James LoMenzo has issued the following update: "Hey, thanks to all the Megadeth fans who checked in yesterday for my chat-a-thon. Some really great questions and comments. Most of you seemed to really be hyped on the up and coming "Endgame" release so that was great to hear. Thanks to Shawn for crashing the party and saving the day as my bass digits were starting to crumble under the weight of "home-rowing" my replies." MORE

MegaFanClub members, chat live with James LoMenzo TODAY, Friday, July 17 at 5PM PT/8PM ET (24:00 GMT) at the MegaFanClub chat room! A Megadeth CD will be given out as a door prize along with more giveaways following the chat! Chat is exclusive to MFC members. Not a member? Join today! HERE 

Dom Lawson for Metal Hammer magazine has posted the following blog online at this location. Dom: "ENDGAME - ...when you compare Death Magnetic to the new Megadeth album, it vanishes in a puff of Danish hot air. There is simply no comparison. Endgame fucking rips, from start to finish. It is remorselessly metal from start to finish, and not in an old-guys-giving-it-a-jolly-good-go kind of way, but in a state-of-the-art, teach-those-youngsters-a-thing-or-two, come-and-have-a-go-if-you-think-you’re-metal-enough-even-though-you-don’t-stand-a-chance kind of way. The band are on blazing form, whether its Mustaine and Broderick’s magnificent six-string mastery or the pinpoint grind ‘n’ thud of James Lomenzo and Shawn Drover, and every single song crackles with pure energy and real, chest-out-and-fuck-right-off attitude. Cosy obsolescence? No, sir! Metal up your ass? Yes please, and one for the horse! Endgame is a fucking fantastic heavy metal record…a thrash metal record, goddamnit…and it wipes the floor with just about everything else I’ve heard this year. It’s almost certainly the best thing Megadeth have done since Rust In Peace, and by my reckoning that makes it the second best Megadeth album ever." MORE

MegaFanClub members, chat live with James LoMenzo Friday, July 17 at 5PM PT/8PM ET (24:00 GMT) at the MegaFanClub chat room! A Megadeth CD will be given out as a door prize along with more giveaways following the chat! Chat is exclusive to MFC members. Not a member? Join today! HERE

Aaron Wilschick of puregrainaudio.com conducted an interview with Shawn Drover previous to the band heading out on the Canadian Carnage tour in June. PGA: "Recently we were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to speak to Megadeth drummer Shawn Drover about what it’s like being in one of the biggest metal bands of all time, what it’s like working with Dave [Mustaine] and what we can expect from the new record." Read the entire interview HERE

The July 2009 issue of Revolver with full coverage of America’s first heavy-metal Golden Gods awards show, held on April 7 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, is now on stands and available for purchase. "Just about anyone who is anyone in the metal world is on the cover. Ozzy, Lemmy, Dave Mustaine, Scott Ian, Vinnie Paul, Jonathan Davis, Jamey Jasta...the list goes on and on." See the cover and a behind-the-scenes video of Revolver's Golden Gods cover shoot HERE 

A winner has been announced in the "Endgame Lyrics Contest" that was held here at Megadeth.com during this last month. Congratulations to Matt Gerson of Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA! Matt has won a Dave Mustaine Signature VMNT Dean guitar for being the first to correctly guess all the lyrics of the title track from Megadeth's upcoming new album "Endgame". Every day during the past month, words from the song were revealed bit by bit by fans playing the game with daily wins of Dave Mustaine blend coffee from Net Worth Coffee Brokers. Today all the lyrics were guessed correctly and Matt won the grand prize! Congrats to Matt and a big thanks to Dave Mustaine and Dean Guitars for sponsoring the contest and prizes! MORE