Year : 2019
Style : Thrash Metal , Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 103 mb
Bio:
Megadeth is an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1983 by guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson, shortly after Mustaine's dismissal from Metallica. A pioneer of the American thrash metal scene, the band is credited as one of the genre's "big four" along with Anthrax, Metallica, and Slayer, who were responsible for thrash metal's development and popularization. Megadeth plays in a technical style often featuring fast rhythm sections and complex arrangements; themes of death, war, politics, and religion are prominent in the group's lyrics.In 1985, the group released its debut album through the independent label Combat Records. The album's moderate commercial success caught the attention of bigger labels, which led to the band signing with Capitol Records. The band's first major label album, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?, was released in 1986 and was highly influential in the underground metal scene. Despite the album's prominence in thrash metal, frequent disputes between the band members and issues with substance abuse earned the band negative publicity during this period.After the lineup stabilized, Megadeth released a number of platinum-selling albums, including Rust in Peace (1990) and Countdown to Extinction (1992). These albums, along with touring worldwide, helped bring public recognition to Megadeth. The band temporarily disbanded in 2002 when Mustaine suffered an arm injury and re-established in 2004 without bassist Ellefson, who had taken legal action against Mustaine. Ellefson settled with Mustaine out of court and rejoined the group in 2010. Megadeth has hosted its own music festival, Gigantour, several times since mid-2005.As of 2014, Megadeth has sold 50 million records worldwide, with six of its fourteen studio albums certified platinum in the United States, and has received eleven Grammy nominations. The band's mascot, Vic Rattlehead, regularly appears on album artwork, and from 2010 in live shows. The group has experienced controversy over its musical approach and lyricism, including canceled concerts and bans of albums. MTV has refused to play two of the band's videos that the network considered to condone suicide.
Album:
On March 22, MEGADETH will celebrate its 35th anniversary with the release of "Warheads On Foreheads", a 35-track career retrospective. The anthology spans the band's entire studio recording career, from its first album "Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good" to its 2016 Grammy Award-winning release "Dystopia", and will be available as a 3-CD set, a 4-LP set and a digital edition via UMe Recordings. A limited-edition, four-LP set pressed on silver colored vinyl will be available exclusively through the band's online store, with deluxe bundles to be announced. Visit this location for details."Thirty-five years ago, I chose the name MEGADETH for my band and I see these songs as the most efficient weapons in the band's arsenal," says Dave Mustaine. "'Warheads On Foreheads' is a U.S. military term for targeting efficiency. It's all about using the right tool for the job and these tracks were created for maximum destruction (or stopping power, or something else!)."In 1984, Mustaine was determined to start a new band that would be heavier and faster than his peers. Mustaine's songwriting was rapidly maturing, and he set about combining the attitude and energy of punk, with the power and intricate riffing of metal, along with direct, sociopolitical lyrical content. With David Ellefson on bass and Gar Samuelson on drums, the band recorded its infamous three-song demo which quickly circulated through the underground tape-trading circuit and became an underground hit leading to a deal with Combat Records."Warheads On Foreheads" starts at that beginning with the early thrashers "Rattlehead" and "Mechanix" from the band's 1985 debut, "Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good", an album that would lay down the blueprint and establish MEGADETH as forerunners of what would later be called thrash metal (and recently hailed by VH1 as the greatest thrash metal debut of all time).MEGADETH was quickly signed by Capitol Records and released its 1986 major label debut "Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?", which became the band's first certified gold record and would go on to become MEGADETH's first platinum-selling release. Featured on "Warheads On Foreheads" are "The Conjuring" and the track "Good Mourning/Black Friday", which Pitchfork describes as "everything great about hardcore, plus a dose of the kind of show-off skill that makes lesser musicians' fingers bleed." Other songs included are "In My Darkest Hour" from its platinum-selling "So Far, So Good, So What!" (1988), "Hangar 18" and "Holy Wars…The Punishment Due" from its Grammy-nominated platinum album "Rust In Peace" (1990), and "Symphony Of Destruction" and "Sweating Bullets" from 1992's Grammy-nominated double-platinum release "Countdown To Extinction". Also featured are "A Tout Le Monde" and "Reckoning Day" from 1994's platinum-selling release "Youthanasia", "Kingmaker" from 2013's Top Ten release "Super Collider", which hit No 3 on both the Hard Rock Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, "She-Wolf" from the Grammy-nominated Top Ten release "Cryptic Writings" (1997) and the title track from the band's most recent album "Dystopia".Upon its release in 2016, "Dystopia" reasserted MEGADETH's place at the top of the metal world, equaling the chart impact of their early-nineties output, earning the band its first Grammy, as well as rave reviews (The Guardian gave it five out of five stars and stated "'Dystopia' is an absolutely blistering return to the state-of-the-art bombast and refined technicality.") MEGADETH burst onto the scene thirty-five years ago, virtually inventing a genre and selling more than 38 million albums worldwide, earning numerous accolades including a 2017 Grammy Award for "Best Metal Performance" for the title track "Dystopia", 12 Grammy nominations, and scoring five consecutive platinum albums. With sheer determination and a relentless recording and touring schedule, MEGADETH worked its way up from headlining clubs to headlining arenas, festival and stadiums, cementing a legacy that continues to grow and spread throughout the world.
