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• Jun 8, 2024 - Jun 8, 2024
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Appetite For Destruction, brought to you by ConcertFix, is a spectacular tribute to one of the most influential rock bands in history - Guns N' Roses. This performance is a must-see for any hard rock fan, recreating the raw energy and musical prowess of the original band at their peak. From the iconic opening riff of "Sweet Child O' Mine" to the rebellious spirit of "Welcome to the Jungle," our talented musicians deliver an electrifying performance that captures the essence of Guns N' Roses. With an impressive attention to detail, Appetite For Destruction offers an authentic concert experience, complete with high-octane guitar solos, powerful vocals, and a stage presence that embodies the spirit of rock and roll. Don't miss out on this unmissable tribute to a band that defined a generation. Book your tickets with ConcertFix today and prepare to rock out to the legendary sounds of Guns N' Roses.

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Appetite for Destruction headlined at BB King's in Times Square for five consecutive years. In their 20 years of performances, the band has sold out venues mainly throughout the Northeastern part of the United States, but they have toured all around the states. They have performed at venues like Club XL, The Ritz and the Norva.

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Don't miss your chance to see Appetite for Destruction perform live in concert. The 2024 Appetite for Destruction tour only has 2 shows left on its schedule. Appetite for Destruction's next show will take place on April 27th, 2024 at 6:30pm in Apple Valley, CA, at the Hilltop Tavern and Inn . Tickets to this exciting live performance range from $24.44 to $41.60 per Guns N' Roses Tribute ticket .

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Grab a seat to Appetite for Destruction's final show of the year on June 8th, 2024 at 8:00pm at the Paramount Theatre - Huntington , which is located at 370 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY. Cheap Appetite for Destruction tickets start as low as $30.24 a seat. Fans looking for the ultimate concert experience can purchase premium seats for $114.48 a ticket. There are only 76 tickets left for this performance. Secure your spot at the show by ordering your Appetite for Destruction tickets today from TicketSmarter.

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Appetite for Destruction Tour

The Appetite for Destruction Tour , by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses , promoted their debut album Appetite for Destruction , released in July 1987. During its 16-month duration, the band opened for bands The Cult , Mötley Crüe , Alice Cooper , Iron Maiden and Aerosmith , and headlined shows across four continents.

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North america (3rd leg), north america (4th leg), north america (aerosmith leg).

• Monsters of Rock England
• 4 Nights @ LA Coliseum
• Farm Aid IV
• Pacific leg

"We started out as a hardcore band and we toured our fucking asses off," Slash recalled. "Next thing you know, we've turned into pop stars." [1]

It is the only tour in which the classic lineup of Axl Rose , Slash, Izzy Stradlin , Duff McKagan and Steven Adler performed together, aside from opening four shows in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for The Rolling Stones in October 1989.

On August 20, 1988, Guns N' Roses performed at the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Park in Castle Donington , England. At the start of their set, the capacity crowd of over 100,000 began jumping and surging forward. Despite Axl Rose 's requests that the crowd move away from the stage, two fans were trampled to death. Media largely blamed the band for the tragedy, and reported that they continued playing despite the dangerous conditions. However, the venue's head of security noted that GN'R had not been aware of the extent of fan injuries, had immediately halted their set when requested to do so, and had attempted to calm the crowd. [2]

The Texas Stadium show on September 17, 1988 is remembered by the band as one of their worst performances. [3] "The band completely fell apart in front of this massive audience," recalled Slash. "It was desperate on stage, trying to keep everything together. I have nightmares about it." [4]

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" It's So Easy " is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, appearing on their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction . The song was released as the band's first single on June 15, 1987, in the UK, where it reached number 84 on the UK Singles Chart as a double A-Side with "Mr. Brownstone". It was also released as a maxi-single in Germany later in the same year.

