According to Bravewords.com, MEGADETH released their new album, Super Collider, earlier this year, and in the following video report from Artisan News, frontman Dave Mustaine shares with us the one song that is just too hard to play in concert.
Although just posted online by Digital Tour Bus, this video featuring Megadeth guitarist Chris Broderick and drummer Shawn Drover sharing a pair of crazy tour stories while on Gigantour 2013, was actually filmed in July in Milwaukee, WI.
Megadeth’s next show is tonight, October 15th in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – when they open for BLACK SABBATH. To view their complete tour schedule, click here.
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.
MEGADETH filmed a video for the title track and first single from the band’s new album, “Super Collider”, on Friday, 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 song kind 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.”
The “Super Collider” album is scheduled for a June 4 release via Mustaine‘s new label, Tradecraft, which is distributed by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). Horn player Bob Findley — who previously appeared on the track “Silent Scorn” from MEGADETH‘s 2001 CD, “The World Needs A Hero” — is a featured guest on the song “A House Divided” on the new album. Other tracks set to appear on the effort include “Forget To Remember”, “Dance In The Rain”, “The Blackest Crow”, “Burn”, “Kingmaker” and “Don’t Turn Your Back”, a snippet of which can be streamed at MegadethGame.com.
“Super Collider” is MEGADETH‘s first release since the band’s recent split with Roadrunner Records.
As previously reported, MEGADETH will guest on the nationally syndicated radio show “Rockline” with host Bob Coburn on Monday, June 17 at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET. Fans are encouraged to speak with MEGADETH by calling 1-800-344-ROCK (7625). The show will be streamed on the “Rockline” web site for two weeks beginning the afternoon after the live broadcast.
The title track and first single from MEGADETH‘s new album, “Super Collider”, can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The song, which was premiered on Full Metal Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio metal show on April 20, was released digitally on April 23 via iTunes.
The “Super Collider” album is scheduled for a June 4 release via MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine‘s new label, Tradecraft, which is distributed by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). Horn player Bob Findley — who previously appeared on the track “Silent Scorn” from MEGADETH‘s 2001 CD, “The World Needs A Hero” — is a featured guest on the song “A House Divided” on the new album. Other tracks set to appear on the effort include “Forget To Remember”, “Dance In The Rain”, “The Blackest Crow”, “Burn”, “King Maker” and “Don’t Turn Your Back”, a snippet of which can be streamed at MegadethGame.com.
In a recent interview with the Colorado Springs, Colorado radio station 94.3 KILO, Mustaine stated about “Super Collider”: “Well, this is our second record since [bassist] David Ellefson‘s returned. It’s our second record with [producer] Johnny K. This is the second round of songs that I’ve worked with [drummer] Shawn Drover [on], and [guitarist] Chris Broderick actually has some songwriting on this record. I think ‘Super Collider’ probably is gonna be one of our best records. And there’s only been one other time in my career I felt like every single thing was in its place and that was ‘Countdown To Extinction’. Because, you know, whenever you do a record, you always… you know where the squeak is and, you know, I remember listening to digital version of a LED ZEPPELIN live song — I think it was ‘The Lemon Song’ or something — and you could hear the pedal, the kick pedal squeaking. So, you know, there’s always gonna be something you can hear, and with ‘Countdown’, you know, it was perfect. Every single thing was perfect. And this is the first record I’ve done since then why I’m absolutely 100 percent confident and satisfied with everything on the record.”
Speaking to the “Shockwaves”/“HardRadio” podcast, Mustaine stated about the “Super Collider” title track and cover artwork: “I was up in Santa Barbara, and USA Today, as a newspaper, I started reading a long time ago because it had Sudoku in it. I’m not really down with a lot of the viewpoints of the newspaper, but I kind of got used to reading it because of the puzzles in it — ’cause I love word puzzles; I like to enrich my word power. And there was a story in there about how they finally had identified the mass that goes around the molecules and stuff; it’s called the Higgs Boson and we had done that with the Super Collider. And I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a really cool story.’ Actually, the stuff’s called the ‘God particle.’ And I thought, knowing how closed-minded people are with my faith and thinking that that’s gonna change who I am as a person — which it did — and that that would also correlate into changing my guitar playing, which it didn’t, I didn’t wanna have a song called ‘God Particle’, because every village has its idiots, and unfortunately for me, a bunch of them follow me on the Internet. So we opted to call it ‘Super Collider’. And this first song is kind of, like, a song about no matter how bad things get, come with me, we’ll take the high road and we’ll hang out and have a great time and we’ll stick together until the end of the world, so to speak, when the world explodes like a Super Collider. Because the whole theory of the super collider is atoms swirling into one another at millions of miles an hour, I guess. I love the concept, I love the artwork that we have for this record — it’s the Hadron Collider, and that is a remarkable machine. And if you look at the Super Collider, the thing itself — whether it does a damn bit of good or not, nobody really knows; I don’t know how it’s gonna correlate to lowering gas prices or anything like that, or getting people to stop trying to run everybody’s lives right now and the dumbing down of America… But it’s really cool if you look at how big it is. A lot of pictures on the ‘Net will show this enormous machinery and guys the size of ants next to it. And the one picture that we used for our cover was, like I said, the Hadron Collider and it’s just beautiful stuff, man. Science is really interesting. I mean, I don’t believe in evolution, I believe in creation, so science only goes so far with me, but I really dig looking at that whole way that’s set up with the tubing and the piping and the reactors and all the stuff that goes along with it. You have to see it for yourself.”
