Images and words by Mark Gromen

The 2012 version of Dave Mustaine's resurrected Gigantour traveling cavalcade kicked off January 26th at the Susquahana Bank Arena, in Camden, NJ, which is just across the Ben Franklin bridge from center city Philadelphia (where LAMB OF GOD was playing simultaneously, siphoning off a number of the younger headbangers). Mustaine walking onstage with double neck guitar, it was into 'Trust', before people even sat down. 'Hangar 18' was up early too, the boys playing in front of scrims that featured Vic Rattlehead skull superimposed on a nuclear warning label.

Megadeth's setlist featured:

'Trust'

'Wake Up Dead'

'Hangar 18'

'Sweating Bullets'

'Angry Again'

'Posion Was The Cure'

'Dawn Patrol'

'Public Enemy #1'

'Whose Life'

'Guns, Drugs & Money'

'A Tout Le Monde' (with LACUNA COIL's Cristina Scabbia)

'Symphony Of Destruction'

'Holy Wars…Punishment Due'

More photos can be found in a gallery here.

Check out fan-filmed footage below:

Gigantour's multi-artist bill - with metal heavyweights MOTÖRHEAD, VOLBEAT and LACUNA COIL, all personally picked by Dave Mustaine - includes the following dates:

January

27 - Mohegan Sun Arena - Uncasville, CT
28 - Theater at Madison Square Garden - New York, NY
29 - Tsongas Arena - Lowell, MA

February

1 - Glens Falls Civic Center - Glens Falls, NY
2 - Colisee Pepsi - Quebec City, QC
3 - Bell Centre - Montreal, QC
5 - K-Rock Centre - Kingston, ON
7 - General Motors Centre - Oshawa, ON
8 - Copps Coliseum - Hamilton, ON
9 - Palace of Auburn Hills - Auburn Hills, MI
10 - Aragon Ballroom - Chicago, IL
12 - Eagles Ballroom - Milwaukee, WI
14 - Myth - St. Paul, MN
16 - Prairieland - Saskatoon, SK
17 - Shaw Conference Centre - Edmonton, AB
18 - Big 4 Building - Calgary, AB
20 - Abbotsford Ent & Sports Centre - Abbotsford, BC
21 - Showare Center - Kent, WA
23 - Event Center at San Jose State University - San Jose, CA
24 - Gibson Amphitheatre - Universal City, CA
25 - Comerica Theatre - Phoenix, AZ
26 - Tingley Coliseum - Albuquerque, NM
28 - The Fillmore Auditorium - Denver, CO

March

1 - The Palladium - Dallas, TX
2 - Verizon Wireless Theater - Houston, TX
3 - ACL Live - Austin, TX

More dates to be announced soon.