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Megadeth bassist David Ellefson has spoken about being fired from the band after claims emerged that he’d groomed an underage girl online last year.Ellefson denied any wrongdoing at the time saying explicit text messages were between consenting adults and that the woman was not underage at the time.Last year he filed revenge-porn charges against the person whom he alleged illegally leaked a video and screenshots that prompted the allegations against him, and he met police in Scottsdale, Arizona, last June to pursue the charges.Speaking about his sacking in a new interview with Real Music With Gary Stuckey, Ellefson said: “You find out who your friends are and you find out who your friends aren’t pretty fucking quick when the shit hits the fan, ‘Cause everybody wants to be around you when you’re picking up your Grammy.”He added: “Look, life is… You’re never on top all the time. Your life ebbs and flows, your career ebbs and flows – all of that.

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has opened up on the dismissal of band co-founder David Ellefson last year, saying he’ll “forgive” the former bassist but “just won’t play music with him again”.Ellefson was accused of grooming an underage girl online last year when several explicit screenshots and videos surfaced of the bassist and the girl, who later denied she was underage and said the interactions were consensual.Ellefson also denied the accusations, calling the contents of the images and footage “private, adult interactions that were taken out of context and manipulated to inflict maximum damage to my reputation, my career and family” – but was ultimately fired from Megadeth two weeks after the accusations emerged.“While we do not know every detail of what occurred, with an already strained relationship, what has already been revealed now is enough to make working together impossible moving forward,” read a statement Mustaine issued at the time.“Let me just say this – it was a hard decision that had to be made,” Mustaine has said of Ellefson’s firing in a new interview with Metal Hammer. “There were a lot of people involved and I had to make a decision, because unfortunately, when you’re the leader, you’re the one that has to suck it up and face the music.”Mustaine continued, “All I wanted to do was make a clean break, and not hurt anyone, not hurt the fans and not hurt him.

Megadeth have finally announced their long-awaited 16th studio album ‘The Sick, The Dying…And The Dead’ and shared the first track – check out ‘We’ll Be Back’ below.READ MORE:  Download Festival 2022 review: metal’s fearsome energy rages on the smaller stagesDue out September 2, 2022, the new Megadeth album is the first the band have released since vocalist Dave Mustaine recovered from throat cancer.Speaking about ‘The Sick, The Dying…And The Dead’, Mustaine said: “For the first time in a long time, everything that we needed on this record is right in its place. I can’t wait for the public to get hold of this!”The album announcement comes alongside brutal first single ‘We’ll Be Back’ as well as the first of three short films chronicling the origins of Megadeth’s mascot, Vic Rattlehead.Produced by Dave Mustaine, ‘We’ll Be Back: Chapter I’ is a soldier’s tale of bravery, personal sacrifice, and the will to survive – check it out below:‘The Sick, The Dying…And The Dead’ was recorded at Mustaine’s house and features guitarist Kiko Loureiro and drummer Dirk Verbeuren alongside temporary bassist Steve DiGiorgio, who filled in for David Ellefson who was fired from Megadeth last year following allegations that the bassist had groomed an underage girl online.

Dave Mustaine has claimed that he once urinated on a bathroom floor in The White House.The Megadeth frontman told fans on one his band’s ‘Metal Tour Of The Year’ shows over the weekend that he purposefully peed on the floor while visiting the US presidential residence and offices in 1992 as part of the Rock the Vote campaign.Discussing his politics and his pride in the metal community, Mustaine told fans at a gig in Tucson, Arizona on Sunday (April 10) that the move was something of a “fuck you”.He said: “I want you guys to know that I’ve lived through a lot of different eras in the United States and seen different things, and one thing that makes me the most proud of everything here in our country is you guys, the way that you are handling yourselves and the way that…as the metal community [quotes via Blabbermouth].“There’s a lot of people that go out there and they say things and they totally embarrass themselves. And I want you guys to know how proud I am to represent you,” he said.“When I went up to The White House, I was so proud to be able to go up there and say, ‘Fuck you – you think we’re stupid? We are not stupid.’ By the way, when I went into The White House, I went into the royal — whatever the fuck it’s called — White House bathroom, and I peed on the floor.

