This Complete List Of Megadeth Albums And Songs presents the entire discography of Megadeth studio albums. This Megadeth discography also includes many of the most popular live albums. These hard hitting Megadeth albums have been presented below in chronological order. We have also included all original release dates with each Megadeth album as well as all original album covers. Every Megadeth album listed below showcases the entire album track listing.
MEGADETH STUDIO ALBUMS
Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good!
Released June 12, 1985 – Megadeth’s debut album featuring Dave Mustaine on lead and r guitar, Chris Poland on rhythm and lead guitar, David Ellefson on bass and Gar Samuelson on drums.
CD Track Listings:
1. Last Rites / Loved to Death (4:41)
2. Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good! (3:07)
3. The Skull Beneath the Skin (3:48)
4. Rattlehead (3:43)
5. Chosen Ones (2:55)
6. Looking Down the Cross (5:02)
7. Mechanix (4:25)
8. These Boots (4:39)
9. Last Rites / Loved to Death (4:16)
10. Mechanix (3:59)
11. The Skull Beneath the Skin (3:11)
Peace Sells… but Who’s Buying?
Released September 19, 1986
CD Track Listings:
1. Wake Up Dead (3:40)
2. The Conjuring (5:04)
3. Peace Sells (4:04)
4. Devils Island (5:05)
5. Good Mourning / Black Friday (6:41)
6. Bad Omen (4:05)
7. I Ain’t Superstitious (2:46)
8. My Last Words (4:47)
So Far, So Good… So What!
Released January 19, 1988. The band’s third album featured a new lineup of Dave Mustaine on Lead vocals and guitars, Jeff Young on guitars, David Ellefson on bass and Chuck Behler on drums.
CD Track Listings:
1. Into the Lungs of Hell (3:31)
2. Set the World Afire (5:50)
3. Anarchy in the U.K. (3:02)
4. Mary Jane (4:27)
5. 502 (3:30)
6. In My Darkest Hour (6:18)
7. Liar (3:22)
8. Hook in Mouth (4:40)
Rust in Peace
Released September 24, 1990. The band’s fourth album featured another new lineup including Dave Mustaine on guitars and vocals, Marty Friedman on guitars,
David Ellefson on bass, and Nick Menza on drums.
CD Track Listings:
1. Holy Wars… The Punishment Due (6:36)
2. Hangar 18 (5:14)
3. Take No Prisoners (3:28)
4. Five Magics (5:42)
5. Poison Was the Cure (2:58)
6. Lucretia (3:58)
7. Tornado of Souls (5:22)
8. Dawn Patrol (1:50)
9. Rust in Peace… Polaris (5:36)
Countdown to Extinction
Released July 14, 1992. The band’s fifth album lineup included Dave Mustaine on guitars and vocals, Marty Friedman on guitars, David Ellefson on bass, and Nick Menza on drums
CD Track Listings:
1. Skin o’ My Teeth (3:14)
2. Symphony of Destruction (4:02)
3. Architecture of Aggression (3:34)
4. Foreclosure of a Dream (4:17)
5. Sweating Bullets (5:03)
6. This Was My Life (3:42)
7. Countdown to Extinction (4:16)
8. High Speed Dirt (4:12)
9. Psychotron (4:42)
10. Captive Honour (4:14)
11. Ashes in Your Mouth (6:11)
Youthanasia
Released October 31, 1994. The band’s sixth album lineup included Dave Mustaine on guitars and vocals, Marty Friedman on guitars, David Ellefson on bass, and Nick Menza on drums
