Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson has announced a new leg of his \u2018Bass Warrior Tour\u2018. This just revealed trek will find him heading out across Europe this March, performing Megadeth\u2018s 2x multi-platinum album \u201cCountdown To Extinction\u201d in full nightly. A press release issued today, January 23rd, spelled out his plans for that run as follows:<\/p>\n
\u2018GRAMMY Award winning bassist DAVID ELLEFSON has announced his BASS WARRIOR TOUR in Europe for March 2026. The tour will feature Ellefson and his solo band performing select cuts from his well-known catalog of Mega hits, including the Megadeth Countdown to Extinction album in it\u2019s entirety, solo material and other hard rock & metal favorites which inspired him during his 40-year music career. Direct support on all dates is Mado.<\/p>\n
Ellefson states, \u201cBass Warrior has become an annual celebration with my fans across Europe. This year I\u2019m really excited to be performing the \u2018Countdown to Extinction\u2018 album in its entirety on the tour. It\u2019s always been one of my favorite albums in my discography and I\u2019m looking forward to celebrating those songs with my fans on the tour in March.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ellefson launched his Bass Warrior tour in 2024, with musical director Andy Martongelli (Ellefson-Soto, Artemis) as a way to perform songs for fans across Europe from his 40+ years as a world renowned recording artist.<\/p>\n
12.3 Kill Joy \u2013 Rome (Italy)
13.3 Pocoloco \u2013 Paganica (Italy)
17.3 Spazio Artis \u2013 Legnago (Italy)
18.3 Reigen Live \u2013 Vienna (Austria)
19.3 Bounty Rock \u2013 Olomouc (Czech)
20.3 Kino Klub \u2013 Svatoborice (Czech)
21.3 Rc Mlyn \u2013 Vrutky (slovakia)
23.3 Muzeum \u2013 Bratislava (slovakia)
24.3 Bergkeller \u2013 Reichenbach (Germany)
25.3 Sounddog \u2013 Breda (Netherlands)
26.3 De Kaller \u2013 Zutendaal (Belgium)
28.3 Manoir Pub \u2013 St Maurice (Switzerland)
29.3 Rock N Roll \u2013 Rho\/Milan (Italy)<\/p>\n
Tickets go on sale today!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson has announced a new leg of his \u2018Bass Warrior Tour\u2018. This just revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[112038,156,78428,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-249175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-david-ellefson","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-megadeth","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}