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First Single - ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Train’ - Set for August 28 Debut

CD Pre-Orders Available Online Today

olumbia Records and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announce today that the new AC/DC album, Black Ice, will be sold in the U.S. exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club retail locations beginning Monday, October 20. The CD also will be available online via http://www.walmart.com/, http://www.samsclub.com/ and the band’s website http://www.acdc.com/. Black Ice, AC/DC’s first album of all-new material in eight years, features 15 tracks and will be offered at the special price of $11.88.

“Rock ‘N’ Roll Train,” the first single from the album, will debut on August 28. The video will premiere in September. In addition, the band is set to kick off its first world tour since 2001 in late October. Black Ice was produced by Brendan O’Brien at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC.

As one of America’s largest music retailers, Wal-Mart will join with Columbia Records to launch multiple activities for fans in celebration of the new CD album, including new product features and promotions to come this fall that will bring fans closer to one of history’s greatest rock bands.

“Like all excited fans of AC/DC, we can hardly wait for the launch of this album and all that will surround it,” said Gary Severson, Wal-Mart’s senior vice president of Entertainment. “We promise there will be a multitude of opportunities for fans of all ages to get involved and ‘rock again’ as we count down to October 20.”

No Bull The Directors Cut, a newly edited, comprehensive DVD and of the band’s famed July 1996 Plaza De Toros De Las Ventas concert in Madrid, Spain, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray September 9, 2008.

Starting today, http://www.walmart.com/ACDC and http://www.acdc.com/ will begin accepting pre-orders for the Black Ice CD album and No Bull DVD. Fans can join the countdown and access these sites for more information on the band, including new videos and upcoming announcements, in the coming weeks.

Source: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

2-CD and Digital Collection Captures Megadeth’s Biggest Hits, An Unreleased Demo, Plus Two Rare Live Recordings

Following the successful 2007 release of the coveted 4-CD+DVD Warchest box set, Megadeth is back with a vengeance with Anthology: Set The World Afire. The career-spanning 2-CD and digital collection, to be released September 30 by Capitol/EMI, features Megadeth’s top hits and fan favorites, a previously unreleased demo and two rare concert recordings.

Anthology: Set The World Afire is loaded with 35 electrifying tracks, among them Megadeth’s top hits, including “Trust,” “A Tout Le Monde,” “Insomnia” and “Train of Consequences.” Also included are rare 1992 concert recordings of “Peace Sells” and “Symphony of Destruction,” previously available only in limited release, the latter having never been released in the U.S. “High Speed Dirt” is a demo version, previously unreleased.

Iconic frontman Dave Mustaine pioneered the hugely successful metal band, Megadeth after his departure from Metallica. Beginning with the band’s 1985 debut album, Killing Is My Business … And Business Is Good!, and evolving through a shifting series of lineups, Megadeth crafted a dynamic, intelligent style that combined the aggressiveness of thrash metal, the improvisational nature of jazz, and cynical, articulate, politically-charged lyrics into an innovative mix that built a rabid worldwide following.

In 1992, Megadeth burst into the mainstream with their fifth album, Countdown To Extinction, which debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart and went on to sell more than two million copies in the U.S. alone. 1994’s Youthanasia followed with a #4 debut, while 1997’s Cryptic Writings yielded four Top 20 hits at rock radio, including “Trust” and “Almost Honest.”

After a brief hiatus in 2002, Megadeth made a bold return when their tenth studio album, The System Has Failed, debuted at #18 on Billboard’s Top 200.

In recent years, Mustaine has also overseen the broad remastering campaign for Megadeth’s Capitol Records catalog, which began with the band’s second album, Peace Sells … But Who’s Buying? Mustaine spent months remixing, remastering, restoring — and in some cases, reconstructing — the band’s Capitol catalog to bring it as close to his original vision as possible. Each reissue and last year’s career-spanning Warchest box set is packed with unreleased tracks, demos and alternate mixes, as well as new liner notes by the iconoclastic Mustaine.

For the majority of three decades, Megadeth has yanked heavy metal into the future — musically, lyrically, and culturally — and worked the raw soil into something desirable and dangerous. With defiance and grace, through unusual quality and intelligence, Megadeth has raised a generation on a diet of truth serum and bitter pills. Instead of being kicked to the curb for their insolence, they’ve been rewarded with seven Grammy nominations and five platinum and multi-platinum albums.

On September 30, Megadeth will continue to build on this powerful legacy with Anthology: Set The World Afire and will prove once again that they are an indispensable part of heavy metal history.

For more information regarding Megadeth’s latest pursuits, please visit the band’s official Website: http://www.megadeth.com/.

  MEGADETH: Anthology: Set The World Afire (2-CD, Digital Album)

  Disc 1                        Disc 2
  1.  Mechanix                  1.  Skin O' My Teeth
  2.  Rattlehead                2.  Ashes In Your Mouth
  3.  Peace Sells               3.  Breakpoint
  4.  Wake Up Dead              4.  Angry Again
  5.  Devils Island             5.  Train of Consequences
  6.  Anarchy in the U.K.       6.  Reckoning Day
  7.  Set The World Afire       7.  A Tout Le Monde
  8.  Into The Lungs Of Hell    8.  The Killing Road
  9.  In My Darkest Hour        9.  New World Order
  10. Holy Wars ...             10. Trust
      The Punishment Due        11. She-Wolf
  11. Tornado of Souls          12. Insomnia
  12. Hangar 18                 13. Prince of Darkness
  13. Take No Prisoners         14. Kill The King
  14. Go To Hell                15. Dread And The FugitiveMind
  15. Sweating Bullets          16. Sleepwalker
  16. Crown of Worms            17. Symphony of Destruction
  17. High Speed Dirt [Demo]*       (live, Cow Palace, 1992)**
                                18. Peace Sells (live,Cow Palace, 1992)

  *  Previously unreleased
  ** Previously unreleased in the U.S.

Source: Capitol/EMI