10 Banned Hard Rock Music Videos

Before A Tout le Monde’s release, Megadeth had already been exposed to music video controversy. In My Darkest Hour was banned not because of it's visuals at all but the lyrics that seemed to talk about embracing suicide. Not sure why Megadeth expected anything different on their second go-around...

A Tout le Monde’s video clip starts with some fairly grim imagery of a man chiselling frontman Dave Mustaine’s name into a tombstone and, over the course of the next four minutes, dozens of people stepping into an open-grave. It’s artistically shot to a degree, but MTV were quick to pull the video from circulation because of its subject matter. The company were quite understandably hesitant to put their logo in the corner of anything which might provoke impressionable teens into suicide.

In an interview that year, Mustaine explained that the song was not pro-suicide and was in fact “my impression of what I would like to say to people, if I had say, 3 seconds to do so in life before I died I'd say to the entire world, to all my friends, I love you all, and now I must go.”.

Whilst A Tout le Monde was banned, MTV did return the video to air when Megadeth agreed to include a message at the end asking for those contemplating suicide to seek help.