Megadeth, who have entered the studio to start work on a new album prior to playing their "Countdown To Extinction 20th Anniversary Tour", surprisingly announced they are wrapping up their deal with Roadrunner Records and are moving on.
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine tweeted the news on Sunday, writing:
Today marks the end of an era with Roadrunner @rrusa. Hopefully we can finish strong with a #Grammy.
Megadeth's last album was 2011's "Thirteen"; the track "Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)" is nominated in the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" category at the 55th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 10 in Los Angeles.According to HenneMusic the band's 11th Grammy nomination sees them competing alongside songs from Anthrax, Halestorm, Iron Maiden, Lamb Of God and Marilyn Manson.
Honestly, if Lars and Dave reach to an agreedment like, Dave produces the next album of megadeth and Lars does the advertising shit and such, it would be awsome.
for megadeth, I believe signing with metallica would be the best opportunity. well thats if blackened records doesnt push them to make 2 month albums like roadrunner did(13).
honestly i totally agree the next step should be them signing with Blackened, the way Metallica promotes themselves is great enough and if other bands started signing with them they're likely to receive the same exposure to the media, thus getting more great metal bands noticed. Who knows, maybe some newer actual good bands could get the spotlight for a change seeing as Blackened will be looking for acts to sign to their label
Contract was up and the band wasn't happy with how things were at Roadrunner. They've been talking about leaving since right after Endgame was released because of lack of promotion for them, and Th1rt3en suffered the same fate really. 5 months between singles, which the label chose one of the worst songs on the album to release in Whose Life, and then dropped it.
This isn't a surprise at all. They've been saying for a while now that they've wanted to leave Roadrunner. I also heard that rushed to finish Thirteen just to get off the label faster. It shows because it was an awful record especially compared to Endgame and United Abominations.
It just sounds like their contract with Roadrunner was up and their looking to sign with another label. It really doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary is going on. Not a big deal.
Is it just me or are bands forming their own record labels/self-producing?
So did Blink-182 and Metallica. Even Radiohead did with King of Limbs, if I'm not mistaken.
Metallica has just announced they are starting a label and now Dave is leaving RR? I bet their will be a new Magedeth-owned label coming out in the near future. lol
Everyone is leaving RR these days. I'd say Metalblade, Nuclear Blast, and Blackened records are the best options for them, unless they want to just do it on their own, which I' sure they could if they wanted to.
I used to love Megadeth in the 90s .
Still rate their 90s albums as some of the best
...but now I couldn't give a feck what they do. I don't think they even deserve a record deal full stop.
