{"id":4424,"date":"2026-05-01T00:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/4424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:11:23","slug":"former-megadeth-guitarist-chris-poland-on-shoot-for-peace-sells-but-whos-buying-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/4424\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MEGADETH Guitarist CHRIS POLAND On Shoot For Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Megadeth guitarist, Chris Poland, has been looking into reissuing most of his recorded output, with plans in place to issue both works by The New Yorkers, and his 1990 solo effort Return To Metalopolis already in place. Chris divulged the information in a brand new inteview with eonmusic about his Nuclear Messiah project.<\/p>\n

On the early days with Megadeth: \u201cWhen Gar [Samuelson] joined the band, the way he explained it to me was, \u2018it\u2019s super intricate. it\u2019s really fun to play. It\u2019s just like what we\u2019re doing, just super heavy and distorted and fast,\u2019 and it didn\u2019t matter; wherever Gar went, I was going to follow, because I had been playing with Gar my whole life, and I just wanted to be in the band with him. I really liked playing with Dave [Mustaine] and [David] Ellefson. That was the first introduction anybody had to that music, because Dave had invented a new thing with those records and I just tried to keep up, man!\u201d<\/p>\n

On the photo shoot for the Peace Sells\u2026 But Who\u2019s Buying? album artwork: \u201cThe photo session was very bizarre because they put makeup on all of us, and we had an interview, like, an hour after that photo shoot at Capitol Records, and I forgot to go wash my face. I just forgot, and so they\u2019re interviewing, and I saw the interview somewhere, and first of all, I cringe [shakes head]. Anyway, back in those days, I was a young and dumb, but anyway, I\u2019m looking, oh, my god, I\u2019ve got eyeliner on! Man! But, I mean, we didn\u2019t know what, you know, they\u2019re telling us what we\u2019re going to do, and we were like, \u2018okay, we\u2019ll do it!\u2019 The gas flames in front of us, we were all kind of like, \u2018really, you\u2019re going to have that?!,\u2019 because that\u2019s real; that\u2019s real flames for the photos. Man, they lit that shit! A very strange day.<\/p>\n

On suing Megadeth in the early 2000s: \u201cYou know, I swear to God, I called at least twelve times trying to get the manager to get on the phone with me. And then when he told me that he thought I would do it for the fans, and I said, \u2018well, is everybody else doing it for the fans? I just want to get paid for my tracks, man,\u2019 and here\u2019s what he said, he goes, \u2018Chris, that\u2019s not the point.\u2019 Okay, all right. The manager was so rude to me that that I just called Owen Sloan, my attorney, and I said, \u2018you know what, Owen?,\u2019 and even he told me, \u2018dude, you sure you want to do this?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018I just want to do it out of principle.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, on reissuing his back catalogue: \u201cThey\u2019re releasing New Yorkers on vinyl, and there\u2019s just all kinds of stuff. A year and a half ago, Randy Burns calls me up, and he goes, \u2018hey, do you have the two inch tapes from the \u2018Metalopolis\u2019 sessions?,\u2019 and I said, \u2018yeah, I kept it in a good environment this whole time.\u2019 He goes, \u2018here\u2019s some money. Go to this address, have them take the tapes. They\u2019re going to bake the tapes. They\u2019re going to send it to me digitally, and I\u2019m going remix and remaster it,\u2019 and wait till you hear it, man! It\u2019s kind of on hold but that record is going to be so killer, man. I told Randy, \u2018I don\u2019t want it to sound like the first time it came out. I want to do stuff to it. I want to make it something entirely cool and different; same songs, but better.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview at eonmusic.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nuclear Messiah \u2013 spearheaded by Chris Poland \u2013 have released their thunderous, all-star concept album, Black Flame, via Cleopatra Records.<\/p>\n

Built around the visionary guitar mastery of Chris Poland, the legendary former Megadeth guitarist whose emotive phrasing and fusion-driven technique helped redefine modern metal, Black Flame is a sonic prophecy uniting 36 of the most iconic musicians in rock and metal history across five decades.<\/p>\n

