(PR) Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine and Capitol/EMI have collaborated to create and deploy the ultimate Megadeth boxed set: Warchest. The 4-CD+DVD collection features more than six hours of digitally remastered content, hand-selected by Mustaine, including 30 audio and video tracks making their global release debuts, and an additional three tracks that have never before been released in the US. Warchest’s October 2nd release caps Mustaine and Capitol/EMI’s in-depth Megadeth catalog remastering and restoration campaign, which has encompassed the band’s Capitol studio albums, while also adding new audio and video collections to the band’s arsenal.
Armed with digitally remastered career-defining album cuts, soundtrack and compilation sides, unreleased live and studio performances and interview clips spanning more than 20 years, Warchest is the ultimate Megadeth compendium. Included in the trove are a full 75-minute live set from a night on the 1990 Clash Of The Titans tour and a DVD of highlights from a 1992 stop supporting Countdown - two historical shows, both making their release debuts on Warchest.
The set’s custom “vac-u-form” packaging showcases a 3-D ammo belt on its front and a 36-page booklet with an essay by Ian Christe and a comprehensive discography, complemented by an array of photos and images.
Warchest tracklisting:
CD1 - 'Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good!', 'The Skull Beneath The Skin', 'Peace Sells', 'Wake Up Dead', 'Devils Island', 'Set The World Afire', 'Into The Lungs Of Hell', 'Anarchy/Problems' [session take] *, 'Hook In Mouth', 'Liar', 'In My Darkest Hour', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', '“dark themes…”' *, 'Holy Wars…The Punishment Due' [Casey McMackin demo] *, 'Tornado Of Souls' [demo] *, 'Five Magics' [demo] *, 'Hangar 18'.
CD2 - '“keeping score…”' *, 'Symphony Of Destruction', 'Go To Hell', 'Foreclosure Of A Dream', 'Architecture Of Aggression' [demo] ^, 'Skin O’ My Teeth' [live at Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI 5/23/92], 'High Speed Dirt' [live at Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI 5/23/92], 'Ashes In Your Mouth' [live at the Cow Palace, S.F., CA 12/4/92], 'Sweating Bullets' [live at the Cow Palace, S.F., CA 12/4/92], 'Breakpoint' [session take] *, 'Angry Again', 'Train Of Consequences', 'Reckoning Day', 'New World Order', 'The Killing Road', 'Strange Ways', 'Paranoid', 'Diadems', 'A Tout Le Monde'.
CD3 - 'Trust', 'Almost Honest', 'Use The Man', 'She-Wolf', 'A Secret Place' [live at Woodstock, NY 7/25/99], 'One Thing' ^, 'Duke Nukem', 'Insomnia', 'Crush ‘Em', 'Kill The King', 'Dread And The Fugitive Mind', 'Never Say Die', 'Moto Psycho', '1000 Times Goodbye', 'Coming Home' ^, 'Kick The Chair', 'Of Mice And Men'.
CD4 (all tracks recorded live at Wembley Stadium, London, England 10/16/90) - I'ntro/Rattlehead', 'Wake Up Dead' *, 'Hangar 18' *, 'Hook In Mouth' *, 'The Skull Beneath The Skin' *, 'The Conjuring' *, 'In My Darkest Hour' *, 'Lucretia' *, 'Devils Island' *, 'Take No Prisoners' *, 'Peace Sells' *, 'Black Friday' *, 'Holy Wars…The Punishment Due' *, 'It’s Electric' *, 'Anarchy In The U.K.' *.
DVD (all tracks recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England 9/30/92) - 'Intro/Holy Wars…The Punishment Due' *, 'Wake Up Dead' *, 'Hangar 18' *, 'Lucretia' *, 'Sweating Bullets' *, 'In My Darkest Hour' *, 'Tornado Of Souls' *, 'Ashes In Your Mouth' *, 'Peace Sells' *, 'Anarchy In The U.K.' *.
* previously unreleased
^ previously unreleased in the U.S.
