While Megadeth fans are anticipating a new album from the group, they’ll also have a chance to reminisce on the past, with the thrash-metal icons announcing a new ‘greatest hits’ album.

Earlier this month, Megadeth took to Twitter to tease a big announcement on January 11th. While diehard fans were wondering whether we’d be getting an update on their 16th studio album, others were sure we were receiving a brand new single.

As it turned out, it was actually neither, with Megadeth announcing the release of a brand new greatest hits album.

Titled Warheads On Foreheads, the 35-track compilation features remastered tunes, handpicked by frontman Dave Mustaine. At this stage, there’s no word as to what the tracklist is looking like, but given Mustaine’s close relationship with fans, you can be sure it’ll be a collection of their most beloved tunes.

Of course, this isn’t Megadeth’s first compilation album, with Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years, Greatest Hits: Back to the Start, and Anthology: Set the World Afire being released between 2000 and 2008.

Of course, with four new records being released since the last comp, this new retrospective album looks set to be biggest and most comprehensive collection of the group’s tracks to date.

In recent news, Dave Mustaine has recently revealed he’s taking time off from social media to work on the band’s new record, and new music will “absolutely” arrive in 2019.

“We’ve been putting new music up in my Dropbox. And the stuff that Dirk [Verbeuren]’s been playing along to it is scary” Mustaine explained back in November.

“We’ve never had any of those blast-beat kind of things in our music before… Some of the drumming on this is mind-blowing.”

“It’s making me a better guitar player again, which I love. But I never thought we were gonna be playing this fast or this aggressive again.”

Meanwhile, Dave Mustaine has also revealed he’s been petitioning for the Grammys to add another metal category, almost two years after Megadeth won the award for Best Metal Performance with Dystopia.

“I joined the Grammy chapter out in Nashville to address that exact thing,” Mustaine explained to US radio station 107.7 The Bone. “I joined the Grammy chapter because we have one metal category and I think they’ve got a dozen polka categories.”

“I stopped going to the Grammys because you’d have to sit through, like, 30 Latin jazz records, and then you’d have to sit through another 30 jazz Latin records. And it’s, like, ‘What?’”

“So a couple of years ago, the guy that produced our record Th1rt3en, Johnny K, and a couple of other guys at the Grammys tried to get another category, and they were so close, but it failed,” Mustaine continued.

“And I called them up and I said, ‘We’re doing this.’ So 2020, we’re fighting — we’re getting all of the metal labels that we know, we’re trying to get them all together to petition the Grammys to give us another metal category.”

Pre-orders for Megadeth’s Warheads On Foreheads will go live on January 25th.

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