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After two decades of rocking, the heavy metal band
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Megadeth appeared as "Vic and the
Rattleheads" for the first time in 1992, at Cabaret Metro, in Chicago, IL, then in 1993, at Rock City club, in Nottingham, England, another time in 1997, at Electric Ballroom, Tempe, AZ, and again in 2016, at St. Vitus bar, in Brooklyn, NY.
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