Songs in order: 0:04 Megadeth - Wake up Dead 0:41 Exodus - Bonded by Blood 1:16 Megadeth - Rattlehead 1:50 Destruction - Curse the Gods 2:20 Megadeth - Hangar 18 3:01 Overkill - Hammerhead 3:34 Megadeth - The killing road 4:05 Sodom - Agent Orange 4:43 Megadeth - Peace sells 5:15 Nuclear Assault - Critical mass 5:46 Megadeth - Tornado of souls 6:15 Kreator - Extreme aggression 6:52 Megadeth - Blackmail the universe 7:20 Holy Moses - Near dark 7:51 Megadeth - Trust 8:21 Testament - Disciples of the Watch 8:54 Megadeth - This was my life 9:36 Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua 10:12 Megadeth - Angry again 10:48 Pantera - Mouth for War 11:24 Megadeth - Liar 12:04 Machine Head - Davidian 12:35 Megadeth - Holy wars 13:06 S.O.D. - March of the S.O.D. Feel free to correct me on any of this if I’m wrong Oh, and great guitar playing, I really like how you tried to fit in a bunch of underrated songs from all these different Megadeth albums This series is criminally underrated
TheSuffocater That sounded like a good idea, so I added them, but for some reason, every time you edit a pinned comment on RU-vid, it just automatically un-pins the comment, so you might want to pin it again
@@Liviopedata maybe once, many many years ago, you could affirm that. I don't agree that James was a better riff composer than Dave back then, but at least from the '81 to the '91 Metallica came up with really great metal riffs. Now, more than thirty years after that, Dave still keeps making the best riffs, while Metallica lives on the memory of the five first albums (and in two of them, some of the best riffs are from Dave also)
@Axe of Deth I place Friedman in front of Broderick for sure. Maybe Broderick has better technical skill but he plays like a robot with no soul unlike Marty.
I remember to listen Scott Ian to say in the Documentary Get Thrashed: "Without Mustaine there is not Metallica and without Mustaine may be there is not Thrash Metal". Everybody must be agree that Scott is an authorized voice to be able to affirm this. Pioneer of Thrash Metal, all that music He wrote on Kill'em all, was kicked out from Metallica, after created Megadeth and all those sick riffs we know, he almost die for an overdose(Or he did), suffered severe nerve damage of his hand, appeared in Duck Dodgers episode, he has his own beer, Black belt Taekwondo, was diagnosed with cancer... He is a legend! All these things and you guys that studied music in the University dare to question him? I don't know if he is the best but when he dies, he will drink champagne in the same table with Hendricks, Lennon, Morrison, Mozart, and all greatest musician all time.
@@TheSoundtrackChanneI he should've had a proper singer in the countdown to extinction, as it was meant to be a mainstream album just like metallica's black album. That's why he stayed as an underdog and never became as big as metallica. His ego prevents him to perceive his voice as it is, an ugly screech. Even if you like his voice you must admit that it is an acquired taste and it isn't a mainstream capable voice
@@TheSoundtrackChanneI the fact that his voice is so different drew me to megadeth even more. I find very very few thrash singers can have that much of a fuck you attitude in their voice. Maybe Bobby Blitz. But everyone else either doesn't have the attitude or focuses solely on sounding good which don't get me wrong is great but it is nice to hear the other extreme every now and then
Mustaine is so beyond words. His guitar playing is the most powerful and his song writing takes his playing even higher. Thanks Dave for everything. Your the best ever
I got to see him twice live so I'm happy, including when they went on The Big Four in Yankee Stadium. My son was in his mom's womb so he technically was there too. 🤘🏻
It‘s crazy how simple everything else looks compared to the riffs Dave was writing at the time. Not that there haven’t been bands that wrote much more complex stuff, but none of them managed to go mainstream like Megadeth.
@@BaldyMacbeard You mean simple like "Symphony of destruction" or "Angry again"? Megadeth has several examples of easy and simple riffs to please a soft nerdy new metal audience.
@@CharlieS76 sure. But they also have a shit ton of epic hard to play riffs they smuggled on all the records. For every tout le monde there's a poison was the cure...
