MEGADETH - Boxed Set Details

MEGADETH - Full Warchest Boxed Set Details Revealed

MEGADETH’s Dave Mustaine and Capitol/EMI have collaborated to create and deploy the ultimate Megadeth boxed set: Warchest. The 4-CD+DVD collection features more than six hours of digitally remastered content, hand-selected by Mustaine, including 30 audio and video tracks making their global release debuts, and an additional three tracks that have never before been released in the US. Warchest’s October 2nd release caps Mustaine and Capitol/EMI’s in-depth Megadeth catalog remastering and restoration campaign, which has encompassed the band’s Capitol studio albums, while also adding new audio and video collections to the band’s arsenal.

Armed with digitally remastered career-defining album cuts, soundtrack and compilation sides, unreleased live and studio performances and interview clips spanning more than 20 years, Warchest is the ultimate Megadeth compendium. Included in the trove are a full 75-minute live set from a night on the 1990 Clash Of The Titans tour and a DVD of highlights from a 1992 stop supporting Countdown - two historical shows, both making their release debuts on Warchest. The set’s custom “vac-u-form” packaging showcases a 3-D ammo belt on its front and a 36-page booklet with an essay by Ian Christe and a comprehensive discography, complemented by an array of photos and images.

Dave Mustaine says, “This is, by far, the best and most comprehensive look at all-things-Mega if you had to get a crash-course in metal! With some of the most famous, and infamous, shows and any of the fluid, or flammable, line-ups, listening to this box set when it was all done was an adrenalin surge. I have got to hand it to my past band mates, they played great for how turbulent times could get in the blink of an eye, and I absolutely love every moment of this collection.”
Megadeth was formed in 1983, shortly after California native Mustaine parted ways with METALLICA. “When I first started the group, I wanted to form a band because I was very bitter about being fired (from Metallica) and my fuel was revenge,” said the bracingly candid musician. With something to prove, Mustaine initially set out to create the heaviest metal band ever. Beginning with the band’s 1985 debut album, Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good!, and evolving through a shifting series of lineups, Megadeth crafted a dynamic, intelligent style that combined the aggressiveness of thrash metal, the improvisational nature of jazz, and cynical, articulate, politically-charged lyrics into an innovative mix that built a rabid worldwide following.

Several early albums, including 1986’s classic Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? and the masterful 1990 release, Rust In Peace, solidified the band’s underground metal fanbase. In 1992, Megadeth burst into the mainstream with their fifth album, Countdown To Extinction, which debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart and went on to sell more than two million copies in the U.S. alone. 1994’s Youthanasia followed with a #4 debut, while 1997’s Cryptic Writings yielded four Top 20 hits at rock radio, including 'Trust' and 'Almost Honest'.

By the time of 1999’s Risk, however, which featured a pop slant unheard on previous Megadeth recordings, Mustaine himself began to grow disillusioned with the band’s direction and the music industry. 2001 saw a return to the band’s heavier roots on The World Needs A Hero, but a year later, a compressed nerve in Mustaine’s arm forced the singer and guitarist to put his career and Megadeth on hiatus, while reassessing both.

Part of that reassessment involved Megadeth’s Capitol Records catalog, which began with the band’s second album, Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? “I always had the desire to make So Far, So Good… So What! (1988) sound good ever since it came out, because I wasn’t really happy with it,” says Mustaine. “I just wanted all of them to sound good.” Mustaine spent months remixing, remastering, restoring - and in some cases, reconstructing - the band’s Capitol catalog to bring it as close to his original vision as possible. Each reissue was packed with unreleased tracks, demos and alternate mixes, as well as new liner notes by the iconoclastic Mustaine.

Megadeth’s tenth studio album, 2004’s The System Has Failed, debuted at #18 on Billboard’s Top 200, and the band’s sold-out Blackmail The Universe tour followed, supporting the new album and Capitol’s extensive catalog campaign. Dave Mustaine’s Gigantour, inspired in name by the classic 1960s cartoon Gigantor, took Megadeth and a host of other bands selected by Mustaine across North America and in 2005 and 2006. The prophecy continues with the band’s new critically acclaimed album, United Abominations. Megadeth will invade cities across the US this fall on the band’s United Abominations Tour Of Duty.

For the majority of three decades, Megadeth has yanked heavy metal into the future - musically, lyrically, and culturally - and worked the raw soil into something desirable and dangerous. With defiance and grace, through unusual quality and intelligence, Megadeth has raised a generation on a diet of truth serum and bitter pills. Instead of being kicked to the curb for their insolence, they’ve been rewarded with seven Grammy nominations and five platinum and multi-platinum albums. Just shield your eyes, open the Warchest, and count the notches on Megadeth’s bullet belts.

