{"id":68590,"date":"2025-08-14T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68590\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:22:07","slug":"megadeth-announce-final-album-and-farewell-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68590\/","title":{"rendered":"Megadeth Announce Final Album and Farewell Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMegadeth<\/a>\u2018s decades-long run as one of the biggest metal groups in the world is coming to an end, as the band announced on Thursday that they\u2019ll be hanging it up after one more album and an upcoming farewell tour in 2026. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s so many musicians that have come to the end of their career, whether accidental or intentional,\u201d\u00a0Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine\u00a0said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cMost of them don\u2019t get to go out on their own terms on top, and that\u2019s where I\u2019m at in my life right now. I have traveled the world and have made millions upon millions of fans and the hardest part of all of this is saying goodbye to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe band didn\u2019t share many details about when the tour will start beyond confirming for 2026, and the album will come out sometime early next year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve made a lot of friends over the years and I hope to see all of you on our global farewell tour,\u201d Mustaine said. \u201cDon\u2019t be mad, don\u2019t be sad, be happy for us all, come celebrate with me these next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMegadeth first formed in 1983, after Mustaine was removed from the original lineup of Metallica before the group released their debut album. Megadeth would go on to become one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, releasing sixteen studio albums, five of which have gone platinum. Megadeth released their first album, Killing Is My Business\u2026 and Business Is Good!\u00a0in 1985, and they earned their first platinum album with the follow-up record Peace Sells \u2026 But Who\u2019s Buying. Mustaine, the band\u2019s frontman, guitarist and primary songwriter, has been the band\u2019s only consistent member over the decades.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group has maintained a devout following of millions of fans for over 40 years, and their most recent album, The Sick, the Dying\u2026 and the Dead!\u00a0debuted at No. 3 on Billboard\u2019s 200 Albums chart back in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\t Mustaine will also release a memoir next year, the group confirmed, with more details expected in the coming months.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have done something together that\u2019s truly wonderful and will probably never happen again. We started a musical style, we started a revolution, we changed the guitar world and how it\u2019s played, and we changed the world. The bands I played in have influenced the world. I love you all for it. Thank you for everything.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megadeth\u2018s decades-long run as one of the biggest metal groups in the world is coming to an end,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,54258,136],"class_list":["post-68590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-megadeth","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}