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08.26.2008

TELL ME VISITOR, DO YOU LIKE LISTS?

Imagine my surprise when I came across VH1's 100 Greatest Rock Songs viewer poll. Right there smack in the middle are Megadeth's "Peace Sells" and Nickelback's "How You Remind Me."

Now, you know what kind of a fan you are and of whom, so run along over there and show either (or both!) the love plus your other 8 selections for the top 10.

If you feel like letting us know your pics in comments, enter your top 10 below once you're done. We like to watch y'all argue.

Tags: Megadeth, Nickelback, 100 greatest rock songs, Chad Kroeger, Dave Mustaine, top ten, vh1
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1. HELLCIUS SAID...

I WILL TELL 100 GREATEST METAL SONGS EVER!!!!!

1 - SLAYER - RAINNING BLOOD
2 - CARCASS - HEARTWORK
3 - OBITUARY - DONT CARE
4 - ROTTING CHRIST - LUCIFER OVER LONDON
5 - CRADLE OF FILTH - CRUELTY AND THE BEAST
666 - DEVILDRIVER - DIE AND DIE NOW
7 - ARCH ENEMY - RAVENOUS
8 - CADAVERIA - SPELL
9 - OTEP - BLOOD PIG
10 - CANNIBAL CORPSE - PIT OF ZOMBIES
11 - DIMMU BORGIR - MORNING PALACE
12 - BEHEMOTH - SLAVES SHALL SERVE
13 - SEPULTURA - ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS
14 - SLIPKNOT - HERETIC ANTHEM
15 - MARILYN MANSON - BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
16 - HYPOCRISY - ROSWELL 47
17 - MARDUK - WOLVES
18 - AMON AMARTH - PORSUIT OF VIKINGS
19 - SINISTER - LEVIATHAN
20 - NILE - SACRIFICE UNTO SEBEK

AND FUCKING MOORE!!!!

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2. DUFF SAID...

That's pretty metal.

August 27, 7:30 PM

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3. MIKE SAID...

My top 10:

#1.Metallica-Master Of Puppets
#2.Sepultura-Dead Embryonic cells
#3.Megadeth-Peace Sells
#4.AC/DC-Back In Black
#5.Fates Warning-The Gaurdian
#6.Black Sabbath-Heaven And Hell
#7.Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
#8.Tool-Aenima
#9.Slayer-South of Heaven
#10.Iron Maiden-Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

And many, many more!

August 28, 12:23 PM

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07.16.2008

GHOSTS, DRUMMERS, AND THE FIRST SLIPKNOT ALBUM

Some guy wrote in to our website email account the other day promoting his book about the paranormal and I almost lost it. No, actually I did lose it. Check out my response to him and more in the new Mail Bag. I also help an out-of-work guitarist find a job.

Another person was quite worried that perhaps Roadrunner founder Cees Wessels was no more, but Amy set that guy straight in Ask Amy. Of course there are the usual raft of proposals (sexual, romantic, and both), dumb questions, and smart questions as well.

New Slipknot artwork and a bunch of other band photos and images have been uploaded to the Fan Art section.

Mike Patton for President! Okay, Mike Patton's not on the list, but put forth your Roadrunner candidate for president in this week's poll.

The Forum this week asks: What's your favorite metal site?

And finally don't forget that we're running Tyler Connolly from Theory of a Deadman's advice column, Tell Tyler, in our Ask the Artist section. Read about bad girlfriends now.

Tags: DevilDriver, Dream Theater, Machine Head, Megadeth, Slipknot, Type O Negative, ask amy, bad girlfriend, fan art, in the pit, mail bag, metal sites, poll
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06.24.2008

KISS ME I'M IN WICKED LESTER

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The Great KISS Debate. On episode 3 of the Shockwaves Skull Sessions host Bob Nalbandian is joined once again by head of A&R at Roadrunner Records, Monte Conner and new 3rd party guest and guitarist extraordinaire, Marty Friedman. The three discuss the extensive career of this revolutionary rock band and examine the band's entire musical catalog. This exclusive 3-way conversation was recorded in May 2008.

MARTY FRIEDMAN:
Marty Friedman and Bob Nalbandian Marty Friedman began his musical career with the underground Hawaii based band Vixen, later reforming and renaming the band Hawaii. Soon after Marty joined forces with Jason Becker to form the unrivaled dual guitar unit Cacophony. After Cacophony and the release of his debut solo record "Dragon's Kiss," Marty joined MEGADETH in 1990 as the new lead guitarist. Racking up sales of over 10 million records with Megadeth, Friedman continued to record solo records, often embarking on adventurous musical forays far removed from his work with Megadeth, including an album with Golden Globe winner Kitaro.

