Megadeth released the new song "Night Stalkers" featuring Ice-T on Friday (July 22). It's the second single from the metal band's upcoming album The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!
Ice-T, of course, is the hip-hop artist and actor behind the rap-metal act Body Count.
Together, "Night Stalkers" furthers Megadeth's heavy metal quest as multiple guitar riffs pepper the aggressive number steered by bandleader Dave Mustaine. Earlier this week, Megadeth teased the single and its accompanying music video that also emerges today (Friday).
Listen to "Night Stalkers" near the bottom of this post and look for the music video to be available at 10AM ET.
The track followed Megadeth's introductory The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead! single, last month's "We'll Be Back." Both are among the tracklisting on the LP out this September. Together with a future Megadeth single, each are also part of a music video trilogy.
Last year, longtime Megadeth bassist David Ellefson was let go from the band amid a sex scandal. Bassist James LoMenzo permanently replaced him after Testament's Steve Di Giorgio stepped in to record bass on the album. The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead! also marks Megadeth's studio debut of Dirk Verbeuren, the drummer who joined the group in 2016 but had yet to play on record.
The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead! arrives on Sept. 2. This summer, Megadeth hit the road with Five Finger Death Punch for a slew of shows across North America. Get tickets here.
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Concealed in the night from the light of the moon Undetected between the heavens, the stars, and the seas They seize the night when it's dark, like inside a tomb Faintly, their flat black body armor gleams, light it up
From verdict, to deliverance, to retribution To the very last beat of a dead man’s pulse You can hear the thunder roar, you can hear the engines roar It causes thе ground to quake, to buckle and convulse
Lights out in thе desert Battle-born, ready to fight Your death waits in the dark And it stalks the night Night Stalkers
The angels of death ride the waves of the air You barely see the pilots on this "zero-illum" night The avenger's ready, now, as the targets growing near Tracer bullets, shot from the ground, behind enemy lines
Blacked out, we're under radio silence Night vision on, green halos a’ glow It's killing time, another lesson in violence Bodies pile up, and adrenaline starts to flow
Lights out in the desert Battle-born, ready to fight Your death waits in the dark And it stalks the night Night Stalkers
Yo, when you hear four MH-47 And Black Hawk helicopters coming in low In the dark of night Loaded with Rangers And Delta Force Special Ops shooters Locked and loaded Game's over, bitches Got ya in my night vision 'Bout to let this 30 mm canon go You've never seen us coming So there's no chance of running
Nothing you do can stop them They're gonna get ya, wanted dead or alive You can run, but you know they will find you "Death waits in the dark," and they own the night
Lights out in the desert Battle-born, ready to fight Your death waits in the dark And it stalks the night (The night)
Hydra rockets are all locked and loaded Laser-guided Hellfire missiles are ready and armed Itchy fingers on thirty mike-mike triggers They enter the fight, with all of their targets acquired
Flying in "formation" like a black snake Slithering closely over the map of the earth Slicing the silvery-blueish night fog to ribbons The time has come to return dirt back to the dirt, yeah