“Good Mourning” was an instrumental that I wrote. “Black Friday” was inspired by a great drummer named Dijon Carruthers whose father was Ben Carruthers from the movie The Dirty Dozen. Dijon’s brother was Caine Carruthers from the Ska band The Untouchables. Dijon was pretty much a band member until we found out that he lied about being ‘black’ to us. I am not against having any person in our band, regardless of color, but Dijon said he was Spanish. One day his brother walked in and Dijon nearly died on the spot. We used the material that we were working on as we kept going, but we knew that a man that is embarrassed about his family, race, or upbringing, would never fit our creed.

—Dave Mustaine