There is so much emotion, sorrow, pain, anger in those riffs from Mustaine. He has this incredible ability to use the guitar as a singer uses his voices. Mustaine is unique in the way he creates music. Actually there is a lot of hooks in Mustaines music, it is almost pop to some degree, obviously not pop, but his riffs are not just riffs, they are entire songs.. He is probably the best metal songwriter of all time...
Man, Megadeth for me have always been several cuts above the rest tbh. Mustaine's riffing is so iconic and out of the ordinary for the genre and those close to it.
@Skip Bayless You sound like a classic hater who has no idea what the fuck they are talking about and decides to just throw out another big name to derail the whole topic.
@Skip Bayless both are good in their own right man. As a person who grew up on megadeth then found pantera when they came out. Dime and Dave have the riffs that you can just headbang to. They both have groove to their sound.
@Skip Bayless ok I'll agree with you on some of the lyrics and singing of Dave You got me. But let's talk about hanger 18, 99 ways to die, rust in peace.... Polaris, holy wars the punishment due, tornado of souls, symphony of destruction. Dave made all of the music for the songs and you can hear it in the lack of good drumming. Pantera was a full band man. That's what makes pantera, cemetary gates, revolution is my name, walk, 5 minutes alone, becoming, this love. These bands are are both great. In their own rights. Metal is metal man. Just as long as you headbang on
@Skip Bayless I didnt read this until after I commented on the previous statement. Dave was an asshole and that's why Metallica got rid of him. Hes a hot head but writes dam good music. There is a reason, anthrax, Metallica, slayer and megadeth are the BIG 4 in metal.
Agreed! Had he gotten the infamous warning and second chance and we'd gotten Mustaine and Burton's music with Hetfeild's lyrics Metallica would've undeniably been the best metal band ever
Agree with you on that one. But the best riffs in Thrash were by Slayer (especially Jeff Hanneman). There will never be strong riffs like Angel of Death bridge riff, Seasons in the Abyss main riff and generally any Slayer riff
Dave Mustaine is the ultimate riff generating machine. His riffs always had that extra detail that most others neglected. And the fact that he sang while playing a lot of these complex riffs is amazing.
This guy has remastered the album a couple of months back and it sounds insane, can hear everything so clearly but still sounds very thrash ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w4KqBxbaTAs.html
This just proves that Dave is literally the catalyst and patient zero of what thrash metal is. Dave looked at NWOBHM, Punk, and old school heavy metal, said lets combine them, and out came thrash metal. Dude is a literal musical genius, and honestly I feel that Megadeth should have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and not Metallica.
Well... yes and no. The idea of mixing metal and punk is from Motörhead at first, then from Trust and Iron Maiden for example, and only after them from Exdodus and Metallica etc. And especially when it comes to Metallica, people need to remember they weren't the first band, even in their scene or at the shows they first started playing at... they just were the first to land a record deal. It was a totally new sub-genre so producers really didn't trust it. A lot of the other early thrash bands were already playing just like Metallica, they just didn't have the money to fund their own records. Megadeth came along fairly late and Dave's real impact is seen on the first three Metallica albums, when it comes to the scene as a whole. And a lot of his Megadeth riffs were inspired by other bands who already had stuff out by then, like Venom, Slayer or even Bathory, if you know what to listen for... He perfected speed and thrash, but he didn't invent it, nor did everybody constantly look to his riffs for inspiration.
@@gennaro4941They write catchy hooks and like to make their melodies safe so they would be accepted by a larger audience. Dave's more interested in producing top notch thrash that is more technical and suited to a smaller audience so that's why Metallica is "more popular". While I like the direction Metallica took in 2008 towards thrash again, I didn't discover it until not too long ago because I felt St. Anger sucked and I had given up. Now I heard Metallica's last three thrash albums and I do like them. However, I cannot help but feel as if they are relaxing towards a commercial sound again
@Skip Bayless Mustaine is Megadeth over 30 years, Pantera and Darrell were great but exist only...10? I don't forget the first 3 albums of Pantera and I remember the first 3 of Metallica that has been with the help of Mustaine.
