Seed Words for MEGADETH
MEGADETH AMERICAN THRASH METAL BAND FROM ANGELES CALIFORNIA GROUP FORMED GUITARIST DAVE MUSTAINE BASSIST DAVID ELLEFSON SHORTLY AFTER MUSTAINE'S DISMISSAL FROM METALLICA PIONEER AMERICAN THRASH METAL SCENE BAND CREDITED GENRE'S FOUR WITH ANTHRAX METALLICA SLAYER RESPONSIBLE THRASH METAL'S DEVELOPMENT POPULARIZATION MEGADETH PLAYS TECHNICAL STYLE FEATURING FAST RHYTHM SECTIONS COMPLEX ARRANGEMENTS THEMES DEATH POLITICS RELIGION PROMINENT GROUP'S LYRICS BAND RELEASED DEBUT ALBUM INDEPENDENT LABEL COMBAT RECORDS ALBUM'S MODERATE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS CAUGHT ATTENTION BIGGER LABELS WHICH MEGADETH SIGNING WITH CAPITOL RECORDS THEIR FIRST MAJOR-LABEL ALBUM PEACE SELLS WHO'S BUYING RELEASED INFLUENCED UNDERGROUND METAL SCENE DESPITE PROMINENCE THRASH METAL FREQUENT DISPUTES BETWEEN MEMBERS SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUES BROUGHT MEGADETH NEGATIVE PUBLICITY DURING THIS PERIOD AFTER LINEUP STABILIZED BAND RELEASED NUMBER PLATINUM-SELLING ALBUMS INCLUDING RUST PEACE COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION THESE ALBUMS ALONG WITH TOURING WORLDWIDE HELPED BRING PUBLIC RECOGNITION MEGADETH BAND TEMPORARILY DISBANDED WHEN MUSTAINE SUFFERED INJURY RE-ESTABLISHED WITHOUT BASSIST ELLEFSON TAKEN LEGAL ACTION AGAINST MUSTAINE ELLEFSON SETTLED WITH MUSTAINE COURT REJOINED GROUP MEGADETH HOSTED MUSIC FESTIVAL GIGANTOUR SEVERAL TIMES SINCE MID- MEGADETH SOLD MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE EARNED PLATINUM CERTIFICATION UNITED STATES FIVE FIFTEEN STUDIO ALBUMS RECEIVED ELEVEN GRAMMY NOMINATIONS BAND'S MASCOT RATTLEHEAD REGULARLY APPEARS ALBUM ARTWORK SINCE LIVE SHOWS GROUP EXPERIENCED CONTROVERSY OVER MUSICAL APPROACH LYRICS INCLUDING CANCELED CONCERTS ALBUM BANS REFUSED PLAY BAND'S VIDEOS THAT NETWORK CONSIDERED CONDONE SUICIDE CONTENTS HIDE HISTORY FORMATION KILLING BUSINESS BUSINESS GOOD PEACE SELLS WHO'S BUYING GOOD WHAT RUST PEACE COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION YOUTHANASIA CRYPTIC WRITINGS RISK WORLD NEEDS HERO BREAKUP SYSTEM FAILED GIGANTOUR UNITED ABOMINATIONS ENDGAME THIRTEEN SUPER COLLIDER –PRESENT DYSTOPIA CONTROVERSIES ARTISTRY INFLUENCES STYLE LEGACY AWARDS MEMBERS DISCOGRAPHY FOOTNOTES REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY EXTERNAL LINKS HISTORY EDIT FORMATION EDIT DAVE MUSTAINE LEAD GUITARIST METALLICA WHEN BAND FORMED MEMBER NEARLY YEAR HELPED COMPOSE SOME GROUP'S EARLY SONGS HOWEVER BEFORE METALLICA BEGAN RECORDING DEBUT ALBUM MUSTAINE EXPELLED OVER SUBSTANCE ABUSE CONFLICTS WITH JAMES HETFIELD LARS ULRICH MONTHS LATER MUSTAINE BASSIST DAVID ELLEFSON FORMED MEGADETH ANGELES MUSTAINE WANTED BAND PLAY FASTER HEAVIER MUSIC THAN METALLICA ACCORDING MUSTAINE NAME MEGADETH REPRESENTS ANNIHILATION POWER MISSPELLING TERM MEGADEATH MEANING MILLION DEATHS NUCLEAR EXPLOSION NAME CAME FROM PAMPHLET CALIFORNIA SENATOR ALAN CRANSTON THAT MUSTAINE FOUND FLOOR AFTER BEING FIRED FROM METALLICA READ ARSENAL MEGADEATH CAN'T MATTER WHAT PEACE TREATIES COME DESPITE ENTHUSIASM MUSTAINE TROUBLE FINDING OTHER MEMBERS FILL LINEUP ELLEFSON EXAMINED ABOUT DRUMMERS HOPING FIND UNDERSTOOD METER CHANGES MUSIC MEANTIME KERRY KING FROM SLAYER FILLED RHYTHM GUITAR THEY EVENTUALLY SELECTED RAUSCH DRUMMER SETTLED MUSTAINE LEAD VOCALIST AFTER MONTHS SEARCHING MUSTAINE ALSO BAND'S PRIMARY SONGWRITER LEAD RHYTHM GUITARIST MEGADETH RECORDED THREE-SONG DEMO TAPE FEATURING MUSTAINE ELLEFSON RAUSCH DEMO FEATURED EARLY VERSIONS LAST RITES LOVED DEATH SKULL BENEATH SKIN MECHANIX WHICH APPEARED BAND'S DEBUT ALBUM AFTER SEVERAL PERFORMANCES MEGADETH REPLACED RAUSCH WITH JAZZ FUSION DRUMMER SAMUELSON GUITARIST CHRIS POLAND JOINED GROUP THAT DECEMBER AFTER CONSIDERING SEVERAL LABELS MUSTAINE SIGNED BAND COMBAT RECORDS YORK-BASED INDEPENDENT LABEL THAT OFFERED MEGADETH HIGHEST BUDGET RECORD TOUR KILLING BUSINESS BUSINESS GOOD EDIT COMBAT RECORDS GAVE BAND RECORD PRODUCE DEBUT ALBUM AFTER SPENDING BUDGET DRUGS ALCOHOL FOOD BAND FIRED ORIGINAL PRODUCER FINISHED RECORDING THEMSELVES DESPITE FIDELITY SOUND KILLING BUSINESS BUSINESS GOOD RELATIVELY SUCCESSFUL UNDERGROUND METAL CIRCLES RELEASE THAT SUMMER ATTRACTED MAJOR-LABEL INTEREST MUSIC WRITER JOEL MCIVER PRAISED BLISTERING TECHNICALITY STATED THAT ALBUM RAISED WHOLE THRASH METAL SCENE WITH GUITARISTS FORCED PERFORM EVEN MORE ACCURATELY POWERFULLY FRONT COVER MARKED DEBUT BAND MASCOT RATTLEHEAD REGULARLY APPEARED SUBSEQUENT ALBUM ARTWORK KILLING BUSINESS BUSINESS GOOD FEATURES MECHANIX SONG MUSTAINE WROTE DURING TIME WITH METALLICA THOUGH MUSTAINE TOLD BAND AFTER DISMISSAL MUSIC WRITTEN METALLICA RECORDED DIFFERENT VERSION SONG ENTITLED FOUR HORSEMEN WITH SLOWER TEMPO MELODIC MIDDLE SECTION ALBUM ALSO INCLUDED COVER NANCY SINATRA'S THESE BOOTS MADE WALKIN' FASTER TEMPO WITH ALTERED LYRICS MEGADETH'S VERSION GENERATED CONTROVERSY DURING WHEN WRITER HAZLEWOOD CALLED MUSTAINE'S CHANGES VILE OFFENSIVE UNDER THREAT LEGAL ACTION SONG REMOVED FROM PRESSINGS RELEASED FROM MID- BILL WITH EXCITER MEGADETH PLAYED FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KILLING LIVING TOUR POLAND BAND TOUR BEGAN ABRUPTLY LEFT REPLACED TOURING GUITARIST MIKE ALBERT POLAND REJOINED MEGADETH OCTOBER SHORTLY BEFORE GROUP BEGAN SECOND ALBUM COMBAT PEACE SELLS WHO'S BUYING EDIT PEACE SELLS MENU PEACE SELLS FEATURES LYRICS DISAPPROVING AMERICAN MUSIC CRITICS NOTED CYNICISM TOWARD ECONOMIC SITUATION UNITED STATES PROBLEMS PLAYING THIS FILE MEDIA HELP ACCORDING MUSTAINE BAND UNDER PRESSURE DELIVER ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL