![]() Recording for the album was completed in mid-March. Mustaine also revealed that fourteen songs were being worked on in total. About two weeks later, Mustaine announced several song titles in an interview, discussing some of those songs in the process. On February 12, 2013, the album's title was revealed as Super Collider. Several days later, on February 1, Mustaine announced that mixing had begun. The label was later revealed to be to Tradecraft, a Universal label created for Mustaine. Additionally, he confirmed that the band had decided on a new label and was signed. Later that month, Mustaine announced that the band had finished recording 11 of 13 songs that the band planned to give to the label. ĭavid Draiman of Disturbed performed guest vocals on "Dance in the Rain".įrom January 2013 onwards, several short video clips were uploaded to the band's official YouTube channel, showing the band members working on new material in the studio. As with Thirteen, work on the album was done at "Vic's Garage", the band's own studio in San Marcos, California. Mustaine later announced via the Vic Rattlehead Twitter page that he had chosen a title and cover art for the new album, though neither was revealed at that time. On December 24, 2012, Mustaine announced that three new songs were "tracked and almost done". Drover said the band was in the process of composing material and determining what riffs to use on the record. However, drummer Shawn Drover later suggested that recording for the album wouldn't begin until early 2013, and also suggested that the album would possibly be released in the summer of that year, rather than Mustaine's initial projection of a late-spring release. On October 27, Mustaine revealed that the band was planning to enter the studio to begin tracking the album in the first week of November 2012, before leaving the studio for the American leg of the Countdown to Extinction 20th anniversary tour. The band's previous contract with that label was only for three albums, expiring after the release of Th1rt3en. Later Mustaine announced that the band was preparing to start work on the album, and suggested early 2013 as a tentative release, on a new label, as the band had split from their previous label, Roadrunner Records. ![]() In an interview with NME, Mustaine confirmed that the band had been working on new material, commenting: "Some of it's a little darker, some of it's a little faster." On July 17, 2012, a tweet from the Twitter account for Megadeth's mascot Vic Rattlehead implied that frontman Dave Mustaine had begun writing lyrics for a follow-up album to 2011's Th1rt3en. ![]() ![]() The album received mixed reviews from critics and, as of August 2014, has a Metacritic rating of 41/100.īackground, writing and recording The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 and has sold over 86,000 copies in the United States as of December 2015. On April 23, 2013, the title track was released on iTunes as the album's lead single.Īt the time of its release, it marked the first time the band had released an album with the same lineup as its predecessor since 1997's Cryptic Writings, however it is the band's final album to feature drummer Shawn Drover and guitarist Chris Broderick, due to their departures from Megadeth in November 2014. The album features a guest appearance from Disturbed vocalist David Draiman. In the U.S., a special edition of the album was made available exclusively through Best Buy retailers. It was released on June 4, 2013, and is Megadeth's first album to be released on Tradecraft, a Universal label created for frontman Dave Mustaine. Super Collider is the fourteenth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth. ![]()
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