Megadeth

<<< Listen Now >>>

         

Based in Los Angeles, California USA, the Thrash-Metal Heavy-Metal band Megadeth was founded in 1984 by singer + guitarist Dave Mustaine, who was one of the original members from the first incarnation of Metallica, but he was fired because his drug abuse. Shortly afterwards Mustaine hooked up with bassist Dave Ellefson and within a year the pair recruited guitarist Chris Poland and drummer Gar Samuelson.

Megadeth's first album, "Killing Is My Business...", was released in 1985 to little attention; highlights include a retooled version of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots " and "Mechanix", a Mustaine composition written with James Hetfield.

One year later, "Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?", the band's Capitol debut and the first of six consecutive platinum albums, cracked The Billboard Top 200 chart coming in at #76 cementing their reputation as one of the most innovative Thrash-Metal acts.

After a few changes in the line-up, Megadeth, recorded 1988's "So Far, So Good...So What!" and 1990's "Rust In Peace" with guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza; both of these records climbed into the top 30 in the U.S. with the latter becoming their first British top 10 album.

In the summer of 1992, the group released "Countdown To Extinction" which would prove to be their breakthrough commercial success peaking at #5 in U.K. and #2 on the American Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, selling well over 2 million copies in the U.S. alone. It contained three Mainstream Rock top 30 hits including the worldwide smash "Symphony Of Destruction", "Sweating Bullets" and "Foreclosure Of A Dream".
One year later, Megadeth with the single, "Angry Again", taken from movie soundtrack "Last Action Hero", entered the top 20 of The Mainstream Rock chart.

Mustaine sought treatment for his drug and alcohol problems before the recording sessions of the band's sixth effort. "Youthanasia", which arrived in 1994, crashed into the top 5 of The Billboard Top 200 chart spawning excellent Metal tunes and power ballads such as the Active Rock top 40s "Train Of Consequences" and "A Tout Le Monde".

The following year was released the rarities collection "Hidden Treasures", which scraped the bottom of the top 100 of the Official U.S. Albums chart.

1997's "Cryptic Writings" peaked at #10 on The Billboard 200 and yielded four top 20 hits at active-Rock radio, including the #5 "Trust", the #8 "Almost Honest", "Use The Man" and "A Secret Place". However, the album, failed to breach the top 20 in Great Britain.

Two years later Megadeth released "Risk" which featured a Pop-Metal slant unheard on previous band's recordings and change in the line-up occurred when Menza left, so Jimmy DeGrasso joined as the new drummer; the record hit the top 20 of the North-American albums charts but stalled at gold status in U.S. where both, "Crush 'Em" and "Breadline", peaked at #6 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks.

After leaving Capitol and losing longtime guitarist Marty Friedman who was replaced by Al Pitrelli, the group signed with the BMG subsidiary Sanctuary Records who released in May 2001 "The World Needs A Hero", it reached the #16 position on The Billboard 200 Albums chart, but its main single, "Moto Psycho", missed the top 20 of the Active Rock chart.
In January 2002 a freak injury, Mustaine fell asleep on his arm, causing nerve damage, forced the frontman to put his career and Megadeth on hiatus, while reassessing both.
Mustaine returned to action during 2004; his band, which now included lead guitarist Glen Drover, bassist James MacDonough and drummer Shawn Drover, delivered "The System Has Failed"; the CD debuted at #18 in U.S. and at #10 in Canada upon its September release, while the lead single, "Die Dead Enough", hit #21 on The Mainstream Rock chart and "Of Mice And Men" reached the #39 slot on the same chart.

In May 2007, Megadeth, which saw frontman Dave Mustaine joined by bassist James LoMenzo and the sibling tandem of Glen Drover and Shawn Drover on guitar and drums, issued "United Abominations", the band's first record for the Roadrunner label and their first U.S. top 10 album in ten years; it included the first single, a duet between Mustaine and Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia, "A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)" as well as 100 XR's fave and CD's opening cut "Sleepwalker".

Mustaine and company has a new track online called "Head Crusher". The song comes off the band's twelfth studio album, "Endgame", which is due on September 15, 2009, through Roadrunner Records. The CD was recorded at the band's brand new, self-built studio in San Marcos, California; the disc is also the first release to feature new guitarist Chris Broderick.

