Megadeth frontman/guitarist Dave Mustaine recently told Noisecreep that the bands hockey anthem, “Crush ‘Em“, is his least favorite Megadeth track. Speaking of that, he stated:
“Probably the dumbest song Megadeth ever did was ‘Crush ‘Em.‘ Not that I hate it, because we’ve never released something that I didn’t like musically, but I’m not that fond of it.”
He went on to elaborate on how the song came to be:
“We had huge success with our prior album [1997’s Cryptic Writings] big singles and all of that. That had never happened before. So we figured, why not give the label and our management more to work with next time out since the last one did so well on radio. That was a huge mistake.
I remember the day our manager at the time [the late Bud Prager] came to my house and he goes, ‘I got an idea. Two words: crush ’em.’ The silence was deafening. Look, I wanted to write a hockey song cause I was sick of Gary Glitter‘s song [‘Rock and Roll‘] being played in all the arenas. I’m a hockey season ticket holder and this is a family sport. I didn’t want that guy’s song anymore. I wanted to write something better. So I wrote the riff and then I see Bud‘s lyrics and I think to myself, ‘This isn’t what I was thinking.’ So yeah, it didn’t work.”
Megadeth‘s fourteenth studio album “Super Collider” is scheduled for a June 04th release date through Mustaine‘s own Tradecraft label. Disturbed/Device frontman helped write (though not perform on) the two new album tracks, “Forget To Remember” and “Dance In The Rain“.
