MEGADETH played “Washington Is Next!” live for the first time since 2009 during their August 24 concert at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Set list for the show was as follows:
01. The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
02. Dread And The Fugitive Mind
03. Angry Again
04. Hangar 18
05. She-Wolf
06. Washington Is Next! (first time since 2009)
07. Skin O’ My Teeth
08. Liar
09. Sweating Bullets
10. Countdown To Extinction
11. Trust
12. Tornado Of Souls
13. We’ll Be Back
14. Symphony Of Destruction
15. Mechanix
16. Peace Sells
Encore:
17. Holy Wars… The Punishment Due
“Washington Is Next!” was first featured on MEGADETH‘s eleventh studio album, “United Abominations,” released in May 2007 through Roadrunner Records.
In a recent interview with John The Metal Mailman, MEGADETH guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari was asked if there had been any discussion about him and his bandmates working on new music.
“Yeah, that’s actually the plan,” he responded. “Right now everybody’s gathering their own riff ideas, and then, at some point, we’re gonna put them together and probably record in Nashville. And the plan is to get the next album done next year.”
When asked if he’s been writing riffs for potential new MEGADETH music, Teemu replied: “I’ve got a bunch of stuff. What I do is I just pick up the guitar, I usually improvise and come up with ideas, then I record it on my phone, just the video. And I leave it there maybe for a week or two so I forget it. I wanna forget it, and then when I look back at it, then that maybe inspires me to look at the riff from a different perspective and maybe I get another idea from that. And then I record it down on my computer, laid out with the click track and do double-tracked guitars, and then save it in the folder of ideas.
“And what we’ve been talking about is that Dave [Mustaine, MEGADETH leader] often wants to work in this riff-based idea, not necessarily that everybody brings full songs, but you bring riffs and then we listen to them together and then we pick things that might go together well. And then that’s how the songs start to actually form.”
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