CD Track Listings:
1. Reckoning Day (4:34)
2. Train Of Consequences (3:26)
3. Addicted To Chaos (5:26)
4. À Tout Le Monde (4:28)
5. Elysian Fields (4:03)
6. The Killing Road (3:57)
7. Blood Of Heroes (3:57)
8. Family Tree (4:07)
9. Youthanasia (4:09)
10. I Thought I Knew It All (3:44)
11. Black Curtains (3:39)
12. Victory (4:27)
Cryptic Writings
Released June 17, 1997
CD Track Listings:
1. Trust (5:13)
2. Almost Honest (4:04)
3. Use the Man (4:37)
4. Mastermind (3:50)
5. The Disintegrators (2:52)
6. I’ll Get Even (4:25)
7. Sin (3:08)
8. A Secret Place (5:31)
9. Have Cool, Will Travel (3:30)
10. She-Wolf (3:38)
11. Vortex (3:40)
12. FFF (2:38)
Risk
Released August 31, 1999
CD Track Listings:
1. Insomnia (4:34)
2. Prince of Darkness (6:25)
3. Enter the Arena (0:52)
4. Crush ‘Em (4:57)
5. Breadline (4:24)
6. The Doctor Is Calling (5:40)
7. I’ll Be There (4:20)
8. Wanderlust (5:22)
9. Ecstasy (4:28)
10. Seven (5:00)
11. Time: The Beginning (3:04)
12. Time: The End (2:28)
13. Insomnia” (Jeff Balding mix) (4:19)
14. Breadline” (Jack Joseph Puig mix) (4:28)
15. Crush ‘Em” (Jock mix) (5:10)
The World Needs a Hero
Released May 15, 2001
CD Track Listings:
1. Disconnect (5:20)
2. The World Needs a Hero (3:52)
3. Moto Psycho (3:06)
4. 1000 Times Goodbye (6:25)
5. Burning Bridges (5:20)
6. Promises (4:28)
7. Recipe for Hate… Warhorse (5:18)
8. Losing My Senses (4:40)
9. Dread and the Fugitive Mind (4:25)
10. Silent Scorn (1:42)
11. Return to Hangar (3:59)
12. When (9:14)
The System Has Failed
Released September 14, 2004
CD Track Listings:
1. Blackmail the Universe (4:33)
2. Die Dead Enough (4:18)
3. Kick the Chair (3:57)
4. The Scorpion (5:59)
5. Tears in a Vial (5:21)
6. I Know Jack (0:40)
7. Back in the Day (3:27)
8. Something That I’m Not (5:07)
9. Truth Be Told (5:40)
10. Of Mice and Men (4:04)
11. Shadow of Deth (2:15)
12. My Kingdom (3:03)
United Abominations
Released May 15, 2007
CD Track Listings:
1. Sleepwalker (5:53)
2. Washington Is Next! (5:19)
3. Never Walk Alone… A Call to Arms (3:54)
4. United Abominations (5:35)
5. Gears of War (4:25)
6. Blessed Are the Dead (4:02)
7. Play for Blood (3:49)
8. À tout le monde (Set Me Free) (4:11)
9. Amerikhastan (3:43)
10. You’re Dead (3:18)
11. Burnt Ice (3:47)
Endgame
Released September 9, 2009
CD Track Listings:
1. Dialectic Chaos (2:24)
2. This Day We Fight! (3:31)
3. 44 Minutes (4:37)
4. 1,320′ (3:51)
5. Bite the Hand (4:01)
6. Bodies (3:34)
7. Endgame (5:52)
8. The Hardest Part of Letting Go… Sealed With a Kiss (4:42)
9. Head Crusher (3:26)
10. How the Story Ends (4:47)
11. The Right to Go Insane (4:20)
Thirteen
Released November 1, 2011
CD Track Listings:
1. Sudden Death (5:07)
2. Public Enemy No. 1 (4:15)
3. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?) (3:49)
4. We the People (4:33)
5. Guns, Drugs & Money (4:19)
6. Never Dead (4:32)
7. New World Order (3:56)
8. Fast Lane (4:04)
9. Black Swan (4:10)
10. Wrecker (3:51)
11. Millennium of the Blind (4:15)
12. Deadly Nightshade (4:53)
13. 13 (5:49)
Super Collider
Released June 4, 2013
