In a new video update, MEGADETH's David Ellefson checks in from Zadar, Croatia. Watch below:

Megadeth earlier checked in with the following update: "Megafans! Sign up or renew for an Ultimate Soldier Megapack membership at the Megadeth Cyber Army from June 1st to June 30th and get two free bonus Megadeth CDs included in your introductory package. The Cyber Army has reissued Megadeth: Unplugged In Philly and Megadeth: Unplugged In Boston; two CDs that were offered exclusively to fan club members in 2005 and 2006. Now is your chance to pick up both of these club-exclusive CDs now with your Ultimate Soldier Megapack membership. Check it out at the Megadeth Cyber Army here."

As previously reported, Hal Leonard has released Th1rt3en, the guitar tab book to accompany Megadeth's latest studio album. This book includes complete note-for-note guitar tab transcriptions of every song on the album - 'Black Swan', 'Deadly Nightshade', 'Fast Lane', 'Guns, Drugs, & Money', 'Millenium Of The Blind', 'Never Dead', 'New World Order', 'Public Enemy No. 1', 'Sudden Death', '13', 'We The People', 'Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)', 'Wrecker'.

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In a new report below from Artisan News, Megadeth mastermind Dave Mustaine talks about life post-surgery, after a procedure that affected his neck and secondarily his voice.

Megadeth will perform its 1992 album, Countdown To Extinction, in it's entirety in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 14th, and in Cordoba, Argentina on September 16th. The band will also perform Countdown To Extinction in its entirety at the Pepsi Center in Mexico City, Mexico on Wednesday, September 19th and at the Arena VFG in Guadalajara, Mexico on Friday, September 21st. Local act RAXAS is confirmed as the support act for both shows.