ALBUM THAT SOPHOMORE OFFERING 'BE-ALL END-ALL' BAND EITHER NEXT LEVEL IT'S BEGINNING NADIR SONGS WERE DEVELOPED RELATIVELY QUICKLY WAREHOUSE SOUTH ANGELES BEFORE RECORDING BEGAN MUSTAINE COMPOSED MUSIC WITH OTHER MEMBERS ADDING ARRANGEMENT IDEAS MEGADETH'S SECOND ALBUM PRODUCED BUDGET FROM COMBAT RECORDS DISSATISFIED WITH FINANCIAL LIMITATIONS BAND LEFT COMBAT SIGNED WITH CAPITOL RECORDS CAPITOL BOUGHT RIGHTS UPCOMING ALBUM HIRED PRODUCER PAUL LANI REMIX EARLIER RECORDINGS RELEASED LATE PEACE SELLS WHO'S BUYING CLEARER PRODUCTION MORE SOPHISTICATED SONGWRITING MUSTAINE WANTED WRITE SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS LYRICS UNLIKE MAINSTREAM HEAVY METAL BANDS SANG ABOUT HEDONISTIC PLEASURES ALBUM NOTED POLITICAL COMMENTARY HELPED MEGADETH EXPAND FANBASE TITLE TRACK ALBUM'S LEAD SINGLE ACCOMPANIED MUSIC VIDEO THAT RECEIVED REGULAR AIRPLAY STYLIZED MEGADETH BLACK WHITE BACKGROUND MEGADETH'S LOGO FIRST APPEARED SECOND ALBUM FEATURED RECORDINGS SINCE FEBRUARY MEGADETH OPENING ALICE COOPER'S CONSTRICTOR TOUR FOLLOWING MONTH BAND BEGAN FIRST HEADLINING WORLD TOUR UNITED KINGDOM -WEEK TOUR SUPPORTED OVERKILL NECROS CONTINUED UNITED STATES DURING TOUR MUSTAINE ELLEFSON CONSIDERED FIRING SAMUELSON DRUG ABUSE ACCORDING MUSTAINE SAMUELSON BECOME MUCH HANDLE WHEN INTOXICATED DRUMMER CHUCK BEHLER TRAVELED WITH MEGADETH LAST DATES TOUR OTHER BAND MEMBERS FEARED SAMUELSON WOULD ABLE CONTINUE TOURING POLAND OCCASIONALLY QUARRELED WITH MUSTAINE ACCUSED SELLING BAND EQUIPMENT HEROIN RESULT SAMUELSON POLAND WERE ASKED LEAVE MEGADETH THAT YEAR -YEAR-OLD GUITARIST JEFF LOOMIS SANCTUARY AUDITIONED BAND MUSTAINE COMPLIMENTED LOOMIS' PLAYING CONSIDERED YOUNG JOIN POLAND INITIALLY REPLACED REYNOLDS MALICE BAND BEGAN WORKING NEXT RECORD REYNOLDS REPLACED GUITAR TEACHER JEFF YOUNG WHEN MEGADETH WEEKS INTO RECORDING THIRD ALBUM GOOD WHAT EDIT WITH MAJOR-LABEL BUDGET PAUL LANI-PRODUCED GOOD WHAT TOOK OVER FIVE MONTHS RECORD ALBUM PLAGUED WITH PROBLEMS DURING PRODUCTION PARTIALLY MUSTAINE'S STRUGGLE WITH DRUG ADDICTION MUSTAINE LATER SAID PRODUCTION GOOD WHAT HORRIBLE MOSTLY SUBSTANCES PRIORITIES DIDN'T HAVE TIME MUSTAINE CLASHED WITH LANI SEVERAL OCCASIONS BEGINNING WITH LANI'S INSISTENCE THAT DRUMS RECORDED SEPARATELY FROM CYMBALS UNHEARD-OF PROCESS ROCK DRUMMERS MUSTAINE LANI BECAME ESTRANGED DURING ALBUM'S MIXING LANI REPLACED MICHAEL WAGENER REMIXED ALBUM GOOD WHAT RELEASED JANUARY WELL RECEIVED FANS CRITICS ALBUM FEATURED COVER VERSION PISTOLS' ANARCHY MUSTAINE CHANGED SONG'S LYRICS LATER SAYING THAT SIMPLY HEARD THEM INCORRECTLY SUPPORT ALBUM MEGADETH EMBARKED WORLD TOUR OPENING EUROPE THEN JOINING IRON MAIDEN'S SEVENTH TOUR SEVENTH TOUR UNITED STATES AUGUST BAND APPEARED MONSTERS ROCK FESTIVAL CASTLE DONINGTON UNITED KINGDOM PERFORMING AUDIENCE MORE THAN SHOW FEATURED GUEST APPEARANCE METALLICA DRUMMER MUSTAINE'S FORMER BANDMATE LARS ULRICH BAND ADDED MONSTERS ROCK EUROPEAN TOUR LEFT AFTER FIRST SHOW ELLEFSON'S DRUG PROBLEMS WHICH TREATED IMMEDIATELY SHORTLY AFTER MONSTERS ROCK APPEARANCE MUSTAINE FIRED BEHLER YOUNG CANCELED MEGADETH'S SCHEDULED AUSTRALIAN TOUR ROAD THINGS ESCALATED FROM SMALL BORDER SKIRMISH INTO FULL-ON RAGING MUSTAINE LATER RECALLED THINK WERE INCONSISTENT TOUR BECAUSE WERE WAITING AFTER SHOW DURING TOUR MUSTAINE NOTICED PROBLEMS DEVELOPING WITH BEHLER BROUGHT DRUMMER NICK MENZA BEHLER'S DRUM TECHNICIAN WITH SAMUELSON MENZA EXPECTED TAKE OVER BEHLER COULD CONTINUE TOUR MENZA REPLACED BEHLER YOUNG'S DISMISSAL RESULTED FROM MUSTAINE'S SUSPICIONS THAT HAVING AFFAIR WITH MUSTAINE'S GIRLFRIEND ALLEGATION YOUNG DENIED BAND UNABLE QUICKLY FIND SUITABLE REPLACEMENT YOUNG THIS TIME MEGADETH RECORDED COVER VERSION ALICE COOPER'S MORE NICE WHICH APPEARED SOUNDTRACK CRAVEN HORROR MOVIE SHOCKER VIDEO DIRECTED PENELOPE SPHEERIS RECALLED FILMING HERCULEAN TASK MUSTAINE UNABLE PLAY GUITAR BECAUSE DRUG ADDICTION JUNE MEGADETH APPEARED SPHEERIS' DOCUMENTARY DECLINE WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART METAL YEARS DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLED ANGELES HEAVY METAL SCENE LATE WITH FOCUS GLAM METAL MUSTAINE REMEMBERED FILM DISAPPOINTMENT ALIGNED MEGADETH WITH BUNCH SHIT BANDS DURING MARCH AUDITIONS LEAD GUITARIST MUSTAINE ARRESTED DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED POSSESSION NARCOTICS AFTER CRASHING INTO PARKED VEHICLE OCCUPIED OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICER MUSTAINE ENTERED COURT-ORDERED DRUG REHABILITATION SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BECAME DRUG-FREE FIRST TIME YEARS RUST PEACE EDIT WITH MUSTAINE SOBER MEGADETH CONTINUED SEARCHING LEAD GUITARIST AMONG THOSE AUDITIONED WERE ALTUS HEATHEN ERIC MEYER DARK ANGEL MEYER INVITED JOIN BAND AFTER POLAND'S DEPARTURE CHOSE REMAIN WITH DARK ANGEL GUNS ROSES GUITARIST SLASH BEEN JAMMING WITH MUSTAINE ELLEFSON ALTHOUGH SEEMED THAT MIGHT JOIN MEGADETH REMAINED WITH GUNS ROSES DIMEBAG DARRELL PANTERA OFFERED REFUSED JOIN WITHOUT BROTHER PANTERA DRUMMER VINNIE PAUL MEGADETH ALREADY HIRED MENZA DARRELL DECLINED JOIN BAND MARTY FRIEDMAN FILLED GUITARIST POSITION RECOMMENDATION LAFFITTE MEMBER CAPITOL MANAGEMENT LAFFITTE HEARD DRAGON'S KISS SOLO RECORDING FRIEDMAN WHEN CACOPHONY MUSTAINE ELLEFSON WERE SATISFIED WITH FRIEDMAN'S STYLE THOUGHT UNDERSTOOD MEGADETH'S MUSIC WITH FRIEDMAN GROUP BAND COMPLETED WHAT FANS CONSIDER DEFINITIVE MEGADETH LINEUP REVITALIZED BAND ENTERED RUMBO STUDIOS MARCH WITH CO-PRODUCER MIKE CLINK BEGIN MEGADETH'S MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM DATE RUST