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Warchest tracklisting:

CD1 -
'Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good!',
'The Skull Beneath The Skin',
'Peace Sells',
'Wake Up Dead',
'Devils Island',
'Set The World Afire',
'Into The Lungs Of Hell',
'Anarchy/Problems' [session take] *
'Hook In Mouth',
'Liar',
'In My Darkest Hour',
'No More Mr. Nice Guy',
'“dark themes…”' *
'Holy Wars…The Punishment Due' [Casey McMackin demo] *
'Tornado Of Souls' [demo] *
'Five Magics' [demo] *
'Hangar 18'.

CD2 -
'“keeping score…”' *
'Symphony Of Destruction',
'Go To Hell',
'Foreclosure Of A Dream',
'Architecture Of Aggression' [demo] ^
'Skin O’ My Teeth' [live at Alpine Valley East Troy, WI 5/23/92],
'High Speed Dirt' [live at Alpine Valley,East troy WI 5/23/92],
'Ashes In Your Mouth' [live at the Cow Palace, S.F., CA 12/4/92], 'Sweating Bullets' [live at the Cow Palace, S.F., CA 12/4/92], 'Breakpoint' [session take] *
'Angry Again',
'Train Of Consequences',
'Reckoning Day',
'New World Order',
'The Killing Road',
'Strange Ways',
'Paranoid',
'Diadems',
'A Tout Le Monde'.

CD3 -
'Trust',
'Almost Honest',
'Use The Man',
'She-Wolf',
'A Secret Place' [live at Woodstock, NY 7/25/99],
'One Thing' ^
'Duke Nukem',
'Insomnia',
'Crush ‘Em',
'Kill The King',
'Dread And The Fugitive Mind',
'Never Say Die',
'Moto Psycho',
'1000 Times Goodbye',
'Coming Home' ^
'Kick The Chair',
'Of Mice And Men'.

CD4 (all tracks recorded live at Wembley Stadium, London, England 10/16/90)
- I'ntro/Rattlehead'
'Wake Up Dead' *
'Hangar 18' *
'Hook In Mouth' *
'The Skull Beneath The Skin' *
'The Conjuring' *
'In My Darkest Hour' *
'Lucretia' *
'Devils Island' *
'Take No Prisoners' *
'Peace Sells' *
'Black Friday' *
'Holy Wars…The Punishment Due' *
'It’s Electric' *
'Anarchy In The U.K.' *
DVD (all tracks recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England 9/30/92)
- 'Intro/Holy Wars…The Punishment Due' *
'Wake Up Dead' *
'Hangar 18' *
'Lucretia' *
'Sweating Bullets'*
'In My Darkest Hour' *
'Tornado Of Souls' *
'Ashes In Your Mouth' *
'Peace Sells' *
'Anarchy In The U.K.' *

* previously unreleased
^ previously unreleased in the U.S.

Recording Personnel
Dave Mustaine - vocals, lead & rhythm guitars (1983-present)
Glen Drover - guitars & bkg vocals (2005-present)
Al Pitrelli - lead & rhythm guitars (2000-2002)
Marty Friedman - lead & rhythm guitars (1990-1999)
Jeff Young - lead & rhythm guitars (1988)
Chris Poland - lead & rhythm guitars (1984-1987, 2004)
James Lorenzo - bass guitar & bkg vocals (2006-present)
James MacDonough - bass guitar (2004-2006)
Jimmie Lee Sloas - bass guitar (2004)
David Ellefson - bass guitar & bkg vocals (1983-2002)
Shawn Drover - drums & bkg vocals (2005-present)
Vinnie Colaiuta - drums (2004)
Jimmy DeGrasso - drums (1998-2002)
Nick Menza - drums & bkg vocals (1989-1998)
Chuck Behler - drums (1988)
Gar Samuelson - drums (1984-1987)

MEGADETH Mainman To Complete Gigantour 2006 DVD Next Week



MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has issued the following update:

"Droogies!

This last week has been a lot of driving up and down the coast and I have so many things that are going on and so many things that are coming up I feel like I am going pull a “Scanners” if I keep it all in.

So, you all know about the US run with IN THIS MOMENT and THE CONFESSION. We have 24 shows in the states before we go to the Pac Rim. The promoters and the agents are all happy about this package, and while I met and heard ITM, I have yet to meet the guys from TC. They came about being on this tour from a recommendation of a long time friend and I look forward to seeing what they are like on the road and what y’all think of them.