Marty has since left the legendary Megadeth to pursue new musical goals and has succeeded tremendously. Friedman's many accomplishments make him currently the only musician to be a fixture in the top class of the Japanese domestic as well as international music scene.

His music performance on national TV with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra,and charting high with his own music and with Japan's top artists, has spurred Friedman into new celebrity territory.

Now residing in Tokyo, Friedman has become a television celebrity appearing as a regular on 5 major networks, he can be seen on mainstream hit TV programs almost every day in Japan.

Marty is currently in the studio writing and recording the theme song to the upcoming movie, "Twilight Syndrome". This coupled with two more new songs will be released as a single in fall '08.Marty will also appear with Gene Simmons in the upcoming Japanese motion picture, Detroit Metal City. They have a live performance scene together along with Jeremy Colson on drums. The movie is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2008.

Marty also recently wrote a book entitled Ii-Jyan J-Pop! (Awesome J-Pop!) which is currently #38 in the overall sales ranking at amazon.jp.

Marty`s latest album, Future Addict was released in Japan by Avex on March 12!

A brand new official Japanese fan page is open now to commemorate the release of Future Addict. Check it out at: www.martyfan.com.

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06.17.2008

GUITAR CENTER - SESSIONS WITH DAVE MUSTAINE!

GC Sessions with Dave Mustaine!

On July 10th in Hollywood, California, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine will be paying the Guitar Center store a visit for a very special installment of "GC Sessions". Stay tuned for additional details!

Guitar Center Hollywood
7425 Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood, California 90046

Phone: 323-874-1060

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1. ALBERTO SAID...

yeah!!! that man is a real musician he fucking rules!!!...by the way thanks RR.for sending me a chance to download the new album song all hope is gone by slipknot!!! i like it.

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2. JASON DUPUIS SAID...

Dave you are one of the greatest guitar players of all time keep rockin

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3. UGO SAID...

how is Dave's ego going to fit through the doors?

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06.04.2008

METAL EDGE TV POSTS GIGANTOUR INTERVIEWS

Gigantour 2008 finished up in Long Beach California and Full Metal Jackie from Metal Edge TV was there to get a wrap-up from all the bands on the bill. Check out the below interviews with metal extraordinaires Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, Dez Fafara and Jeff Kendrick of DevilDriver, and Adam Dutkiewicz & Mike D'Antonio of Killswitch Engage.

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Less than a minute into United Abominations opening track, "Sleepwalker," Dave Mustaine and Megadeth make their intentions clear: to deliver nothing less than a jarring, shocking and absolutely awe-inspiring rude awakening to the heavy metal community.

A classically tinged intro that instantly recognizable, nerve-rattling, gut-wrenching chug-chug that unmistakable, sneering wail and then BAM: Wake Up, Heavy Metal Masses!

Wake Up, Dead! Megadeth is back to spark your mind and stir your soul with a shot of adrenaline that forces you to react.

United Abominations possesses an arsenal of weapons sharpened and honed like no heavy metal album before it. The venomous raw aggression of Killing is My Business...And Business is Good!, the political bite and bile of Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?, the haunting darkness of So Far, So Good...So What!, the razor-blade mega-riffing of Rust in Peace, the sheer song-craft of Countdown to Extinction and the personal-demon-exorcism of Youthanasia and Cryptic Writings all coalesce into a career landmark album.

"It's kind of a defibrillator for the metal community," Mustaine says with his trademark grin. "Somebody's got to step up to the plate, play solos again, and play heavy rhythms that are actually recorded live in the studio -- because it ain't the same six seconds pasted 300 times. Somebody had to do it again."

And who better than one of the men who invented the style? A genre born of the marriage of AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and punk rock whose influence continues to dominate. Writing in the New York Times of a recent Megadeth concert, Ben Ratliff noted, "Mr. Mustaine was one of speed-metal's originators, and his double-time riffs are propulsive bending over his guitar, long blond tresses hanging down, he gives his solos the direct feeling of wrestling with the music as he plays it, with some chaos and aggression" (9/30/06).

Mustaine's fingerprints are all over a particular style of attacking the guitar, of opening your mouth to speak the truth that's on your mind regardless of consequence, of forging ahead and overcoming obstacles. This is a man that people who have felt the sting of rejection and the sorrow of failure have rallied behind for decades.

After a brief experimentation with more commercial leaning material on the aptly titled Risk, Mustaine began a steady climb to reclaim his crown with The World Needs a Hero and the critically hailed tour-de-force that was 2004's The System Has Failed. What began as a solo project concluded as the answer to every true Mega-fan's prayers. As Revolver hailed, "The System Has Failed is Megadeth's most vengeful, poignant and musically complex offering since 1992's Countdown to Extinction...it's clear that are not just back, they're paranoid, pissed and motivated to destroy" (September 2004).

