 While accepting the award, the house band played Mustaine's former band Metallica's "Master of Puppets" causing some controversy among fans.The band joined with Scorpions for a co-headlining tour in the fall of 2017.In June 2017 interview with No Brown M&Ms, Mustaine said that Megadeth would enter the studio at the end of the year to begin working on their sixteenth studio album.