@@megarichard5738 That's not true, Kill 'Em All has credits in these songs: The Four Horsemen Jump In The Fire Metal Militia Phantom Lord And then in Ride The Lightning he has a credit in Ride The Lightning (song) and The Call Of Ktulu. Dave has no involvement at all in Master Of Puppets, however there's a rumor that says that he wrote a riff in Leper Messiah, but this remains unconfirmed.
Another very important thing with Megadeth's music is the aggressiveness and complexity that drummers like Gars Samuelson and Nick Menza brought to Dave's riffs. compare their drums beats with their contemporaries, and they were very ahead of them in that regard too.
@@warrengauthier4699 I beg to differ sir. First Gar set the standard. Second the production on those albums didn't do him justice. Theres a channel that isolated the bass and drums on Peace Sells album and it's insane.
You played peace sells, I’m listening on headphones next to my sleeping wife who woke up as I sang “if there’s a new way...” 🤨 thanks now I’m in the doghouse.
Every time I hear Dave’s riffs I go into a hypnotic trance. the world stops and every fiber of my mental and physical existence clings to every note , every chord, every lyric, of every song. When the song ends I feel so empty because there is no more , and so full because there was so much ! To put it in his own words “when the steam finally disipates, I make out my sweaty face “. Rock on Dave you are the master !!!
Ditto! Good to know I'm not the only person who holds Dave's songwriting with reverence, and appreciation to point of being hypnotized and totally unable to resist turning the volume up when possible.
@@TrondBie Possible lead? Actually They talked about Slash joining the band when Dave was starting up Megadeth. Slash says that he and Dave were doing a lot of coke and there was no way Dave would've seriously considered him for the group. Evident in how Dave wouldn't bring it up off coke. Dave is way to technical and Slash is pretty much all bar chords and minor pentatonic scales when it comes to soloing.
Glad to see that you included Nuclear Assault...such an underrated part of the late 80s thrash scene. Dang, had to edit to add bonus points for the Sacred Reich and SOD...
Imma be honest a lot of these riffs sound generic compared to Megadeth , Mustaine is provably the most articulated guitarists of 80's and 90's thrash he truly speaks with the guitar , the only other thrash guitarists that I know he could that was 80's Andreas Kisser.
@@unacceptablekrazykanuck8470 So do I. I agree. I like the energy of Mustaine's licks. Hammet's are good, but not as energetic as Daves. I think Mustaine was the better part of Metallica that got away.
@@unacceptablekrazykanuck8470 I don't know what that is supposed to mean, sir. Is Megadeth departing somewhere? Dave says a new album is coming, so they don't seem to be going anywhere except to do what they do best.
No no, just if he had never left or been ousted from Metallica, the outcome or forming of Megadeth may never of happened. Hopefully that clears it up. Cheers and peace.
Dude, for me the best battle so far. I love Dave Mustain and Megadeth. For me he is the master of making riff's heavys, along with Jeff Waters from annihilator !!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🎸🎸🎸
of course jeff hanneman or Kerry King are very good riff's songwriters. But when I refer to Jeff Waters I mean that still not dating in this battle, for me the style of Waters is great !!!
Well one of the things you gotta remember is not only was Dave a song writer from his earliest days, but he was a LEAD guitarist turned Rhythm, so he was still writing for LEAD and then slapped an even crazier and more complex LEAD over his own, thus gave birth to an evolution! But once Dave heard 1989's Alison Hell by Annihilator, Rust in Peace was created and the game has been forever stepped up, that was where it went from just your good crunchy rough chugs and fast lick lash solos to full on masterpiece power and Classical Orchestral Face melters. Interesting Note to think about! Jeff Waters, the guitarist and song writer for Annihilator was actually called up by Dave to be Megadeth's Lead Guitarist before Marty got the job, think about that! Jeff was an inferno at the time, young and UBER talented. We might have seen a completely different Megadeth sound push through with him, but he turned the job down due to his hope with his own band's success coming through, Chuck Billy from Testament was the one that handed Jeff the phone and Jeff didn't even believe it was Dave on the other end at first, makes me laugh that he could have almost made an enemy and told him off.
