Megadeth - Holy Wars... The Punishment Due flac album

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The Punishment Due" is the opening track of thrash metal band Megadeth's 1990 album Rust in Peace. The song has an unusual structure: it opens with a fast thrash section, shifting at 2:26 after an acoustic bridge by Marty Friedman to a different, slower and heavier section called "The Punishment Due", interspersed by two guitar solos played by Friedman, before speeding up again with a third and final solo played during this segment by Dave Mustaine.

Holy Wars is actually about foreigners mouthing off about wars they know nothing about. Irish, Palestinian and Israeli all included, the Punishment due section is him imagining the Punisher in real war scenarios. I found a quote from him: Mustaine recalls, "When I was in Ireland, somebody talked to me about 'the cause', the reason why they were killing so many Catholics and Protestants. To me this made sense, and from the stage I dedicated a song to 'the cause'