Weegee: Murder is My Business

Hailed as “The Best Thrash Metal Debut Album All Time” (VH1), legendary thrash metal trailblazers MEGADETH will continue to celebrate the band’s 35th Anniversary with a deluxe reissue of their revolutionary debut album, Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good!. The band has partnered with Century Media and Legacy Recordings for a June 8, 2018 release in North America & Europe, and in Japan on June 6, 2018 via Sony Japan. This rare gem includes the full original album, along with 7 live audio tracks from VHS tapes found in MUSTAINE’s own attic!

Emerging a couple of years after Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax had set the world buzzing with the radical new sound of thrash metal, Megadeth’s 1985 debut has always been easily overlooked. The rough production and cheap sleeve seemed to betoken a band in a mad rush to get their name out there; understandable, after Dave Mustaine’s unceremonious sacking from Metallica and subsequent vengeful urge to best his ex-bandmates. Also, Megadeth’s more profound and popular follow-up Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? dropped a year later, forever overshadowing the ramshackle innocence of the debut… At least, until now.

Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good! is the debut album by American thrash metal band Megadeth. It was originally released in 1985 on Combat Records. The album received positive reviews, even from mainstream music critics.
The album's artwork, featuring a plastic skull with tinfoil, was not intended to be the original artwork. Mustaine wanted a picture of Megadeth mascot Vic Rattlehead on the cover, however the studio lost the artwork, so they improvised the low-budget replacement.