 According to Dave Mustaine himself, he wrote the song during a spur of the moment; "I wrote 'Angry Again' right after I got out of a treatment center in Arizona.They had done one of those happy little 1990s interventions where everybody who's not loaded gets to point the finger at everyone who is.And the day I got out of rehab, they threw me into a studio in Phoenix where I wrote 'Angry Again' for the movie "The Last Action Hero"."