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Megadeth debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart, dated September 17, with their new album, The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!.
According to Billboard, Megadeth notches its eighth Top 10 with the #3 debut of The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!. The set launches with nearly 48,000 equivalent album units earned.
Bay area thrash metal giants, Testament, unleashed their thirteenth studio album, Titans Of Creation, via Nuclear Blast in 2020. Today, Testament releases the Titans Of Creation Video Album via Nuclear Blast Records.
The limited-edition collectible features performance videos of all the tracks on the record.
On August 13, Bay Area thrash legends, Death Angel, performed at the 2022 edition of Belgium's Alcatraz Metal Festival. Professionally-filmed video of the band's full set can be found below.
Setlist:
"The Ultra-Violence" / "Mistress Of Pain"
"Voracious Souls"
Belgian extreme heavy metal frontrunners, Evil Invaders, performed at the Alcatraz Metal Festival 2022 in Kortrijk, Belgium on August 13th.
Evil Invaders dropped another bomb earlier this year by delivering their epic anthem and third single, "Die For Me" - the last harbinger of cutthroat energy released before the band unleashes their latest album, Shattering Reflection.
Four decades into their liver-destroying, gut-stretching, thrash rampage, there's still no stopping the Tankard beer train. Just in time for the festivities surrounding their 40th birthday, Tankard prepares to let their eighteenth album, and debut for the new label Reaper Entertainment, Pavlov's Dawgs, off the leash on September 30th. The third single from Pavlov's Dawgs, "Lockdown Forever," deals with the Coronavirus pandemic and the related isolation in lockdown in a Tankard-typical way.
On August 19th, Megadeth kicked off their Summer / Fall 2022 US tour as support for Five Finger Death Punch in Ridgefield, WA at RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater. Fan-filmed video is available below.
The setlist on the night was as follows:
"Hangar 18"
"Dread And The Fugitive Mind"...
During an interview on Detroit radio station WRIF's Meltdown program, Megadeth frontman / founder Dave Mustaine revealed the band recently recorded a Judas Priest cover for an upcoming Amazon project. Check out the interview below.
Mustaine: "We went and listened to the song and charted out the performance. Going into that kind of micromanaging of the song, we started to see a lot of things in the song where it seemed like there was no guide for the song.
On August 6th, Bay Area titans Testament performed at Razzmatazz is Barcelona, Spain. Fan-filmed video of the entire show can be veiwed below
Testament has announced they will release a Titans Of Creation Video Album on September 9 via Nuclear Blast Records. The limited-edition collectible features performance videos of all the tracks on the record.
Black metal legends, Venom, performed on the Louder Stage at the 2022 edition of Germany's Wacken Open Air festival. Professionally-filmed footage of the band performing "Black Metal" can be viewed below:
Canadian thrash metal legends, Razor, return with Cycle Of Contempt, their first new full-length album in 25 years! Cycle Of Contempt is a direct, cutthroat record that pulls no punches and takes no prisoners. Watch Razor’s lyric video for the new song, “Flames Of Hatred”, below.
“We are so psyched to finally offer this recording to our awesome and patient fanbase!