Each member of Megadeth separately appear playing instruments during the video, although none of them are actually seen playing together. Directed by Wayne Isham, who also directed the videos for " Train of Consequences" and "99 Ways to Die", the video begins with shots of a burning American flag with the motto For the People imprinted on it, followed by a gun trigger being pulled, and then a man's unblinking eye, foreshadowing the assassination that occurs later in the video. To promote the commercial success of the song as a single, Capitol Records produced a music video in 1992. Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine wrote "Symphony of Destruction" Partially due to the success and radio friendliness of this song and Countdown to Extinction, Megadeth was capable of reaching a higher level of public awareness and cultural relevance. īy 1992, Mustaine's vocal performance and style, along with Megadeth's bombastic aesthetic, were considered jarring by some music listeners, meaning they had not yet been exposed to more mainstream audiences. The song contains what has been described as catchy, with a more commercially mainstream, standard song structure, as opposed to some of Megadeth's more aggressive and structurally intense songs, such as " Hangar 18" or " Holy Wars. The song then immediately shifts into a heavy guitar riff, which plays continuously throughout the duration of the song. In the first five seconds of the song, the sound of an orchestra tuning is heard, followed by a short segment of vocals from the "Offertorium, Domine Jesu Christe" from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem. "Symphony of Destruction" is 4 minutes, 7 seconds long. In the legend, the Pied Piper had the ability to force children and rats to follow his demands mindlessly, like the political leaders do to the public. The famous legend Pied Piper of Hamelin, is mentioned in the song and contains direct correlations to the lyrical meaning of the song. Mustaine wrote the lyrics to the song, which were written about what he perceived to be how the masses were being led to their own destruction by political leaders, which is where the title is derived, Symphony of Destruction. Originally, the first version of the song was much longer but was edited a lot during its pre-production for Countdown. In 1992 Megadeth recorded the demo for what would become "Symphony of Destruction" and after some tweaking, the song was finished and recorded for inclusion on their fifth studio album, Countdown to Extinction. Inspired, he began writing lyrics on the back of a sushi receipt, " My metal brains corroding, my head is going to explode". One day while driving down Riverside Drive in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles to his home, he was stricken by a headache. In Guitar Center Sessions, vocalist Dave Mustaine described the development of "Symphony of Destruction" as a stroke of luck. The song has been featured in several sources of media, and has been covered by several bands. The video features each band member individually playing, with a mostly black-and-white, nonlinear narrative revolving around a political candidate who is assassinated, and the massive amount of anarchy and riots caused by the event. The song was generally well received by critics, and its accompanying music video by Wayne Isham initially received heavy rotation on MTV, but eventually became controversial and was edited because of an assassination scene that MTV felt was "too harsh". Penned by vocalist and frontman Dave Mustaine, the song received significant radio play and charted in various territories, making it one of Megadeth's best known songs. The lyrics explore the hypothetical situation where an average citizen is placed in a position where he runs the country while the public is led by a phantom government. " Symphony of Destruction" is a song by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released as a single from the band’s fifth studio album, Countdown to Extinction (1992). 1992 single by Megadeth "Symphony of Destruction"
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