SO FAR... SO GOOD... SO MEGADETH - MARTIN POPOFF

The run of thrash classics served up by Megadeth from the mid-80s and through the 90s is still held in high regard by the metal community, even though all of the band leader Dave Mustaine's former colleagues - apart from Dave "Junior" Ellefson - disappeared into the mists of history long ago. Those years were marked by unhealthy relations between Mustaine and his former Metallica bandmates, but also by a whole mass of wonderful metal that the band put out as it climbed ever higher, beginning with the albums Peace Sells and So Far, So Good... So What! through to the superb classics of the genre, namely Rust In Peace and Countdown To Extinction. Then, however, came Cryptic Writings and Risk, albums that threatened the very existence of the group, but also the later reconstruction of Megadeth, after their ignominious fall and a period of humiliating dispersal brought about by Mustaine's destructive personality. All of this is the untold story of Megadeth - untold until now. But it is also a story worth telling, because it teaches how to rebuild and sustain a career. This is borne out by Megadeth's more recent work, from the albums The World Needs A Hero to Super Collider, which contain some of the best and heaviest tracks ever to appear on the band's records. Get swept away by Mustaine's vision and celebrate it, track by track, with leading author Martin Popoff. With more than sixty books to his name, Popoff applies the same tried and tested method in his dazzlingly rich body of work, writing with equal force about the latest trends and about the classics you all know and love. 416 pages, richly illustrated, hardback.