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Megadeth
Also Playing: Motörhead and Volbeat and Lacuna Coil
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Sun Feb 12
6:30 pm
Megadeth, Motörhead, Volbeat, and Lacuna Coil at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom
By now the story of Megadeth has passed into metal legend: Within months of getting tossed out of Metallica, Dave Mustaine started up his own rival thrash metal group as a big “fuck you” to his former bandmates. Fueled by revenge and speedballs, Megadeth would go on to sell 25 million records over the next two decades, but Mustaine’s awkward confrontation of Lars Ulrich in 2004’s Some Kind Of Monster showed that the pain of rejection (and a massive inferiority complex) still lurked years later. Nevertheless, Mustaine seems more or less no worse for wear as Megadeth approaches its 30th anniversary. Also hanging in there is 65-year-old Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, who shows no signs of slowing down. While some critics point out that the heavy-metal band essentially carved out its own niche in the ’70s and has done little else to revolutionize or energize the genre since, it’s hard to argue with 1980’s Ace Of Spades or its title track.
The Rave/Eagles Ballroom 2401 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI
By now the story of Megadeth has passed into metal legend: Within months of getting tossed out of Metallica, Dave Mustaine started up his own rival thrash metal group as a big “fuck you” to his former bandmates. Fueled by revenge and speedballs, Megadeth would go on to sell 25 million records over the next two decades, but Mustaine’s awkward confrontation of Lars Ulrich in 2004’s Some Kind Of Monster showed that the pain of rejection (and a massive inferiority complex) still lurked years later. Nevertheless, Mustaine seems more or less no worse for wear as Megadeth approaches its 30th anniversary. Also hanging in there is 65-year-old Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, who shows no signs of slowing down. While some critics point out that the heavy-metal band essentially carved out its own niche in the ’70s and has done little else to revolutionize or energize the genre since, it’s hard to argue with 1980’s Ace Of Spades or its title track.
Updated 05/02/2012