PEACE FIRST TIME BAND'S MEMBERS REMAINED SOBER STUDIO ALLEVIATING MANY PROBLEMS WHICH PLAGUED PREVIOUS ALBUMS CLINK FIRST PRODUCER COMPLETE MEGADETH ALBUM WITHOUT BEING FIRED RECORDING DOCUMENTED RUSTED PIECES HOME VIDEO RELEASED WITH MUSIC VIDEOS INTERVIEW WITH BAND RELEASED SEPTEMBER RUST PEACE DEBUTED NUMBER UNITED STATES NUMBER EIGHT UNITED KINGDOM MUSTAINE DEVELOPED WRITING STYLE WITH RHYTHMICALLY COMPLEX PROGRESSIVE EDGE SONGS LONGER GUITAR SOLOS FREQUENT TEMPO CHANGES DESCRIBED GENRE-DEFINING WORK DECIBEL ALBUM SOLIDIFIED MEGADETH'S REPUTATION MUSIC INDUSTRY FEATURES SINGLES HOLY WARS PUNISHMENT HANGAR BOTH WHICH WERE ACCOMPANIED MUSIC VIDEOS BECAME LIVE STAPLES RUST PEACE RECEIVED GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST METAL PERFORMANCE GROUP'S THIRD ALBUM PLATINUM WHEN CERTIFIED DECEMBER EARLY SLAYER PROPOSED MAJOR TOUR FEATURING AMERICAN THRASH METAL BANDS MEGADETH ACCEPTED JOINING SLAYER TESTAMENT SUICIDAL TENDENCIES SUCCESSFUL EUROPEAN CLASH TITANS TOUR AMERICAN BEGAN FOLLOWING YEAR FEATURING MEGADETH SLAYER ANTHRAX WITH ALICE CHAINS SUPPORTING TOUR CONSIDERED MULTI-HEADLINER THREE MAIN BANDS ALTERNATED TIME SLOTS ADDITION CLASH TITANS TOUR MEGADETH PLAYED WITH JUDAS PRIEST NORTH AMERICA LATE APPEARED SECOND ROCK FESTIVAL JANUARY COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION EDIT SYMPHONY DESTRUCTION MENU COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION'S FIRST SINGLE SYMPHONY DESTRUCTION BECOME MEGADETH'S BEST-KNOWN SONGS WITH CONCISE STRUCTURE MEMORABLE HOOKS PROBLEMS PLAYING THIS FILE MEDIA HELP RECORDING SESSIONS MEGADETH'S FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM BEGAN JANUARY ENTERPRISE STUDIOS BURBANK CALIFORNIA NORMAN CHOSEN PRODUCE ALBUM BAND PLEASED WITH MIXING RUST PEACE MEGADETH SPENT NEARLY FOUR MONTHS STUDIO WITH NORMAN WRITING RECORDING WHAT BECAME BAND'S MOST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL EFFORT COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION ALBUM WHOSE TITLE SUGGESTED MENZA FEATURES SONGWRITING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EACH BAND MEMBER ELLEFSON EXPLAINED THAT BAND CHANGED APPROACH SONGWRITING THIS ALBUM BEGINNING WRITE MORE MELODIC SONGS RELEASED JULY COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION ENTERED BILLBOARD CHART NUMBER CERTIFIED DOUBLE PLATINUM UNITED STATES ALBUM'S OVERSEAS SUCCESS HELPED BAND DEVELOP LARGER FOLLOWING OUTSIDE RECEIVED NOMINATION BEST METAL PERFORMANCE GRAMMY AWARDS TITLE TRACK GENESIS AWARD FROM HUMANE SOCIETY RAISING AWARENESS ANIMAL RIGHTS ISSUES ELLEFSON LATER SAID THAT FRIEDMAN WERE DISAPPOINTED THAT MEGADETH GRAMMY SUCH BIZARRE MOMENT BECAUSE AMOUNT WORK TAKEN RAMP THAT HOPEFUL NIGHT LITERALLY GONE SECOND WORLD TOUR SUPPORT ALBUM LAUNCHED LATE WITH PANTERA WHITE ZOMBIE SUPPORTING ACTS TOUR INCLUDED NORTH AMERICAN EARLY WITH STONE TEMPLE PILOTS OPENING MONTH INTO REMAINING SHOWS INCLUDING DATES JAPAN WERE CANCELED WHEN MUSTAINE RETURNED SUBSTANCE ABUSE ENDING HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM AFTER SEVEN WEEKS REHAB MUSTAINE EMERGED SOBER AGAIN BAND RETURNED STUDIO RECORD ANGRY AGAIN SONG FEATURED SOUNDTRACK FILM LAST ACTION HERO RECEIVED GRAMMY NOMINATION DURING MID- MEGADETH PERFORMED NUMBER SHOWS WITH METALLICA EUROPE FIRST MILTON KEYNES BOWL ENGLAND INCLUDED DIAMOND HEAD JULY MEGADETH ADDED OPENING AEROSMITH'S GRIP TOUR REMOVED FROM BILL AFTER THREE SHOWS AEROSMITH SAID THAT MEGADETH DUMPED BECAUSE MUSTAINE'S ERRATIC BEHAVIOR WHILE CAPITOL RECORDS SAID ARTISTIC RESTRICTIONS AFTER CANCELED TOUR MEGADETH RETURNED STUDIO RECORD WAYS WHICH APPEARED BEAVIS BUTT-HEAD EXPERIENCE COMPILATION ALBUM RELEASED NOVEMBER FEATURING SONGS INTERSPERSED WITH COMMENTARY MAIN CHARACTERS ANIMATED SERIES BEAVIS BUTT-HEAD SONG NOMINATED BEST METAL PERFORMANCE GRAMMY AWARDS DURING THESE SESSIONS MEGADETH RECORDED COVER VERSION BLACK SABBATH'S PARANOID WHICH APPEARED BLACK SABBATH TRIBUTE ALBUM NATIVITY BLACK NOMINATED GRAMMY FOLLOWING YEAR YOUTHANASIA EDIT EARLY MEGADETH REUNITED WITH PRODUCER NORMAN FOLLOW-UP COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION WITH THREE BAND MEMBERS LIVING ARIZONA INITIAL WORK BEGAN PHASE FOUR STUDIOS PHOENIX DAYS INTO PRE-PRODUCTION PROBLEMS WITH PHASE FOUR'S EQUIPMENT FORCED BAND LOOK ANOTHER STUDIO MUSTAINE INSISTED RECORDING ARIZONA SUITABLE RECORDING FACILITY COULD FOUND NORMAN'S REQUEST BAND BUILT RECORDING STUDIO PHOENIX RENTED WAREHOUSE LATER CALLED PLANET HANGAR DURING STUDIO'S CONSTRUCTION MUCH PRE-PRODUCTION SONGWRITING ARRANGEMENTS WERE DONE VINTAGE RECORDERS PHOENIX NORMAN'S SUGGESTION TRACKS YOUTHANASIA SLOWER TEMPO THAN PREVIOUS ALBUMS ABOUT BEATS MINUTE BAND ABANDONED PROGRESSIVE APPROACH FROM PREVIOUS ALBUMS FOCUSED STRONGER VOCAL MELODIES MORE ACCESSIBLE RADIO-FRIENDLY ARRANGEMENTS FIRST TIME MEGADETH WROTE ARRANGED ENTIRE ALBUM STUDIO INCLUDING BASIC TRACKS RECORDED LIVE ENTIRE BAND ALBUM'S RECORDING VIDEO RECORDED RELEASED EVOLVER MAKING YOUTHANASIA AFTER EIGHT MONTHS STUDIO WORK YOUTHANASIA RELEASED NOVEMBER DEBUTED NUMBER FOUR BILLBOARD CHARTED SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ALBUM CERTIFIED GOLD CANADA RELEASED CERTIFIED PLATINUM MONTHS LATER MEGADETH HIRED FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD AVEDON ENHANCE BAND'S IMAGE AVEDON BAND MEMBERS EXCHANGE THEIR JEANS T-SHIRTS MORE CONSCIOUS APPEARANCE PROMOTE YOUTHANASIA BAND PLAYED HALLOWEEN SHOW YORK CITY CALLED NIGHT LIVING MEGADETH WHICH BROADCAST LIVE NOVEMBER BAND PERFORMED TWICE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN