{"id":726018,"date":"2026-08-03T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726018\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:05:14","slug":"megadeth-announce-european-dates-with-first-uk-headlining-tour-since-2015-black-label-society-and-testament-supporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726018\/","title":{"rendered":"Megadeth announce European dates with first UK headlining tour since 2015, Black Label Society and Testament supporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megadeth<\/a> have announced 2027 European live dates, including their first headlining UK tour since 2015.<\/p>\n

The Grammy-winning US thrash metal<\/a> veterans will return as part of their ongoing farewell run, which kicked off with a run of North and Latin American shows earlier this year. Black Label Society and fellow thrashers Testament<\/a> will support.<\/p>\n

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A Live Nation pre-sale for the UK starts at 9am local time on Thursday, August 6, and general sale commences at 10am on August 7. See the full list of confirmed shows below.<\/p>\n

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Formed by singer\/guitarist and sole constant member Dave Mustaine in 1983, shortly after his expulsion from Metallica<\/a>, Megadeth are one of the best-selling extreme metal bands in history, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. In 1992, their fifth album Countdown To Extinction reached number two on the US Billboard 200.<\/p>\n

After picking up 11 nominations over the course of their career, the band finally won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2017, with their single Dystopia. In 2023, their song We\u2019ll Be Back was also Grammy-nominated, but lost to Degradation Rules by Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> featuring Tony Iommi in the metal category.<\/p>\n

42 years in, Megadeth announced their impending retirement last summer. Mustaine, now 64, said he wanted to go out on his own terms and urged fans: \u201cDon\u2019t be mad, don\u2019t be sad, be happy for us all, come celebrate with me these next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was later revealed that physical injuries also played a part in the band\u2019s split. In December, Mustaine announced that he had radial neuropathy<\/a>, or \u2018wrist drop\u2019: a condition where the radial nerve is damaged, leading to weakness in the wrist and fingers. Mustaine said that the condition made it painful for him to play guitar.<\/p>\n

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Megadeth released their final studio album, a self-titled effort, via BLKIIBLK in January. It received mostly positive reviews, including four stars from Metal Hammer\u2019s Dom Lawson<\/a>, and was the band\u2019s first US chart-topper. Its bonus track was a cover of Metallica\u2019s Ride The Lightning: a song that Mustaine co-wrote but wasn\u2019t released until 1984, after his dismissal from the lineup.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rumoured that Megadeth are set to release a greatest hits album, Fast Hits, on August 21. Reports began after fans spotted it on the Walmart website last week. The band have not yet commented on the matter.<\/p>\n

Megadeth\u2019s last UK headline run took place in November 2015 and was capped off by a co-headline show at London\u2019s Wembley Arena with Lamb Of God<\/a>. Children Of Bodom and Sylosis supported.<\/p>\n

Even though the band haven\u2019t topped the bill on a UK tour since, they\u2019ve been a regular presence on the country\u2019s festival circuit, including headline performances at Derbyshire\u2019s Bloodstock Open Air in 2017 and 2023. They also supported Five Finger Death Punch<\/a> in arenas last autumn.<\/p>\n

Megadeth: 2027 European tour datesMar 09: Belfast The O2, UKMar 11: London OVO Arena Wembley, UKMar 12: Nottingham Motorpoint Arena, UKMar 13: Manchester Co-op Live, UKMar 15: Cardiff Utilita Arena, UKMar 16: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UKMar 16: Birmingham BP Pulse Live, UKMar 19: Leeds First Direct Bank Arena, UKMar 21: Paris Zenith, FranceMar 23: Brussels Forest National, BelgiumMar 25: Dusseldorf Mitsubishi Electric Halle, GermanyMar 27: Copenhagen KB Hallen, DenmarkMar 28: Oslo Spektrum, NorwayMar 30: Hamburg Sporthalle, GermanyApr 01: Berlin Velodrom, GermanyApr 02: Krakow Tauron Arena, PolandApr 04: Munich Zenith, GermanyApr 05: Bern Festhalle, SwitzerlandApr 06: Milan Unipol Forum, ItalyApr 08: Lyon Halle Tony Garnier, FranceApr 10: Barcelona Olimpic Arena, SpainApr 12: madrid Movistar Arena, SpainApr 13: Lisbon Sagres Camp Pequeno, Portugal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megadeth have announced 2027 European live dates, including their first headlining UK tour since 2015. The Grammy-winning US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}