The funky “Peace Sells” expressed his dissatisfaction with the American mainstream and resonated for years as MTV News intro music the grinding metal blues of “Sweating Bullets,” a song seemingly about schizophrenia, showed his sense of humor the ballad “À Tout le Monde” imagined the sadness of death from the viewpoint of the dead (in French). Instead, Mustaine found a new outlet for his sadness and rage in Megadeth, the aggressive thrash group he formed in 1983 after Metallica kicked him out over allegations of drug use, and he went on to write classics that rivaled his earliest songs. “I felt I had to get with my friends because I was at an age and a time when my mom was always gone and I was by myself and the only time I felt like I belonged was when I was with my friends.” As fate would have it, however, he would never get the chance to record that song or any others with the band, other than on a few demos. “I was writing about myself being young and sitting in my room and feeling dejected – I had my head in my hands and didn’t know what to do,” he tells Rolling Stone. The first song Dave Mustaine remembers writing was “Jump in the Fire,” a foot-stomping rager, which he brought to Metallica in 1982, helping to set the template for thrash metal.
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