On June 12, 1985, Megadeth stunned hard rock fans everywhere with their maiden long-playing weapon of thrash destruction, Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good. It’s been rocking the universe for every one of the thirty years that have passed since then—and there’s no end in sight. Megadeth electrifyingly captured thrash metal’s combustive amalgam of hardcore punk velocity, New Wave of British heavy metal riff mastery, and newly ignited Reagan-era teenage outrage. Along with Metallica, Slayer, and the other usual headbanging suspects, thrash then charged up from the underground so that, come the second-half of the 1980s, it was the defining sound, scene, and embodiment of...
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