Megadeth - vierte neue Single "Puppet Parade"
Megadeth veröffentlichen mit "Puppet Parade" vierten Song aus ihrem Abschiedsalbum:
MEGADETH – "Puppet Parade"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj9OK_n6rpw
Neues Album:
23.01. MEGADETH – "Megadeth" (BLKIIBLK/OPEN)
Pressestimmen:
Legacy 13/15, soundcheck #1 (Coverstory): "Die US-Amerikaner haben es geschafft, auf ihrem Schwanengesang irgendwie von allen Bandphasen etwas zu offerieren. All dies ist selbstverständlich in ein zeitgemäßes klangliches Gewand eingepackt….Insgesamt also ein äußerst würdiger Abschied von der großen Bühne für eine Formation, welche die Gemüter zeit ihres Bestehens einerseits oft spaltete, der man andererseits jedoch eine Vorreiterrolle, Originalität sowie Qualität in Sachen Songwriting als auch musikalischer Darbietung niemals wird absprechen können."
Rock Hard 9/10, soundcheck #3/47 (Coverstory): "…bei fast allen Songs eine große Eingängigkeit, die an die glorreiche Phase Anfang bis Mitte der Neunziger erinnert. … Dabei wird Abwechslung großgeschrieben….Schön, dass MEGADETH sich mit diesem starken Album würdig verabschieden!"
Metal Hammer 5.5/7, soundcheck #3/30 (Coverstory): "Und, ehrlich: Wer bei den letzten Sekunden des Schluss-Songs ‘The Last Note’, „I came, I ruled, now I disappear“ keine Träne verdrückt, versteht nicht, was wir hier gerade verlieren: einen Querkopf, einen Quengler, einen begnadeten Gitarristen. Am Ende bleiben vier Worte: Danke für die Musik!"
Rock It 9/10: "Überhaupt spielt die Band angesichts ihres Studio-Finales ungemein befreit auf. …Megadeth in dieser musikalischen Höchstform mag man tatsächlich schwerlich missen! Auf dem Höhepunkt mit einem fantastischen Knall abzutreten ist allerdings auch eine Option, die viele sich nicht zu ziehen trauen."
Darkstars.de 9/10: "10 furiose neue Tracks mit typischen Riffing, atemberaubenden Gitarrensolis und Melodien sowie dem irgendwie immer leicht angepisst wirkenden Gesang knallen allesamt ohne jeden Aussetzer aus den Boxen."
Deaf Forever 8.5/10: ""Megadeth" vereint alles, was diese Band jemals ausgemacht hat und bietet vom knallharten, ausgeklügelten Thrash-Hit, wie 'Tipping Point, 'Let There Be Shred" und I Don't Care', bis zum hochmelodischen Stadionschunkler 'Hey God' die gesamte Palette, gekrönt von Mustaines bester Gesangs-Performance seit Langem und gottgleichen Gitarren von Teemu Mäntysaari."
Rocks 8/10: "…sehr viel sortierter und effektiver, als es Megadeth auf dem etwas überladenen Vorgänger The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead! (2022) andeuteten. …Man lässt sie nur ungern ziehen."
Classic Rock 8/10: "Thrash, geschmackssichere Riffs und Soli sowie starke Melodien. …Nach diesem gelungenen Album fällt es umso schwerer, sie in den Ruhestand zu verabschieden."
MUSTAINE revealed in a social post directly shared with his worldwide fanbase and Cyber Army that the forthcoming album will mark the final studio album from MEGADETH, who’ve sold over 50 million records worldwide and received a GRAMMY® Award (with 12 additional nominations).
