10 Hard Rock Bands Who Made 5 Great Albums In A Row

10. Megadeth

When Dave Mustaine was fired from Metallica in 1983, he vowed to form a band that was faster and heavier than ‘Tallica could ever be: the result was Megadeth.

Mustaine wanted his band to be speed metal at it’s finest and over the years he kept his competitiveness and refusal to be ignored at the core of his band’s music. The result of Mustaine’s fretboard virtuosity and nihilistic attack is a killer five album run of Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1985), Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? (1986), So Far, So Good... So What! (1988), Rust in Peace (1990) and Countdown to Extinction (1992). Over a relatively short period, Megadeth wouldn’t let up in quality.

The band started off with an album so pissed off that it shook the thrash scene into a need to push everything further; once others caught up, Megadeth shifted the tables once again by going darker than ever before. So Far, So Good… So What! provided the snotty bridging point to the commercial acclaim the band would go on to achieve; and then they finished off the run with two hit filled classics.

Megadeth had a run of albums this good through sheer determination to be the gnarliest metal band in the world, and they upped the ante for every band around them.