Megadeth. Metallica recorded a different version and made it into The Four Horsemen by Kill 'Em All .
Track list
- Last Rites / Loved to Deth - 4:40
- Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good! - 3:06
- Skull Beneath the Skin - 3:47
- These Boots - 3:41 ( Lee Hazlewood )
- Rattlehead - 3:43
- Chosen Ones - 2:55
- Looking Down the Cross - 5:05
- Mechanix - 4:22
Music and lyrics were written by Dave Mustaine, except These Boots Are Made for Walkin . The Nancy Sinatra cover, which was written by Lee Hazlewood and whose text Mustaine changed as a parody , was no longer allowed to appear on some re-releases for legal reasons. The 2002 re-release also included demo songs Last Rites / Loved to Deth , Mechanix and Skull Beneath the Skin .
reception
On allmusic .com the vocals on Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! Steve Huey called it “amateur”, but music is played with a lot of energy. The rating was three out of five stars. In Rock Hard Götz Kühnemund criticized the production of the album as "weak" and "completely pale" compared to the demo, and the short playing time was also mentioned as a point of criticism. Nevertheless, he awarded nine out of ten points.
Web links
- Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! at Allmusic (English)
- Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! at MusicBrainz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE US
- ^ A b c Gene Khoury: News from Dave Mustain (sic!), In: Rock Hard, No. 9, December 1984, pp. 14–15, also in: Rock Hard Mania , Dortmund 2004, pp. 60–61.
- ↑ a b Review Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! by Steve Huey
- ↑ rockhard.de: Review Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! by Götz Kühnemund