Sweating Bullets (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Sweating Bullets


Artist = Megadeth
from Album = Countdown to Extinction
Released = January, 1993
Format =
Recorded = Between January 6 and April 28, 1992
Genre = Thrash metal
Length = 4:29
Label = Capitol Records
Writer = Dave Mustaine
Producer = Max Norman and Dave Mustaine
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Angry Again"
(1993)
This single = "Sweating Bullets"
(1993)
Next single = "Skin o' My Teeth"
(1993)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Countdown to Extinction
Type = Studio
prev_track = Foreclosure of a Dream
prev_no = 4
this_track = "Sweating Bullets"
track_no = 5
next_track = This Was My Life
next_no = 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.

Music Video

"Sweating Bullets" has a music video featuring Dave Mustaine. In the video, Dave is in an 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.

Track listing

Disc 1:

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

Disc 2:

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

Trivia

*When Beavis and Butt-Head gave a running commentary on the video; Butt-Head states that Mustaine sounded like Beavis.
*This song was one of the many deemed inappropriate after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
*This song was referred to in a short line by Mia Fey from the video game series Phoenix Wright.
*The lyric "someday you too will know my pain, and smile its black-tooth grin" is referenced by metal group Pantera, as the name of their favorite cocktail is "Blacktooth Grin."