Things you might not know about Megadeth and Dave Mustaine...

I’m sure you all know the story of how Megadeth formed. After Dave Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica for his reckless behaviour, he vowed to take revenge by forming his own band that would be faster and heavier. Megadeth became known as one of the “Big Four” Thrash Metal bands that also included Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax.

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But where did the name Megadeth come from?

On April 11, 1983, Dave Mustaine was fired from Metallica and sent packing with his guitar and amp on a bus back to Los Angeles.

As he detailed in his book, ‘Mustaine : A Heavy Metal Memoir’ released in 2010, he recalled how he picked up a newspaper on the journey home that said: “The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid, no matter what the peace treaties come to”.

This name stuck with Mustaine, and at the time he was trying to think of a foreign name that combined the words “Fire” and “Bomb”.

On the same bus journey home he was also writing the lyrics for the first Megadeth song. Whilst he initially called this song “Megadeth” he changed the title to “Set the World Afire”.

When he got back to Los Angeles to form his new band, he decided on the name Fallen Angeles, but that didn’t quite have the apocalyptic impact Mustaine was hoping for.

So one day when his band were sitting around coming up with ideas for names, the singer at the time, Lor Caine, just said, “Hey why don’t we call the band Megadeth”. After seeing Dave Mustaine write this as a song title.

And so the name Megadeth was born. I think you’ll agree, it definitely sounds better than Fallen Angels!

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