" Civil War " is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses that originally appeared on the 1990 compilation Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal and later on the band's 1991 album Use Your Illusion II . It is a protest song on war, referring to all war as "civil war" and stating that war only "feeds the rich while it buries the poor". In the song, lead singer Axl Rose asks, "What's so civil about war, anyway?"

" Think About You " is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on the band's debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). Although credited to the group, the song was primarily composed by rhythm guitarist, Izzy Stradlin, who also plays lead guitar on it.

Guns N' Roses is the second EP by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released in 1988.

" My Michelle " is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on the band's 1987 debut studio album Appetite for Destruction .

The Roots of Guns N' Roses is a compilation album containing old songs of Hollywood Rose. It was released on June 22, 2004, by Deadline Music.

" Shadow of Your Love " is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, originally released as a B-side in 1987 and then later released in an alternate take as a single in 2018. The song entered at 31 on the Mainstream Rock chart in its May 12 edition, peaking at No. 5 as of June 19. It would later be included in the 2020 re-issue of the band's Greatest Hits album.

" So Fine " is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, released as a promotional single in 1992. It features bassist Duff McKagan on lead vocals, with Axl Rose singing the intro song's verses. The song, written entirely by McKagan, is a tribute to Johnny Thunders.

• ↑ Upton, Mick (December 8, 1995). "Incident at Donington Monsters of Rock 1988" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2016 . Retrieved October 3, 2010 .
• ↑ a-4-d.com/t1373-1988-09-17-texas-stadium-irving-usa
• ↑ Elliott, Paul (Summer 2015). "Heavy Load". Classic Rock . No.   #212. p.   138.
• ↑ "1987.09.06 - Tucson Garden, Tucson, AZ, USA" . www.a-4-d.com . Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
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The Appetite For Destruction super deluxe and Locked N’ Loaded box sets not only present Guns N’ Roses ’ debut in a remastered version that practically punches you in the face, it includes a raft of demos and outtakes that give a closer look at how the legendary record came to be made. At the time Appetite For Destruction was originally released, on July 21, 1987, the group was interviewed about the making of the record.

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“Welcome To The Jungle”

Axl: I consider the first song to be the most representative [of Guns N’ Roses]… I wrote the words in Seattle. It’s a big city but at the same time, it’s still a small city compared to LA and the things that you’re gonna learn. It seemed a lot more rural up there. I just wrote how LA looked to me. If someone comes to town and they want to find something, they can find whatever they want.

Izzy: It’s about Hollywood streets; true to life.

Slash: That’s the first song I had that Axl wrote lyrics to and helped me write. I had the riff part of it.

Axl: It came across, I think it was, on the third take. We did the whole album that way. Second or third take. That’s where spontaneity comes from. If you don’t get it by then you’ve lost the feel of it.

“It’s So Easy”

Duff: A song West [Arkeen] and myself wrote. It’s an account of a time me and him, and also the rest of the band, were kinda going through. We didn’t have money, but we had a lot of hangers-on and girls we could basically live off of… things were just too easy. There’s an emptiness, it’s so easy.

Axl: I sang in a low voice ’cause that fit the attitude of that song better. Wasn’t something I really thought about, I just started doing it. People ask why I don’t sing like that on a lot of songs and it’s only because I just sing whatever the song deserves. And it deserved being sung different than the other material. It’s a hard, tight, simple, punk rock song. When I went to England they said punk’s been dead for ten years. And I said, “It’s really weird, ’cause America doesn’t know that.”

“Nightrain”

Slash: ‘Nightrain’ is just like ‘… Jungle’. It’s very indicative of what the band’s all about. I remember when it first came together, we’d hitchhiked to the Rainbow and were walking down to the Troubadour and just started yelling ‘Nightrain’ ’cause we were drinking it…

Duff: We were living in the Gardener Street studio, this place where we had one little box of a room. We had no money but we could dig up a buck or two to go down to this liquor store. It happened to sell this great wine called Nightrain that would f__k you up for a dollar. Five dollars and you’d be gone. We lived off this stuff.

