MEGADETH was joined by a number of musicians, including Slash (GUNS N’ ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER), Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE), Jason Newsted (NEWSTED, METALLICA, VOIVOD), David Draiman (DISTURBED, DEVICE) and Vinnie Paul Abbott (HELLYEAH, PANTERA) on stage at this past Friday night’s (July 12) 97.1 The Eagle Presents BFD 2013 concert at Gexa Energy Pavilion in Dallas, Texas to perform a cover version of the THIN LIZZY classic “Cold Sweat”. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below.
The 97.1 The Eagle Presents BFD 2013 concert included all the bands that are taking part in this year’s edition of Gigantour, the critically acclaimed package festival founded in 2005 by MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine: headliners MEGADETH, along with BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, DEVICE, the new band fronted by DISTURBED singer David Draiman; HELLYEAH, featuring Vinnie Paul Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN), Chad Gray and Greg Tribbett (MUDVAYNE), Tom Maxwell (NOTHINGFACE) and Bob “Zilla” Kakaha (DAMAGEPLAN); NEWSTED, the new band led by former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted; and DEATH DIVISION, the heavy, technically aggressive and melodic band founded by bassist Jerry Montano (HELLYEAH, DANZIG, NOTHINGFACE), drummer Tim Yeung (MORBID ANGEL, DIVINE HERESY, HATE ETERNAL, NILE), vocalist/guitarist Sean De La Tour and lead guitarist Rick Di Marco.
Gigantour billing:
MEGADETH
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
DEVICE
HELLYEAH
NEWSTED
DEATH DIVISION
Last night (July 12th) during MEGADETH‘s headline set at the Gigantour stop at the Gexa Energy Pavilion in Dallas, TX, the band had an all-star jam during the cover of THIN LIZZY‘s ‘Cold Sweat’ and were joined by SLASH (ex-GUNS N’ ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER), BLACK LABEL SOCIETY‘s Zakk Wylde (ex-OZZY OSBOURNE), Jason Newsted (ex-METALLICA, VOIVOD, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM), HELLYEAH‘s Vinnie Paul (ex-PANTERA) and DEVICE‘s David Draiman (DISTURBED).
July
13 – Lubbock, TX – Lonestar Amphitheatre
14 – Corpus Christi, TX – Concrete Street Amphitheatre
16 – Oklahoma City, OK – Zoo Amphitheatre
18 – Bloomington, IL – Cellular Coliseum
19 – Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom
20 – Cadott, WI – Chippewa Valley Music Festival
22 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Center
23 – Regina, SK – Brandt Centre
25 – Calgary, AB – Stampede Corral
26 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place
27 – Dawson Creek, BC – EnCana Events Centre
29 – Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Entertainment Center
30 – Everett, WA – Comcast Arena
August
1 – West Valley City, UT (SLC) – Maverik Center
2 – Denver, CO – 1st Bank Center
4 – Fargo, ND – Scheels Arena
6 – Manhattan, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
7 – Manhattan, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
9 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
10 – Montreal, QC – Heavy Metal 2013
11 – Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
O2 Academy TV recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. You can now watch the chat in two parts below.
Asked how the switch in record labels from Roadrunner to Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) affected MEGADETH‘s songwriting approach on its new album, “Super Collider”, Mustaine said: “I think it affected the sound of the album, the style of music, the outlook of the band. I mean, no offense to Roadrunner — they did what they do — but we’re a major-label band. And when we left Capitol to go to Sanctuary, it was for two reasons. One, I hated that record president that [Capitol] had at that time, and two, Sanctuary made a lot of big promises. And you know, when you think about [IRON MAIDEN‘s manager] Rod Smallwood, who had a big part to do with the label, that’s IRON MAIDEN, and I love IRON MAIDEN, so I thought, ‘For sure, this is gonna be great.’ Well, it didn’t end up being great, ’cause Rod wasn’t involved in it as much as my brain would like to have thought. And we left Sanctuary and went to Roadrunner, and it just kept going like this. [makes downward motion with his hand] And I figured, I’m not gonna bail on the contract, I’m not gonna be a scumbag musician like so many musicians are where they stick people with contracts and break up and leave everybody holding the ball. I figured, ‘I’m gonna honor the contract, I’m gonna finish it, and then when it’s done, I’m gonna say goodbye like a gentleman.’ And I did, and Universal came into the picture. I mean, think about this; this is so amazing. [Universal is] the biggest label; they own Capitol Records that has almost all of my catalog; they bought EMI Publishing that does own all my publishing. So you’re a brand new record company… Not brand new, but for us… We’ve got a new label, a new record… Oh, by the way, I own all of your past life. I was, like, ‘Who could possibly have arranged something that fantastic?'”
