Countdown to Extinction

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.