Axl: As far as the lyrics go, it’s more attitude and describing how you feel when you’re on it, rather than necessarily how you may be. You feel invincible.

“Out Ta Get Me”

Axl: The lyrics are saying, “I’ve always been in trouble but I’m still handling it.” Like every time you turn around, someone is trying to screw you over financially, or the cops are banging on your door and you didn’t do anything. It’s just being railroaded into something and trying to get out from underneath it. You know, parents, teachers, preachers… everybody. The last verse Slash and I put together as a joke, ’cause we were talking about how we get in fights sometimes, and how some people get pi__ed off that you’re drunk. But they’re the ones that bought the bottle of whiskey to get you drunk on. Some people say I got a chip on my shoulder.

Slash: It’s kinda hard to explain this so people can understand it. We were one of the most opposed bands. We had opposition from everywhere, the whole f__king time. Still. It’s not as bad now ’cause we’re signed and some people like the s__t we do. But we started out with so many people from so many different directions, trying to lash out at us. And trying to say Guns N’ Roses this and that, and don’t let them in here, and don’t let them do this, and don’t let them do that, and watch them, and this and that and the other.

“Mr. Brownstone”

Axl: When we moved out of our place on Fountain and La Cienega I was the last one to leave, and found this piece of yellow paper wadded up in the corner where Izzy’s and Steven’s room was. It had the lyrics to ‘… Brownstone’ on it. I read it and went, “This is great.” They said they had music for it and we ended up starting to rehearse this thing.

Slash: A lot of people have a misconception about this song. They think it’s about drugs. It’s not so much a statement about our drug habits; it’s more a statement about other people’s drug habits. It’s a good little ditty that people can listen to and maybe think about what they’re doing. Try and get themselves in perspective.

Izzy: It can mean a million different things to a million different people. It’s like when you listen to a Zeppelin song, what do you think? I have all kinds of f__king wild ideas about what “Custard Pie” is about.

“Paradise City”

Duff: The chords to that song I wrote when I first moved to LA, when I didn’t know anybody and was kinda feeling a little down. So that kinda came out, like reaching for something, you know.

Slash: The best songs we do, they’re collaborations. The best way to do it is to have the whole band sit there and listen to everybody else’s ideas, and put it all together to make something that everybody enjoys playing.

Axl: The verses are more about being in the jungle, the chorus is like being back in the Midwest or somewhere. It reminds me of when I was a little kid and just looked up at the blue sky and went, “Wow, what is all this, it’s so big out there.” Everything was more innocent. There are parts of the song that have more of a down-home feel. And when I started putting the overlayers of my vocals (I put five tracks on there), it seemed that it came out like some Irish or Scottish heritage. One of the weird things is I had a feeling that it would go over good in Europe.

“My Michelle”

Axl: I know a girl named Michelle and she became a really good friend of the band’s and I was going out with her for a while. It’s a true story. Slash and some other members of the band said that’s kinda too heavy to say about poor, sweet Michelle: she’ll freak out. I’d written this nice sweet song about her, and then I looked at it and thought, “That really doesn’t touch any basis of reality,” so I put down an honest thing. It describes her life… I showed her the lyrics after about three weeks of debating, and she was so happy that someone didn’t paint just a pretty picture. She loves it. It was a real song to her, not something hokey.

“Think About You”

Izzy: It’s a quick love song about drugs, sex, Hollywood, and money.

“Sweet Child O’ Mine”

Axl: I had written this poem, reached a dead end with it, and put it on the shelf. Then Slash and Izzy got working together on the song and I came in, Izzy hit a rhythm, and all of sudden this poem popped into my head. It just all came together. A lot of rock bands are too f__king wimpy to have any sentiment or any emotion in any of their stuff unless they’re in pain. It’s the first positive love song I’ve ever written, but I never had anyone to write anything that positive about, I guess.

