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Megadeth
Megadeth was formed in 1983 by Dave Mustaine immediately after his firing from Metallica for substance abuse and personal conflicts with the rest of the band, a founding origin story that fueled a decades-long, well-documented rivalry between Mustaine and his former bandmates. The band's technically complex, virtuosic guitar work and Mustaine's politically and socially conscious lyrical themes distinguished Megadeth from some of their thrash metal contemporaries, giving their material a more explicitly topical, sometimes politically pointed edge alongside the genre's typical speed and aggression. Megadeth's 1990 album Rust in Peace is widely regarded as one of the most technically accomplished thrash metal albums ever recorded, showcasing intricate dual-guitar arrangements that required Mustaine to recruit specifically skilled musicians capable of executing the album's demanding compositions. Mustaine's eventual public reconciliation with his former Metallica bandmates decades after his firing, including joint touring and public friendliness between the two camps, closed one of metal's most significant and long-running personal rivalries, and Megadeth's combination of technical musicianship and Mustaine's pointed songwriting cemented the band's place among thrash metal's defining "Big Four" acts.
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Metallica
Metallica formed in Los Angeles in 1981 and became one of the founding bands of thrash metal, a faster, more aggressive metal subgenre that emerged in the early 1980s as a direct reaction against the more commercially polished glam metal dominating mainstream rock radio at the time. The band's 1991 self-titled album, commonly known as "the Black Album," sold more than 16 million copies in the United States alone, becoming one of the best-selling albums of the SoundScan era and marking Metallica's deliberate, successful pivot toward a more accessible, radio-friendly sound without fully abandoning their metal roots. Metallica's 2000 lawsuit against the file-sharing service Napster, in which the band argued the platform was facilitating mass copyright infringement of their music, made them one of the most publicly visible and controversial figures in the broader music industry's early fight against digital piracy, drawing significant backlash from parts of their own fan base. The band's combined album sales, estimated well over 125 million worldwide, make them the best-selling metal act in music history, and Metallica's sustained commercial and critical relevance across more than four decades has made them the genre's most commercially successful ambassadors to mainstream rock audiences.
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