When asked for your favourite Megadeth song, what would you pick? Rich back catalogue without any doubt. Most fans wouldn’t go for anything from “Dystopia” as brilliant as an album as it is, simply because it’s too new. For us, it has to be the song that got us into the band, with it’s evil
August 2015 saw the tenth studio album “The Ride Majestic” from Swedish Melodic Death Metal act Soilwork appear on record store shelves around the Globe via Nuclear Blast. Produced by David Castillo in conjunction with the band and the last to feature Belgian drummer Dirk Verbeuren who left the band a year later to join Megadeth.
Last Friday saw the arrival of “Of Truth & Sacrifice” by Heaven Shall Burn via Century Media, a double album with a run time of 97 minutes, the creation of which has meant that the Germans haven’t taken to the stage in over two years. Upon that record sits a cover of “Critical Mass” by
Founded in 1987 in Miami Florida by guitarist and vocalist Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinert, Cynic incorporated elements of Progressive and Alternative Rock into Extreme Metal and after four demos in four years they signed to Roadrunner Records in 1991 and began work on the debut album. Both Masvidal and Reinert were part of
A lack of metal bands in Apeldoorn Netherlands saw guitar playing duo Jelle Bekelmans and Hidde Holfland join forces to create their own music. Inspired by the likes of Megadeth, Obituary and Death to name but a few, they formulated their own thrashing death metal sound; fast-paced and groove laden. They are joined by Max Hendrix
While we’re on the subject of Thrash, here’s a full Pro-Shot set from Megadeth at the SSE Arena in London England on 31st January 2020! It had seemed for a while that Dave Mustaine might have to cancel the shows due to a battle with Cancer but fortunately, everything seems to have turned out fine.
Megadeth guitarist Kiko Loureiro has started a part Q&A documentary series as the band hit the road. At their Copenhagen Denmark stop with Five Finger Death Punch and Bad Wolves, be goes all one mic, one camera on us so we can check out what life is like in a band of Megadeth’s statue from
Dave Mustaine’s return to the stage following cancer treatment is a welcome sight, not only for Megadeth fans but for Metal Heads in general. Having already spent a year out from 2002-2003 with first a kidney stone operation and then compression of the radial nerve meaning he was unable to play guitar, its good to
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by band Mastermind Jeff Waters, “Ballistic Sadistic” was recorded at the brand new, state-of-the-art Watersound Studios UK in Durham in 2019 with additional engineering and editing by bassist Rich Hinks and Mastering by Maor Appelbaum (Faith No More, Halford) at Maor Appelbaum Mastering in California. Annihilator now boast a line up
Singapore’s longest living crossover punk thrashers Opposition Party returned in November 2019 with a four-track EP entitled “Tales To Horrify”. Horror-comic retro-style cover art from the legendary Ed Repka (Megadeth, Death, Nuclear Assault), a guest appearance from Simon Wizen of Swedish Black Metallers Valkyrja (who contributed a guest guitar solo on the track “Living Dead Island“)
