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Megadeth Issues Band Activity Update

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Megadeth front man Dave Mustaine has issued the following update about the band's upcoming activity:

"Droogies! For the last few weeks I have been telling you about a huge project coming up. Well, yesterday I submitted our work for approval and it was approved, so very soon we will be able to say 'what' this very big announcement is. Rest assured it involves a new song that I have just recently written, with more co-writing from Chris Broderick. It's another aggressive, complicated Megadeth track, and I will give you more details as soon as I can. I was looking at the top 100 albums on Amazon in the Thrash category and we have 16 records in the Top 100 on their site. What a great feeling!

"You also no doubt saw all of the tour dates coming in for 2010, which promises to be an extensive touring year. We are planning on (in no particular order - but this is close) doing the R.I.P. tour all of March with our dear friends in Exodus and Testament, which is progressing, then to South America in April, then Europe in June and early July, then Canada in late July, then the States in August with Slayer, then back to the Pacific Rim after that and HOPEFULLY Australia and New Zealand again. We are trying to make our "Pac Rim Tours" always include New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea.

"Hopefully we will soon be playing in China (and surrounding areas like Hong Kong, Taipei, and Taiwan), and also in Malaysia (of course we would need the government's permission because we have been banned from playing in Malaysia because of a Satanic ritual where someone painted Megadeth at a crime scene and the government blamed us and banned us). More to follow..."

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4 Comments on "Megadeth Issues Band Update"

DeathCrush's avatar

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1. DeathCrush writes:

thanks Mustaine for the filler announcement

# Feb 4, 2010 @ 2:02 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
Cynic's avatar

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2. Cynic writes:

I actually feel sorry for Dave... 20+ years of thrash metal, some of the best metal ever and he still feels the need to compete and win awards/accolades etc. Seems like it'll tear him apart one day.

Also, come to Christchurch NZ!

# Feb 4, 2010 @ 2:21 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. DMS writes:

Finally, he's letting other ppl. do songwriting as well. Chris is truly awesome. So it should be a decent track. I just hope they don't make it as complicated as Dialectic Chaos, man i needed a whole month of practice to play that song.

# Feb 4, 2010 @ 4:54 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
Dimeoflage's avatar

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4. Dimeoflage writes:

always good to hear from a hero of mine.

that's awesome news!!!

please come back 2 nz!!! every person i know loves Megadeth.your last gig was off the hook and i wanna see many more too come.

# Feb 5, 2010 @ 9:09 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address

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