And now United Abominations, with the Drover brothers (guitarist Glen and drummer Shawn) and bassist James LoMenzo delivering top-notch performances, Megadeth has reached a new peak.

"It's really invigorating to go back to playing thrash and speed metal," enthuses Mustaine. "I started playing this type of music because I loved the way it made me feel. When I started the turnaround with The World Needs a Hero and The System Has Failed, it was obvious this was going to be where the buck stops."

With worldwide sales close to twenty million, a website that was arguably the first true rock 'n' roll destination on the Internet and several releases universally considered to be among the best metal records of all time and his acclaimed cross-country Gigantour festival tour that he created and headlined in 2005 and 2006. Mustaine is a true legend. He conceived a band that would become the most technically proficient of the "Big Four" of thrash on a cross-country bus trip fueled by a desire to stake his claim. That band continues to innovate and inspire all over United Abominations songs like "Pray for Blood" and "You're Dead."

Rap-rock is dead. Nu-metal is gone. And after the people get their hands on United Abominations, all of the over-processed, computer sounding garbage clogging heavy metal's arteries is about to go extinct.

United Abominations benefits tremendously from the true-to-life performances (blisters and all) captured in several recording sessions with long-time Megadeth cohort Jeff Balding and legendary metal-maven Andy Sneap.

"We were in the studio and Glen had put his rhythms down on 'Sleepwalker.' And Andy said to me, 'You know you don't really need to put your rhythm down there,'" Mustaine recalls. "And I said, 'Oh yeah I do. My rhythm style is totally different from anybody's.' And as soon as I started playing, he goes, 'That's right! It's an old-school digging in, innit?' And I said, 'Yeah Andy. That's it.'"

Mustaine's gift for outspokenly critiquing the slow moral decay of society is stronger than ever, from the Book of Revelations-themed "Blessed are the Dead" to the sure-to-stir-conversation "Amerikhastan," a purely fictional song inspired by the Fox Network's Emmy winning series "24," featuring Keifer Sutherland.

"If you have the goods musically, you can say whatever you want, and [on this album] I basically said it," states the man who once covered the Democratic National Convention for MTV News. "I said how I feel about the United Nations. I said how I feel about the New World Order. I said how I feel about the ignorance and apathy of our fathers right now that are leading our country who are just letting everything be taken away from us."

"It's OK to practice freedom of speech, assembly, the press, religion, except when it comes to making you unpopular," Mustaine says with a particular pointedness. "When you take a stand for what's right you often become unpopular. I'm not a really popular guy. I may be semi-famous but I'm really more infamous than famous."

With United Abominations, it's clear Megadeth have arrived at their finest hour, as illustrated by the near-deafening rattle of the guitar-tones, the overt blunt force of the lyrics, the complex yet catchy mechanics of the song-writing.

"I know there are some people who are prejudiced against this type of music," Mustaine says. "But I'm ready to get out there and see what the response is going to be like from the public.

"I can say that I have absolutely made my best Megadeth record, ever."

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Release Date: 05.15.2007

United Abominations

Thrash superstars Megadeth bring the speed and power to the forefront for their first Roadrunner Records release, United Abominations. From a reworked classic ("À Tout Le Monde"), to amazing new songs, you'll be floored.

Tracks:

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. À Tout Le Monde
9. Amerikhastan
10. You're Dead
11. Burnt Ice

Format: CD
Release Date: 04.17.2007

A Tout Le Monde [Digital Single]

The second single from Megadeth's May release, United Abominations, features Dave Mustaine in a powerful duet with Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia.

Tracks:

1. A Tout Le Monde

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Washington is Next!

The first single from United Abominations - listen once and you'll know why radio can't get enough of this modern Mega-classic.

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Gears of War [Demo]

Megadeth's back and they're waging war on the musical landscape. Inspired by the hit video game of the same name, "Gears of War" impacts like a ten-ton bomb and this demos is but a taste of the final version you'll hear on United Abominations - in stores now.

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Never Walk Alone

Megadeth's post apocalyptic "Never Walk Alone" is the second video from their latest album United Abominations.

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Dave Mustaine of Megadeth offers his thoughts and ruminations on various matters submitted by U.S. fans (and some staffers). It's Dave at his Davest!

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A Tout Le Monde [Feat. Cristina Scabbia]

Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil joins Megadeth in the post-Apocalypse landscape for this brand new version of a Mega-classic.

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