Megadeth Dystopia MP3 | CD | Vinyl
Label: T-Boy Records/UMe
Release date: January 22, 2016
After 20 or so years of churning out several mediocre (at best) albums, Dave Mustaine and company are back with their fifteenth studio album Dystopia. There has once again been a major shakeup in the Megadeth lineup as both guitarist Chris Broderick and drummer Shawn Drover exited the band in the wake of the previous album, 2013’s abysmal Super Collider. The two musicians continue to play together in a new band known as Act of Defiance. Their replacements are former Angra guitarist Kiko Loureiro and drummer Chris Adler who is pulling double duty with both Megadeth and his own band Lamb of God.
Pioneering heavy metal band Megadeth has announced that its fifteenth studio album Dystopia will arrive on January 22, 2016. The album will be the first to feature the band’s new lineup, which includes Chris Adler (who is also in Lamb of God) on drums and former Angra guitarist Kiko Loureiro. Former members guitarist Chris Broderick and drummer Shawn Drover left the band earlier this year to form the new unit Act of Defiance.
Along with the album announcement comes the premiere of Dystopia’s first single, “Fatal Illusion,” which you can listen to here below.
Extreme metal unit Lamb of God has just announced the impending release of their seventh studio album. Coming this July, the disc will be titled VII: Sturm Und Drang, and is available now for pre-order. You can check out two advanced tracks from the album here below.
It is an album that many Lamb of God fans feared might never happen. Singer Randy Blythe was arrested, charged, and imprisoned in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2012 for his part in the death of a 19-year-old fan in 2010. The fan had jumped onstage and either jumped or was pushed back into the crowd, but the crowd failed to catch him and the fan landed headfirst on the concrete floor of the venue. He later died as the result of the injuries he sustained. Blythe spent 38 days in a Czech prison before making bail. He later returned to the country to face trial and was found to be “morally responsible but not criminally negligent” in the incident. The decision was later appealed, but upheld by a Czech high court. For a more in-depth look at the whole incident be sure to check out the riveting documentary film As the Palaces Burn.
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