Sweating Bullets (song)

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"Sweating Bullets"
"Sweating Bullets" cover
Single by Megadeth
from the album Countdown to Extinction
Released Janurary, 1993
Recorded Between January 6 and April 28, 1992
Genre Heavy metal
Length 4:11
Label Capitol Records
Writer(s) Dave Mustaine
Producer(s) Max Norman and Dave Mustaine
Megadeth singles chronology
Foreclosure Of A Dream Sweating Bullets Skin O' My Teeth
Countdown to Extinction track listing
Foreclosure Of A Dream
(4)
Sweating Bullets
(5)
This Was My Life
(6)

Sweating Bullets is a song written by Dave Mustaine from the 1992 Megadeth album Countdown to Extinction. The song was released as a single in 1993, and charted at #29 on the US Mainstream Rock chart and at #26 in the UK. Lyrically, the song is about Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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[edit] Music Video

Sweating Bullets has a music video featuring Dave Mustaine. In the video Dave is in a insane asylum. While looking at the mirror someone grabs him, revealing it is himself. As the other Dave Mustaine talks to him, other Dave Mustaines pop out and talk. The video feature is based on the lyrics which are about Dissociative Identity Disorder.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc 1:

  1. Sweating Bullets (Anxiety Edit) (Mustaine) 4:11
  2. Symphony Of Destruction (Live) (Mustaine) 4:03
  3. Countdown To Extinction (Live) (Mustaine/Menza/Ellefson/Friedman) 4:21
  4. Symphony Of Destruction (Edited Gristle Mix) (Mustaine) 3:49

[edit] Disc 2:

  1. Sweating Bullets (Live) (Mustaine) 5:00
  2. Ashes In Your Mouth (Live) (Mustaine/Menza/Ellefson/Friedman) 6:27
  3. Symphony Of Destruction (Gristle Mix) (Mustaine) 9:52

[edit] Miscellaneous

Trent Reznor's remix of the song Symphony of Destruction is included on this single in two versions.

This song was one of the many deemed inappropriate after the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Megadeth
Dave Mustaine | Glen Drover | James Lomenzo | Shawn Drover
Former members: David Ellefson | Chris Poland | Gar Samuelson | Jeff Young | Chuck Behler | Nick Menza | Marty Friedman | Jimmy DeGrasso | Al Pitrelli | James MacDonough
Discography
Studio albums: Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! | Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? | So Far, So Good... So What! | Rust in Peace | Countdown to Extinction | Youthanasia | Cryptic Writings | Risk | The World Needs a Hero | The System Has Failed | United Abominations
Live albums: Live Trax | Live Trax II | Rude Awakening | Still Alive... And Well? | Unplugged In Boston
Compilations: Capitol Punishment | Back to the Start
Extended plays: Hidden Treasures | Cryptic Sounds
Videos and DVDs: Rusted Pieces | Exposure of a Dream | Evolver: The Making of Youthanasia | Rude Awakening | Video Hits | Arsenal of Megadeth | That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires
Songs
Mechanix | Peace Sells | In My Darkest Hour | Hangar 18 | Tornado of Souls | My Creation | Skin O' My Teeth | Sweating Bullets | Go To Hell | Train Of Consequences | A Tout Le Monde | Trust | Breadline | Gears of War
Other
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