PLAYING TRAIN CONSEQUENCES FIRST APPEARANCE TOUT MONDE SECOND ELEVEN-MONTH TOUR BEGAN SOUTH AMERICA NOVEMBER MEGADETH PLAYED EUROPE NORTH AMERICA WITH SEVERAL OPENING ACTS INCLUDING CORROSION CONFORMITY KORN FEAR FACTORY TOUR CULMINATED WITH APPEARANCE MONSTERS ROCK FESTIVAL BRAZIL CO-HEADLINING WITH ALICE COOPER OZZY OSBOURNE JANUARY MEGADETH APPEARED SOUNDTRACK HORROR MOVIE DEMON KNIGHT WITH SONG DIADEMS JULY MEGADETH RELEASED HIDDEN TREASURES EXTENDED PLAY FEATURING SONGS WHICH ORIGINALLY APPEARED MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS TRIBUTE ALBUMS CRYPTIC WRITINGS EDIT AFTER EXTENSIVE WORLD TOUR SUPPORT YOUTHANASIA MEGADETH TOOK TIME LATE MUSTAINE BEGAN WORK SIDE PROJECT WITH VOCALIST VING FEAR HIRED DRUMMER JIMMY DEGRASSO PLAYED WITH ALICE COOPER SOUTH AMERICAN MONSTERS ROCK TOUR EARLIER THAT YEAR MARTY FRIEDMAN BUILT STUDIO HOME PHOENIX COMPLETED FOURTH SOLO ALBUM RELEASED APRIL SEPTEMBER MEGADETH WENT LONDON WORK SONGS NEXT ALBUM SONGWRITING CLOSELY SUPERVISED MANAGER PRAGER CONTRIBUTED MUSICAL IDEAS LYRICS MANY LYRICS SONG TITLES WERE CHANGED REQUEST REGARDING PRAGER'S INFLUENCE MUSTAINE LATER WROTE FIGURED MAYBE THIS PRAGER COULD HELP THAT INTANGIBLE NUMBER RECORD BADLY WANTED ALBUM RECORDED NASHVILLE MEGADETH'S FIRST COLLABORATION WITH COUNTRY PRODUCER DANN HUFF MUSTAINE CRYPTIC WRITINGS RELEASED JUNE ALBUM PEAKED NUMBER BILLBOARD EVENTUALLY CERTIFIED GOLD UNITED STATES LEAD SINGLE TRUST BECAME MEGADETH'S HIGHEST CHARTING SONG MAINSTREAM ROCK TRACKS NUMBER FIVE NOMINATED BEST METAL PERFORMANCE GRAMMY AWARDS ALTHOUGH FOUR SINGLES FROM ALBUM ENTERED BILLBOARD'S MAINSTREAM ROCK TRACKS CHART PRESS RESPONSE ALBUM MIXED ALBUM FEATURED DIVERSE SONGS WHICH ANGELES TIMES DESCRIBED ROUSING BALANCE BETWEEN OLDER MATERIAL EXPERIMENTAL SONGS ASKED ABOUT ALBUM'S ECLECTICISM MUSTAINE SAID THAT CRYPTIC WRITINGS DIVIDED INTO THIRDS PART BASED AROUND FASTER MORE AGGRESSIVE MATERIAL ANOTHER RADIO-ORIENTATED MUSIC LIKE YOUTHANASIA FINAL THIRD MORE MELODIC AFTER MORE THAN YEAR SINCE BAND'S LAST CONCERT MEGADETH RETURNED LIVE JUNE BEGINNING WORLD TOUR WITH MISFITS TOURING UNITED STATES WITH LIFE AGONY COAL CHAMBER JULY BAND PARTICIPATED OZZFEST HALFWAY THROUGH TOUR MENZA REPORTEDLY DISCOVERED TUMOR KNEE LEFT UNDERGO SURGERY JIMMY DEGRASSO COLLABORATED WITH MUSTAINE HIRED REPLACE MENZA REMAINDER TOUR THOUGH INITIALLY MEANT TEMPORARY REPLACEMENT DEGRASSO JOINED BAND PERMANENTLY AFTER TOUR MUSTAINE LATER SAID THAT DISMISSED MENZA FROM BAND BECAUSE BELIEVED DRUMMER LIED ABOUT HAVING CANCER RISK EDIT FOLLOWING BAND'S MAINSTREAM RADIO SUCCESS WITH CRYPTIC WRITINGS MEGADETH AGAIN WORKED WITH DANN HUFF EIGHTH STUDIO ALBUM BAND BEGAN WRITING JANUARY SUPERVISED MANAGER PRAGER CREDITED WITH CO-WRITING FIVE ALBUM'S TWELVE SONGS WITH HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOLLOWING CHART SUCCESS TRUST PRAGER CONVINCED MUSTAINE GRANT HUFF EVEN MORE CONTROL OVER ALBUM'S RECORDING DECISION MUSTAINE LATER REGRETTED RISK RELEASED AUGUST CRITICAL COMMERCIAL FAILURE BACKLASH FROM MANY LONGTIME FANS ALTHOUGH PREDECESSORS INCORPORATED ROCK ELEMENTS ALONGSIDE MORE TRADITIONAL HEAVY METAL SOUND RISK VIRTUALLY DEVOID METAL ABOUT BAND'S MUSICAL DIRECTION DAVE MUSTAINE SAID NADIR CAREER WITH RISK VOWED AFTER THAT WERE GOING BACK ROOTS TOOK LITTLE TIME THAT DESPITE THIS RISK CERTIFIED GOLD UNITED STATES ALBUM'S LEAD SINGLE CRUSH APPEARED SOUNDTRACK UNIVERSAL SOLDIER RETURN USED ENTRANCE THEME HOCKEY GAMES PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING EVENTS JULY FORMER DRUMMER SAMUELSON DIED LIVER FAILURE ORANGE CITY FLORIDA THREE DAYS LATER DURING MEGADETH'S PERFORMANCE WOODSTOCK MUSTAINE DEDICATED PEACE SELLS SAMUELSON'S MEMORY THAT MONTH MEGADETH ALSO RECORDED COVER VERSION BLACK SABBATH'S NEVER SECOND NATIVITY BLACK TRIBUTE ALBUM BAND BEGAN WORLD TOUR SUPPORT RISK SEPTEMBER PLAYING WITH IRON MAIDEN DURING EUROPEAN THREE MONTHS INTO TOUR FRIEDMAN ANNOUNCED RESIGNATION FROM MEGADETH CITING MUSICAL DIFFERENCES MUSTAINE LATER SAID TOLD MARTY AFTER RISK THAT BACK ROOTS PLAY METAL QUIT JANUARY GUITARIST PITRELLI FORMERLY SAVATAGE TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA BECAME FRIEDMAN'S REPLACEMENT APRIL MEGADETH RETURNED STUDIO WORK NINTH STUDIO ALBUM MONTH INTO PRODUCTION BAND RECEIVED OFFER JOIN MAXIMUM ROCK TOUR WITH ANTHRAX MöTLEY CRüE MEGADETH RECORDING HOLD TOURED NORTH AMERICA DURING SECOND QUARTER EARLY TOUR ANTHRAX REMOVED FROM BILL ALLOWING MEGADETH PLAY EXTENDED CO-HEADLINING TOUR HOWEVER POOR TICKET SALES WORLD NEEDS HERO EDIT AFTER YEARS WITH CAPITOL RECORDS MEGADETH LEFT LABEL JULY ACCORDING MUSTAINE DEPARTURE ONGOING TENSIONS WITH CAPITOL MANAGEMENT CAPITOL RETURNED BAND'S NEWEST RECORDINGS RELEASED GREATEST HITS ALBUM CAPITOL PUNISHMENT MEGADETH YEARS WITH TRACKS KILL KING DREAD FUGITIVE MIND NOVEMBER MEGADETH SIGNED WITH SANCTUARY RECORDS BAND RETURNED STUDIO OCTOBER FINISH NEXT ALBUM WORLD NEEDS HERO WHICH NEAR COMPLETION WHEN MEGADETH JOINED MAXIMUM ROCK TOUR MONTHS EARLIER FOLLOWING NEGATIVE RESPONSE RISK MUSTAINE FIRED PRAGER PRODUCED ALBUM HIMSELF SONGS WERE WRITTEN MUSTAINE ALONE EXCEPT PROMISES WHICH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PITRELLI DAYS BEFORE RELEASE WORLD NEEDS HERO MEGADETH APPEARED EPISODE BEHIND MUSIC SHOWCASING MUSTAINE ELLEFSON SEVERAL PAST MEMBERS MUSTAINE'S METALLICA BANDMATES JAMES HETFIELD LARS ULRICH WORLD NEEDS HERO RELEASED DEBUTED NUMBER SIXTEEN BILLBOARD BANNED MALAYSIA WHEN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DETERMINED THAT ALBUM'S ARTWORK UNSUITABLE NATION'S YOUTH