Megadeth - Wake Up Dead (RARE)(Demo without vocals)

Pretty cool recording, shame about the quality, Deth til' Death :) 1985

[@EurekaFunk]

Saw this performed in mid to late 1984 when both their guitars were still the natural wood color--before they were painted. Just Dave and David. Verses are among the best ever written by anyone for me. It's like Mustaine sees just what I'm thinking and RIPZ it outta my head and puts it to music. The chorus is good but goes on forever and ever though . . .

[@leonshreds]

can you rtell us more

[@NotTylerT]

Dude I fucking love the chorus it’s so groovy and bluesy it’s the perfect song for it to go on forever

[@chris19fire]

this demo is called blood and honor it was an early version of wake up dead

[@silentbloodyslayer98]

love the way how bass sounds, fuckin distorted

[@zzzhuh]

@jmeproductions0 It's mike Albert. Kerry played a mocking bird in these days And was gone before this was written

[@zzzhuh]

Caught with a bag of heroin but was out by the end of this tour.

[@xhkpw]

song slows down...rocks even harder!

[@The90sGamingGuy]

This can be found on torrents. Would be neat to have the original demo though. It is probably worth a pretty penny. This does sound horrible, but the extremely raw quality makes it epic!

[@keepthrashalive]

THIS, SCARTISSUE121 IS THE MOST BADASS DEMO EVER, im subscribing to you just because of this, megadeth is the best band ever

[@leonshreds]

DAMN RIGHT

[@rodrigog5654]

speed it up to 1.25

[@scartissue121]

@brattchx I'm pretty sure its Mike Albert, he never played on any albums but he played guitar for them on the KIMB tour when Chris decided to leave the band for a while :)

[@Jaxd789]

It's pretty awesome at this pace!

[@TheSweep12]

Yt speed at 1,25...it's the perfect bpm 🤘☢🤘

[@divineheretic82]

I have this CD, it's a bootleg that's called "ultimate rare tracks......but whose listening" This is actually a studio rehearsal, it has 7-10 of these songs without vox, then 3-4 demos with vox.....then the 1st ever live show they ever did in the UK. I just have no idea how to rip it to youtube.

[@Slanderous]

+divineheretic82 open up windows media player, find "rip cd" option, copy the ripped tracks to windows movie maker and make a video out of those

[@Slanderous]

Connor McMahon can you throw me a link or something?

[@zDialecticChaos]

YO CAN WE PLEASE GET THIS ON YOUTUBR? OR GO TO THE MEGQDETH SUBREDDIT AND POST IT ON THERE

[@rodrigog5654]

post it please

[@Moriremtots]

sounds amazing

[@bukofezra]

one of dave's best solos.

[@leonshreds]

dave mustaine is a fkn genius

[@edwardgreat]

awesome

[@leonshreds]

fkyeah

[@TheRoboticFerret]

@Bennihanna23 Fucking awesome book, it sure is.

[@420Teixeira]

@scartissue121 lol chris was busted with heroin, and yes its Mike Albert

[@JoshyMyers]

This Quality is Horrible! haha! still epic :)

[@dgarrr2]

@scartissue121 No man, that's Kerry King from Slayer. He played with them in 84 and may 85 before he met Chris Poland. He was going to quit Slayer for Megadeth until Slayer's popularity brought him back.

[@DaveOJ]

Chris Poland joined the band in 1984.

[@zDialecticChaos]

Is that David ellefson in the picture? Lmao

[@ThrashMetal669]

@Bennihanna23 may i ask how you found out chris was thrown in jail?

[@420Teixeira]

ITS MIKE ALBERT NOT KERRY KING