Megadeth dave mustaine5/26/2023 Just prior to recording So Far, So Good. So What! the band, anchored by Mustaine and stalwart bassist David Ellefson, shed half its lineup, with guitarist Chris Poland and drummer Gar Samuelson dismissed due to drug addictions that were rapidly spiraling out of control. Which is not to say that all was peachy in the Megadeth camp at the time. And with So Far, So Good. So What!, Mustaine was aiming to push his young band even further toward the genre's extremes, from the horn and wind-instrument elements that adorn leadoff track "Into the Lungs of Hell," to the speed-punk cover of the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the U.K.," the epic, atmospheric doom-thrash of "In My Darkest Hour" to the pummeling, neck-snapping assault of "502," "Liar" and the PMRC-skewering "Hook in Mouth," which featured one of the singer's wittiest and most incisive lyrics. So What! And indeed, at the time the band was coming off the breakthrough success of their major-label debut, 1986's Peace Sells. But Who's Buying?, which established Megadeth as the premiere thrash act of the day-maybe not quite as well-known as Mustaine's previous band, the then-rapidly ascending Metallica, but certainly faster, heavier and more aggressive and instrumentally complex in their approach. "We wanted people to know we weren't going to let success get to our heads," Dave Mustaine said on Headbangers Ball in 1988, explaining the origin of the title of Megadeth's third studio album, So Far, So Good.
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