“Super Collider” is MEGADETH‘s first release since its recent split with Roadrunner Records.
Earlier tonight (Thursday, March 28), Dave Mustaine ran into country legend Willie Nelson at a restaurant in Austin, Texas, where the MEGADETH mainman has been “house hunting.” Mustaine tweeted: “Willie Nelson is in the restaurant I am eating at. I just met him! How cool is this???” A short time later, Mustaine took to Twitter again to post a photo of him talking to Willie about a possible guest appearance on the song “The Blackest Crow”, which will be featured on MEGADETH‘s new album, “Super Collider”.
In a recent interview with the “Shockwaves”/“HardRadio” podcast, Mustaine stated about “The Blackest Crow”: “The slide guitar is something that I played a long time ago when I was in PANIC and I never got a chance to use it in METALLICA, ’cause we just weren’t doing that, but I did have Southern influences, and that’s 100 percent apparent when you look at what I wrote with [the METALLICA demo song] ‘Mechanix’, and then when we changed that and it became ‘The Four Horsemen’, the part that I showed James [Hetfield] and Lars [Ulrich] was ‘Sweet Home Alabama’. ‘Cause I was a [LYNYRD] SKYNYRD fan. I mean, I wasn’t a dyed-in-the-wool, bell-bottom-wearing Southern guy, but I liked their music and I really dug the brawniness of their music. So, yeah, I do like Southern rock. One of my favorite guitar players, when he first came out, was when Zakk Wylde first came on the scene. I thought he was just like the perfect, all-around rock guitar player — the way his image was, the way he dressed, the way he played, the way he looked, the way he acted. And I guess we all kind of change and grow up and grow old and grow apart and grow tired, or this or that, and there’s always gonna be a new young gunslinger on the scene that’s gonna come in and that’s gonna make you forget your heroes. But that’s one of the things I liked about Zakk and he made such a great impression on me when he came on the scene. There’s not a lot of guitar players like him.”
“Super Collider” is scheduled for a June 4 release via Mustaine‘s new label, Tradecraft, which is distributed by Universal Music Enterprises(UMe). Mustaine sang the very last note on the album on March 13 at his Vic’s Garage studio in San Marcos, California. Horn player Bob Findley — who previously appeared on the track “Silent Scorn” from MEGADETH‘s 2001 CD, “The World Needs A Hero” — is a featured guest on the song “A House Divided” on the new album. Other tracks set to appear on the effort include “Super Collider”, “Forget To Remember”, “Dance In The Rain”, “Burn” and “King Maker”.
“Super Collider” is MEGADETH‘s first release since its recent split with Roadrunner Records.
With the recent acquisition of EMI, UMe now brings together MEGADETH‘s classic, 14-year, seven-album Capitol catalog, which includes one multi-platinum release (’92’s “Countdown To Extinction”), four platinum records (’86’s “Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?” ; ’88’s “So Far, So Good… So What?”; ’90’s “Rust in Peace”; ’94’s “Youthanasia”), and one gold (’97’s “Cryptic Writings”). In all, the band has scored five U.S. Top 10 albums (including 2007’s “United Abominations” and 2009’s “Endgame”) and two Top 5 releases, with 2011’s “TH1RT3EN” debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart.
The tenth in a series of video clips featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the recording sessions for the new MEGADETH album, “Super Collider”, can be seen below.
“Super Collider” is scheduled for a June release via MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine‘s new label, Tradecraft, which is distributed by Universal Music Enterprises(UMe). Mustaine sang the very last note on the album on March 13 at his Vic’s Garage studio in San Marcos, California. Horn player Bob Findley — who previously appeared on the track “Silent Scorn” from MEGADETH‘s 2001 CD, “The World Needs A Hero” — is a featured guest on the song “A House Divided” on the new album.
“Super Collider” is MEGADETH‘s first release since its recent split with Roadrunner Records.
With the recent acquisition of EMI, UMe now brings together MEGADETH‘s classic, 14-year, seven-album Capitol catalog, which includes one multi-platinum release (’92’s “Countdown To Extinction”), four platinum records (’86’s “Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?” ; ’88’s “So Far, So Good… So What?”; ’90’s “Rust in Peace”; ’94’s “Youthanasia”), and one gold (’97’s “Cryptic Writings”). In all, the band has scored five U.S. Top 10 albums (including 2007’s “United Abominations” and 2009’s “Endgame”) and two Top 5 releases, with 2011’s “TH1RT3EN” debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart.
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