Hangar 18 (song)

"Hangar 18"
Single by Megadeth
from the album Rust in Peace
ReleasedFebruary 4, 1991 (February 4, 1991)
GenreThrash metal
Length5:14
LabelCapitol[1]
Songwriter(s)Dave Mustaine
Producer(s)
Megadeth singles chronology
"Holy Wars...The Punishment Due"
(1990)
"Hangar 18"
(1991)
"Symphony of Destruction"
(1992)
Music video
"Hangar 18" on YouTube

"Hangar 18" is a song by American thrash metal band Megadeth from their 1990 studio album Rust in Peace. The song was inspired by a mythical building purportedly located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, where an alien spacecraft or bodies were supposedly stored. The song reached number 25 on the Irish Singles Chart,[2] also reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart.[3]

  1. ^ "Megadeth – Hangar 18 (1990, CD)". Discogs.com.
  2. ^ "Search the Charts". Irishcharts.ie. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
  3. ^ "Hangar 18". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2010-03-27.