“You’re Crazy”

Slash: When I play that song I don’t even know what I’m playing. It’s just such a kick in the ass for me, so I run around. I try to concentrate on the music and keep kinda stationary, except on that song. I don’t play the same solo every night ’cause I’m not on the same wavelength as other nights.

“Anything Goes”

Axl: We [used to do it] so fast. Then wrote another version about our times at the old studio and we kept that for a while. But then when we came down to record it, we didn’t want to. But Tom [Zutaut, Geffen A&R man] was very adamant about wanting that song recorded, so we figured, “We’re gonna have to rewrite it.” In pre-production we came up with something we liked a lot better, but the verses weren’t written until the night we recorded the song.

“Rocket Queen”

Axl: I wrote this song for this girl who was gonna have a band and she was gonna call it Rocket Queen. She kinda kept me alive for a while. The last part of the song is my message to this person, or anybody else who can get something out of it. It’s like there’s hope and a friendship note at the end of the song. For that song, there was also something I tried to work out with various people – a recorded sex act. It was somewhat spontaneous but premeditated; something I wanted to put on the record.

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Guns N’ Roses: Every song on Appetite For Destruction, ranked from worst to best

Each song on Guns N’ Roses’ iconic Appetite For Destruction album ranked in order of greatness…

Truth be told, this is a bit of a fruitless exercise. Many years ago, when Kerrang! came up with the undisputed countdown of the 20 greatest Guns N’ Roses songs ever, nine of Appetite For Destruction’s 12 tracks were among its number. Four of its songs were lodged in the top five. For lots of people, Appetite For Destruction is Guns N’ Roses. What the hell, then, are we doing ranking the best collection of songs by one of the best bands of all time?

Let’s get one thing straightened out before we begin: Appetite For Destruction, from start to finish, is brilliant. Near-perfect, in fact, as we will see. And that's what makes arguing about Appetite so much fun – few albums that are fit to rub shoulders with it contain such scope for debate over its individual highlights.

Luckily, we’re here to set the record straight. Below, then, is the definitive ranking of Appetite For Destruction’s 12 tracks. You might disagree. You’d be wrong. But that’s okay. Learning from our mistakes is what makes us better people. Remember that.

Anyway, where were we? Let’s begin…

12 Anything Goes

A song that pre-dates even Guns N’ Roses, with its harder, heavier roots as the Hollywood Rose song My Way, Your Way – hence the writing credit appearance of one Chris Weber – Anything Goes is probably the one song that stands between Appetite and being the ‘perfect’ album, in that it’s the most skippable song on the album. Would its absence make for a better album? That might be a stretch, but no-one would lose a second of sleep if they never heard it again. A rare moment where Guns neither swagger with enough style, or punch with enough purpose – and a strong contender for Axl Rose’s worst lyrics, too.

11 You’re Crazy

Originally written as the bluesy, slowed-down and stripped-back version that would appear on 1988’s Lies EP, You’re Crazy loses much of its feel to the breakneck speed in which it’s rattled through on Appetite. A third version – something of a sleazy halfway house between the Appetite and Lies takes – appears as the B-side on the UK Welcome To The Jungle single, but the song’s superior bare-bones version is the known favourite of both Steven Adler and Slash , so take up any of your moaning with them.

10 Think About You

Perhaps Appetite’s most underrated – or, in fact, most forgotten – track. Challenge anyone to name all of the album’s songs, and chances are this will be the last one they name. Weird, really, given its positioning as a driving force in side B’s mid-tempo top-half. A rare example of Izzy Stradlin on lead, too, which is only fair, seeing as he wrote the bloody thing. Also: Sweet Child O' Mine doesn’t explode out off the bat in the same way without Think About You’s tee-up.

9 My Michelle

Well, well, well… Let’s just come out and say it: My Michelle isn’t as good as you remember. Embark on your own attempts at putting Appetite’s tracks in order of greatness, and your first draft will no doubt have My Michelle higher up. That, though, it an entirely forgivable mistake. Sure, hold this up as the example of Izzy’s importance to Guns’ strut; yes, that opening couplet is one of Appetite’s most memorable. It’s a killer song, no doubt. But its second verse and chorus never quite hit the heights promised by …Michelle’s blistering opening, and when you’re in a class of competition as good as this, even a second’s weakness is gonna be punished.

