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First Album: Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good - Megadeth

Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good (KIMB for short) is the first studio album released by the band Megadeth. The album was released June 12 1985 under Combat Records. Megadeth and their first album KIMB were one of the biggest debuts as a pioneers of Thrash Metal along with Metallica and their debut Kill Em' All. What sets KIMB apart from the other albums being released at the time (of the young Thrash Metal genre) was the pain written music. Back in 1983 Metallica fired Dave Mustaine (Megadeth's vocalist and rhythm/lead guitarist and main songwriter, Ex-Lead guitar and songwriter for Metallica) and dropped him off at the bus stop from New York to go back to California with nothing more than the clothes he was wearing and his guitar. The anger and pain fuelled Mustaine's song writing and crafted the very aggressive and pain-filled sound that KIMB has. The tracks are all very well crafted by Mustaine and played perfectly by band mates; Lead Guitar - Chris Poland, Bass - David Ellefson and Drums - Gar Samuelson. One failing about KIMB is the production quality - The band spent the initial $8000 from Combat Records for the record on Dope, Cannabis, etc and soon after asked Combat for another $4000 to record the album and once Combat coughed it up, it was spent on more drugs, Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson would also porn band members equipment for Heroin, of which got the two members fired in 1987 and replaced. Although the recording quality was second rate, Megadeth did manage to record a tight batch of songs that are still extremely popular today. The first track Last Rites... Loved To Deth is a two piece song, Last Rites is an instrumental segue featuring a piano intro, followed with Mustaine of the guitar of a reinterpretation of J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Mustaine describes Loved To Deth