This year 2013 is the 30th anniversary of one of the most popular metal bands in history, Megadeth. If Dave Mustaine had never been kicked out of Metallica this band would have never happened. With their 14th studio album Super Collider now out and their Gigantour about to start with Black Label Society, Hellyeah! Device, and Newsted there’s a lot fueling the madman of metal, including politics and God. You never know what will come out of Dave Mustaine’s mouth. Find out right now what he told Cutter on the this week’s Hangar 19: Podcast Edition.
It’s one of the most legendary stories in metal, in 1983 Metallica kick out their lead guitar player while in New York to record their debut album Kill ‘em All for being too much of a drunk. That guitarist then goes back to the west coast and immediately starts a new band called Megadeth, and the rest is history. Megadeth have gone on to become one of, and at times, the biggest metal bands in the world. With the release of their 14th studio album Super Collider Dave Mustaine joins us to re-live some history and lay down the details on the new album.
Speaking of Metallica, since the Orion Music + More Festival is happening this weekend in Detroit we have a live Power Set from Metallica’s 1993 box set Live Sh** Binge & Purge.
Then this hasn’t been the greatest year for keeping our metal heroes alive and one of the saddest stories is that of Deftones bassist Chi Cheng who passed away almost 5 years after a car accident that left him in a coma. This week we go In The Vault with Chi talking to MTV about Nu-Metal in 2001.
This week’s Then & Now comes from a thrash metal band that inspired modern thrash, a band that was one of the biggest bands of German thrash metal. Along with Kreator the band Sodom put that scene on the map. Sodom is back with a new album and we’ll play a new song along with a classic.
Also this week’s Heavy Metal Movie and Soundtrack Recommendation comes from a movie based on a video game. Mortal Kombat wasn’t the worst movie of it’s genre ever made but we can’t exactly say it was good either. The soundtrack on the other hand was a lesson in mid 90′s industrial and extreme metal.
All this plus music from Accept, DIO, Michael Schenker, Sepultura, Infectious Grooves and more. It’s 3 hours of classic metal this and every week inside Hangar 19.
He is the metal god, he is the voice of Judas Priest, he is Rob Halford. With Rob fresh off the Revolver Magazine Golden God awards, a brand new song with the modern metal band Five Finger Death Punch and Judas Priest’s new DVD/Blu-Ray Epitaph there is a lot to discuss with Rob.
Oh and not only will Rob be here, but we will play five tracks off of Epitaph throughout the show.
From a God to a King, this week we go In The Vault with the one and only King Diamond who explains the Mercyful Fate break of 1986 on British Television.
Our Power Set this week features 3 bands that have Scott Ian in them. Besides Anthrax the legendary guitarist also spent time in the hardcore band Stormtroopers of Death and most recently in The Damned Things. Those two bands plus a song from two different eras of Anthrax make up this week’s Power Set.
Our Then & Now is from the former Life of Agony drummer Sal Abruscato who is the lead singer and guitarist for A Pale Horse Named Death. That band also features the drummer that took Sal’s spot that he vacated to join LOA. That man is Johnny Kelly from Type O Negative. Follow? Just crank their new band and don’t worry about it.
And this week’s Heavy Metal Soundtrack Recommendation comes from one of the first main stream video games to feature strippers and bad language. The game was Duke Nukem and the album is called Duke Nukem: Music to score by. It features Megadeth, COC, Slayer and many others.
It’s another 3 hours of classic metal, this time with royalty inside Hangar 19.
Snake Sabo along with Rachel Bolan started Skid Row in 1986, then went on to sell millions of records with former lead singer Sebastian Bach. After Bach left the band re-formed in 1999 with current singer Johnny Solinger they haven’t looked back. Now with a new E.P. out United World Rebellion they are proving they are still in fact the Skid Row that everyone loves and remembers.
Then we are going to go In the Vault with the all female New Wave of British Heavy Metal Band Girlschool
This week’s Power Set is from Exodus. The story goes that Exodus guitarist Gary Holt was supposed to join us, but with Jeff Hanneman of Slayer passing away and since Gary had been filling in for him in Slayer we thought it would be better for Gary to join us at a later date. Least we can do is pay tribute to his own band and get on four songs from Exodus.
Megadeth are getting set to release their 14th studio album entitled SuperCollider We have the title track and lay down a Then & Now.
Plus this week’s Heavy Metal Soundtrack recommendation comes from the early 90′s MTV animated TV show Beavis & Butthead.
3 hours of classic metal this and every weekend inside Hangar 19.
Or maybe it’s Megadeth touring with Iron Maiden? Either way that’s a tour us old school metal heads can get behind. Here’s the press release:
IRON MAIDEN will make a brief return to the USA this September, playing seven specially selected shows en-route to Latin America where they will once again headline at the legendary Rock In Rio Festival, Brazil, on 22 September, their show there having recently sold out to 70,000 fans in just a couple of hours
These will begin with a first-ever visit to Raleigh, NC, for the opening show on September 3rd at the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion followed by taking Metal back to country music capital Nashville, TN where Maiden haven’t played in over twenty years, at the Bridgestone Arena on September 5th. There will also be shows in Kansas City, MO, Sprint Center on September 7th, St Louis, MO, Verizon Wireless on September 8th and the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, NV on September 12th , all of which Maiden last visited way back in 2000 on the Brave New World Tour. Plus a return to Austin, TX for a show at the 360 Amphitheater on September 10th, the first time the band have played in that city since the original Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Tour twenty-five years ago!
Very special guests on all these dates will be MEGADETH.
Hangar 19 relives the glory days of classic metal and features music from the artists who built this explosive genre, including Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Metallica, Anthrax, Korn, Slayer and Marilyn Manson.
Host Cutter, a 15 year rock radio veteran, stops down from the nostalgia just long enough to highlight new metal in a weekly “Then and Now” segment and to interview the metal greats that helped mold the speaker-shredding musical movement.
This year 2013 is the 30th anniversary of one of the most popular metal bands in history, Megadeth. If Dave Mustaine had never been kicked out of Metallica this band would have never happened. With their 14th studio album Super Collider now out and their Gigantour about to start with Black Label Society, Hellyeah! Device, and Newsted there’s a lot fueling the madman of metal, including politics and God. You never know what will come out of Dave Mustaine’s mouth. Find out right now what he told Cutter on the this week’s Hangar 19: Podcast Edition.