CD Track Listings:
1. Kingmaker (4:16)
2. Super Collider (4:11)
3. Burn! (4:11)
4. Built for War (3:57)
5. Off the Edge (4:11)
6. Dance in the Rain (4:45)
7. Beginning of Sorrow (3:51)
8. The Blackest Crow (4:27)
9. Forget to Remember (4:28)
10. Don’t Turn Your Back… (3:47)
11. Cold Sweat (Thin Lizzy cover) (3:10)
Dystopia
Released January 22, 2016
CD Track Listings:
1. The Threat Is Real (4:22)
2. Dystopia (4:59)
3. Fatal Illusion (4:15)
4. Death from Within (4:47)
5. Bullet to the Brain (4:29)
6. Post American World (4:25)
7. Poisonous Shadows (6:02)
8. Conquer or Die (3:33)
9. Lying in State (3:34)
10. The Emperor (3:52)
11. Foreign Policy (Fear cover) (2:28)
MEGADETH LIVE ALBUMS
Live Trax
Released 1997
CD Track Listings:
1. Reckoning Day / Peace Sells (8:19)
2. Angry Again (3:46)
3. Use the Man (4:24)
4. Tornado of Souls (5:52)
5. À tout le monde (4:53)
6. She-Wolf (3:42)
Rude Awakening
Released March 19, 2002
CD Track Listings:
Disc One:
1. Dread and the Fugitive Mind (4:13)
2. Kill the King (3:51)
3. Wake Up Dead (3:26)
4. In My Darkest Hour (5:28)
5. Angry Again (3:23)
6. She Wolf (8:17)
7. Reckoning Day (4:25)
8. Devil’s Island (5:06)
9. Train of Consequences (4:31)
10. A Tout Le Monde (4:49)
11. Burning Bridges (4:57)
12. Hangar 18 (4:45)
13. Return to Hangar (3:55)
14. Hook in Mouth (4:41)
Disc Two:
1. Almost Honest (3:58)
2. 1000 Times Goodbye (6:14)
3. Mechanix (4:37)
4. Tornado of Souls (5:47)
5. Ashes in Your Mouth (6:05)
6. Sweating Bullets (4:39)
7. Trust (6:47)
8. Symphony of Destruction (4:50)
9. Peace Sells (5:23)
10. Holy Wars (8:52)
That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires
Released September 4, 2007
CD Track Listings:
1. Blackmail the Universe (4:48)
2. Set the World Afire (4:47)
3. Wake Up Dead (3:36)
4. In My Darkest Hour (6:17)
5. She-Wolf (3:28)
6. Reckoning Day (5:02)
7. À tout le monde (4:24)
8. Hangar 18 / Return to Hangar (9:01)
9. I’ll Be There (6:09)
10. Tornado of Souls (5:36)
11. Trust (7:21)
12. Something That I’m Not (4:42)
13. Kick the Chair (4:11)
14. Coming Home (2:59)
15. Symphony of Destruction (4:15)
16. Peace Sells (4:54)
17. Holy Wars… The Punishment Due (9:58)
Rust in Peace Live
Released September 7, 2010
CD Track Listings:
1. Holy Wars… The Punishment Due
2. Hangar 18
3. Take No Prisoners
4. Five Magics
5. Poison Was The Cure
6. Lucretia
7. Tornado Of Souls
8. Dawn Patrol
9. Rust In Peace… Polaris
10. Skin O’ My Teeth
11. In My Darkest Hour
12. She-Wolf
13. Trust
14. Symphony Of Destruction
15. Peace Sells
16. Holy Wars – Reprise
Countdown to Extinction: Live
Released September 24, 2013
CD Track Listings:
1. Trust
2. Hangar 18
3. Public Enemy
4. Skin O’ My Teeth
5. Symphony of Destruction
6. Architecture of Aggression
7. Foreclosure of a Dream
8. Sweating Bullets
9. This Was My Life
10. Countdown To Extinction
11. High Speed Dirt
12. Psychotron
13. Captive Honour
14. Ashes In Your Mouth
15. She Wolf
16. Peace Sells
17. Holy Wars…The Punishment Due
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