MEGADETH are always and forever the point of no return for metal. It would be nearly impossible to conceive where heavy music and culture would’ve gone without the band founded, fronted, and fueled by vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer Dave Mustaine. The blast radius of their impact has only magnified since 1983. Thus far, they have sold 50 million records worldwide, received a GRAMMY® Award (with 12 additional nominations), generated billions of streams, notched seven Top 10 entries on the Billboard 200, and enthralled millions of diehard fans in arenas and stadiums across the globe. Their influence can be felt practically everywhere—whether it be Post Malone proudly sporting a tattoo of “So Far, So Good… So What!,” Homer Simpson’s iPod displaying their moniker during an episode, or Showtime’s smash hit series Billions and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey utilizing MEGADETH in plot points, among a myriad of other moments. The band have delivered simultaneously relevant and timeless records in five decades now, setting the pace for the thrash renaissance of the eighties, tearing through the MTV years of the nineties with swagger and style, maintaining their stride in the post-Y2K 2000s, elevating to canonical heights in the social media and streaming era of the 2010s, and unassumingly harnessing the uncertainty and unease of the Post-Pandemic world into their boldest, biggest, and best work yet. After all of this, MEGADETH sound as alive as ever on their 17th full-length offering, MEGADETH [Frontiers Label Group/BLKIIBLK/Tradecraft], in 2025. Flaunting fleet-fingered fretwork at breakneck speeds, they expertly weave a web of elite metal riffery, unpredictable stadium-shaking rhythms, eloquently executed guitar solos, and simultaneously spiteful and philosophical lyrical musings soaked in rancor and reflection. The band—Dave, Teemu Mäntysaari [guitar], James LoMenzo [bass], and Dirk Verbeuren [drums]–are still challenging convention and cap
