mayhem WHO: Rockstar Mayhem Festival Featuring Megadeth, Disturbed, Godsmack, In Flames and Machine Head. WHAT: Heavy metal. WHEN: 2:15 p.m. Wednesday. WHERE: PNC Bank Arts Center, Exit 116, Holmdel; 732-203-2500 or artscenter.com. HOW MUCH: $25 to $85. ALSO PERFORMING: With Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax at the Big 4 at Yankee Stadium concert, Sept. 14, Bronx.; $94.50 to $229.50; 877-469-9849 or ticketmaster.com. FOR MORE INFO: megadeth.com, myspace.com/megadeth and rockstarmayhemfest.com.
For thrash legend Megadeth, this summer is a time to reflect on its past while looking toward the future. The band has been working on its 13th studio album, "TH1RT3EN," due this fall, and this month released a 25th anniversary edition of its seminal 1986 album, "Peace Sells … But Who's Buying?" "It's a cool set of bookends right now," bassist Dave Ellefson said by phone from the band's San Diego recording studio. "Peace Sells" is considered one of the most technically complex and aggressive records in heavy metal history and represented a giant leap forward for Megadeth from its straightforward debut, which was released a year earlier.
The longer you're together as a band, the better you write," Ellefson said. "Everything goes up to a whole other level." Megadeth played many of the songs on "Peace Sells," including the classic title track and metal masterpieces such as "Wake Up Dead," "The Conjuring" and "Devil's Island," on tour before entering the studio. "Having played the songs live, they already had that energy," Ellefson said. "Our chops were shining." Ellefson said Megadeth was literally a hungry band at the time, which contributed to the album's dangerous and dark vibe. Rags to riches "We scraped and crawled and squatted and did everything we could to survive in those days," Ellefson said. "We had nothing to fall back on."
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