To celebrate release week of Megadeth’s new album, they have released a special expanded digital edition of the album including the exclusive track “Nobody’s Hero,” available until 11:59 PM on Thursday, January 29 (local time).
“‘Nobody’s Hero’ was the first song we worked on during the session, which is funny because it didn’t end up on the album. Everything we’d written up to that point had to fight for a place on the record. Some riffs were replaced by better ones. Some songs never quite got finished, and others rose to the top. ‘Nobody’s Hero’ has been around for a while and it really shows how quickly we found our groove once we got into the studio, so I’m glad it’s finally going to see the light of day in our exclusive digital release.” – Dave Mustaine
The digital download includes the alternative X-Ray cover and delivers the full album plus the exclusive bonus track straight to your inbox.
Head to the Megadeth shop now to for the download.
Megadeth – Dave Mustaine, Teemu Mäntysaari, James LoMenzo and Dirk Verbeuren – have released their 17th and final studio album. And according to Forbes Senior Contributor, Hugh McIntyre, the self-titled album is “an instant bestseller in the largest music economy in the world.”
The album, Megadeth, leads the iTunes Top Albums chart this Friday (January 23), at the beginning of a new tracking week. The set quickly shot to the top spot on the list of the bestselling albums and EPs on iTunes. While streaming has completely changed the music business, iTunes is still regarded as hugely important, as it is where most listeners go to purchase songs and albums in order to support the artists they love.
Read the full report at Forbes.
The album’s special bonus track, a reimagined version of “Ride The Lightning,” which Mustaine co-wrote with Metallica’s James Hetfield, Cliff Burton, and Lars Ulrich and was the title track from the group’s 1984 album, can be heard below.
“As I come full circle on the career of a lifetime, the decision to include ‘Ride The Lightning,’ a song I co-wrote with James, Lars, and Cliff, was to pay my respects to where my career first started,” Mustaine said.
Dave further explains the decision to include the reimagined version of “Ride The Lightning” in the video below:
The new album can be ordered via Mustaine’s Tradecraft imprint in partnership with Frontiers Label Group’s new BLKIIBLK label. Get it here.
Tracklisting:
“Tipping Point”
“I Don’t Care”
“Hey, God?!”
“Let There Be Shred”
“Puppet Parade”
“Another Bad Day”
“Made To Kill”
“Obey The Call”
“I Am War”
“The Last Note”
“Ride The Lightning” (Bonus Track)
“Puppet Parade”:
“Let There Be Shred” video:
“I Don’t Care” video:
“Tipping Point” video:
Megadeth is heading north in 2026! The band returns to Canada for a powerful run of dates, bringing their signature intensity and a set built for diehard fans. Anthrax and Exodus will support. For tickets and meet & greets, head here.
Canada 2026 tour dates:
February
15 – Victoria, BC – Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
17 – Abbotsford, BC – Rogers Forum
18 – Kelowna, BC – Prospera Place
20 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
21 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
24 – Saskatoon, SK – SaskTel Centre
25 – Winnipeg, MB – Canada Life Centre
28 – London, ON – Canada Life Place
March
1 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
3 – Halifax, NS – Scotiabank Centre
4 – Moncton, NB – Avenir Centre
6 – Québec City, QC – Videotron Centre
Megadeth will be special guests on the 2026 North American dates of Iron Maiden’s Run For Your Lives World Tour. See dates below:
Run For Your Lives tour dates:
August
29 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena *
30 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena *
September
3 – Montréal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau *^
5 – Harrison, NJ – Sports Illustrated Stadium *^
9 – Boston, MA – TD Garden *
11 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live *
12 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion *
15 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium *
17 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival
19 – Shakopee, MN – Mystic Lake Amphitheater *
22 – Chicago, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre *
25 – Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium *^
26 – Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium *^
29 – San Antonio, TX – Alamodome *^
October
2 – Mexico City, Mexico – Estadio GNP Seguros (support TBA)
* Megadeth
^ Anthrax
About Megadeth:
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 catalog spans indisputable classics such as the platinum Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? (cited at #8 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time”), the platinum Rust In Peace, and double-platinum Countdown To Extinction, which captured #2 on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, Dystopia notched a Top 3 debut and earned a Grammy® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” with its title track. They only upped the ferocity with The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! in 2022. It saw them return to #3, receive a “Best Metal Performance” Grammy® Award nomination for “We’ll Be Back,” and incite rave reviews. 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. 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.
Along the way, Megadeth extended their influence even further. During 2016, the band entered the spirits world with their very first signature beer À Tout Le Monde followed by Saison 13 in 2019. The brand asserted itself as a player in the beverage space and impressively moved over 15 million pints. Joining forces with Keystone in 2025, they ignite the next phase of Megadeth Beer on the biggest global platform yet.
Beyond his role as a music icon, Dave founded the visionary wine brand House Of Mustaine which uniquely blends music, culture, and fine winemaking. The brand launched with the 2013 Symphony Interrupted Cabernet Sauvignon which was inspired by Megadeth’s groundbreaking collaboration with the San Diego Symphony.
(Photo – Ross Halfin; Canada tour artwork by Blake Armstrong)
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