Customer Reviews

Best debut of the big thrash metal four!!! - By: Mr. Neil Adam D'monte, 07 Aug 2008
After getting unfairly kicked out of Metallica, Dave Mustaine went on to form Megadeth. And put together this record, from the outset it's just quality!!! From the strange piano intro of 'I loved you to death'. to the closer. It is a very raw sounding record but you can hear Megadeth's talentin playing & Dave Mustaine's ability to write classic songs!
If you luv thrash metal then you must own this album, it captures the spirit of the genre! Much like 'Never mind the bollocks captured the punk spirit. You get the feeling Dave Mustaine must be sitting back thinking...
How do you like them eggs Metallica!!! lol.

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Wicked dark thrash metal debut by awesome megadeth - By: MrMetalheadO'Hagan, 26 Jun 2008
This album a really raw heavy loud awesome thrash metal album. Some classics here like Last Rites/Loved To Deth, Killing Is My Bussiness..& Business is good, Rattlehead & Looking Down The Cross. The intro to this album is amazing with a very dark piano intro then going straight into a wicked fast guitar riff the album continues to be fast & heavy through out the whole album it's awesome. Dave's vocals sorry to say arn't at his best here but he does a great job on the songs i mention. I must admit the song The Mechanix i know mustaine wrote it but i prefer Metallicas Four Horsemen megadeths version is too short. Overall a wicked dark thrash metal debut by Megadeth good start with megadeth after this buy Peace Sells that is their best album. Megadeth Rock

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As Scott Ian said 'my favourite of the big four debuts' - By: D. P. Lomax, 10 Jan 2008
When originally released to cd 'killing is my business' was an ok debut album. The talent of Megadeth was there for all to see, but the cd was never going to be up there amongst my favourites. Its very difficult to give a lot of air time to a disc which had such bad sound production.
'Killing' was always a back burner Megadeth title for me as I would rather play almost anything by the boys except this album. Also compared to the other 3 of the big 4, I must admit preferring show no mercy & kill em' all. Therefore, it must be said 'Killing' lay dormant for many years, gathering dust & totally forgotten.

Forward to Xmas 2007. I was fortunate to receive Warchest as a gift & the very first two tracks were remastered versions of the title track 'Killing' & 'skull beneath the skin'. Now, at this point it really is difficult to put into words what I was hearing. Was this really the same piece of music I'd virtually buried almost 20 years agoin the darkest reaches of my cd collection?

The sound quality of these 2 tracks sounded absolutely stunning. I've got SACD & dvd-a., & I'm not lying by saying this 'ordinary cd' was competing very strongly along side either of those formats without even beingin 5.1. These two tasters had me rushing to the computer to purchase the remastered version of 'Killing' several years after its release.

On receiving & playing the whole remastered 'Killing' it is quite clear which of the so-called big four really was top dog. Whilst not being the biggest, Mustaine & Megadeth were the baddest & the best, laying down tracks that really do stand up today even better than at the original time. The sound quality of what is on offer here is better than most new recordings by metal bands. New life breathes thru every instrument. Ellefson plays bass lines that didn't exist at the time due to shocking production. Gar Samuelson shows his drumming genius & would undoubtedly be the very best of metal drummers if still alive today. Mustaine's vocals & all guitar work by himself & Poland sound meaner, cleaner & just totally stunning.

It's amazing that such an understated & underrated debut should be brought to life & reanimated providing nothing less than total shock & awe 25 years after its original release. The truth being that this collection of tracks have grown better & better with the passage of time. Dig out your Kill em all & tell me if the same applies (I think not).

The downside to the disc is track 8. These boots. This version is sensored. Basically, everything Mustaine sings is bleeped from start to finish, begging the question why even bother putting the track on the discin the first place? I guess Mustaine was proving a point. The reasons for the sensoring can be foundin the liner notes of the cd booklet. The other thing to mention are the three so-called bonus tracks, which are basically 3 demos of mechanix, last-rites & the skull. Once again unnecessary as these demos sound absolutely awful. Although it is funny to hear Mustaine singing & sounding like he's 12 years old. I guess he wasn't far off. These demos exist only to pad out a very short album.

One last point to mention: Looking down the cross,in my opinion, is one of the very best metal tracks ever made. It didn't dawn on me till I listened to the remaster. Buy it, it's cheap & it's essential listening for any metalheads out there.

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GREAT CD-- SOUNDS GREAT - By: Mr. C. A. Tiffany, 21 Aug 2007
I BOUGHT THIS HAS, I HAVE THE ORIGINAL & WANTED TO HEAR, HOW IT SOUNDED -ALL POLISHED UP & IT ROCKS, AND MOSTLY COS OF THE 'THESE BOOTS' SONG, I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED, THAT IT HAS BEEN CENSORED. HOWEVER STILL A FUNNY SONG, ANYWAY I'M GOING TO RATTLE MY HEAD... haha.
IF YOU HAVEN'T BOUGHT IT,THEN BUY IT & SEE WHAT YOU ARE MISSING - MEALHEADS & NON-METALHEADS, ALIKE.

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Great Debut! - By: Reijo Piippula, 13 Aug 2007
I really love Megadeth! But even if I would hate Megadeth...I would love this album. You cannot hate Megadeth if you like real metal. This album is remixed & remastered!!! This album is so brutal!!! It sounds better than before! You cannot live without this album (at least you shouldn't if you are a Megadeth fan)!!!