NASHVILLE |DATE: MAY 23, 2007
FROM: TODD BRODGINSKI/KRISTINE ASHTON-MAGNUSON
NEW CD ‘UNITED ABOMINATIONS’ DEBUTS AT #8
SELLING OVER 54,000 COPIES;
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES SET AND
U.S. SHOWS BEING CONFIRMED FOR SEPTEMBER
MEGADETH fans made their feelings about the group’s new CD UNITED ABOMINATIONS (Roadrunner Records) known this week, buying over 54,000 copies and vaulting the esteemed metal group to #8 on Billboard magazine’s Top 200 Albums chart, their highest debut since 1994’s Youthanasia CD. The album is also #1 at metal radio.
In a website posting to his fans on the night of the album’s release, MEGADETH’S founding singer/guitarist DAVE MUSTAINE said, “I want to tell you all how much I love you and how many times I have felt like I was going to explode in anticipation just watching you hear United Abominations for the first time.” In typical MUSTAINE style, he went on to say, “Your love for Megs has fired me up to make a record I love, beyond just about anything I have ever done. I would like to say a ‘lil prayer that each one of you would know how much I love you and appreciate your support…even the assholes.”
The new CD finds MUSTAINE and the group–GLEN DROVER (guitar), SHAWN DROVER (drums) and JAMES LOMENZO (bass)–in their caustic metal glory with songs like the title track, “Amerikhastan” and the next single “Washington Is Next,” which is climbing the charts at active rock radio. The album also features “A Tout le Monde,” now a duet with Lacuna Coil singer Christina Scabbia.
In a Guitar One CD review, Chris Gill said, “Thanks to a resurgence of progressive and thrash metal featuring technically proficient guitar playing, largely brought about by a new generation of bands influenced by Megadeth, Mustaine is once again at the front of the metal movement–this time as a knowing sage instead of a cocky young upstart. This has inspired Mustaine to pursue his artistic vision with renewed vigor, the results of which are boldly on display on the latest Megadeth album, United Abominations. (May 2007).” And Paul Gargano of Livedaily.com added, “With America's war against an ever-morphing evil waging as the backdrop, Mustaine has delivered Megadeth's most musically pointed and lyrically poignant effort of the past decade. Bolstered by a band that holds its own against even the classic 'Deth daze, the band's Roadrunner Records debut (and 11th studio effort overall) is brimming with musical moments that scream vintage Megadeth, all bound together by a lyrical fusion of political rhetoric and Mustaine's wise-ass wit (5/21/07).”
United Abominations is the first new Megadeth CD since 2004’s The System Has Failed, which entered the charts at #18.
MEGADETH’s current tour dates are as follows, with U.S. dates scheduled for early September through October to be announced soon.
| Date: | City: | Venue: | ||
| Fri 6/1 | Nuremberg, Germany | Rock Im Park | ||
| Sat 6/2 | Roeselare, Belgium | Schwung Festival | ||
| Sun 6/3 | Nurburgring, Germany | Rock Am Ring | ||
| Tue 6/5 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Vega | ||
| Thu 6/7 | Tampere, Finland | Sauna Open Air Metal Festival | ||
| Fri 6/8 | Donington, UK | Download Festival | ||
| Sun 6/10 | Dublin, Ireland | Ambassador Theatre | ||
| Tue 6/12 | Glasgow, Scotland | Barrowland Ballroom | ||
| Wed 6/13 | Bristol, UK | Academy | ||
| Thu 6/14 | Folkestone, UK | Leas Cliff Hall | ||
| Sat 6/16 | London, UK | Astoria | ||
| Sun 6/17 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | Fields of Rock Festival | ||
| Tue 6/19 | Hamberg, Germany | Markthalle | ||
| Wed 6/20 | Karlsruhe, Germany | Festhalle Durlach | ||
| Fri 6/22 | Zaragoza, Spain | Monsters of Rock | ||
| Sun 6/24 | Clisson, France | Hellfest | ||
| Tue 6/26 | Rijssen, Netherlands | Club Lucky | ||
| Wed 6/27 | Zurich, Switzerland | Rohstofflager | ||
| Thu 6/28 | Vienna, Austria | Arena Wien | ||
| Sat 6/30 | Milan, Italy | Gods of Metal All | ||
| Mon 7/2 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hangar 11 | ||
Press Contacts:
MSO (818) 380-0400
Todd Brodginski ext. 239, toddb@msopr.com
Kristine Ashton-Magnuson ext. 233, kashton@msopr.com
Bari Lieberman (tour press) ext. 222, blieberman@msopr.com
Roadrunner Records (212) 274-7561
Jessica Ricci ricci@roadrunnerrecords.com
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MEGADETH FANS UNITE: NEW CD ‘UNITED ABOMINATIONS’ DEBUTS AT #8 SELLING OVER 54,000 COPIES;
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES SET AND U.S. SHOWS BEING CONFIRMED FOR SEPTEMBER
