There’s a scene in the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster where Dave Mustaine bemoans getting kicked out of that band in 1983 for being a drunken louse, sounding like a dude who swapped a winning lottery ticket for a six-pack and a swollen liver. But this five-disc compilation, which includes rarities and a live DVD, proves his next band, Megadeth, has been more than a consolation prize for the combustible frontman. At their peak, on 1990’s thrash tutorial Rust in Peace, Mustaine and Marty Friedman formed one of the genre’s definitive guitar tandems with wrist-spraining feats of metal soloing (“Hangar 18”). Too bad the redheaded Megadeth mainman went from singing about Satan (“The Skull Beneath the Skin”) to video games (“Duke Nukem”), as Megadeth devolved from speed-metal standard-bearers to pop-metal has-beens, before resuscitating their career with thrash throwbacks as lethal as the band’s name promises.

Download: “Hangar 18,” “Peace Sells”