Megadeth is a heavy metal band from America, led by the founder, frontman, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. The band was formed in 1983 after Dave Mustaine was fired from Metallica. Since then the band has released ten studio albums, three EP's, and two live albums.
Megadeth is known for their distinctive guitar style, often involving complex, harmonic musical passages, and trade off guitar solos. Mustaine is also known for his original "snarling" vocal style, as well as his recurring lyrical themes, often involving politics, war, addiction, and more recently, relationships.
As one of the most comercially successful heavy metal bands in the world, Megadeth has sold more then 20 million albums worldwide, including 5 consecutive platinum albums, with seven consecutive Grammy nominations for "Best Metal Performance". In the 21 years that Megadeth has been together as a band, they have had 18 different members, with Mustaine remaining as the only original band member. Megadeth is often mentioned as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal bands, along with Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax.
Megadeth is known for their distinctive guitar style, often involving complex, harmonic musical passages, and trade off guitar solos. Mustaine is also known for his original "snarling" vocal style, as well as his recurring lyrical themes, often involving politics, war, addiction, and more recently, relationships.
As one of the most comercially successful heavy metal bands in the world, Megadeth has sold more then 20 million albums worldwide, including 5 consecutive platinum albums, with seven consecutive Grammy nominations for "Best Metal Performance". In the 21 years that Megadeth has been together as a band, they have had 18 different members, with Mustaine remaining as the only original band member. Megadeth is often mentioned as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal bands, along with Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax.
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Source of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadeth#History
Source of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadeth#History
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