Produced by Brian Perera, Derek Hughes, and J\u00fcrgen Engler for Cleopatra Records with a commanding spoken introduction to the album by William Shatner, Black Flame is an apocalyptic, cinematic, sonic album uniting a staggering line-up of 36 of the most iconic musicians in rock and metal history. Representing every era of heavy music, and uniting icons from thrash, classic rock, hard rock, and progressive metal, the appearances include:<\/p>\n

Chris Poland, Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Glen Drover, Shawn Drover, Chris Adler (Lamb of God, Megadeth), Ron \u201cBumblefoot\u201d Thal (Guns N\u2019 Roses, Sons of Apollo), Mick Box (Uriah Heep), Joel Hoekstra(Whitesnake, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Night Ranger), Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Jeff Beck, Bogert & Appice, King Kobra), Vinny Appice (Dio, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell), Simon Wright (AC\/DC, Dio), Don Airey (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne), Rick Wakeman (Yes), Jonathan Cain (Journey, The Babys), Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Sons of Apollo, Black Country Communion), Bob Daisley (Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow, Gary Moore, Uriah Heep), Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Last in Line), Alan Davey (Hawkwind), Vinnie Moore (UFO, Alice Cooper), Joe Bouchard (Blue \u00d6yster Cult), Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens (Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwie Malmsteen), Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple, Yngwie Malmsteen), Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Andrew Freeman (Last in Line, Lynch Mob), Marc Lopes (Ross the Boss, Metal Church, Let Us Prey), Pat Travers (Pat Travers Band), Ronnie Romero (Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Lords of Black), Arthur Brown (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Kingdom Come), Lance Lopez (Supersonic Blues Machine, Billy Gibbons), Greg T. Walker (Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd family), Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Death, Sadus), Thor (Thor), Fred Aching (Dead Groove, Kings of Thrash, BulletBoys, Powerflo, BillyBio), and J\u00fcrgen Engler (Die Krupps).<\/p>\n

This staggering lineup represents every era of heavy music, from Vanilla Fudge to the Kings of Thrash, via Guns N\u2019 Roses, Uriah Heep, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, UFO, Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Yngwie Malmsteen, Thor, Testament, Night Ranger, the Michael Schenker Group, Yes and more.<\/p>\n

Eye-opening covers, too, will be ripping open your ears \u2013 Lucifer\u2019s Friend, May Blitz, NWOBHM heroes Holocaust and the immortal Uriah Heep, and, while the remainder of the album is all new material, each song composed by the line-up that performs on it, reflecting, too, upon the history of hard rock, prog and metal \u2013 a living timeline of rock and metal, from the pioneers of the past to the trailblazers of today.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more than a collaboration. It\u2019s a metal summit, the multi-generational union of the artists who shaped the evolution of heavy music itself.<\/p>\n

Order Black Flame on CD\/Vinyl<\/a>, and Digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tracklisting:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Prophet Of Fallout\u201d
\u201cDevil Won\u2019t Let Go\u201d
\u201cDeath Or Glory\u201d
\u201cRide The Sky\u201d
\u201cDice And Thunder\u201d
\u201cFor Mad Men Only\u201d
\u201cNuclear Messiah\u201d
\u201cLook At Yourself\u201d
\u201cShe\u2019s So Evil\u201d
\u201cBlack Flame\u201d
\u201cElectric Burn\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook At Yourself\u201d video:<\/p>\n

\u201cDevil Won\u2019t Let Go\u201d lyric video:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Prophet Of Fallout\u201d video:<\/p>\n

\u201cNuclear Messiah\u201d lyric video:<\/p>\n

\u201cDeath Or Glory\u201d lyric video:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Mad Men Only\u201d video:<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s So Evil\u201d lyric video:<\/p>\n

\u201cElectric Burn\u201d video:<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Flame\u201d video:<\/p>\n

\u201cRide The Sky\u201d video:<\/p>\n

\u201cDice And Thunder\u201d<\/p>\n

Out now \u201cStoned Babies\u201d the first single from VOICES OF EXTREME on BraveWords Records full album coming in 2026.<\/p>\n

Iridium Rock and Metal Reviews reviewed Stoned Babies the first single from Voices of Extreme saying \u201cI love everything about it\u2026 Can\u2019t wait to hear more from them\u2026 Fucking brilliant\u2026 Beautiful song.\u201d.<\/p>\n

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