NEWSTED, featuring ex-METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted, have cracked the Top 40 in the US and Canada with their debut LP, Heavy Metal Music, released on August 6th. In the US the album lands at #40 on the Billboard 200 with close to 8,000 copies sold, while in Canada the album debuts at #34.

Heavy Metal Music tracklisting:

'Heroic Dose'

'Soldierhead'

'...As The Crow Flies'

'Ampossible'

'Long Time Dead'

'Above All'

'King Of The Underdogs'

'Nocturnus'

'Twisted Tail Of The Comet'

'Kindevillusion'

'Futureality'

On August 11th, MEGADETH wrapped up Gigantour 2013 in Toronto, Ontario with a cover of Metallica's 'Phantom Lord' with Jason Newsted on vocals. Check out fan-filmed video below:

Speaking to Artisan News at the August 6th Newsted signing session at Looney Tunes in West Babylon, New York, Jason stated about how the idea for the jam came about: "It was mostly created by kind of rumor and agents and managers and things like that early on when we were putting together the structure of this tour, that 'maybe you and Jay can play a song.' It was never something that I said or that Dave said, it was [something] that managers said to us."

He continued: "I'm open to jam with anybody whenever anybody wants to jam — I think that's not really a secret or nothing — so if the dude calls out 'Phantom Lord', I'll sing or play bass guitar or whatever he wants; that's all fine."

"As a fan, jamming with Dave, coming from back here ... 'Cause I was a fan of Dave before we were brothers and peers and stuff like that. So, man, if he wants to jam, I'm open to that, of course."

Mustaine previously hinted that he would invite Newsted up on stage to perform a song Dave wrote during his time with Metallica.

Addressing his followers on Twitter, Mustaine wrote: "If I play a song I wrote in @Metallica w/@JasonCNewsted, which should it be? Ride, Metal Militia, Phantom, Jump, Khutulu, or Four Horsemen?"

Mustaine, who was one of the original members of Metallica, left the band in 1983 and went on to form Megadeth, achieving worldwide success on his own.