MEGADETH – “Youthanasia” 25th Anniversary Show

MEGADETH have announced a 25th anniversary show for their platinum certified 1994 album “Youthanasia.” The show will take place nearly 25 years to the date of the album’s original November 01st, 1994 release and find them performing it in full. Rather than go for the actual 25th anniversary though, the band opted to take advantage of Halloween and play the concert a day prior (October 31st.)

The show will take place on that day at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, CO. See HERE for more details. A new album from the band is currently in the works for a 2020 release date.

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1983 with its roots in thrash metal, a genre that its founder, singer/songwriter and guitarist Dave Mustaine helped pioneer. The band has since released 14 studio albums.

Mustaine’s musical roots began early on listening to AC/DC and Led Zeppelin, and took form in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal when he co-founded Metallica. Megadeth emerged in 1985 at the forefront of the thrash/speed metal scene with their seminal debut KILLING IS MY BUSINESS…AND BUSINESS IS GOOD (recently recognized by VH1 as the “Greatest Thrash Metal Debut Album of All Time”), and continued on a blistering path of albums and tours throughout the decade. The nickname “world’s state-of-the-art speed metal band” and the critic-coined “intellectual thrash metal” were often used to describe Megadeth’s sound, referring to Mustaine’s niche for angry, witty, intelligent lyrics about topics like politics, drugs and war, fused with aggressive, intricate guitar structures and a jazz-influenced rhythm section.