CONSEQUENTLY BAND CANCELED AUGUST CONCERT KUALA LUMPUR ALBUM MARKED MEGADETH'S RETURN MORE AGGRESSIVE SOUND AFTER STYLISTIC VARIATIONS PREVIOUS ALBUMS CRITICS FELT FELL SHORT EXPECTATIONS MUSTAINE COMPARED ALBUM HUGE SHIP TURNING TRYING RIGHT ITSELF BACK COURSE LEAD SINGLE MOTO PSYCHO REACHED NUMBER BILLBOARD MAINSTREAM ROCK CHART EUROPEAN TOUR WITH SUPPORT WORLD NEEDS HERO BEGAN MID- FOLLOWED AMERICAN TOUR WITH ICED EARTH ENDO SEPTEMBER MUSTAINE ALLOWED FANS CHOOSE SETLIST EACH AMERICAN CITY HOWEVER TOUR SHORT FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER ATTACKS DATES WERE CANCELED INCLUDING SHOOT ARGENTINA BAND INSTEAD PLAYED SHOWS ARIZONA NOVEMBER WHICH WERE FILMED RELEASED MEGADETH'S FIRST LIVE RELEASE RUDE AWAKENING THAT YEAR KILLING BUSINESS BUSINESS GOOD REMIXED REMASTERED REISSUE FEATURED MODIFIED ARTWORK SEVERAL BONUS TRACKS BREAKUP EDIT LONG RED-HAIRED STANDING FRONT MICROPHONE MUSTAINE DISSOLVED MEGADETH FOLLOWING INJURY THAT DISABLED PLAY GUITAR JANUARY MUSTAINE HOSPITALIZED REMOVAL KIDNEY STONE ADMINISTERED PAIN MEDICATION THAT TRIGGERED RELAPSE DRUG ADDICTION FOLLOWING STAY MUSTAINE CHECKED HIMSELF INTO TREATMENT CENTER TEXAS WHERE SUFFERED PECULIAR INJURY CAUSING SEVERE NERVE DAMAGE LEFT INJURY INDUCED FALLING ASLEEP WITH LEFT OVER BACK CHAIR CAUSED COMPRESSION RADIAL NERVE DIAGNOSED WITH RADIAL NEUROPATHY WHICH LEFT UNABLE GRASP EVEN MAKE FIST WITH LEFT HAND APRIL MUSTAINE ANNOUNCED PRESS RELEASE THAT DISBANDING MEGADETH INJURY RENDERED UNABLE PLAY GUITAR NEXT FOUR MONTHS PHYSICAL THERAPY FIVE DAYS WEEK SLOWLY BEGAN RE-TEACH LEFT HAND FULFILL CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS SANCTUARY MEGADETH RELEASED COMPILATION ALBUM STILL ALIVE WELL FIRST HALF ALBUM CONTAINS LIVE TRACKS RECORDED THEATRE PHOENIX SECOND HALF STUDIO RECORDINGS FROM WORLD NEEDS HERO FOLLOWING NEARLY YEAR RECOVERY INCLUDING PHYSICAL ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY MUSTAINE BEGAN WORK WHAT HAVE BEEN FIRST SOLO ALBUM MATERIAL RECORDED WITH SESSION MUSICIANS VINNIE COLAIUTA JIMMIE SLOAS OCTOBER PROJECT HOLD WHEN MUSTAINE AGREED REMIX REMASTER MEGADETH'S EIGHT-ALBUM BACK CATALOG CAPITOL RECORDS RE-RECORDING PORTIONS THAT WERE MISSING ALTERED WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE ORIGINAL MIXING SYSTEM FAILED EDIT FOUR-PIECE BAND CHEERING AUDIENCE CONCERT MEGADETH'S LINEUP SHAWN DROVER JAMES MACDONOUGH DAVE MUSTAINE GLEN DROVER MUSTAINE RETURNED SOLO PROJECT CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS BAND'S EUROPEAN LABEL RESULTED RECORDING'S RELEASE MEGADETH ALBUM MUSTAINE REFORMED BAND CONTACTED FAN-FAVORITE RUST PEACE LINEUP RE-RECORD BACKING TRACKS WHILE DRUMMER NICK MENZA AGREED RETURN BOTH MARTY FRIEDMAN DAVID ELLEFSON WERE UNABLE COME AGREEMENT WITH MUSTAINE MENZA SENT HOME SHORTLY AFTER REHEARSALS BEGAN DAYS BEFORE START TOUR SUPPORTING MEGADETH'S UPCOMING ALBUM MUSTAINE SAID MENZA INSUFFICIENTLY PREPARED PHYSICAL DEMANDS TOUR JUST DIDN'T WORK THIS FIRST ALBUM WITHOUT ELLEFSON CHRIS POLAND PLAYED LEAD GUITAR MEGADETH'S FIRST ALBUMS HIRED CONTRIBUTE GUITAR SOLOS ALBUM WORKING WITH MUSTAINE FIRST TIME SINCE POLAND OPTED SERVE ONLY SESSION MUSICIAN WANTING REMAIN FOCUSED JAZZ FUSION PROJECT SYSTEM FAILED RELEASED SEPTEMBER CRITICS HERALDED RETURN FORM REVOLVER GAVE ALBUM FAVORABLE REVIEW CALLING MEGADETH'S MOST VENGEFUL POIGNANT MUSICALLY COMPLEX OFFERING SINCE COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION ALBUM MARKED SHIFT TOWARD BAND'S EARLIER SOUND JOURNALIST SCIARRETTO MUSIC REPORT WROTE THAT ALBUM CONTAINED NEO-THRASH RIFFING WITH BITING POLITICALLY CHARGED LYRICS SYSTEM FAILED DEBUTED NUMBER EIGHTEEN BILLBOARD DEAD ENOUGH WHICH REACHED NUMBER MAINSTREAM ROCK CHART MUSTAINE ANNOUNCED THAT ALBUM WOULD BAND'S LAST WOULD FOLLOWED FAREWELL TOUR AFTER WHICH WOULD FOCUS SOLO CAREER MEGADETH BEGAN BLACKMAIL UNIVERSE WORLD TOUR OCTOBER ENLISTING TOURING BASSIST JAMES MACDONOUGH ICED EARTH GUITARIST GLEN DROVER EIDOLON KING DIAMOND FIVE DAYS BEFORE FIRST SHOW MENZA REPLACED SHAWN DROVER REMAINED WITH BAND REGULAR MEMBER BAND TOURED WITH EXODUS EUROPE WITH DIAMOND HEAD DUNGEON JUNE CAPITOL RELEASED GREATEST-HITS COMPILATION GREATEST HITS BACK START FEATURING REMIXED REMASTERED VERSIONS SONGS CHOSEN FANS FROM MEGADETH'S CAPITOL ALBUMS GIGANTOUR EDIT LONG-HAIRED PLAYING BASS GUITAR ONSTAGE JAMES LOMENZO MEGADETH'S BASSIST FROM MID- MUSTAINE ORGANIZED ANNUAL HEAVY METAL FESTIVAL TOUR GIGANTOUR MEGADETH HEADLINED INAUGURAL TOUR WITH ACTS SUCH DREAM THEATER NEVERMORE ANTHRAX FEAR FACTORY PERFORMANCES MONTREAL VANCOUVER SHOWS WERE FILMED RECORDED LIVE DVD-AND-CD RELEASED SECOND QUARTER OCTOBER FOLLOWING SUCCESSES SYSTEM FAILED BLACKMAIL UNIVERSE WORLD TOUR MUSTAINE ANNOUNCED SOLD-OUT CROWD PEPSI MUSIC ROCK FESTIVAL ARGENTINA THAT MEGADETH WOULD CONTINUE RECORD TOUR CONCERT HELD OBRAS SANITARIAS STADIUM BUENOS AIRES FRONT FANS FILMED RELEASED THAT NIGHT LIVE BUENOS AIRES FEBRUARY BASSIST JAMES MACDONOUGH LEFT BAND OVER PERSONAL DIFFERENCES REPLACED JAMES LOMENZO WORKED WITH DAVID ROTH WHITE LION BLACK LABEL SOCIETY MEGADETH LINEUP MADE LIVE DEBUT HEADLINING DUBAI DESERT ROCK FESTIVAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES WITH TESTAMENT MARCH CAPITOL RELEASED TWO-DISC ARSENAL MEGADETH WHICH INCLUDED ARCHIVE FOOTAGE INTERVIEWS LIVE SHOWS MANY BAND'S MUSIC VIDEOS LICENSING ISSUES SOUNDTRACK NON-CAPITOL VIDEOS WERE INCLUDED SECOND GIGANTOUR BEGAN DURING THIRD QUARTER MEGADETH AGAIN HEADLINED THIS TIME WITH LAMB OPETH ARCH ENEMY OVERKILL TOUR INCLUDED THREE DATES AUSTRALIA SUPPORTED SOULFLY ARCH