“Super Collider” sold 29,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 6 on The Billboard 200 chart. The record arrived in stores on June 4 via Mustaine‘s new label, Tradecraft, distributed by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). The disc follows up “TH1RT3EN”, which opened with 42,000 units back in November 2011 to enter the chart at No. 11. The band’s 2009 CD, “Endgame”, premiered with 45,000 copies to debut at No. 9. This was slightly less than the 54,000 first-week tally registered by 2007’s “United Abominations”, which entered the chart at No. 8. 2004’s “The System Has Failed” premiered with 46,000 copies (No. 18) while 2001’s “The World Needs A Hero” moved 61,000 units in its first week (No. 16).
MEGADETH‘s video for the title track and first single from the band’s new album, “Super Collider”, can be seen below. The clip was filmed on May 10 in the Los Angeles area. California-based model, actress, singer and songwriter Hunter Elizabeth was cast in the lead role in the clip, which she says is “about a high-school couple still loving each other after all the years after graduation, and at the 10-year reunion, both characters find themselves successful (a model and a mathematician) and still very in love.”
A few photos from the set of the “Super Collider” video shoot can be seen below. More pictures are available at this location.
The track “Super Collider”, which was premiered on Full Metal Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio metal show on April 20, was released digitally on April 23 via iTunes. `
“That songkind of came from that ‘Symphony Of Destruction’ corner of my mind,” MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine told Guitar World magazine. “You can’t always play aggressive, thrashy stuff. Sometimes those aren’t even songs; they’re like musical rams. But because I’m not a pop guy, I’m also not really comfortable playing sing-along songs. To me, ‘Super Collider’ made sense like a normal song — a verse-chorus-verse-chorus kind of thing. It’s written the way a real songwriter would write the song, instead of just taking all these musical twists and turns.”
Mustaine told Billboard.com in a new interview that he wanted to steer the lyrical themes on “Super Collider” away from both domestic and global politics that have dominated much of the group’s output over the years.
“I thought it’s just not the same climate anymore where you can really talk about stuff like that,” he explained. “People are so polarized they’ll chuck a musician that they really like because of them being a Democrat or them being a Republican or whatever. I’m not a partisan guy, and I seem to always get lumped in as a Republican, which I’m not. So I was trying to walk away from all this controversy and stuff that seems to follow me and let the music do the talking.”
“Super Collider”, which sold 29,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 6 on The Billboard 200 chart, focuses “a little bit more [on] human politics, like my mother-in-law having Alzheimers and things like that,” Mustaine said. “Not everybody watches the news, so when you tell somebody that this is going on, that’s going on, this guys is part of a cover-up, this guy is a philanderer, they don’t want to hear it. But if you say, ‘Hey, my mother-in-law has Alzheimers or something they might have going on in their life, too, all of a sudden you’ve got that bond. So I figured I would write about what goes on inside my heart instead of inside my head this time, and I think it really came across that way.”
“Super Collider” arrived in stores on June 4 via Dave Mustaine‘s new label, Tradecraft, distributed by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe).
The album is available as a limited-edition CD with 3-D cover and bonus tracks, regular CD, regular LP, limited LP plus a bonus colored seven-inch single with two bonus tracks, and a download voucher.
Jesse Capps of RockConfidential.com recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
RockConfidential.com: With the release of “Super Collider” and being on a new record label, it seems you’re really anxious or even hungrier to be Dave Mustaine and be in MEGADETH.
Mustaine: It feels good to be me right now. I still have moments where it’s kinda hard to get outta bed. [laughs] I enjoy my life. I’m going through a renaissance period right now with the band and it just feels like a second childhood. Especially with the record charting as high as it did. Metal is on the rise. I’m really excited about the times we’re living in. Unfortunately, metal music is popular when the world is kind of topsy-turvy, but hey — the world has been in kind of a fuck for a couple thousand years.
RockConfidential.com: I’ve noticed in a lot of interviews lately you’re always asked about the track “Super Collider” being a departure for MEGADETH. Any time an established songwriter or artist does something that breaks from their mold, it’s considered a risk. Do you remember the first song or album where you expanded on the MEGADETH style and were comfortable with the result and how it was received by the fans?
