Holy Wars... The Punishment Due by Megadeth, Rockband DLC for 02/09, Expert Bass/Drums 99/97 SR

"Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" ( sample (help•info)) is the opening track of heavy metal band Megadeth's 1990 album Rust in Peace.

The song has an unusual structure, shifting at 2:26 after an acoustic bridge by Marty Friedman to a different, slower and heavier section called "The Punishment Due". The entire song is generally referred to as simply "Holy Wars".

The lyrical theme of "Holy Wars" deals with the Northern Ireland conflict. In an interview with the UK magazine Guitarist, Mustaine says that he was inspired to write the song in Northern Ireland, when he discovered bootlegged Megadeth T-shirts were on sale and was dissuaded from taking action to have them removed on the basis that they were part of fund raising activities for "The Cause" (i.e. the Provisional Irish Republican Army). Mustaine also recently stated at a gig at Rock City (Nottingham, U.K. 18/02/2008) that it was at this venue that he wrote Holy Wars, after they travelled there from Ireland in a bullet proof bus. "The Punishment Due" is based on the popular Marvel comic book character, The Punisher.

"It's revolving around the way that war is immanent and it doesn't really matter what country it's in... Khadafi [Libya]... Khomeini [Iran]... It's funky how these guys have weird names, these idiots that lead different countries. But it shows you... war's war, no matter where you're at." (Mustaine)

"I had to fight to record the second electric solo in this tune the way I wanted! The first take I did as I was just warming up was the one that producer Mike Clink liked. When he heard it, he said, 'That's fine. Good job.' And I was like, 'Whooooaaaa! Wait a minute. I haven't even tuned my guitar yet. Let me play a real solo here.' He and Mustaine both thought it was fine and that we should move on to something else, so we left it at that. As the days went on and on, just knowing that solo was on there really bugged me. So I kept bringing it up to the guys that I wanted to redo it. Everybody liked the solo that was there, so I had no allies! Eventually I wore down Mike Clink's nerves and he had me come back in and re-cut the solo, and the new solo is the one that made the record." (Friedman, 2002)

The song is the last song played during the encore of all recent Megadeth shows, though often in the middle they splice "Mechanix" between "Holy Wars" and "The Punishment Due".

Special thanks to CPURules for filling in on bass this week.

Genre: Metal

Difficulty:
● ● ● ● ● Band
ΨΨΨΨΨ Guitar
ΨΨΨΨΨ Drums
● ● ● ● ● Vocals
ΨΨΨΨΨ Bass

Bass: CPURules
Drums: ProffessorJoe

Category:

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[bmxn4l1f3]

drummer sucks balls

[OverRatedRUs]

@bmxn4l1f3 ~ And you base that opinion on what? Anyone who can get a 97% on a sightread of a Megadeth song most definitely does NOT suck balls. Idiot comment. *Block*

[cicabeot1]

Sounds so much better than the awful Rock Revolution cover.