ENEMY CALIBAN UNITED ABOMINATIONS EDIT LONG-HAIRED PLAYING GUITAR ONSTAGE GUITARIST CHRIS BRODERICK JOINED MEGADETH REPLACING GLEN DROVER MEGADETH ANNOUNCED THAT ELEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM UNITED ABOMINATIONS NEAR COMPLETION ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED RELEASE OCTOBER MUSTAINE SAID THAT BAND PUTTING FINISHING TOUCHES POSTPONED RELEASE FOLLOWING YEAR COMMENTED RELEASE METAL NEEDS REALLY GOOD OLD-SCHOOL RECORD AGAIN BELIEVE HAVE DELIVERED UNITED ABOMINATIONS BAND'S FIRST ALBUM FEATURE GLEN DROVER SHAWN DROVER JAMES LOMENZO ALSO NEWER VERSION TOUT MONDE ENTITLED TOUT MONDE FREE VERSION DUET WITH CRISTINA SCABBIA LACUNA COIL RECORDED SLIGHTLY FASTER TEMPO THAN ORIGINAL CONTAINS EXTENDED SOLO RELEASED UNITED ABOMINATIONS DEBUTED NUMBER EIGHT BILLBOARD SELLING COPIES FIRST WEEK MARCH MEGADETH BEGAN NORTH AMERICAN TOUR OPENING NEWLY REFORMED HEAVEN HELL BAND PLAYED WITH DOWN CANADIAN SHOWS WITH MACHINE HEAD DATES EUROPEAN SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR FOLLOWED LATE YEAR MEGADETH RETURNED UNITED STATES HEADLINE TOUR DUTY NOVEMBER BAND BROUGHT GIGANTOUR AUSTRALIA WITH LINEUP INCLUDING STATIC-X DEVILDRIVER LACUNA COIL JANUARY GLEN DROVER QUIT MEGADETH STATING THAT TIRED FREQUENT TOURING WANTED SPEND MORE TIME WITH FAMILY ALSO CITED PERSONAL ISSUES WITH OTHER BAND MEMBERS DROVER REPLACED CHRIS BRODERICK FORMERLY NEVERMORE PANZER BRODERICK INITIALLY ASKED MUSTAINE'S MANAGEMENT COMPANY WOULD INTERESTED AUDITIONING MEGADETH AFTER INFORMAL MEETING MUSTAINE'S HOUSE BRODERICK INTRODUCED BAND'S GUITARIST MUSTAINE COMPLIMENTED BRODERICK'S PLAYING SKILLS CALLED BEST GUITARIST MEGADETH EVER BRODERICK'S FORMER NEVERMORE BANDMATE WILLIAMS CONGRATULATED MEGADETH GETTING HELL GOOD PLAYER MORE IMPORTANTLY THEY'RE GETTING GREAT HANG WITH TRUE FRIEND LINEUP MADE LIVE DEBUT HELSINKI HALL FEBRUARY GIGANTOUR WITH NORTH AMERICAN DATES BEGAN SHORTLY AFTERWARDS MUSTAINE WANTED SHORTER LINEUP ALLOWING EACH BAND CHANCE PERFORM WELL THIRD TOUR FEATURED FLAMES CHILDREN BODOM COWBOY HIGH FIRE MEGADETH CONTINUED TOUR DUTY SOUTH AMERICA MEXICO JUNE COMPILATION ALBUM ANTHOLOGY WORLD AFIRE RELEASED SEPTEMBER ENDGAME EDIT FEBRUARY MEGADETH TESTAMENT WERE SCHEDULED EUROPEAN PRIEST FEAST TOUR WITH JUDAS PRIEST HEADLINERS THIS TIME METALLICA BEEN INDUCTED INTO ROCK ROLL HALL FAME INVITED MUSTAINE ATTEND CEREMONY MUSTAINE INFORMED THAT WOULD INDUCTED HALL FAME BECAUSE SUCH HONORS WERE GRANTED ONLY THOSE MEMBERS RECEIVED RECORDING CREDIT METALLICA ALBUM MUSTAINE CONGRATULATED GROUP RESPECTFULLY HONORED COMMITMENT EUROPEAN TOUR WITH JUDAS PRIEST APRIL MEGADETH SLAYER CO-HEADLINED CANADIAN CARNAGE THIS FIRST TIME THEY PERFORMED TOGETHER MORE THAN YEARS MACHINE HEAD SUICIDE SILENCE OPENED FOUR SHOWS THAT OCCURRED LATER JUNE MEGADETH FINISHED RECORDING TWELFTH ALBUM ENDGAME ACCORDING MUSTAINE NAME PAID HOMAGE ALEX JONES' FILM SAME NAME RELEASE DATE ENDGAME ANNOUNCED MEGADETH OFFICIAL WEBSITE METAL HAMMER FIRST REVIEW ALBUM TRACK-BY-TRACK MEGADETH BEGAN ENDGAME TOUR OCTOBER FINISHED DECEMBER TOUR FEATURED NUMBER SUPPORTING ACTS INCLUDING MACHINE HEAD SUICIDE SILENCE WARBRINGER JANUARY MEGADETH EMBARK AMERICAN CARNAGE TOUR WITH SLAYER TESTAMENT TOUR POSTPONED ARAYA'S BACK SURGERY SEVERAL WEEKS LATER MEGADETH'S HEAD CRUSHER NOMINATED BEST METAL PERFORMANCE GRAMMY AWARDS BAND'S EIGHTH GRAMMY NOMINATION YEARS MARCH MEGADETH EMBARKED RUST PEACE ANNIVERSARY TOUR WHICH TOOK PLACE NORTH AMERICA SUPPORT FROM TESTAMENT EXODUS DURING TOUR MEGADETH PLAYED RUST PEACE ENTIRETY PRIOR START TOUR ORIGINAL BASSIST ELLEFSON REJOINED MEGADETH AFTER EIGHT YEARS INTERVIEW CLASSIC ROCK STATED THAT SHAWN DROVER CONTACTED INFORMING THAT BASSIST LOMENZO LEAVING BAND SAYING EVER THERE TIME DAVE MUSTAINE TALK THIRTEEN EDIT PERFORMING ONSTAGE DAVID ELLEFSON DAVE MUSTAINE PERFORMING NORWAY ROCK FESTIVAL JULY MEGADETH ALONG WITH METALLICA SLAYER ANTHRAX COLLECTIVELY KNOWN FOUR THRASH METAL AGREED PERFORM SAME BILL DURING MID- THESE PERFORMANCES WERE PART SONISPHERE FESTIVAL WERE HELD NUMBER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SUCH PERFORMANCE SOFIA BULGARIA FILMED RELEASED VIDEO ALBUM ENTITLED FOUR LIVE FROM SOFIA BULGARIA THESE SHOWS CONTINUED FOLLOWING YEAR UNITED STATES FIRST TOOK PLACE INDIO CALIFORNIA ONLY SCHEDULED SHOW UNITED STATES TIME ALTHOUGH SECOND AMERICAN PRODUCTION HELD YANKEE STADIUM YORK CITY SHORTLY AFTERWARDS JULY AFTER EUROPEAN FOUR SHOWS MEGADETH SLAYER COMMENCED FIRST AMERICAN CARNAGE TOUR WHERE MEGADETH PLAYED RUST PEACE ENTIRETY WHILE SLAYER PERFORMED ALBUM SEASONS ABYSS BOTH WHICH WERE RELEASED FROM THESE SHOWS ONWARD RATTLEHEAD STARTED MAKING SUSTAINED ONSTAGE APPEARANCES IMPROVE VISUAL FACET MEGADETH'S LIVE PERFORMANCES SHORTLY AFTERWARD BANDS UNITED WITH ANTHRAX JäGERMEISTER MUSIC TOUR LATE DURING FINAL SHOW TOUR KERRY KING JOINED MEGADETH STAGE GIBSON AMPHITHEATRE HOLLYWOOD PERFORM MEGADETH'S RATTLEHEAD FIRST TIME THAT KING PERFORMED ONSTAGE WITH MEGADETH LATTER'S EARLY SHOWS MEGADETH SLAYER AGAIN SHARED STAGE EUROPEAN CARNAGE TOUR MARCH APRIL MEGADETH ALSO HEADLINED FOURTH ANNUAL ROCKSTAR MAYHEM FESTIVAL JULY AUGUST SAME YEAR SEPTEMBER BAND RELEASED ALBUM RUST PEACE LIVE RECORDED HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM ANGELES LATER THAT MONTH MEGADETH RELEASED SUDDEN DEATH VIDEO GAME GUITAR HERO WARRIORS ROCK SONG COMMISSIONED PUBLISHERS GUITAR HERO FRANCHISE WANTED TRACK FEATURE DARK LYRICS MULTIPLE GUITAR SOLOS NOMINATED BEST METAL PERFORMANCE GRAMMY CEREMONY MEGADETH RETURNED VIC'S GARAGE STUDIO RECORD