MEGADETH – Live
02.06.2026 Hannover, Heinz von Heiden Arena
07.06.2026 Gelsenkirchen, Amphitheater
MEGADETH are always and forever the point of no return for metal. It would be nearly impossible to conceive where heavy music and culture would’ve gone without the band founded, fronted, and fueled by vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer Dave Mustaine. The blast radius of their impact has only magnified since 1983. Thus far, they have sold 50 million records worldwide, received a GRAMMY® Award (with 12 additional nominations), generated billions of streams, notched seven Top 10 entries on the Billboard 200, and enthralled millions of diehard fans in arenas and stadiums across the globe. Their catalog spans indisputable classics such as the platinum Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? (cited at #8 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time”), the platinum Rust In Peace, and double-platinum Countdown To Extinction, which captured #2 on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, Dystopia notched a Top 3 debut and earned a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” with its title track. They only upped the ferocity with The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! in 2022. It saw them return to #3, receive a “Best Metal Performance” GRAMMY® Award nomination for “We’ll Be Back,” and incite rave reviews. Their influence can be felt practically everywhere—whether it be Post Malone proudly sporting a tattoo of “So Far, So Good… So What!,” Homer Simpson’s iPod displaying their moniker during an episode, or Showtime’s smash hit series Billions and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey utilizing MEGADETH in plot points. The band have delivered simultaneously relevant and timeless records in five decades now, setting the pace for the thrash renaissance of the eighties, tearing through the MTV years of the nineties with swagger and style, maintaining their stride in the post-Y2K 2000s, elevating to canonical heights in the social media and streaming era of the 2010s, and unassumingly harnessing the uncertainty and unease of the Post-Pandemic world into their boldest, biggest, and best work yet.
Along the way, MEGADETH extended their influence even further. During 2016, the band entered the spirits world with their very first signature beer À Tout Le Monde followed by Saison 13 in 2019. The brand asserted itself as a player in the beverage space and impressively moved over 15 million pints. Joining forces with Keystone in 2025, they ignite the next phase of Megadeth Beer on the biggest global platform yet.
Beyond his role as a music icon, Dave founded the visionary wine brand HOUSE OF MUSTAINE which uniquely blends music, culture, and fine winemaking. The brand launched with the 2013 Symphony Interrupted Cabernet Sauvignon which was inspired by Dave Mustaine’s groundbreaking collaboration with the San Diego Symphony.
The documentary:
Megadeth and Trafalgar Releasing present Megadeth: "Behind the Mask" – a worldwide cinematic event documenting the band's 40-year career in over 1,000 cinemas worldwide. This "first listen" cinema event takes place from January 22nd to 24th, coinciding with the release of Megadeth's self-titled album, their latest studio album.
The videos:
MEGADETH – "Let There Be Shred!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IL67t825cA
“On the day I was born, a guitar in my hands - The heavens rumbled a thunderous command” --"Let There Be Shred!" “When Megadeth started we said we would be fast and furious…we said so on the flyers we handed out,” DAVE MUSTAINE says. “This song is fast and furious. Know it! It has a very hooky chorus that draws you in and you can't help but play air guitar and headbang to this one. “It’s the second video from the new record that we made with Keith [Leman], who also directed ‘I Don’t Care.’ It was a blast to make and it’s a tribute to my first Sensei, Benny ‘The Jet’ Urquidez and my Professor, Reggie Almieda. Everyone on the set was really stoked to see each of us do our stunts. In the end, we got the balance of shredding and ass kicking just right!”
MEGADETH – "I Don't Care"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4O5VlRYOY
MEGADETH leader DAVE MUSTAINE says about the anthemic “I Don’t Care”: “How many times have you wanted to say this to someone? I know you want to! Deep down inside, if we had the balls, we would tell more people, ‘I don’t care’ more often.” Musically, MUSTAINE explains, “Part of the main riff in this track had been floating around in my head since we did TSTD&TD, so I was pumped to start recording ‘I Don’t Care’ for this LP. I really love the guitar nuances in the track. There is the main rhythm riff, next, a very deliberate down-picking part, next, the octave chords with jump picking on octave notes (while still down-picking!). And the soloing and back and forth between me and Teemu [Mäntysaari] is magnificent!!”
MEGADETH – "Tipping Point"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECXg-a7XZQI
“We all have different ‘tipping points’ and they may vary from day to day,” says MUSTAINE. “I think we’re all being pushed to the edge right now, and it’s easy to lean into that feeling. But it’s important not to let things get you down.”
Track listing:
Tipping Point
I Don’t Care
Hey, God?!
Let There Be Shred
Puppet Parade
Another Bad Day
Made To Kill
Obey The Call
I Am War
The Last Note
Ride The Lightning (Bonus Track)
“As I come full circle on the career of a lifetime, the decision to include ‘Ride The Lightning,’ a song I co-wrote with James, Lars, and Cliff, was to pay my respects to where my career first started,” MUSTAINE says.
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