Megadeth biography is an exclusive of 100xr.com

more Megadeth photos, news and other stuff HERE »

Killing Is My Business...

(1985)

1. Last Rites / Loved To Death
2. Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good
3. Skull Beneath The Skin
4. These Boots
5. Rattlehead
6. Chosen Ones
7. Looking Down The Cross
8. Mechanix

 

Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

(1986)

1. Wake Up Dead
2. The Conjuring
3. Peace Sells
4. Devil's Island
5. Good Mourning / Black Friday
6. Bad Omen
7. I Ain't Superstitious
8. My Last Words

 

So Far, So Good... So What!

(1988)

1. Into The Lungs Of Hell
2. Set The World Afire
3. Anarchy In The U.K.
4. Mary Jane
5. 502
6. In My Darkest Hour
7. Liar
8. Hook In Mouth

 

Rust In Peace

(1990)

1. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
2. Hangar 18
3. Take No Prisoners
4. Five Magics
5. Poison Was The Cure
6. Lucretia
7. Tornado Of Souls
8. Dawn Patrol
9. Rust In Peace... Polaris

 

Countdown To Extinction

(1992)

1. Skin O'My Teeth
2. Symphony Of Destruction
3. Architecture Of Aggression
4. Foreclosure Of A Dream
5. Sweating Bullets
6. This Was My Life
7. Countdown To Extinction
8. High Speed Dirt
9. Psychotron
10. Captive Honour
11. Ashes In Your Mouth

 

Last Action Hero
[soundtrack]

(1993)

INCLUDES:

- Angry Again

 

Youthanasia

(1994)

1. Reckoning Day
2. Train Of Consequences
3. Addicted To Chaos
4. A Tout Le Monde
5. Elysian Fields
6. The Killing Road
7. Blood Of Heroes
8. Family Tree
9. Youthanasia
10. I Thought I Knew It All
11. Black Curtains
12. Victory

 

Hidden Treasures

(1995)

1. No More MR. Nice Guy
2. Breakpoint
3. Go To Hell
4. Angry Again
5. 99 Ways To Die
6. Paranoid
7. Diadems
8. Problems

 

Cryptic Writings

(1997)

1. Trust
2. Almost Honest
3. Use The Man
4. Mastermind
5. The Disintegrators
6. I'll Get Even
7. Sin
8. A Secret Place
9. Have Cool, Will Travel
10. She-Wolf
11. Vortex
12. FFF

 

Risk

(1999)

1. Insomnia
2. Prince Of Darkness
3. Enter The Arena
4. Crush 'Em
5. Breadline
6. The Doctor Is Calling
7. I'll Be There
8. Wanderlust
9. Ecstacy
10. Seven
11. Time: The Beginning
12. Time: The End

 

The World Needs A Hero

(2001)

1. Disconnect
2. The World Needs A Hero
3. Moto Psycho
4. 1000 Times Goodbye
5. Burning Bridges
6. Promises
7. Racipe For Hate... Warhorse
8. Losing My Senses
9. Dread And The Fugitive Mind
10. Silent Scorn
11. Return To Hangar
12. When

 

The System Has Failed

(2004)

1. Blackmail The Universe
2. Die Dead Enough
3. Kick The Chair
4. The Scorpion
5. Tears In A Vial
6. I Know Jack
7. Back In The Day
8. Something That I'm Not
9. Truth Be Told
10. Of Mice And Men
11. Shadow Of Deth
12. My Kingdom

 

United Abominations

(2007)

1. Sleepwalker
2. Washington Is Next!
3. Never Walk Alone...A Call To Arms
4. United Abominations
5. Gears Of War
6. Blessed Are The Dead
7. Play For Blood
8. A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)
9. Amerikhastan
1. You're Dead
11. Burnt Ice

 

Endgame

(2009)

Tracklisting posted on blabbermouth.net

1. Dialectic Chaos
2. This Day We Fight!
3. 44 Minutes
4. 1,320'
5. Bite The Hand That Feeds
6. Bodies Left Behind
7. Endgame
8. The Hardest Part Of Letting Go... Sealed With A Kiss
9. Head Crusher
10. How The Story Ends
11. Nothing Left To Lose

 

Megadeth discography - an exclusive and detailed creation of 100xr.com
The section contains all of Megadeth albums released to date
with original cover art and complete track-listing

Bookmark 100xr.com for future visits