As Mustaine recalled, “Basically, we spent about four grand on drugs and four grand to make the record, which was just one of the many reasons why Killing is My Business did not come out the way I had hoped it would. Our entire budget,” he continued, “was eight thousand dollars, a figure so insultingly low that it was almost laughable.”Įven more laughable was how Mustaine and his Megadeth bandmates chose to “allocate” those funds. And most of it was not particularly encouraging. In his 2010 autobiography, Mustaine would recall: “From concept to finished product, it was an adventure, during which I learned more about the music business than I ever imagined. Then, they had to capture the songs Mustaine was hyping at a Malibu studio called Indigo Ranch, which had ironically been built by British art-rockers The Moody Blues. However, Megadeth first needed a record deal, which they obtained in due time from rising independent Combat Records. So, Mustaine spent the better part of 1984 searching diligently for the ideal cohorts who would both support and obey his personal vision for the ultimate thrash band, a painstaking process that saw him cycling through almost a dozen candidates before settling on bassist David Ellefson, drummer Gar Samuelson, and second guitarist Chris Poland.Īll the while, Mustaine had been working on new songs, which, as Ellefson later explained to Wall, had to meet the very high expectations of those fortunate enough to have witnessed Mustaine playing with his now-famous former band: “The initial stuff we were writing was slow all the fans up in the Bay Area kept writing letters saying, ‘Man, I hope your stuff is faster than Metallica!’”īut as the confident Mustaine boasted to Headbanger fanzine editor (and later Shockwaves Podcast producer) Bob Nalbandian at the time: “Truthfully, I just wanted to out-metal Metallica! I thought I’d have a hell of a lot harder time coming up with something better, but this is three times faster, more advanced, and a hell of a lot heavier.” I had to have my own band and make music exactly the way I wanted to hear it, with no compromises to anybody else’s ego, whatsoever.” Having learned his lesson the hard way, Mustaine later admitted to Mick Wall in the latter’s Metallica biography, Enter Night, that, “Democracy doesn’t work in a band. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business … and Business Is Good! (1985)
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