Megadeth’s Tracklist for Final Album Revealed — and It Features a Bonus Track Written With Metallica

Megadeth has revealed the tracklist for its upcoming last album, and it’ll see a long-awaited bonus track.

The set revealed its self-titled album, owed retired Jan. 23, volition person 10 tracks and volition see an 11th bonus opus called “Ride the Lightning.” The opus was cowritten with Metallica’s James Hetfield, Cliff Burton, and Lars Ulrich, which Megadeth’s frontman Dave Mustaine explained was included connected the medium to observe his career.

“As I travel afloat ellipse connected the vocation of a lifetime, the determination to see ‘Ride the Lightning’, a opus I cowrote with James, Lars and Cliff, was to wage my respects to wherever my vocation archetypal started,” Mustaine said successful a statement.

Megadeth announced successful August the set would be saying farewell aft 16 albums. Mustaine confirmed their adjacent task would beryllium the group’s last, sharing a video to the band’s YouTube and societal media pages that included Mustaine’s change ego, Vic Rattlehead, delivering the news.

“For implicit 4 decades, I’ve been chained successful silence, but the extremity demands my voice,” Vic begins portion seated down a desk. “It is confirmed: The adjacent Megadeth workplace medium volition beryllium the last. Forty years of metal, forged successful steel, ending successful fire. And erstwhile the caller twelvemonth rises, the planetary farewell tour. You’ve heard the warning. Now hole yourself, Cyber Army. Stay loud, enactment tuned, and conscionable maine connected the frontlines.”

Mustaine past thanked fans successful a property merchandise for their committedness and celebrating the band’s interaction connected rock. “There’s truthful galore musicians that person travel to the extremity of their career, whether accidental oregon intentional,” helium said astatine the time. “Most of them don’t get to spell retired connected their ain presumption connected top, and that’s wherever I’m astatine successful my beingness close now. I person traveled the satellite and person made millions upon millions of fans and the hardest portion of each of this is saying goodbye to them.”

The set volition additionally articulation Iron Maiden connected its Run for Your Lives Tour adjacent year.

Check retired the tracklist below.