Nuclear Assault bassist Dan Lilker recently announced that the band is "pretty much wrapping it up", following the band's upcoming appearance at the 'Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly' in June, where they will perform their classic 1986 debut album Game Over in its entirety, and Lilker has revealed that it will likely their last-ever U.S. show. If this is the case, it will not be the first time that Nuclear Assault have quit; the band first broke up after the release of 1993's Something Wicked, and have reunited occasionally before and since the release of their last studio album to date, Third World Genocide (2005).

Focusing on the trend of performing albums front-to-back in a live setting, Lilker told Decibel: "It's funny. There's this thing now what they call 'deep cuts' and everything. Musicians laugh at that expression because that means 'shit you never wanted to play live' because you have an hour to play and you prioritize to play a few from this and a few from that. Now we're going to be playing a few songs from that record that we've never played. Those are deep fucking cuts, right to the bone. [Laughs] We've never done anything like that. S.O.D. [Stormtroopers Of Death] has, or at least my little S.O.D. franchise band that plays in different territories around the world with different dudes. But, no, Nuke has never done that."

On the future of Nuclear Assault, Dan said: "We're going to be pretty much wrapping it up. Nobody is getting any younger. People have commitments and families and stuff like that. I've been to a couple of the Metal & Beer Fests and I was usually pouring or just hanging out and drinking or something. So, I think it's truly cool to be able to do this and I'm not kissing your ass here, at a nice, prestigious American metal festival. Also, I like beer. In all seriousness, it will be cool playing one of these. Like I said, I've been to a couple and when I go backstage and bullshit with people, I feel like, 'Shouldn't I be doing something?' I think it should be a lot of fun and that might be our last U.S. show, actually."

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