Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted “is not joining Megadeth”

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Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is not joining Megadeth. So you can stop telling all your friends that he is. In a post on Instagram, Newsted’s wife Nicole wrote: “Jason is not joining Megadeth.

Peace to them. Listen to metal”.There was a certain logic behind the recent rumours that Newsted had joined the band. Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine is also an ex-member of Metallica, so there’s a link there.

And Newsted’s former band Newsted supported Megadeath on tour in 2013, with Newsted himself joining the headliners for one song at the tour’s final show in Toronto that year.And, of course, Megadeth is currently in need of a new bassist having fired founder member David Ellefson last week.