I agree with the previous comments on how advanced Dave Mustaine is compared to most of his peers both technically and melodically. Great to hear and see other trash classics though, great vid...
When you isolate some of the dissonant Mustaine strumming patterns and his minor based arpegiated chords you can tell where so many Black Metal bands got their influence . Especially the Swedish Norwegian BM bands . Btw once again your playing is ultra clean . Really polished . That's not flattery because I've had many guitarist with all my past bands so its easy to tell whom plays naturally .
By far my favorite YT musician. You manage to perfectly replicate a ton of killer tones and difficult riffs, and I love the video format. Kudos to you! Also love those guitars, gotta bust out that camo one more often.
For some reason, I believe Megadeth composed the most metal masterpieces among all the bands. In terms of consistency, they surpass the other bands, probably even Metallica. Ashes in Your Mouth is my favorite song from them.
Dave's riffs are some of my favorites ever. Dimebag, hetfield, Friedman and the others are all the GOATS but Mustaine is my personal favorite. I love his style, amazing interesting riffs but also ballzy solos. Wake up dead, holy wars, conjuring. Such good juicy riffs
Dave mustaine es un genio para crear riffs. Muy adelantado a su epoca.Los discos mas recientes de megadeth estan muy buenos.Gran batalla de riffs. Saludos bro ✌✌😎🖒
Love Thrash Metal bands, Violence, Metallica (early), Exodus, Testament etc. BUT...Dave has written some of the tastiest riffs of all times, and the first 5 albums have at least 3-4 gems of riffs in each song....He is the Godfather of Thrash no matter what.
I fucking love Thrash. You just helped me discover some artists I initially overlooked (Destruction and Kreator). Thank you for these videos, and keep thrashing!
Good stuff, the hardest stuff Dave has done since Rust In Peace (technical wise) was on United Abominations. I never thought much about it until I listened to the whole album again the other night. Kick the Chair though was the closest sounding and best riff since the 80's though!
I remember when I was 17 yr old as a beginning guitar player in 1989, March of the SOD was my first song ever to learn to play on a guitar. Too bad For Whom the Bell Tolls is not on the list because it was my second. Long live 80's Metal!! 🤘😈🤘
Dave is possibly the best metal guitarist of all time. But crap there are so many great ones... But to me the best thrash metal riff ever is the middle of Wake Up Dead and the lead at the end of that song is just legendary. Love the Nuclear Assault in this video, thats a band not many give credit to. One thing I think people do not notice about Mustaine is that many of his riffs get more complicated while he is singing when most guitar/singers riffs get less complicated.
Nate Gin Dimebag is one of the GOATs, but if we talking about versatility, Mustaine wins that category. Pantera what they only really did was just getting heavier and heavier and not really adding that much variety in their sound. Not saying it as a bad thing tho, they still did killer albums. Mustaine revolutionized metal and thrash in particular. IMO after Iommi, Mustaine is the most influential guitarist in metal, Chuck Schuldiner comes after him for me.
This is a fair fight but just because you didn’t even include some of Mustaine’s best riffs: Good Mourning/Black Friday, The Conjuring (you know exactly which particular riff I’m taking about), Last Words, Poison was the cure, Five Magics, Polaris, Killing is my business, Last Rites, Set the world afire, Mary Jane (underrated riff fest song), Washington is next, Sleepwalker, Head Crusher, just to mention a few, and you added some pretty simple songs like Trust, Angry Again, etc (great songs nonetheless). Great video regardless👍🏻
Boy oh boy we know which riff in the conjuring, don't forget the disintegrators from cryptic writings, I always thought that song was incredibly thrasher!
SO FANTASTIC! Ah-but the "March of the S.O.D." uses root/fifth bar chords for the chromatic descending passage, not single notes as played in this video.
This was great and it was awesome to see some nuclear assault in there. Megadeth is always my favorite but nuclear assault has been one of my favorites and sometimes it's almost as if everybody has forgotten about them. They were one of the best!
I love that you included Near Dark, that album is incredible. It would have been fun to hear other riffs off Oppressing the Masses, Beneath the Remains, Victims of Desception, Time does not Heal, Forbidden Evil, or And Justice for All, a lit of great riffs there.
