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Thu Feb 4
7 pm
CANCELED: American Carnage Tour at Roy Wilkins Auditorium
Slayer practically invented the double-kick-drum assault 20 years ago, and chances are good that on the upcoming World Painted Blood, the band will sound pretty much the same as it always has: like hell built on a few dozen Marshall stacks. 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. All cleaned up and born again, Mustaine remains the sole original member of the band, which is touring behind its new album Endgame.
Roy Wilkins Auditorium 175 Kellogg Blvd. W., Twin Cities, MN
Slayer practically invented the double-kick-drum assault 20 years ago, and chances are good that on the upcoming World Painted Blood, the band will sound pretty much the same as it always has: like hell built on a few dozen Marshall stacks. 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. All cleaned up and born again, Mustaine remains the sole original member of the band, which is touring behind its new album Endgame.
Updated 09/15/2010
