Killing Is My Business

Megadeth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relativity
• ASIN: B000003C4I
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,216 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Last Rites/Loved to Death

2. Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good

3. Skull Beneath the Skin

4. Rattlehead

5. Chosen Ones

6. Looking Down the Cross

7. Mechanix

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT thrash metal album!, December 30, 2002

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Clarke Yeargin (Lookout, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Killing Is My Business (Audio CD)

Allright, I have the remastered version of this album. And you know what? I think it sucks. Why does someone want to have a THRASH metal album remastered? Thrash metal sounds best with a raw production. I really don't understand how people say they can't hear the instruments clearly on this original release. Do you need a hearing aid? I can hear the instruments just fine. I do agree that the drums are a little in the background, but that is the only problem I have with this version of the album. Think about it, many of the great metal albums have bad productions. Noone complains about those, but they sure have whined about this one ever since it was released. Oh well, I'll talk about the album and quit complaining myself.

This album is not quite your average metal music. It is highly technical and fast. It doesn't sound like ANYTHING you've heard before. There is nothing average about this album, and it is raw, reckless and totally unpredictable. There are NO other bands that have this kind of musical originality. Dave SHREDS on this album. His solos scream. Gar Samuelson is THE drummer on this album. To put it one way, this kind of music honestly makes you want to kill. I have never heard such a truly angry album like this. People say Slayer is brutal, but they just are too cheesy sounding for me. This album possesses true anger. If you want to hear something different from the same old predictable beats, try this out. When you hear the beginning of Loved to Death, you'll know what the attitude is.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Missing song on current version!, December 20, 2001

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Muddy Moe (Plano, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Killing Is My Business (Audio CD)

I'll keep this short. This is a great thrash album and a groundbreaker of the genre. It easily compares to Metallica's "Kill 'Em All" and definitely influenced the entire thrash scene. It also contains some great songwriting and has a very "hungry" performance.

I would *NOT* however, recommend that you begin your Megadeth experience here. The album is somewhat poorly produced, with some midrange EQ problems that make it sound a bit like somebody is playing it in another room than the one you're in. They also added a bit too much reverb, presumably to cover Dave's voice up. Dave's voice is raw, to say the least. But the lo-fi actually works to a degree and if you like raw production (i.e. black metal fans) it shouldn't bother you greatly.

Note that the older copies have "These Boots" which is a great cover/adaptation of the old Nancy Sinatra hit. You will *NOT* get that song on the newer releases.

I recommend this to round out your Megadeth collection after getting the other albums up through and including "Rust in Peace." Or if you just like early, raw thrash, it's a good listen.

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nancy Sinatra is a !@%*?, July 10, 2005

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Damn Damn Damn - See all my reviews

This review is from: Killing Is My Business (Audio CD)

This is the strongest, angriest Megadeth album of them all. It has "REVENGE" written all over it in blood. When Dave Mustaine got kicked out of Metallica and saw them making hits out of his own songs he decided enough was enough. He formed Megadeth and played faster, heavier and better than Metallica. Noticeably, "Mechanix" is the perfect example of Mustaine's thirst for vengeance, as it pissed all over Metallica's slower version, "The Four Horsemen".
Dispite the production the whole album was very solid... until Nancy Sinatra heard the spoof of one her songs, "Boots Are Made For Walking". Her agents demanded ludicrous royalties and so the band made the difficult decision of dropping the song from further copies of the album. Even thought it later reappeared on the deluxe edition, it was censored. The Sinatra gang believed the new lyrics were unacceptable and would not allow Megadeth to use the song unless they dropped the words.
However, if you have a CD burner, do what I did... Buy this version if you can't find the original in second hand shops, then download "These Boots" and burn a new copy with the song as track 4. Try a european version of that search engine (the one with a black dog... can't tell you what it's called) and type "Megadeth Boots" in the mp3 section, they'll deliver a pretty good quality file.
I hope I don't get my arse kicked for advertising here.