Megadeth will welcome again their former guitarist Marty Friedman for a particular February twenty seventh present on the well-known Budokan Enviornment in Tokyo that will likely be live-streamed worldwide. It should mark the legendary thrash metallic band’s first efficiency with Friedman in 23 years.
After exiting Megadeth in 2000, Friedman moved to Japan a pair years later, the place he has continued to file music and has turn into a tv persona. Throughout his decade-long stint in Megadeth, the guitar virtuoso performed on traditional albums Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction, amongst others.
“Marty and I’ve remained pals over 23 years, since we final performed collectively,” said Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. “Nonetheless, I hear his music each night time, and he nonetheless is among the many prime guitar gamers I’ve ever heard. That is a tremendous deal with for the followers, in addition to myself. I’m going to take pleasure in this as a lot because the followers are, and I’m positive a lot of you’ll catch me sneaking a peek throughout Marty’s look. Domo arigato, Marty-San!”
Friedman added, “It has been a very long time. 23 years to be precise since I’ve been on the identical stage with Dave Mustaine making music. We’ve each taken drastically completely different paths since then. That doesn’t change the truth that I’m extraordinarily pleased with the half that I performed in Megadeth’s historical past and legacy. I’m additionally very, very pleased with the band’s many nice achievements and continued success in my absence. For proper now, I simply really feel immense pleasure and a few critical adrenaline. I’m trying ahead to taking part in with Megadeth at this very cool place, The Budokan.”
The present will function a triple-guitar assault, as Friedman performs alongside Mustaine and present Megadeth guitarist Kiko Loureiro. The live performance can be historic in that it’s Megadeth’s first present on the Budokan Enviornment.
The livestream will start at 4:00 a.m. ET / 1:00 a.m PT on February twenty seventh, with advance tickets out there for $15 right here. Followers may catch Megadeth in individual on the Tokyo present, in addition to the subsequent night time in Osaka, adopted by an Australian tour in March, a couple of US competition dates, and a UK/European run this summer season. Decide up tickets to Megadeth’s upcoming reveals right here.
Friedman, in the meantime, will hit North America in early March for an intensive tour by which he’ll help Queensrÿche and play a quantity headlining reveals. Tickets for many of these dates can be found right here.
In different information, Friedman simply shared a music video for his official Japan Heritage theme music (watch under). “Many individuals outdoors of Japan relegate their picture of Japan to anime/cosplay conventions, Harajuku trend, futuristic neon indicators and Samurai warriors. That is an unimaginable disgrace as a result of as uniquely Japanese as all these issues are, that isn’t even the tip of the tip of the iceberg,” he mentioned in an announcement saying the video’s launch.