Lamb Of God and Megadeth have released a new collaborative version of the latter band’s 1986 track ‘Wake Up Dead’ – listen below.The two thrash groups hit the road together last year for a run of US co-headlining dates, dubbed the ‘Metal Tour Of The Year’.This Saturday (April 9) Megadeth and Lamb Of God will head out on another joint run of concerts following the “enormous success” of their 2021 stint. They’ll be joined at the gigs by special guests Trivium and In Flames, who will both open each show of the tour.Ahead of the performances, Lamb Of God have shared a cover of ‘Wake Up Dead’ – the original of which served as the lead single from Megadeth’s second studio album, ‘Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?’ (1986).The fresh take on the track features all five members of Lamb Of God, as well as additional vocals and guitar parts by Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine.

Metallica’s first-ever recording of ‘Hit The Lights’ from 1982, featuring former bandmate Dave Mustaine, is set to receive a reissue on vinyl this April.‘Hit The Lights’ will feature on Metal Blade Records’ 40th anniversary reissue of its ‘Metal Massacre’ compilation, which was available from 1982 to 1984. The reissue – set to release on April 22 – will mark the first time that the rare recording has been made available since 1984.The 1982 recording of ‘Hit The Lights’ includes a guitar solo performed by Dave Mustaine, who played in Metallica for 11 months before being kicked out of the band shortly before they recorded their 1983 debut album, ‘Kill ‘Em All’.

Megadeth‘s forthcoming new album, ‘The Sick, The Dying And The Dead’, has been pushed back again, frontman Dave Mustaine has revealed.The follow-up to 2016’s ‘Dystopia’ has been a longtime coming, with multiple projected release timelines shared over the last few years.In June 2020, Mustaine revealed the band had recorded 18 new songs for the album, while in April last year, he said he only had “one song left to sing”. In late November, Mustaine suggested they were targeting a spring 2022 release, which would have aligned with the second leg of their US tour alongside co-headliners Lamb Of God.Now, in a new interview with Forbes, Mustaine – who was being interviewed alongside Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe – spoke about their forthcoming tour and what’s next to come from the band.When asked if the next leg of the US tour would be in support of a new record, Mustaine replied: “No.

Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine launched into an anti-mask rant during a concert in New Jersey last night (September 15).The frontman decried the enforcement of masks in the US ahead of the band’s last song ‘Holy Wars… The Punishment Due’ at the Metal Tour Of The Year in Camden.He said: “I just wanna tell you how great it is. Look around you, guys.

Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is not joining Megadeth. So you can stop telling all your friends that he is.

Megadeth bassist David Ellefson has praised his bandmate Dave Mustaine following the singer’s various life battles, including his diagnosis with throat cancer in 2019 and subsequent treatment.In a new interview with the Real Music With Gary Stuckey podcast (per Blabbermouth), Ellefson said: “Dave’s a fighter, and he’s a survivor. I mean, look – he’s gone through being fired [from Metallica], kicked out, kicked down.

Gallery: Happy Birthday, Adam Levine! The untold truth about the singer (BANG Showbiz)The 'Symphony of Destruction' singer wrote at the time: "Meanwhile, Kiko, David, Dirk and I are in the studio, working on the follow up to 'Dystopia' - which I can't wait for everyone to hear. "I'm so thankful for my whole team - family, doctors, band members, trainers, and more.

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Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine has announced the release of a new autobiography that will detail the making and the release of ‘Rust In Peace’.‘Rust In Peace’ was released in 1990 and was the first Megadeth album to feature guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza.Rust In Peace: The Inside Story Of The Megadeth Masterpiece will the tell the story of the record and feature Mustaine’s insights on handling the success of the record as well as the pressures that came with it, which caused the band to break up in 2002.According to a press release, the book is “a true story of groundbreaking anti-pop that was moving toward the mainstream (or the mainstream that was moving toward the band), at a time of great cultural change, power, ego, drugs,

Megadeth singer Dave Mustaine and his daughter Electra are spending their time in quarantine doing something good.The dynamic duo posted a video of their jam session on the Beatles' "Come Together" from what looks like a home studio on Wednesday (March 25) for a good cause.Mustaine, wearing a black face mask and matching wool cap -- the singer recently revealed that he got a clean bill of health after being diagnosed with throat cancer last year -- sits next to his daughter on a couch as she belts the tune over his distorted electric guitar strumming. ""Come together! Right now...

Megadeth have recorded 18 songs for their new album, says frontman Dave Mustaine.Mustaine was speaking to SiriusXM’s Jose Mangin as part of the ‘Metal Tour Of The Year’ series on the radio programme.Discussing the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Dystopia’ album, Mustaine said: “Dirk [Verbeuren, drums] and David Ellefson [bass] both just finished their parts.