Megadeth Announces its North American Tour Dates and Premieres POST AMERICAN WORLD Music Video

MEGADETH premiered their video for the new single "Post American World," along with complete details for the fall dates for the North American leg of their Dystopia World Tour. The Casper Events Center is proud to present this tour that kicks off in Casper, WY on September 20, 2016 and will take them across the U.S., visiting 16 states, with special guests to include Amon Amarth, Metal Church and Havok.

Meanwhile, the current single "Post American World" takes an unflinching and timely look at the state of the modern world, and the dark vision of the Jake Macpherson-directed video takes the subject matter in still more menacing directions. Most other artists are unwilling to tread in this territory, preferring veiled metaphors, or more often, completely ignoring the most important topics of our day. But with their current album Dystopia, MEGADETH refused to compromise their craft and identity, and as such have again set the pace for modern metal.

Dystopia has already been heralded as one of the top Metal albums of the year by major outlets, including Rolling Stone and Alternative Press. The album's chart impact was the strongest for the band since 1992's Countdown To Extinction, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart (behind Adele and Beiber), No. 1 album on Billboard's Hard Music and Top Rock charts, and at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Album Sales chart. Globally, Dystopia also achieved top 10 debuts in Canada (No. 2), Japan (No. 2 international chart), Finland (No. 3), Mexico (No. 4), Czech Republic (No. 5), Australia (No. 6), New Zealand (No. 6), Switzerland (No. 7), Poland (No. 8) and Germany (No. 10), which along with Belgium, Ireland and Spain contributed to achieve MEGADETH's highest ever chart positions in their thirty year history in a total of 10 countries around the world. Other countries with significant sales or chart debuts included UK, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, and France.

Tour Dates are Below!

SEPTEMBER

Sep 20 Casper Events Center Casper, WY+

Sep 22 The Joint Las Vegas, NV

Sep 24 "Ozzfest" San Manuel Amphitheater Devore, CA * +

Sep 27 WaMu Theater Seattle, WA

Sep 28 Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR

Sep 29 City National Civic San Jose, CA

OCTOBER

Oct 1 1st Bank Center Bloomfield, CO

Oct 3 Mid America Recreation & Conv. Complex Council Bluffs, IA

Oct 4 Roy Wilkins Auditorium St. Paul, MN

Oct 5 Sears Centre Chicago, IL

Oct 7 iWireless Center Moline, IL

Oct 8 UWM Panther Arena Milwaukee, WI

Oct 9 Joe Louis Arena Detroit, MI

Oct 11 Sands Event Center Bethlehem, PA

Oct 12 DCU Center Worcester, MA

Oct 13 Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville, CT

Oct 14 Prudential Center Newark, NJ

Oct 16 BB&T Pavilion Camden, NJ