Dave Mustaine has posted the following message in his “Mustaine Speaks” forum at the Gigantour forums.

Welcome Friends!

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Friends!

Welcome to Gigantour 2006! I doubt I will get to meet many of you, but just know that I look forward to those of you that I do meet.

I am very proud of the bands that I have chosen this year. And although some of us are similar, most of us aren’t. One thing is that the guitarists are what makes me the proudest!

The following interview with Dave Mustaine concerning Gigantour has been posted on Ultimate-Guitar.com.

Read below, or go to their website to see 2 videos of the interview.

Megadeth has once again produced a stellar Metal-themed festival in Gigantour, which is set to start September 7 in San Diego, California. The tour will also feature Lamb Of God, Opeth, Arch Enemy, Overkill, Into Eternity, and a few others that will be announced at a later date.

Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine, who created Gigantour, talked about the concept of the festival.

A lyric contest has been launched at the Megadeth forums to guess the lyrics to the title track of the upcoming Megadeth album, United Aboinations.

Find the forum here.

Below are the rules and prizes posted by the contest runner, Megadeth.com webmaster Megadave.

Contest Rules
Object of contest: Fill in all the blanks with the letters provided to make up all the lyrics for the new Megadeth song “United Abominations”.

Grand Prize: ESP LTD DV-200 guitar
Daily winner prize: Phone call from Dave Mustaine

The Gigantour website has been relaunched to coincide with the announcement of Gigantour 2006.

Find it here: www.Gigantour.com

Gigantour also now has a MySpace profile! Check it out here: www.MySpace.com/Gigantour2006

If you’re a member of MySpace, don’t forget to add Rattlehead HQ! Find us here.

The following Gigantour 2006 press release has been posted on Megadeth.com!

07/22/06

GIGANTOUR IS BACK:

‘THE MOTHER OF ALL SHRED FESTS’
TO KICK OFF SECOND YEAR IN SEPTEMBER;

MEGADETH RETURNS AS MAIN STAGE HEADLINER

WITH LAMB OF GOD CONFIRMED

GIGANTOUR is back.

The fast and furious traveling festival that was hailed last year by Revolver magazine as “the mother of all shred fests” will kick off its second year in early September.

Dave Mustaine has posted the following update on the Megadeth forums regarding completing the new Megadeth album, “United Abominations” and the Gigantour 2006 festival.

7.22.2006 update
Droogies!

I am officially telling you that as of this second, I am finished with all of my parts on the new Megadeth record “United Abominations.”

Some song titles are:
1. United Abominations
2. Washington Is Next
3. Gears Of War
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Psych!

First of all, an apology to you subscribers, this news is a few days old as I’ve been away, and the cover I arranged didn’t work out. Still, it’s exciting news all the same!

The following has been posted on Megadeth.com!

United Abominations
Dave Mustaine reveals all the gory details leading up to Megadeth’s new album for Roadrunner, to be titled United Abominations, in this interview posted by MTV News this morning:

When Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine named his band’s 2004 album The System Has Failed, he seemed to be commenting on the state of U.S. politics. But in retrospect, the title was dead-on for an entirely different reason: The system Mustaine depended on for his livelihood was falling apart.

The following has been posted on Blabbermouth.net regarding an interview with Glen Drover that has been posted online

An audio interview with MEGADETH/EIDOLON guitarist Glen Drover, conducted last month by Norway’s Metal Express Radio, is available for streaming at this location (Windows Media).

EIDOLON latest album, entitled “The Parallel Otherworld”, was released on June 6 via Escapi Music.

EIDOLON features the MEGADETH brothers Glen and Shawn Drover (drums). Handling the vocals for the band on the new CD is acclaimed vocalist Nils K. Rue from PAGAN’S MIND.

MEGADETH’s as-yet-untitled Roadrunner Records debut is tentatively scheduled for release on Halloween (October 31).

Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the official Megadeth forums regarding the upcoming Gigantour announcement, and the new Megadeth album

7.12.06 update
Droogies!

On Monday July 24th we will be making the official announcement of Gigantour 2006 North America with information on this year’s Line-up, the cities, the venues, and the dates as well. You can get information here or at the Gigantour site.

Meanwhile, deep in vocals-land, the choice of what new songs to break out live is as cool as it was during the KIMBABIG tour when we were playing the new music from PSBWB.

Amazon.com have posted the covers for both the Gigantour CD (due August 22nd), and the Gigantour DVD (due September 5th).

The cover for the Gigantour CD is below.

The cover for the Gigantour DVD is below:

Full details for both releases can be found here:
http://www.rattleheadhq.com/wordpress/?p=406

You can preorder the Gigantour CD from Amazon here.

You can preorder the Gigantour DVD from Amazon here.