8 Mr Brownstone

Perhaps this is unfairly harsh on Mr Brownstone. Perhaps this whole exercise is unfairly harsh. Mr Brownstone is a brilliant song. Appetite is full of brilliant songs. Yet, if we’re being harsh for the sake of a list we’re semi-regretting even beginning, Mr Brownstone doesn’t do any of its component parts as well as other songs on the rest of the album. It is Appetite’s jack-of-all-trades. Most other bands would be blessed to have a song this good. They’d build a whole career around it. That it’s Appetite’s eighth best track is a problem it’s just going to have to come to terms with. There’s nothing wrong with being a team player.

7 Out Ta Get Me

See Mr Brownstone, but add an opening riff that just reeks of the Sunset Strip. Like so much of Appetite, Out Ta Get Me is a time capsule of a song, GN’R’s “big anarchy statement”, as Slash put it, of a period when the band’s five members only had to so much as fart to feel the long arm of the law.

6 Sweet Child O’ Mine

Here’s a fact you can learn to live with: Sweet Child, considering its gargantuan size and universal recognition, isn’t the knock-em-dead classic it’s held up as. Familiarity breeding a touch of contempt? Maybe. But there’s a reason GN’R’s Geffen A&R man Tom Zutaut says the band positioned Sweet Child on side B of Appetite, in the hope that label higher-ups wouldn’t notice the song that Slash said made him “sick” early enough to use it as the album’s lead single. Yes, it features one of history’s most famous riffs and one of Slash’s strongest solos, but Appetite’s crowning glory? Behave yourself. It very nearly didn’t even make the album at all.

5 Nightrain

The members of Guns – and in particular Axl, who to this day sports a tattoo of the band’s Black Rose album art on his right arm – are long-term devotees of Thin Lizzy. And if the Irish legends’ Whiskey In The Jar has gone down as one of rock’s ultimate drinking songs, then you can take Nightrain as GN’R’s own ode to the Devil’s drop. Immortalising the cheap-as-hell wine that would fuel the band’s early rampages, Axl’s lyrical profession that ' I’m drinking gasoline ' would perhaps have been a wiser choice than the $1.29-a-bottle paint-thinner of the song’s title. Still, it only takes the first three beats of Steven Adler’s opening count-in to make us immediately want to fuck off work and stand in the sunshine with a pint.

4 It’s So Easy

To the uninitiated, that GN’R have spent the past two years opening their Not In This Lifetime tour with a song that isn’t Welcome To The Jungle would appear a curiosity. But in It’s So Easy, Appetite possesses the ultimate album opener that never was. Much of the album’s grit, potency and heart comes in its autobiographical nature, yet while many of its numbers detail stories told through the prism of romanticism and exaggeration, It’s So Easy is as raw an account of the band’s formative years as having a bottle wrapped round your head. Only more welcome.

3 Paradise City

On any other album? A stand-out, career-making highlight. On Appetite? Slash’s favourite Guns hit is simply Just Another Classic. We could argue for another three decades years about whether Appetite is the best hard rock album of all time, but what’s indisputable, as evidence by this list, is that Appetite possesses the single greatest side A ever. Fact. Taken as a six-song set, Paradise City becomes our de facto closer, as it has long been in the live arena, and the double-time two-minute closing salvo is Appetite at its most free-wheeling and exhilarating.

2 Rocket Queen

Okay, the recorded sex towards the end of the track is lame. But Rocket Queen captures every inch of Guns at their finest: the tight, driving rhythm section of Steven Adler and, in his finest hour, Duff McKagan ; irresistible Slash leads backed up with flickknife-sharp melodies from Izzy Stradlin; Axl showing a depth and dexterity in both his vocal and lyrics. No finer album closer you shall find, and a fitting debut album curtain-dropper from rock’s most dangerous quintet.