THIRTEENTH ALBUM PRODUCED JOHNNY BECAUSE ANDY SNEAP PRODUCER MEGADETH'S PREVIOUS ALBUMS UNAVAILABLE ALBUM TITLED THIRTEEN FEATURED PREVIOUSLY RELEASED TRACKS SUCH SUDDEN DEATH NEVER DEAD ALBUM RELEASED NOVEMBER CHARTED NUMBER ELEVEN BILLBOARD LEAD SINGLE PUBLIC ENEMY RECEIVED GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST HARD ROCK METAL PERFORMANCE SHORTLY AFTER ALBUM RELEASED DAVE MUSTAINE STATED THAT AFTER FOUR-YEAR HIATUS THERE WOULD GIGANTOUR TOUR EARLY LINEUP CONSISTED MOTöRHEAD VOLBEAT LACUNA COIL ALONGSIDE MEGADETH AFTER CONCLUSION GIGANTOUR ZOMBIE MEGADETH ANNOUNCED NINE-DATE CO-HEADLINING TOUR SCHEDULED SUPER COLLIDER EDIT SEPTEMBER ANNOUNCED THAT BAND WOULD RE-RELEASE COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION HONOR ALBUM'S ANNIVERSARY MARK OCCASION MEGADETH LAUNCHED TOUR WHICH BAND PERFORMED ALBUM LIVE ENTIRETY SUCH PERFORMANCE FILMED POMONA THEATER RELEASED LIVE ALBUM CALLED COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION LIVE FOLLOWING YEAR ADDITIONALLY ANOTHER TRACK FROM THIRTEEN WHOSE LIFE ANYWAYS NOMINATED BEST HARD ROCK METAL PERFORMANCE GRAMMY AWARDS LOST HALESTORM'S LOVE BITES SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS CROWDED SUBMARINE SHAWN DROVER CHRIS BRODERICK SIGN AUTOGRAPHS ABOARD ANGELES-CLASS ATTACK SUBMARINE HELENA SSN- AUGUST BAND ANNOUNCED RECORDING FOURTEENTH ALBUM WITH PRODUCER JOHNNY START MEGADETH LEFT ROADRUNNER RECORDS MUSTAINE'S NEWLY FOUNDED LABEL TRADECRAFT DISTRIBUTED THROUGH UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP ALBUM SUPER COLLIDER RELEASED JUNE DEBUTED NUMBER BILLBOARD BAND'S HIGHEST CHART POSITION SINCE YOUTHANASIA CRITICAL REACTION ALBUM HOWEVER LARGELY NEGATIVE SHORTLY AFTER RELEASE SUPER COLLIDER MUSTAINE STATED THAT ALREADY STARTED THINKING ABOUT FIFTEENTH MEGADETH ALBUM SAID THIS BEEN SPURRED DEATH SLAYER GUITARIST JEFF HANNEMAN WHICH GAVE SENSE MORTALITY MUSTAINE ELABORATED KNOW TIME SHORT NOBODY KNOWS LONG THEY'RE GONNA LIVE WHAT HAPPENED WITH JEFF HANNEMAN WANNA WRITE MUCH WHILE EDITION GIGANTOUR FEATURED BLACK LABEL SOCIETY HELLYEAH DEVICE NEWSTED OPENING BANDS FINAL SHOW JASON NEWSTED METALLICA'S FORMER BASSIST JOINED MEGADETH ONSTAGE PERFORM PHANTOM LORD SONG MUSTAINE CO-WRITTEN DURING STINT WITH METALLICA EARLY MEGADETH SLATED PLAY SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA PULLED OVER DISAGREEMENT WITH TOUR PROMOTER MADDAH CONCERNING BAND'S SIDESHOWS WITH NEWSTED ICON ELEVEN-SONG COMPILATION MEGADETH'S CAPITOL-ERA MATERIAL RELEASED PART UNIVERSAL MUSIC'S ICON SERIES FEBRUARY –PRESENT DYSTOPIA EDIT BAND ENCOUNTERED SEVERAL SETBACKS THROUGH SECOND HALF AUGUST CONCERT AVIV CANCELED ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL GAZA MEGADETH SCHEDULED APPEAR MOTöRHEAD'S MOTöRBOAT CRUISE LATE SEPTEMBER WITHDREW BECAUSE MUSTAINE'S COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY LATE NOVEMBER DROVER QUIT BAND AFTER YEARS WANTING PURSUE MUSICAL INTERESTS THIS QUICKLY FOLLOWED DEPARTURE BRODERICK ARTISTIC MUSICAL DIFFERENCES ELLEFSON DENIED RUMORS THAT MEGADETH WOULD DISBAND SAID MUSTAINE WOULD CONTINUE WORKING MUSIC LAMB DRUMMER CHRIS ADLER GUITARIST KIKO LOUREIRO ANGRA PERFORMED MEGADETH'S FIFTEENTH STUDIO ALBUM MUSTAINE SAID THAT REASONS BRODERICK'S DROVER'S DEPARTURE FRUSTRATION CAUSED MEGADETH'S BASE DEMANDING REUNION WITH FRIEDMAN MENZA OCTOBER MEGADETH STREAMED FATAL ILLUSION ALBUM DYSTOPIA WHICH RELEASED JANUARY SUPPORT DYSTOPIA MEGADETH EMBARKED NORTH AMERICAN TOUR FEBRUARY MARCH WITH SUICIDAL TENDENCIES CHILDREN BODOM HAVOK FORMER DRUMMER NICK MENZA DIED WHILE PERFORMING WITH CONTROVERSIES EDIT MUSTAINE MADE NUMEROUS INFLAMMATORY STATEMENTS PRESS USUALLY REGARDING ISSUES WITH FORMER METALLICA BANDMATES FEUD STEMMED FROM EJECTION FROM BAND CONDUCTED DISAGREEMENTS SONGWRITING CREDITS MUSTAINE EXPRESSED ANGER MOVIE SOME KIND MONSTER SCENE LATER DISAPPROVED FELT MISCHARACTERIZED THAT REPRESENT FULL EXTENT WHAT HAPPENED DURING MEETING DURING LIVE PERFORMANCE ANARCHY SHOW ANTRIM NORTHERN IRELAND MUSTAINE DRUNKENLY CONFUSEDLY DEDICATED SONG CAUSE GIVING IRELAND BACK IRISH BEFORE FINAL SONG MUSTAINE SAID THIS ONE'S CAUSE THIS ELICITED RIOT FIGHTING BETWEEN CATHOLICS PROTESTANTS AMONG AUDIENCE BAND TRAVEL BULLETPROOF REMAINDER TOUR NORTHERN IRELAND REPUBLIC IRELAND MUSTAINE LATER SAID THAT BEEN MISLED T-SHIRT BOOTLEGGERS ABOUT MEANING EXPRESSION CAUSE THIS INCIDENT SERVED INSPIRATION SONG HOLY WARS PUNISHMENT CONTROVERSIAL MISINTERPRETED LYRICS HAVE CAUSED COMPLICATIONS BAND DEEMED THAT SONG DARKEST HOUR ENCOURAGED SUICIDE BANNED VIDEO STATION BANNED VIDEO TOUT MONDE SAME REASON THOUGH MUSTAINE SAID SONG WRITTEN FROM PERSPECTIVE DYING SAYING LAST WORDS LOVED ONES ACCORDING CONSIDERED VIDEOS SKIN TEETH SYMPHONY DESTRUCTION LITTLE HARSH REFUSED PLAY THEM WELL DURING WORLD TOUR MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT CANCELED BAND'S SHOW NATION'S CAPITAL BECAUSE AUTHORITIES NEGATIVE PERCEPTION GROUP'S IMAGE MUSIC GOVERNMENT POINTED BAND'S MASCOT RATTLEHEAD INAPPROPRIATE TOLD MEMBERS THAT THEY WOULD ARRESTED THEY PERFORMED DAVE MUSTAINE RESPONDED RECOGNIZE WHAT MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT TRYING ADMIRABLE THEM TRYING PROTECT YOUNG PEOPLE COUNTRY JUST SHOWS DEGREE IGNORANCE APATHY THAT GOVERNMENT TOWARD PROBLEM WIKISOURCE ORIGINAL TEXT RELATED THIS ARTICLE DAVID ELLEFSON MEGADETH JULY ELLEFSON SUED MUSTAINE MILLION MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT ELLEFSON ALLEGED THAT MUSTAINE SHORT-CHANGED PROFITS INCLUDING TOUR MERCHANDISE PUBLISHING ROYALTIES SUIT DISMISSED MUSTAINE