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}} ''Thirteen'' (stylized as ''TH1RT3EN'') is the thirteenth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth. It was released worldwide on November 1, 2011, by Roadrunner Records, although the album was released on October 26, 2011 for Japan. ''Thirteen'' is the first Megadeth studio album since ''The World Needs a Hero'' (2001) to feature bassist and founding member David Ellefson, who returned to the band in 2010. ''Thirteen'' debuted at number 11 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. The album broke into the top 20 in several other markets as well. It has sold about 120,000 copies in the United States as of December 2012. The album has received largely positive reviews from critics. The album followed the successful ''Endgame'', released two years previously, and was recorded in late spring 2011. In addition to new material was written for the album, the band decided to rework and release several older songs, some of which had previously seen release as demos or bonus tracks. Additionally, several of the songs on the album were intended to appear on video game soundtracks, notably "Sudden Death", which appeared as a playable song in the 2010 video game ''Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock''. The lead single from ''Thirteen'' was the Al Capone-inspired "Public Enemy No. 1". This was followed by "Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)" about a month later. "Sudden Death" was released as a single prior to the announcement of ''Thirteen'' to promote ''Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock'', but was later included on the album. All three songs received Grammy Award nominations, in the "Best Metal Performance" or "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" categories. ==Writing, recording and album artwork== In July 2010, while being asked about the success of Megadeth's release ''Endgame'' (2009), drummer Shawn Drover revealed that the band had begun discussing a follow-up album and said that there were a "couple of ideas" the band was starting to work on. In a later interview, frontman and guitarist Dave Mustaine stated that the album would contain a mix of songs he had written earlier in his career and new compositions written for the album. Mustaine confirmed that Megadeth would record at the band's own Vic's Garage studio in California. Johnny K was chosen to produce the record because Andy Sneap, the producer of Megadeth's previous two albums, was unavailable due to schedule conflicts. Mustaine subsequently revealed that the album would be titled ''Thirteen'' and would feature previously released tracks such as "Sudden Death" and "Never Dead". In an interview before a show in Auckland, New Zealand, Mustaine noted that the then-upcoming record was the last one on the band's contract with Roadrunner Records and mentioned that Roadrunner was trying to give the band a "huge new deal". However, Mustaine expressed frustration with the label, saying "The treatment's been terrible over the years, and I just don't want it." He stated that he would prefer to retire than "continue to play like that". Nevertheless, Mustaine exclaimed the band's new record would be "great" and the songs were "really good". In a December 2010 interview, bassist David Ellefson (who was welcomed back into the band earlier that year) commented "There's some ideas that we're now starting to individually compose", but clarified the band would not be hitting the studio until 2011. Ellefson also speculated that the album would be influenced by the band's (then) recent live performances of the entire ''Rust in Peace'' album (1990). Mustaine initially suggested that the album was turning out to be "more like ''Endgame''". however he later declared the album was instead "Different, a hundred percent different, unlike anything we've ever done before because the guitar sounds are different, it sounds really super-modern." He went on to compare the sound to "really old classic Sabbath and with a little bit of a modern edge of Queens of the Stone Age kind of thing." Ellefson stated the album was ready to be mixed as of July 2011. When asked if it could be compared to any previous Megadeth album, he said the album "kind of fits in around the ''Countdown to Extinction'' album" but noted it would depend on how the album was to be mixed. Ellefson also announced the band has been considering album titles, but no release date was yet planned. Chris Broderick compared some parts of the album specifically to ''Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?'' (1986), ''Rust in Peace'', or ''Countdown to Extinction'' (1992), but also stated "I've been likening it to a very diverse CD. It's not one of those ones that you'll put it on and every song sounds like the last one. It's got everything from anthems to more radio friendly stuff to hard-hitting thrash and some cool, dark-sounding stuff." In a later interview, Broderick again touted the sonic diversity of the album, noting that it is "like a cut in time from each CD of the past Megadeth discography". It was announced that a new song, "Never Dead", would be included in a promotional trailer for Konami's upcoming video game ''NeverDead'', marking the third time in five years that the band contributed a new song towards promoting a video game ("Gears of War" in 2006 to promote ''Gears of War'' and "Sudden Death" in 2010 for inclusion in ''Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock'' being the other two). "Sudden Death" though originally recorded for the ''Guitar Hero'' franchise, was also later confirmed to be included on ''Thirteen''. The album artwork was designed by John Lorenzi, who contributed to the covers on Megadeth's two previous albums, ''Endgame'' and ''United Abominations'' (2007). The title was revealed as ''13'', with Mustaine commenting "I started playing guitar at 13 and this is our 13th record and I was born on the 13th. As soon as I said I was going to call it '13', I started noticing 13 everywhere. They never used to have 13th floors in hotels but now they have them again." One day later, the band revealed that the title would be rendered as "''Th1rt3en''" instead of ''13''. Drover stated in a subsequent interview that "Thirteen" had originally been the working title for the album. The cover artwork and tracklist for the album were revealed on September 7, 2011.〔 According to Dave Mustaine, the band have encountered numerous mishaps and odd occurrences. In an interview with ''Terrorizer'' magazine, Mustaine, taking note of the connection to the unlucky number 13, explained "This is our 13th studio record, and we've already had a bunch of weird things happen. Car problems, stuff disappearing, a guy who worked for me that was the most white-laced guy you could imagine falling out on drugs and disappearing... but this one's got me excited!" In addition, Mustaine announced on Twitter that producer Johnny K was "suddenly struck ill", and the band had ceased recording for the time being. However, the band resumed recording a few days later, with K having apparently recovered. In an interview, Drover had said nothing weird occurred until after he finished recording drum tracks for the album.〔 However, Mustaine later contradicted his previous statements "It's been very good luck. We did this record in… in record time". Furthermore, instead of the superstitions surrounding the number 13, Mustaine said he was actually more concerned with the album's release date of November 1 being a bad omen; referring to the release of ''Youthanasia'' (which was released on the same date in 1994), when the band was "banned" from MTV, for playing the then-new track "À Tout le Monde" on a televised promotional show, because MTV believed the song to be about suicide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thirteen (Megadeth album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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