Megadeth: Countdown To Extinction Die Version auf Vinyl LP in Standard- Auflage. Diese besondere Auflage wurde veröffentlicht im Verlag Capitol Records am 10. November 2014.

Countdown to Extinction is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth , released on July 14, 1992 by Capitol Records. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, California from November 1991 to January 1992. It was the band's last album to feature guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 148,000 copies in its first week. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded it a quadruple platinum record for delivering four million copies in the United States. The album spawned four singles, "Skin o' My Teeth", "Symphony of Destruction", "Sweating Bullets" and "Foreclosure of a Dream". The album was well received by music critics. It was named the best album of 1992 by Kerrang! and Metal Hammer magazines. Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic called it "one of the most influential and successful metal albums of the 1990s" in a retrospective review. Countdown to Extinction is often considered Megadeth's best album. It was the band's first album to reach number two on the Billboard 200 and number three on the

Album Genres übergreifend Rock, Thrash Metal und Heavy Metal.