FILED COUNTERSUIT ALLEGING THAT ELLEFSON USED BAND'S NAME ADVERTISEMENT MUSICAL EQUIPMENT SUIT SETTLED COURT AFTER RECOVERING FROM INJURY THAT THREATENED CAREER MUSTAINE BECAME BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN MINOR CONTROVERSY SPARKED MUSTAINE'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT MEGADETH WOULD PLAY CERTAIN SONGS LIVE IDENTIFICATION CHRISTIAN MUSTAINE ALLEGEDLY THREATENED CANCEL SHOWS GREECE ISRAEL WITH EXTREME METAL BANDS ROTTING CHRIST DISSECTION BANDS' ANTI-CHRISTIAN BELIEFS THIS CAUSED BANDS CANCEL APPEARANCES ARTISTRY EDIT INFLUENCES STYLE EDIT TRADITIONAL HEAVY METAL BANDS SUCH BLACK SABBATH WAVE BRITISH HEAVY METAL NWOBHM BANDS SUCH MOTöRHEAD IRON MAIDEN DIAMOND HEAD PUNK ROCK BANDS SUCH PISTOLS RAMONES SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE MEGADETH'S SOUND HARD ROCK BANDS SUCH ZEPPELIN WERE ALSO INFLUENTIAL GROUP'S GUITAR STYLE ALTHOUGH MUSIC ROOTS PUNK UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR JASON BIVINS WROTE THAT MEGADETH FOLLOWED BASIC BLUEPRINT MOTöRHEAD IRON MAIDEN DESCRIBED STYLE INSTRUMENTAL VIRTUOSITY NWOBHM WITH SPEED AGGRESSION HARDCORE PUNK WHILE ALSO DRAWING LYRICAL INSPIRATION FROM HORROR-OBSESSED PUNK BAND MISFITS MUSTAINE ALSO LISTED ALBUMS BEATLES RECORDINGS THAT INFLUENCED MUSTAINE BAND'S PRIMARY SONGWRITER DEVELOPS SONGS STARTING WITH PARTICULAR RIFF THAT WITH MODIFICATIONS BECOMES CENTRAL PART SONG SAID THAT SONG FRAGMENTS COMPOSED SEPARATELY THEN BAND MAKES COMPACT STRUCTURE FROM THEM DRUMMER SHAWN DROVER STATED THAT MUSTAINE SAVED MANY RIFFS OVER YEARS THAT SOME RECENT MATERIAL BASED THOSE DEMO RECORDINGS ELLEFSON STATED THAT BAND CONSTANTLY CREATES MATERIAL THAT MAKING RECORDING BEGINS WITH EXCHANGING IDEAS AFTER WHICH BAND ENTERS STUDIO DISCUSSES CONCEPT DIRECTION ARTWORK SONG TITLES LYRICS USUALLY WRITTEN AFTER MUSIC ARRANGED DISCUSSING BAND'S LYRICS MUSTAINE SAID THAT MANY THEMES DERIVED FROM LITERATURE SUCH NOVELS GEORGE ORWELL MUSIC MEGADETH UNDERGROUND METAL CONTEMPORARIES FROM FEATURED HARSH VOCALS DOUBLE BASS DRUM PATTERNS STACCATO RIFFING TREMOLO PICKING SCREECHING LEAD GUITAR WORK ALBUMS FROM THIS PERIOD WERE PRODUCED BUDGETS AFTER FORMING MEGADETH MUSTAINE FOLLOWED THRASH METAL STYLE PREVIOUS BAND METALLICA WITH MORE EMPHASIS SPEED INTENSITY MEGADETH'S MUSIC CHARACTERIZED NEAT INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE FEATURING FAST RHYTHM SECTIONS COMPLEX ARRANGEMENTS SNARLING VOCALS WHEN ASKED DESCRIBE MEGADETH'S GUITAR STYLE MUSTAINE ANSWERED WHEN SHOW GUITAR PLAYER JUST STANDS THERE THAT'S GUITAR PLAYER THRASH GUITAR PLAYER PLAYS LIKE WANTS BEAT GUITAR'S GUTS MOST SONGS RECORDED STANDARD GUITAR TUNING MUSTAINE BELIEVES PROVIDE SUPERIOR MELODY ALTERNATIVE METHODS TUNING DURING BAND'S EARLY DAYS MUSTAINE RHYTHM GUITARIST WHILE CHRIS POLAND PLAYED LEAD ALTHOUGH POLAND PERFORMED ONLY MEGADETH'S FIRST ALBUMS MUSIC JOURNALISTS PETE PROWN HARVEY NEWQUIST CREDIT WITH MAKING MUSIC MORE COLORFUL BECAUSE JAZZ INFLUENCES ACCORDING FORMER METAL MANIACS EDITOR JEFF WAGNER BAND'S SONGWRITING TECHNIQUES PEAKED WITH FOURTH ALBUM RUST PEACE WHICH DESCRIBED FLURRY PRECISION FLUIDITY MAKING GOOD MEGADETH'S CLAIM BEING WORLD'S STATE-OF-THE-ART SPEED METAL BAND MUSICOLOGIST GLENN PILLSBURY STATED GUITAR WORK ALBUM MIXTURE MUSTAINE'S CONTROLLED CHAOS TECHNICAL BRILLIANCE MARTY FRIEDMAN STUDIO EFFORTS RELEASED MID- LATE FEATURED SONGS WITH COMPACT STRUCTURES LESS COMPLICATED RIFFING MEGADETH'S LYRICS OFTEN FOCUS DEATH POLITICS RELIGION LYRICISM CENTERS NIHILISTIC THEMES OCCASIONALLY DEALS WITH TOPICS SUCH ALIENATION SOCIAL PROBLEMS EARLIEST RELEASES FEATURED THEMES SUCH OCCULTISM GRAPHIC VIOLENCE SATANISM NUCLEAR WARFARE GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY WERE PREOCCUPATIONS ALBUMS SUCH RUST PEACE COUNTDOWN EXTINCTION DURING MEGADETH'S COMMERCIAL PEAK MUSTAINE ELABORATED MORE PERSONAL THEMES SUCH ADDICTION INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS LYRICS CRYPTIC WRITINGS MUSTAINE SAID THAT WANTED WRITE SONGS THAT MORE APPEAL WIDER AUDIENCE TITLE UNITED ABOMINATIONS SATIRIC PLAY NAME UNITED NATIONS MUSTAINE CRITICIZED ORGANIZATION'S INEFFECTIVENESS NUMBER SONGS THAT ALBUM LATER ALBUMS CONTAINED LYRICS SIMILAR VEIN LEGACY EDIT HAVING SOLD OVER MILLION UNITS WORLDWIDE MEGADETH BANDS FROM AMERICAN UNDERGROUND METAL SCENE HAVE ACHIEVED MASS COMMERCIAL SUCCESS ALONG WITH CONTEMPORARIES METALLICA SLAYER ANTHRAX MEGADETH REGARDED CORE FOUNDING GROUPS THRASH METAL THESE BANDS OFTEN REFERRED FOUR THRASH METAL RESPONSIBLE GENRE'S DEVELOPMENT POPULARIZATION LOUDWIRE RANKED MEGADETH THIRD BEST THRASH METAL BAND TIME PRAISING GROUP'S PROVOKING LYRICS MIND-WARPING VIRTUOSITY MUSIC REPORT CALLED BAND'S DEBUT ALBUM SEMINAL RELEASE REPRESENTATIVE GOLDEN SPEED METAL SIMILARLY BILLBOARD CALLED BAND'S SECOND ALBUM PEACE SELLS WHO'S BUYING LANDMARK THRASH MOVEMENT WHOSE LYRICS FOUND STILL RELEVANT ALSO RECOGNIZED BAND INFLUENTIAL METAL HIGHLIGHTING TECHNICAL ASPECT EARLY ALBUMS MEGADETH CONSIDERED MOST MUSICALLY INFLUENTIAL GROUPS THAT ORIGINATED PART EARLY AMERICAN THRASH METAL MOVEMENT BAND'S MUSIC DIRECT INFLUENCE DEATH METAL SOCIOLOGIST KEITH KAHN-HARRIS WROTE THAT MAINSTREAM SUCCESS MEGADETH REASONS EXPANSION EXTREME METAL COUNTRIES WHERE PREVIOUSLY BEEN UNKNOWN BAND'S SOUND ALBUM ARTWORK INFLUENCED NUMBER THRASH METAL BANDS CENTURY INCLUDING TOXIC HOLOCAUST WARBRINGER ACCORDING NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN MEGADETH SOLD MILLION COPIES ALBUMS UNITED STATES BETWEEN
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