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Metal Martyr

September 30th, 2008

Megadeth Announce Tour With Judas Priest And Testament…In The UK.

Damn, to be stuck in America with no fat wads of money to blow when things like this come around. Megadeth announce today that they will be touring with Judas Priest on Priest Feast with Testament opening in february. For real…why can’t we get more of that in the U.S.. I know we just had […]

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September 26th, 2008

Set The World Afire: Megadeth Anthology

I know I covered this once awhile ago, but sometimes things get forgotten about and I received this press today about it again. I didn’t realize it was coming out so soon.
Following the successful release of the coveted Warchest box set, Megadeth is back with the career-spanning 2-CD and digital collection Anthology: Set The […]

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September 23rd, 2008

BWBK Catches Up With F5’s Dave Ellefson

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles writer Carl Begai caught up with Dave Ellefson of F5 recently to talk about the bands debut release A Drug For All Seasons from 2003 and their most current release The Reckoning:
Having made a name for himself as a founding member of Megadeth, and having played on what is […]

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September 19th, 2008

Metal Martyr Video Blast Zone

Welcome to the first Metal Martyr Video Blast Zone (yeah, I know it’s kind of cheezy, but I had to call it something). I’ve got 10 videos lined up. Some old, some older and some fairly new. I’m going to try to have a theme for these video blocks every week. No theme this week…just […]

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September 18th, 2008

Megadeth’s Shawn Drover:"it’s time to get back at it" | New Recording Studio Almost Operational

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Shawn Drover recently commented on the progress of Dave Mustaine’s new recording studio in San Diego California. Once the studio is up and running, preproduction can start on the next Megadeth Album. The follow up to 2007’s Untied Abominations and first record to include Chris Broderick to be produced by Andy […]

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September 16th, 2008

Metal Martyr Exclusive Interview With F5’s Dave Ellefson

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The other day I had the fortunate opportunity to conduct a phone interview with former Megadeth and now F5 Bass man Dave Ellefson. I was pretty happy to talk to Dave and I was a bit nervous at the same time. It’s not every day you get to talk to one […]

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September 6th, 2008

F5 The Reckoning Video

Power metal band F5 recently released their second cd ‘The Reckoning’ on August 19th. If you’re not familiar, the band consists of former Megadeth Bass player Dave Ellefson, former Megadeth Drummer Jimmy DeGrasso, Vocalist Dale Steele, with Steve Conley and John  Davis on guitars. Check out the video for the title track The Reckoning below.
 
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September 4th, 2008

Ratty Band T-Shirts…We All Have At Least One

I was going through some old clothes yesterday and came across my first Megadeth T-shirt from the early 90’s. It’s from the Countdown To Extinction album and it was my first Megadeth t-shirt. I lived in a small town and band shirts were hard to come by back when I bought it in 1993. […]

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August 31st, 2008

Peace Sells…Will Be Available For Rock Band 2

Megadeth’s Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? will be available for full album download for Rock Band 2 as well as the title track already being on the disk. I don’t own Rock Band and I rarely play Guitar Hero anymore, but I think this is pretty cool. I would love to play Black Friday, Devils […]

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August 28th, 2008

Revolver’s Graphic Violence

Revolver Magazine’s October issue had a segment called “Graphic Violence“. It featured album covers that were controversial due to graphic images of evil, death, sex, etc. They had some really good picks of some great albums. A few included are Pantera’s original concept for Far Beyond Driven, Nashville Pussy’s Let Them Eat Pussy album, […]

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