Megadeth Symphony of Destruction

The lead single from Countdown to Extinction, peaked on the UK Charts at #15, and initially had heavy rotation on MTV (before the video was pulled and edited because of controversy). The introduction of the song is sampled from Mozart’s “Offertorium, Domine Jesu Christe”. This song discuses about how power corrupts people: when people have too much of it they can use it to cause great problems and destruction. Basically what this is about is you take a person, a typical stereotype numbskull, and you give him the old shit, shower, and shave, throw him in a monkey suit and he can run the country…It’s about the masses being led to their own destruction by a leader who’s more or less a puppet of a phantom government.*This could also refer to how society is causing nature’s destruction and our systematic suicide of the world. —Dave Mustaine FUN FACT: Dave Mustaine has a column in the magazine Guitar World called “Symphony of Instruction”.