Is 'Rust in Peace' Better Than 'The Black Album'?

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Is 'Rust in Peace' Better Than 'The Black Album'?

An excerpt from Greg Prato's 2025 book, The World's State-Of-The-Art Speed Metal Band: The Megadeth Story 1983-2002, which posits the theory that although Metallica's The Black Album far outsold Megadeth's Rust in Peace, the Megadeth album is actually the better of the two.

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