The World Needs a Hero is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released in 2001. It was marked as a return to Megadeth's thrash metal roots, after the commercial rock style of their previous two releases (Cryptic Writings and Risk). However, it still retained a bit of the commercial feel from previous albums, as Mustaine claims the album was like "a ship lost at sea trying to return to its course". This is also the last album to feature David Ellefson as bassist and Jimmy DeGrasso as drummer. This is the only studio album to feature Al Pitrelli as guitarist (Pitrelli played on the previously unreleased songs on Capitol Punishment). "Return to Hangar" is a sequel to the song "Hangar 18", which was found on the Rust in Peace album. Mustaine also dedicated the song "When" to all the nay-sayers on Megadeth's internet message board who spoke ill of him and the band after their recent attempts at commercial success (or, a "big fuck you to all the wishy-washy fans out there".) The main riff and structure of "When" is reminiscent of "Am I Evil?" by Diamond Head, which Mustaine has said was intentional, as an homage to Diamond Head and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement. The World Needs a Hero is the first Megadeth album since 1990's Rust in Peace to feature band mascot Vic Rattlehead on the front cover. Edited versions of the album put an adhesive bandage over the innards of Dave Mustaine from which Vic Rattlehead is seen emerging. A single as w