9 Reasons Megadeth Are Better Than Metallica

8. They Write Better Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcHvzNBtlOw

Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tock, frantic tick tick tick tick tick tock, frantic tick tick tick tick tick tock...

Those are actual Metallica lyrics, written for their song Frantic from 2003's St. Anger. It would be unfair, though, to isolate this repeated line, so here are a few more lyrics from the same song:

My lifestyle (Birth Is Pain) Determines my death style (Life Is Pain) A rising tide (Death Is Pain) That pushes to the other side (It's All The Same)

Compare these lyrics to the lyrics found on the Megadeth album released around the same time, 2004's The System Has Failed. For the sake of fairness, these are from track one, Blackmail The Universe, as that's Frantic's track number:

Terror and ugliness reveal what death really means And in hatred you see men as they really are If chosen over heaven, earth will have been for them All along, only another region of hell

This may be a random sample, but the same quality of lyrics extends across the entirety of Megadeth's discography, intelligently exploring politics, war and the state of society at large. Not convinced? What about these lyrics from Metallica's Harvester Of Sorrow?

Pure black looking clear My work is done soon here Try getting back to me Get back which used to be

What does that even mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLlfej7bbAE