The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!

The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! is the sixteenth and penultimate studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released on September 2, 2022, on frontman Dave Mustaine's Tradecraft label via Universal. It is the first Megadeth album to feature drummer Dirk Verbeuren, their last album with guitarist Kiko Loureiro, and their first studio album in six years since Dystopia, marking the longest gap between two studio albums in the band's career. The album was produced by Mustaine and Chris Rakestraw. Work on The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! began in 2019, but faced a number of delays due to Mustaine being diagnosed with throat cancer the same year along with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In the following year, longtime bassist David Ellefson was dismissed from Megadeth following allegations of sexual misconduct. The band removed his bass parts from the album and re-recorded them with Steve Di Giorgio, while Ellefson's predecessor, James LoMenzo, rejoined the band after the album's completion. The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! received generally positive reviews, with critics saying the album continued the trajectory set by Dystopia. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sic...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)