"Dystopia" is a song by American thrash metal band Megadeth, written by Dave Mustaine.
[3] Mustaine has said that "Dystopia" was inspired by the movies "Total Recall", "Twelve Monkeys", and The Terminator franchise.
About the video direction, Dave Mustaine told Mashable.com: "We had met with a guy in England, and I basically talked to him about this dystopian city that I had kind of visualized.
You see all these movies like Armageddon, Independence Day, 12 Monkeys, Planet of the Apes and stuff, and there's always a moral at the end of the story: If you stand up for what's right, you won't have to give in to a dystopian world.
Mustaine, Loureiro, Ellefson, and Verbeuren attended the ceremony; however, album drummer and award recipient Chris Adler did not.