Line-Up:
David Ellefson - Bass (1983-2002, 2010-present) - See also: Altitudes & Attitude, David Ellefson, Knight Fury, Metal Allegiance, ex-Temple of Brutality, Hail!, ex-Angels of Babylon, ex-Killing Machine, ex-Soulfly (live), ex-Tim Ripper Owens (live), ex-F5, ex-Fallen Angels
Dave Mustaine - Guitars, Vocals (1983-2002, 2004-present) - See also: ex-MD.45, ex-Metallica, ex-Fallen Angels, ex-Panic
Kiko Loureiro - Guitars (lead) (2015-present) - See also: Denison Fernandes, Kiko Loureiro, Neural Code, ex-Angra, ex-Tarja (live), ex-Projeto Brasil Guitarras
Dirk Verbeuren - Drums (2016-present) - See also: Abyssal Vortex, Bent Sea, Cadaver, Freya, Hespera, Phaze I, Pulse of Nebulae, Scarve, The Project Hate MCMXCIX, Vetur, Withered Moon, ex-Anaon, ex-Nuclear Blast Allstars, Tronos, ex-Aborted, ex-Anatomy of I, ex-Headline, ex-Mortuary, ex-Phazm, ex-Powermad, ex-Soilwork, ex-Solium Fatalis, ex-Taliandörögd, ex-Satyricon (live), ex-Lyzanxia, ex-Artsonic, ex-Warrel Dane, ex-Devin Townsend Project (live), ex-Yyrkoon (live), ex-One-Way Mirror, ex-Stenval
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. Rattlehead (Remastered 2018)
02. Mechanix (Remastered 2018)
03. Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! (Remastered 2018)
04. The Conjuring (Remastered 2011)
05. Wake Up Dead (Remastered 2011)
06. Devils Island (Remastered 2011)
07. Good Mourning / Black Friday [Explicit]
08. Set The World Afire (Remastered 2004)
09. In My Darkest Hour (Remastered 2004)
10. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due (Remastered 2004)
CD2:
01. Hangar 18 (Remastered 2004)
02. Tornado Of Souls (Remastered 2004)
03. Rust In Peace...Polaris (Remastered 2004)
04. Five Magics (Remastered 2004)
05. Take No Prisoners (Remastered 2004)
06. Skin O' My Teeth (Remastered 2012)
07. Angry Again
08. Symphony Of Destruction (Remastered 2012)
09. Sweating Bullets (Remastered 2004)
10. A Tout Le Monde
11. Train Of Consequences
12. Reckoning Day
CD3:
01. Trust
02. She-Wolf (Remastered 2004 / Remixed)
03. Wanderlust (Remastered 2004)
04. Dread And The Fugitive Mind
05. Blackmail The Universe
06. Washington Is Next!
07. Head Crusher
08. Public Enemy No. 1
09. Kingmaker
10. The Threat Is Real
11. Poisonous Shadows
12. Death From Within
13. Dystopia
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