1 Welcome To The Jungle

Just as Rocket Queen proved the ideal choice for Appetite’s conclusion, could you imagine the album not starting with Welcome To The Jungle? Like a putrid home-brew fermented in a discarded bathtub, it’s the very essence of Guns N’ Roses bottled into four minutes and 31 seconds and used to wash down a speedball. Name a better ‘side one, track one’. Name a better song on Appetite For Destruction. It’s fine, we’ll wait. We’ve got nothing better to do.

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The Paramount Tribute Series Presents

Appetite for destruction – a tribute to guns n’ roses, with special guest : o el amor, saturday, jun 10 2023, show at 8pm  |   doors at 7pm, metal | tribute, seating charts.

Whether you were lucky enough to see G N’ R in their heyday supporting their debut album, in all of their grandiose indulgence on the Use Your Illusion tour, or in a performance by the 2000’s era lineup (billed by some as "Hired Guns N' Rose") in support of Chinese Democracy, all fans of Guns N’ Roses are welcome to celebrate the music that revitalized mainstream rock.Appetite for Destruction, the ultimate Guns N’ Roses experience, have been performing the music of Guns N’ Roses for almost twenty years, selling out venues throughout the northeast.  They have performed with special guest and current G N’ R keyboardist Dizzy Reed, shared two bills with ex-G N’ R guitarist Gilby Clarke, and headlined at BB King’s in Times Square for five consecutive years.Appetite delivers the definitive Guns N’ Roses show, performing all the hit singles, rock radio staples, and G N’ R fan favorites with acute attention to.... Read more...

Whether you were lucky enough to see G N’ R in their heyday supporting their debut album, in all of their grandiose indulgence on the Use Your Illusion tour, or in a performance by the 2000’s era lineup (billed by some as “Hired Guns N’ Rose”) in support of Chinese Democracy, all fans of Guns N’ Roses are welcome to celebrate the music that revitalized mainstream rock. Appetite for Destruction, the ultimate Guns N’ Roses experience, have been performing the music of Guns N’ Roses for almost twenty years, selling out venues throughout the northeast.  They have performed with special guest and current G N’ R keyboardist Dizzy Reed, shared two bills with ex-G N’ R guitarist Gilby Clarke, and headlined at BB King’s in Times Square for five consecutive years. Appetite delivers the definitive Guns N’ Roses show, performing all the hit singles, rock radio staples, and G N’ R fan favorites with acute attention to detail, serving as both outstanding lookalikes and sound-alikes for the legendary band.  Their catalog of Guns N’ Roses songs is unsurpassed, as is their nearly two-decade-long career of bringing G N’ R to the masses. You may not get to see the entire classic Guns N’ Roses lineup live, but you can surely get your Guns and satisfy your appetite for all things G N’ R with Appetite for Destruction.

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Megadeth Announces Destroy All Enemies U.S. Tour

Featuring Mudvayne and All That Remains

Tickets for the 33-city nationwide tour on-sale this friday, april 26.

Megadeth is bringing its iconic live show to North America with a 33-city, nationwide tour, Destroy All Enemies, produced by Live Nation, this fall including stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, St. Louis and many more. Tickets for all dates will be on sale Friday at 10am local time with an exclusive presale for the Cyber Army/Megadeth Digital beginning today, Tuesday, April 23 at 12pm local time Megadeth.com .

Bringing along Mudvayne and All That Remains, the tour begins in Rogers, Arkansas on August 2 and runs throughout the month before wrapping in Nashville, Tennessee on September 28. Performing classic hits from Rust In Peace, Countdown to Extinction and more, the tour also brings Dave Mustaine and bandmates back to North America to perform their latest studio album The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead! Featuring some of Mustaine’s strongest-ever songwriting, the tour offers an equally ambitious live performance that delivers on all fronts.

