In Stores: June 28, 2005
Megadeth and Dream Theater to Co-headline Dave Mustaine’s “GIGANTOUR;” Other Mainstage Acts Include Fear Factory, Dillinger Escape Plan and Nevermore
Hollywood, California – May 2, 2005 – As Megadeth frontman and guitarist Dave Mustaine prepares to take his GIGANTOUR festival line-up to major North American cities this summer, Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing is gearing up to unleash Megadeth’s Greatest Hits: Back To the Start in two configurations. The 17-track CD and deluxe, limited edition CD/DVD set will be released June 28, both including a package essay written by the director of The Decline of Western Civilization documentary series, Penelope Spheeris.
Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back To The Start follows Capitol/EMI’s 2004 extensive eight-album remastering campaign for the band’s catalog and the release of the band’s tenth studio album, The System Has Failed, which debuted at #18 upon its September 2004 release (Sanctuary Records). The Greatest Hits tracklist, selected by fans in a poll at the band’s official website, www.megadeth.com, packs 17 top hits and favorites on a 78-minute single disc, including “Peace Sells,” “Symphony Of Destruction,” “In My Darkest Hour,” “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due” and “Sweating Bullets.”
The limited edition CD/DVD package is expanded to add approximately 40 minutes of video content, including a new Mega-Mix music video for "Kill The King," edited from past music videos and behind the scenes footage, seven previously unreleased live performance cuts from the band's 1999 Risk tour, and a preview for the forthcoming 2-DVD set, Arsenal Of Megadeth. To be released this fall, Arsenal Of Megadeth is a new career anthology including videos, live performances, interviews and Dave Mustaine's home movies of the band on the road. Pre-orders for the two new Greatest Hits: Back To The Start packages will be taken at the band’s official website: www.megadeth.com, just as Megadeth’s remastered catalog titles were first offered last year.
Co-headlined by Megadeth and Dream Theater, with other mainstage acts Fear Factory, Dillinger Escape Plan and Nevermore, Dave Mustaine’s six-week GIGANTOUR is set to launch in late July. GIGANTOUR will criss-cross North America, with stops in amphitheatres and arenas in cities including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver and Minneapolis, among others, implementing a “fan friendly” ticket price of approximately $35. Mustaine notes, “I think people may want an affordable alternative to the choices out there, along the lines of a pure music festival, like ‘Monsters of Rock’ or ‘Clash of the Titans’.”
GIGANTOUR, whose moniker was inspired by the classic 1960s cartoon “Gigantor,” follows Megadeth’s sold-out 2004 “Blackmail The Universe” tour in support of The System Has Failed and the band’s extensive catalog reissue campaign. Bandmates Glen Drover (guitar), James MacDonough (bass) and Shawn Drover (drums) will once again join Dave Mustaine on the road.
To pre-order Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back To The Start, and for GIGANTOUR tour dates and other news, please visit www.megadeth.com.
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Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back To The Start Contacts:
EMI Music Catalog Marketing – Publicity:
Jennifer Ballantyne – (323) 871-5494 Rebecca Barkin – (323) 871-5487
jennifer.ballantyne@emicap.com rebecca.barkin@emicap.com
GIGANTOUR Contacts:
MSO - (818) 380-0400
Kristine Ashton-Magnuson – kashton@msopr.com / ext. 233
Todd Brodginsky – toddb@mso.com / ext. 239
Mitch Schneider – mschneider@msopr.com / ext. 235
MEGADETH: GREATEST HITS (CD)
1. Holy Wars…The Punishment Due
2. In My Darkest Hour
3. Peace Sells
4. Sweating Bullets
5. Angry Again
6. A Tout Le Monde
7. Trust
8. Kill The King
9. Symphony Of Destruction
10. Mechanix (2002 Remix)
11. Train Of Consequences
12. Wake Up Dead
13. Hangar 18
14. Dread And The Fugitive Mind
15. Skin O' My Teeth
16. She-Wolf
17. Prince Of Darkness
(TRT: 78:15)
1. “Kill The King” Mega-Mix video (New video, compiled from clips from Megadeth’s top music videos)
2. 'Megadeth Live' intro screen / Prince Of Darkness
3. Holy Wars…The Punishment Due
4. In My Darkest Hour
5. Hangar 18
6. Sweating Bullets
7. Symphony Of Destruction
8. Peace Sells
9. Preview for Arsenal Of Megadeth (forthcoming 2-DVD Megadeth release)
Megadeth catalog titles remastered and reissued June 29, 2004 by Capitol/EMI:
(more than 300,000 shipped to date)
Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? September 19, 1986
So Far So Good So What January 13, 1988
Rust In Peace September 24, 1990
Countdown To Extinction July 6, 1992
Youthanasia November 1, 1994
The Craving (MD.45, with Lee Ving) January 1, 1996
Cryptic Writings July 17, 1997
Risk August 31, 1999
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