For me personally, Megadeth was the premier thrash band. Metallica had nothing on former Metallica's guitarist Dave Mustaine and his band. Unlike Metallica, Megadeth managed to put out consistently good music. I am not really into speed metal (which is ironic since I love industrial music) but Megadeth was the band that I really got into. "Rust in Peace" made me a fan. I don't remember what compelled me to buy the album but I sure got an earful. It was heavy and intense. Fourteen years later, "Rust in Peace" still holds up well given the current circumstances of our country's foreign policies. Dave Mustaine didn't write your average angst-ridden lyrics. He delved into government conspiracies like "Hangar 18" and the notion of the government hiding UFOs out in Nevada. Dave and Marty Friedman's breakneck guitar playing complimented each other very well. Dave Ellefson is one of my favorite bassists of all time. He and (former) drummer Nick Menza gives the band the backbone the band needed. All the songs are great but I particularly am a big fan of the first two singles "Holy Wars..." and "Hangar 18". The music videos for those songs were excellent. That was when artists and bands made good, quality videos. Megadeth was one of those bands whose videos were always entertaining even if they were concert footage they still were good. For me, "Rust in Peace" is Megadeth's best album. It isn't stupid metal like Limp Bizkit or Korn whose buffoonery and whining gets on my last nerves.

People will probably look to Countdown to Extinction as the high water mark for Megadeth, but they're wrong. Rust in Peace blasted onto the metal scene and blew away everybody. From the stellar opening track Holy Wars to Rust in Peace: Polaris (the two best songs on the album by the way...) this album is on full throttle. The music is the focal point of Rust in Peace and this album finds Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, Dave Ellifson and Nick Menza at their creative zeniths. Mustaine continues to be one of the most underrated and underappreciated metal guitar players of his time. Yeah, so the guy's got some personality issues but damn he can shred on the guitar. Overall, the stronger tracks on Rust in Peace are Lucretia, Five Magics, Holy Wars and Polaris. Dawn Patrol is the only speed bump on this album and should have been left in the can. Anyway, if you're into metal this is definitely an album you should own and if you're just getting into Megadeth then start here...it's their finest hour. Highly Recommended.

Anyone who criticizes great bands and loves corny bands really should not have any credibily in reviewing albums. At first I was like whatever with ILFOB, but then you accuse the metal community of being idiots and having poor taste in music. You probably are a girl, mid teens amd think My chemical romance Invented rock, pop is great and Kanye West is a lyricists. I don't know whether to laugh or vomit reading your reviews because you really don't know nothing about Megadeth or Dave Mustaine or great metal in general. Just see how many positive reviews this album has and they've been around over 20 years and bands you like will dissapear after the summer is gone. Dave Mustaine could whip any emo bands, pop artists or modern rapper just by snapping his fingers.

AWESOME. Yes this album is awesome. This is when MEGADETH got on the way to the top (they reached the top at YOUTHANSIA). Every song here is brilliantly composed and performed. The production is perfect so the sound is very clear. The albums explodes with 'Holy wars....' which has one of the best intros I've ever heard and contains mega-lyrics (just like all MEAGDETH's songs). Then continuing the massacare, is 'Hanger 18'. With its twisted riff and superb solo, it stands as one of the best thrash songs of all time and one MEGADETH's best ever. A masterpiece. Then there's the titanic 'Take no prisoners' and the medivial dusty 'Five magics'. But the best is yet to come. 'TORNADO OF SOULS' sweeps by and knocks you out. This is MEGADETH's finest hour here. Check out the solo and you'll be blown away. Friedman delivers perfectly and the melody and precision in this solo are....GREAT! God this is what MEGADETH is all about. Raw Thrash at its finest. In my opinion along with others, this is the ultimate thrash album so DO NOT HESITATE..GET IT NOW. You won't be disappointed. 'BLOW ME AWAY....'

Thank you.

Dave, Dave, Dave.... This is most definitely one of the GREATEST additions to the metal pantheon of the 20th century. I remember when I first heard that Marty Friedman was joining Megadeth. (Who was at the time, doing the 'Neo-classsical', shred-meister stuff with Jason Becker.) And I figured-- 'No way! It's not gonna work! But I was delightfully proven very wrong.

'Rust in Peace' is absolutely... perfect. I'm finding it hard to describe. It rips your head off, but in such eloquent fashion, it let you know of a new era of metal that was on the rise. (Or should I say, already rising?)

Searing guitar licks, with fearsome rhythms, and precise production, that made every upcoming, would-be guitar hero sit back in his chair, and wish he had wrote those riffs-- this was the metal album that to me, defined the mid-90's.

So yes, definitely buy this CD. If you like heavy stuff-- start your collection with this. And besides-- Dave needs the money.