“Our ‘Crush The World’ tour has been a tremendous experience for the four of us,” shared Dave Mustaine. “We are all playing tight, and that has made it possible for me to really focus on solos and singing, we are playing more songs than ever before, and we are closer to each other, onstage AND off. I’m excited to see Mudvayne, and All That Remains. Join us as we DESTROY ALL ENEMIES.”

The North American jaunt comes on the heels of a highly anticipated and successful stint in Latin America wrapping this month and starting back up in Europe this summer. With stops in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and México and forthcoming dates in Sweden, Italy, France, Germany and more, the band’s global appeal and lasting impact is more apparent than ever as continued calls for international touring are demanded.

Megadeth, alongside founder and frontman Dave Mustaine, are renowned for their unparalleled energy and mastery on stage. In 2023, the GRAMMY-Award winning band dominated arenas and festivals, reaffirming its status as one of heavy metal’s most formidable live acts. Dubbed “as ferocious and hard-hitting as ever” by AllMusic , Megadeth enjoyed sold-out shows and critical acclaim on the latest run of the Crush The World Tour captivating audiences and showcasing the latest and greatest hits.

For more information and to purchase tickets to the Destroy All Enemies Tour, visit www.megadeth.com .

Destroy All Enemies U.S. Tour 2024

Aug 2               Rogers, AR                   Walmart AMP

Aug 3               Houston, TX                 713 Music Hall

Aug 5               Albuquerque, NM          Isleta Amphitheatre

Aug 6               Denver, CO                  Ball Arena

Aug 8               Phoenix, AZ                  Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

Aug 9               Los Angeles, CA           YouTube Theater

Aug 10             Concord, CA                 Toyota Pavilion at Concord

Aug 12             Auburn, WA                  White River Amphitheatre

Aug 13             Bend, OR                     Hayden Homes Amphitheater

Aug 16             Las Vegas, NV              Bakkt Theatre at Planet Hollywood

Aug 17             Salt Lake City, UT         Maverick Arena*

Aug 20             Irving, TX                      The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory

Aug 21             Austin, TX                     Germania Insurance Amphitheater

Aug 23             Macon, GA                   Atrium Health Macon Amphitheater*

Aug 24             West Palm Beach, FL    IThink Financial Amphitheatre

Sept 3              Tinley Park, IL               Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre

Sept 5              Huntington, WV             Marshall Health Network Arena*

Sept 6              Charlotte, NC                PNC Music Pavilion

Sept 7              Raleigh, NC                  Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek

Sept 9              Reading, PA                 Santander Arena*

Sept 10             Albany, NY                   MVP Arena*

Sept 11             Boston, MA                   Leader Bank

Sept 13             Bethel, MY                    Bethel Woods Center For The Arts

Sept 14             Wantagh, NY                Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

Sept 15             Richmond, VA               Virginia Credit Union Live!*

Sept 17             Cincinnati, OH               Riverbend Music Center

Sept 18             Pittsburgh, PA               Stage AE

Sept 20             Noblesville, IN               Ruoff Music Center

Sept 21             Clarkston, MI                Pine Knob Music Theatre

Sept 24             Minneapolis, MN           The Armory

Sept 26             St Louis, MO                 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre STL

Sept 27             Southaven, MS             Bankplus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove*

Sept 28             Nashville, TN                Nashville Municipal Auditorium

*Non Live Nation Dates

About Megadeth:

With a musical legacy spanning four decades, Megadeth has sold in excess of 50 million albums worldwide earning numerous accolades including 1 Grammy award with 13 nominations and five consecutive platinum albums. Megadeth’s debut album, Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! was named by VH1 as the “Greatest Thrash Metal Debut Album of All Time.” The band’s latest album The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! was released in September 2022 via Tradecraft/UMG. It debuted at No. 1 across Billboard’s Top Rock, Hard Rock, and Alternative Albums charts, and No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and the lead single “We’ll Be Back” was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Metal Performance.

About Live Nation Entertainment

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