Rust in Peace
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Rust in Peace ( English for: "Roste in Frieden") is the fourth studio album by the American metal band Megadeth . It was released on Capitol Records in 1990 . In 2004 a remixed and remastered version with several bonus tracks was released. It was the first Megadeth album that Marty Friedman and Nick Menza played on.
The singles were Holy Wars ... The Punishment Due and Hangar 18 , both of which also appeared as music videos.
Emergence
After Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was released from a twelve-step program , he brought drummer Nick Menza and guitarist Marty Friedman into the band, creating the band's first stable line-up that would last until 1998 . The only band members who were not swapped were bassist David Ellefson and Mustaine himself. Rust in Peace was produced by Mike Clink , who had previously worked with Whitesnake and Guns N 'Roses . Clink's work as a producer contributed to the good result of the recordings, which is why Dave Mustaine was satisfied with the result.
The name of the album is derived from a bumper sticker that Mustaine, the head of the band and main songwriter, saw on the back of a car. Extract from an interview with Dave Mustaine:
“ I was driving home from Elsanon… um, Lake Elsanon. I was tailgating somebody, racing down the freeway, and I saw this bumper sticker on their car and it said ... you know, this tongue in cheek stuff like, "One nuclear bomb could ruin your whole day," and then I looked on the other side and it said, "May all your nuclear weapons rust in peace," and I'm goin ', "Rust in Peace. Damn, that's a good title." And I'm thinkin 'like, "What do they mean, rust in peace?" I could just see it now - all these warheads sittin 'there, stockpiled somewhere like Seal Beach, you know, all covered with rust' n 'stuff with kids out there spray-painting the stuff, you know. "
“I drove home from Elsanon ... um, Lake Elsanon. I passed someone as I was driving down the freeway and saw this bumper sticker on their car and it said ... well, in that kind of language that is supposed to be kind of cheeky, "An atom bomb can screw you up all day," and then I saw I was on the other side and it said: "All your nuclear weapons should rust in peace" (English: rust in peace). And I thought to myself: “Rust in Peace. Damn, that's a good title. ”And I kept thinking,“ What do they mean by rusting in peace ? ”I could see all these warheads lying there, somewhere on Seal Beach or something, you know what I mean all covered in rust and stuff like that while some kids are spraying graffiti on it. "
Song content
Politics, war and the environment are the main themes outlined on the album, with songs like Rust in Peace ... Polaris , which is about ICBMs and their impact on the world and world politics. (Polaris refers to the UGM-27 Polaris medium-range missile ). Take No Prisoners is about prisoners of war , the two-part song Holy Wars ... The Punishment Due , is made up of Holy Wars and The Punishment Due , which is about the Marvel Comics character Punisher , who Mustaine was a big fan at the time . The Holy Wars part, on the other hand, deals with religious wars in general, whereby it does not refer directly to a historical event , but Mustaine wrote in the album's booklet that he was inspired for the song during a trip through Ireland and Northern Ireland, where it is still partly religious IRA motivated terror was ubiquitous. Furthermore, the song Dawn Patrol is about how the environment is being destroyed by climate change and greenhouse gases .
Hangar 18 refers to conspiracy theories about aliens . The title is given by the so-called “Hangar 18” on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , in which the bodies of aliens who have died in UFO crashes are said to be stored. The lyrics are also reminiscent of the Roswell incident , which deals with the crash of a UFO . In 2001 the song was continued musically and lyrically on the album The World Needs a Hero under the title Return to Hangar .
Five Magics refers to the obscure fantasy film Goreblade: Warrior King of the Universe , in which the hero who lives as a fighter by the sword has to master five magicians in order to become the warrior king and marry the princess, despite being warned beforehand that the Force would corrupt him like the previous master of magicians.
Cover design
The cover of the album was drawn up by Ed Repka . It shows the band mascot Vic Rattlehead and the heads of state or government of the five most powerful states at the time, attending a meeting in Hangar 18 , with the chairman Vic bending over the body of an alien.
From left to right, people are depicted who were heads of state or heads of government at the time of the album's release or shortly after: John Major , British Prime Minister from November 1990, Toshiki Kaifu , Japanese Prime Minister, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker , Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and the American President George HW Bush .
Track list
- Holy Wars… The Punishment Due - 6:38
- Hangar 18 - 5:16
- Take No Prisoners - 3:30
- Five Magics - 5:44
- Poison Was the Cure - 2:59
- Lucretia - 4:00
- Tornado of Souls - 5:24
- Dawn Patrol - 1:52
- Rust in Peace ... Polaris - 5:37
Single releases
Holy Wars
Holy Wars was released in September 1990 in four different versions with different bonus tracks . In addition to the CD version, which contained an interview with Dave Mustaine and Lucretia , there was a maxi single with the same content. Another maxi had a longer version of the interview, but no bonus track. A 7 '' single contained only Lucretia .
Hangar 18
In March 1991, Hangar 18 was released as a second single. The Grammy-nominated song was also released in four different editions. The CD version contained Hangar 18 in two different versions and the two live songs The Conjuring and Hook in Mouth as a bonus. The 12 ″ -Maxi contained the album and a live version of the song and the two live songs of the CD version. A 7 ″ contained the live track The Conjuring in addition to another edit version of the title track . The fourth version was reserved for the Japanese market and is identical to the CD version. As a bonus, however, there was a special message for Japanese fans . The live recordings were recorded on October 14, 1990 at Wembley Stadium in London.
reception
Rust in Peace landed at number 23 on the US Billboard chart , and at number 8 in the UK.
The All Music Guide described Rust in Peace as "Megadeth's strongest musical effort" to date.
Megadeth received a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 1991 for the album and in 1992 for the single Hangar 18 , but lost to Metallica in both years .
The site IGN Entertainment placed Rust in Peace at No. 4 of the Top 25 Metal Albums behind Master of Puppets by Metallica, Paranoid by Black Sabbath and The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden .
The album reached platinum status in the United States on December 13, 1994 . in England, Megadeth was awarded a silver record for 60,000 units sold.
Chart placements
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 Germany (GfK)
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21st (9 weeks) | 9 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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29 (2 weeks) | 2 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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8th (4 weeks) | 4th |
 United States (Billboard)
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23 (30 weeks) | 30th |
Web links
- Rust in Peace at Allmusic (English)
- Rust in Peace on MusicBrainz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dave the Human, Mustaine the Artist
- ↑ a b c The album on the fansite megadeth.rockmetal.art.pl
- ↑ Chart placement in the All Music Guide
- ↑ Chart placement on Chartstats.com
- ↑ Megadeth in the All Music Guide
- ↑ Overview of the Grammy nominations in the "Metal" category
- ↑ Places 7-4 ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Top 25 Metal Albums on IGN Entertainment
- ↑ Search query on RIAA.com
- ↑ Search query on British Phonographic Industry
- ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE CH UK US
