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Norman rode them hard to get everything perfect if Mustaine or Friedman were to bend a note, raising its pitch, it couldn’t be a quarter step, it had to be a half or full step. When Mustaine takes Countdown in as a whole, he appreciates the focus and attention to detail he and the rest of the band put into the album.
“I can only imagine now, 30 years later, how many different life forms are gone,” he says. In the middle of “Countdown,” a woman who was a friend of Friedman’s who worked at a nearby sushi restaurant recites some facts about the ecology at the time: “One hour from now, another species of life form will disappear off the face of the planet … forever, and the rate is accelerating.” Mustaine, who has recently been contemplating the fate of the white rhino while writing the song “Killing Time” for Megadeth’s upcoming album, still finds that concept staggering. The song earned the band the Humane Society’s Doris Day Music Award for raising awareness for animal rights and, in Mustaine’s words, “the preservation of our animal friends.” Meanwhile, the title track lambasted wealthy people who pay to shoot endangered species in cages. Bush’s famously broken campaign promise “Read my lips … no new taxes,” was like a heavy-metal Farm Aid with lyrics about the broken agricultural industry at the time. “Foreclosure of a Dream,” with its sample of George H.W. Throughout the album, the group’s technical skill still shone through - just check Nick Menza’s opening drum fill on “Skin o’ My Teeth” or Mustaine and lead guitarist Marty Friedman’s jaw-dropping solos on “Ashes in Your Mouth” - but in a way that could play on mainstream rock radio.Īnd while Mustaine had spent a good chunk of the Eighties writing sardonically about sociopolitical strife (“Peace Sells,” “Hook in Mouth”), he cast a wider net on Countdown. “Sweating Bullets,” an ode to anxiety, had a swinging, sweaty groove that paused long enough for Mustaine’s sense of humor (“Hello me, it’s me again”) to pierce all the way through for a change.
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Mustaine even had enough room to sing about Pied Pipers and marionettes swaying to chaos in the lyrics inspired in part by the movie The Manchurian Candidate. In addition to Mustaine’s trademark snarl, “Symphony of Destruction” bore a bluesy guitar riff with enough space for then-bassist’s David Ellefson’s pulsing bass line. Where earlier Megadeth albums focused on virtuosity and headbangability, Countdown played up songcraft. Largely, though, Mustaine recalls good vibes and a clear mission for the band. And it says: ‘No Obsequious Bozophobes - This means you, Eddie Kramer.'” “So the time came to write the sign on the door for Eddie Kramer to stay out. “Max Norman has got this wicked vocabulary, so we would try and use really big words on each other,” Mustaine recalls. And the more he did that, the more it made me resent him.” The band was recording at the Burbank studio the Enterprise with Max Norman, who co-produced the album with Mustaine, and the frontman recalls bonding with Norman about their mutual disdain for Kramer’s supposedly big ego. “He would walk into our control room while we’re working, like he’s some big fucking dude. “He’s the guy that recorded Jimi Hendrix and makes sure that every living organism knows it,” Mustaine says. The second thing Mustaine thinks about when he considers Countdown is Eddie Kramer, the recording engineer whose credits include albums by Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and who Mustaine recalls as carrying himself accordingly. , but I don’t talk about it too much, because people freak out on that.” And I attribute that 100 percent to my relationship with my H.P. I used to be an alcoholic, and I’m not anymore. “When we did Rust in Peace, I was newly sober and had just hung up most of my bad habits at the time and got into the studio and really felt that fire inside,” Mustaine, now age 60, tells Rolling Stone. After years of alcohol and drug abuse, the eternally redheaded singer, guitarist, and songwriter had gotten sober before the making of the group’s previous album - the 1990 thrash masterpiece Rust in Peace - and that new state led to him exploring more of a simplified and streamlined approach to speed metal on Countdown singles like “Symphony of Destruction” and “Sweating Bullets.” When Dave Mustaine looks back on making Countdown to Extinction, the 1992 album that propelled Megadeth into the mainstream, he’s thankful for his clarity of mind at the time.
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