Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years

Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years
Compilation album by Megadeth
Released	October 24, 2000
Recorded	1986-2000
Genre	Heavy metal, thrash metal
Length	1:05:53
Label	Capitol
Producer	Various
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Megadeth chronology
Risk (1999) Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years (2000) The World Needs a Hero (2001)

For the article on the death penalty, see Capital punishment

Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years is a greatest hits album by heavy metal band Megadeth, released in 2000, through Capitol Records. The album featured the Dave Mustaine/David Ellefson/Jimmy DeGrasso/Al Pitrelli line-up on the new tracks "Kill the King" and "Dread and the Fugitive Mind". The album features a hidden track, "Capitol Punishment", which is a medley of numerous previous Megadeth songs.

The title of the album is an allusion to the band's persistent difficulties with their record label, Capitol Records. Megadeth ultimately left Capitol and signed with Sanctuary Records, but were contractually obliged to release one further album with Capitol, hence the greatest hits compilation. With the exception of material from the band's debut album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!, which was released on Combat Records rather than Capitol, the compilation contains songs from all Megadeth's previously released albums at the time. In addition to the new track "Kill the King", Capitol insisted on the inclusion of "Dread and the Fugitive Mind", a track recorded for the upcoming The World Needs a Hero album. The band agreed simply to release themselves from their obligations to Capitol, but the enmity between band and label was memorialized in the title of the album, intended to demonstrate that working with Capitol was a form of punishment. This is the only compilation album to feature Crush 'Em, Use the Man and Almost Honest and are not on further compilations.

Track listing

Hidden track (US version)

Bonus track (Japanese version)

Charts

Album

Singles