We have know announced the date in South Korea, and that is the last date that is going to be added to the existing dates for the Pac Rim this time around. We look forward to making it into Singapore, Malaysia, and India on the tour for this record, so to our Droogies in these far away beautiful places, we are working very hard on coming to your country (hell, we would be going back to Malaysia for our second time if there wasn’t a ban on Megadeth from being indirectly and innocently, I might add, involved in a satanic rite in Kuala Lumpur. Someone allegedly spray painted Megadeth on the wall at the site of a ceremony of the occult and we were subsequently banned. We were not even there.

The video shoot last week was great, albeit scorching hot inside of the studio. It reminded me of shooting 'Holy Wars'. It was great to see Glen (Drover - guitar), James (Lomenzo - bass), and Shawn (Drover - drums) and except Shawn sharing the contents of his stomach with everyone at the shoot, it was pretty uneventful. Well, then there was that interesting make-up person, but I will leave that to the podcast to show you.

Meanwhile back at the House of Mustaine, I am working in my studio trying to find all of the snips and scraps of demo material I made last year, and all of the stuff I had saved from before to get ready to introduce some new songs to the band guys. I know that the Drover’s have a lot of stuff to demo for us when we get to our next rehearsal situation. And I have been calling James every chance I get when I hear a cool bass line and I will say, 'Make a note of the riff here, etc.,' and he is digging it.

Rehearsal starts next week up in LA and we are going to breaking in a new guitar tech for me, as we did some hirings last year that led to a lot of our team being reassembled. Some of the crew we miss; some we don’t; I will miss my tech, and I look forward to a great relationship with my new tech; like the one I had with my last tech.

Today is basically preparation for the departure and I am going to take my laptop out on the road so I can keep in touch with this podcast stuff – I really am excited and look forward to doing this with you exclusively through our MFC. I tried to do a tour without my connection to my family and friends (which many of you fall under - not all, but many!), but I couldn't do it. So there will be more updates from me on this next run because I will have my trusty Laptop.

I am going to have some video footage from the new video shoot, and from the new tour as well as some archived stuff, podcasts and video podcasts, you know, just the basic chit-chats. I also want to answer your questions too, so please state your name, and one (1) question, (if it has two parts, they will just pick someone else's question for me and I won't get to answer you. If you aren't in the MFC this all doesn't matter, so you can ignore it if you want. Anyway, I will give a shout out to you and read your question and answer it for you to the best of my ability, recollection, or willingness to concoct a wild story!

Lastly, I will be heading up to LA next week (again!) to do the final follow-up interview for G.2006.NA and finish the edits for imminent release. And this should be a great DVD, what with all of the tremendous talent we had last year. In case you forgot, we were out with greats like LAMB OF GOD, OPETH, ARCH ENEMY, and OVERKILL to name some of the bands! I can't wait to see some of the b-roll too – especially of the wild stuff that went down on this one!

I think we are going to have a lot of fun on the next G.2007 and 2008 and we get to look back at all of the great things we did right so far and remember what things we did wrong to make this one of the best hard rock and metal festivals ever.

Personal Megs stuff with my rig - I have made several adjustments to my touring and recording gear and as good as I would like to think that my sound “sometimes” is, I am certain that it is going to get even better! I have decided that I am going to continue using some of my current rig, but I am going to change (and in some cases, return to) the settings and sounds of my effects and amps, and try to get the most killer sound ever! (And don't even bother trying to tell me, 'I know some doood in the band 'burnt.baby.eyeballs' from Scandinavia has a better sounding amp than yooo!" I don't care).

I also absolutely love my Dean guitars and I can’t wait for you to try them, any of the musicians that are my friends or guests of the band or in the talent that tours with us, I extend my personal invitation to try this monster! I can’t even think about playing anything else anymore!!! And Glen and I are going to try to do some meet and greets for Dean Guitar distributors at some exclusive stores, and in some cases, Glen, Shawn, and James may even do some clinics out on tour! I still am pretty hesitant to do that, but if there was a company I would consider doing clinics for, it would be Dean.

I am going to check on my animals this morning, I just got a miniature horse for our house here (the big ones don't stay here), check out some messages from SayNow – which I love – and then just enjoy the weekend, have a couple cold ones, blast some Megadeth in my studio. I can’t wait for the chance to thrash in front of you again. We have been waiting for this “time” for a long time. Metal is back, baybee!!!

COG.2007.OZ – G.2008.NA (and soon to be an addition here, too!)"