Mustaine: That would be “Countdown To Extinction”. We went into a more melodic vein after “Rust In Peace”. That didn’t hurt us and it was our biggest record ever. I think this record would have fit perfectly between “Countdown To Extinction” and “Youthanasia”. “Youthanasia” marks where we were getting pulled in another direction by the powers-that-be — change your logo, change your look, change your mascot and take him off the cover, slow the songs down. Marty Friedman [former MEGADETH guitarist] and I parted ways. The whole songwriting process started to fracture during “Youthanasia” and it was done after “Risk”. When you get to the point where you’re working with someone you like to write with and you just can’t make music together anymore, something’s happened. I wanted to play heavy music and they didn’t. As a good leader, you’re gonna want to have domestic tranquility and compromises. Compromising our musical direction — not compromising our integrity — hurt us. I said then we had to go back to our roots. I took some time to get back there but it’s like turning an ocean liner. You can turn the wheel to the left and you know you’re turning — it just takes a long time for that big ol’ sucker to turn around.
RockConfidential.com: You touch on several real-world, emotional parts of life on “Super Collider” — teenage pregnancy, drug addiction, a struggling economy, Alzheimer’s disease. With things like that combined with a 24-hour news cycle a person needs an outlet or we’ll all go nuts — you just happen to have your outlet with MEGADETH. How could anyone not be influenced by everything going on in the world today?
Mustaine: Well, if you’re drinking the Kool-Aid, you won’t get influenced by it. For anybody watching what’s going on, not just in our country but around the world, we’re living in some really difficult times. That’s what “Super Collider” is about. I reached a fork in the road with my onstage persona. Who I am on stage is not who I am off stage. Sometimes I’ll walk off stage and think, “Maybe I shouldn’t have said that.” Check your sources. Don’t believe anything you read and only half of what you see. Make your own educated decisions. You’ll feel a lot better about sharing what you believe. And honestly, about the political stuff — if you don’t vote, you can’t bitch.
RockConfidential.com: Do you sometimes feel you have an obligation to inform your fans of things you think are important?
Mustaine: There was a point where I felt that was my calling. My career and taking care of my family is really important to me. There are so many things to be talking about. For me to be pointing out the wrongs in politics — man, if I think I can make a difference I better pack a lunch. As far as singing about things that have happened to me, I have 100% experience with that, and this is what happened and this is how I feel. It’s more about, “Can you identify with that?” instead of saying, “This political party is doing this and this political party is doing that.” They’re really all the same. Heavy metal music is just punk rock with long hair. People don’t get that. People that aren’t metal fans don’t make the connection. I was watching a song by a band called HAVOK the other day and I was looking at the guy’s lyrics. Wow, I could have written those lyrics. It’s the same kind of stuff I used to write when I was younger. I think a lot of us right now, one political persuasion or another, we’re concerned about what’s going on right now with the whole “1984” stuff. The funny thing is, there’s a lot of guys who say, “How does Dave know all this stuff? He’s always right on the money.” Some people like to say, “Mustaine‘s on his conspiracy kick again.” All of a sudden — excuse me, there it is in black and white — Dave is right again. That’s OK. I used to eat crow, too. Now they get to.
MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine used a homophobic slur and had a fan ejected from the band’s concert last night (Wednesday, June 5) in Manchester, England in an incident that was captured on video.
According to online reports, MEGADETH was dealing with technical and lighting issues during the early part of its set at the Academy and was forced to go off stage for about 10 minutes after the sixth song, “Architecture Of Aggression”, while the problems were being fixed. When the band returned, a angry fan was apparently booing Mustaine and flipping off the MEGADETH leader for having made everyone wait. This promoted Mustaine to launch into a minute-long tirade during whch he said: “You look like Eminem, you stupid cunt.”
He continued: “Listen, you guys pay a lot of money to see us play, and I don’t wanna stand here in the dark. I mean, part of the whole MEGADETH show is us smiling and making that connection with you.”
He then once again addressed the fan directly, telling him: “Get the fuck out of here! Get this guy out of here! You blonde bitch. C’mon up here. I’ve got a big cock for your face. [Making kissing sounds.] Here it comes… Stick that finger right up your ass, you little f****t.”
Fan-filmed video footage of Mustaine‘s rant can be seen below.
MEGADETH is touring in support of its new album, “Super Collider”, which is likely to sell between 28,000 and 32,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double. The estimate was based on one-day sales reports compiled after the record arrived in stores on June 4 via Mustaine‘s new label, Tradecraft, distributed by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe).
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