> > so, and I didn't know how to pronounce "wyvern" properly (*) > until Megadeth > > released "Five Magics" 12 years later in 1990... > > > _Rust in Peace_ - such a great album. The first track is like the dyadic > overture to a long speed-metal opera, with an astonishing density of > economically-developed layered motifs - and most of the songs sound like > entire album compressed into coherent four-minute rages. It never ceases > to amaze me that such an important band as Metallica started out by > dumping their most gifted member. Mustaine doesn't have the wherewithal > to bludgeon the listener into helpless submission (I once saw this happen > to two non-metal-fan friends hearing Metallica's "One" for the first time) > but the active listener will be rewarded, esp. on this (sober) album. Metallica's power to cross genre's is awe inspiring... my dad, the devout Christian who destroyed all my heavy metal tapes when I was 17 because they were "satanic", _loves_ "Nothing Else Matters", although it took him years to admit it. And "Fade to Black" speaks to almost everyone who hears it, I think. And, really, I'm glad Dave Mustaine left Metallica. We got two great bands instead of one. Dave is responsible for one of my favorite lines of all time: He was on the Arsenio Hall show and Arsenio read off some long political quote Dave had said, and asked him what he meant by that. Dave looked sheepish and said something to the effect of, "I don't know, I tend to talk a lot." Bryan