Super Collider

The title track of Megadeth's fourteenth studio album premiered exclusively on the Full Metal Jackie radio show, and was released on April 23, 2013 on iTunes. Frontman Dave Mustaine explained the origins of the song to Jack Mehoff of the Colorado Springs, Colorado radio station 94.3 KILO. "That song itself is a little bit of an older chord progression," he said, "and I was listening through some old riffs from a while ago and found that song, added a couple of little pieces to it to make it... to complete the song, and before you knew it, the song was done."
I was really excited about it," added Mustaine. "And, you know, sometimes when you're writing a song, you know, you find yourself having to scratch your head and come up with parts and stuff like that. And this was one of those songs that when it was done it was kind of like, 'Oh, wow, it's done.' That's only happened a couple other times in my career. It happened with ' In My Darkest Hour.' I sat down and I wrote that all in one fell swoop. And then the song 'Use The Man.'"

During an interview with the Shockwaves HardRadio podcast, Mustaine explained that the song drew some inspiration from the search for the Higgs boson at CERN and particle colliders, but is mostly about hanging out and taking the proverbial high road until the end of the world. He stated: "I was up in Santa Barbara, and USA Today, as a newspaper, I started reading a long time ago because it had Sudoku in it. I'm not really down with a lot of the viewpoints of the newspaper, but I kind of got used to reading it because of the puzzles in it - 'cause I love word puzzles; I like to enrich my word power. And there was a story in there about how they finally had identified the mass that goes around the molecules and stuff; it's called the Higgs Boson and we had done that with the Super Collider. And I thought, 'Wow, that's a really cool story.'"

"Actually, the stuff's called the 'God particle.'" He continued. "And I thought, knowing how closed-minded people are with my faith and thinking that that's gonna change who I am as a person - which it did - and that that would also correlate into changing my guitar playing, which it didn't, I didn't wanna have a song called 'God Particle', because every village has its idiots, and unfortunately for me, a bunch of them follow me on the Internet. So we opted to call it 'Super Collider'. And this first song is kind of, like, a song about no matter how bad things get, come with me, we'll take the high road and we'll hang out and have a great time and we'll stick together until the end of the world, so to speak, when the world explodes like a Super Collider. Because the whole theory of the super collider is atoms swirling into one another at millions of miles an hour, I guess."

Here are three more songs on our database inspired by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, which located the Higgs Boson "God Particle."
"Munich" by The Fray.
"Higgs Boson Blues" by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
"Supercollider" by Radiohead.