The song is regarded as one of the best from Megadeth, off of what’s regarded as one of the best and most influential thrash metal records of all time.Ī valuable lesson was learned for Dave - when you have the power of being a rock god, you can mean well, and still do harm. “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due” was released as the opening track and first single off Megadeth’s fourth album, Rust in Peace. Killing for religion, something I don't understand In the lyrics to what would become “Holy Wars… the Punishment Due,” Dave admits his naivety over the complicated issue:īrother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land Feeling inspired, he pulled out his notepad and started writing. People stopped paying attention to the the show, you could hear arguments being started, and the general vibe turned sour. It was like a bomb had been set off in the audience. What started out as a fun-loving gathering of heavy metal turned serious and scary really quick. “ and when we came off stage we were immediately whisked to the bus.” “Dave made a comment to ‘give Ireland back to Ireland, this one’s for the cause’….something like that,” former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson recalls. So Megadeth goes up, and before covering the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the U.K.,” Dave goes to the microphone to support what he thought was a movement against religious division. That’s prejudice, which is not cool, and if ‘the cause’ is about having equality between different religions, then great,” Mustaine described his perspective at the time, not fully understanding the long-going conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland.ĭave took a mental note, deciding he’d bring it up later onstage. “I thought, well, no religion is better than another religion. The crew member said the kid was trying to support “the cause.” Dave asked the member of his crew why the kid was selling shirts. He actually respected the entrepreneurship, thinking that it took a lot of balls. Backstage before a show in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of Megadeth’s crew members comes up and informs them that a kid has been busted for selling T-shirts inside the venue.
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