Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!

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Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good!
Studio album by Megadeth
Released June 1985
Recorded Indigo Ranch Studios, Malibu, Ca, December 1984 - January 1985
Genre metal
Length 31:25
Label Combat Records
Producer Dave Mustaine, Karat Faye
Megadeth album chronology
Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good!
(1985)
Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
(1986)

Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good! is the debut album of Megadeth.

Megadeth was paid $12,000 to record and produce this album themselves. (Most of that was not spent on the recording or production of the album)

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Dave Mustaine, except "These Boots" by Lee Hazlewood. 
Original track listing
No. Title Length
1. "Last Rites/Loved to Deth"   4:42
2. "Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!"   3:02
3. "Skull Beneath the Skin"   3:48
4. "These Boots Are Made for Walking"   3:40
5. "Rattlehead"   3:43
6. "Chosen Ones"   2:56
7. "Looking Down the Cross"   5:03
8. "The Mechanix"   4:25
Total length:
31:25
2002 reissue
No. Title Length
1. "Last Rites/Loved to Deth"   4:42
2. "Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!"   3:08
3. "Skull Beneath the Skin"   3:48
4. "Rattlehead"   3:43
5. "Chosen Ones"   2:56
6. "Looking Down the Cross"   5:03
7. "Mechanix"   4:25
8. "These Boots" (All lyric variations by Mustaine are bleep censored) 4:39
9. "Last Rites/Loved to Death" (demo) 4:16
10. "Mechanix" (demo) 3:59
11. "Skull Beneath the Skin" (demo) 3:11

Personnel

Production

  • Produced and mixed by Dave Mustaine and Karat Faye
  • Co-produced by Megadeth
  • Pre-production by Jay Jones

2002 Remix and Remaster

  • Audio mixing by Bill Kennedy
  • Pro Tools by Chris Vrenna
  • Audio mastering by Tom Baker