David Ellefson: Last News

Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine has reflected on the “horrifying” climate that pervaded following news that David Ellefson had sexual encounters with a teenager.Ellefson, who was falsely accused of grooming an underage girl in 2021 and subsequently sacked from the thrash metal band, played bass in the group from its inception in 1983 through to 2002, and again from 2010 until 2021.He had denied any wrongdoing at the time, saying that explicit text messages were between consenting adults and that the woman was not underage when the encounters happened.

Megadeth have performed ‘Liar’ live for the first time since 2006 – watch footage of the performance below.Last Friday (August 9), while performing in Inglewood California, the legendary Dave Mustaine-fronted thrash metal band broke out the ‘So Far, So Good… So What!’ song live for the first time in 18 years.The song, takeen off their 1988 third studio album, ranks among the least-performed tracks in the band’s repertoire – it has only been played live 10 times in the 2000s, 27 times in the 1990s, and 36 times in the 1980s.Before launching into the song, Mustaine asked the California crowd: “I have a question for you – I have a question for everyone tonight. How’d you like us to play a song that we have played in about 20 years.”Watch Megadeth perform ‘Liar’ below.In June, the band’s newest bassist James LoMenzo revealed that Megadeth are “actively” working on new music.

Dave Mustaine is “still bitching” about getting kicked out of Metallica 40 years ago.Mustaine, Megadeth frontman and former guitarist for Metallica, was ousted from the latter band in 1983 due to problems with alcoholism, drug abuse and personal clashes with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.Mustaine formed Megadeth the same year, with Ellefson playing bass in the band from its inception through to 2002, and again from 2010 until 2021 before being sacked after claims emerged that he had groomed an underage girl online.He had denied any wrongdoing at the time, saying that explicit text messages were between consenting adults and that the woman was not underage when the encounters happened.He subsequently filed revenge-porn charges against the person whom alleged illegally leaked a video and screenshots that prompted the allegations.Ellefson has now reflected on the musicians’ respective firings in a new interview with online Brazilian show Heavy Talk, explaining how he personally handled the news that he was sacked from Megadeth.“I got one call: ‘You’re fired,’” he said [via Blabbermouth]. “And I said, ‘What the fuck, man?’ I said, ‘Some shitty fucking people just dropped a bomb on my house.

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.

Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson has given his first interview since being fired from the band earlier this year, saying that he is “perfectly content and happy where I am right now”.Where he is right now – or at least where he was when he said that – was on a Zoom call with the members of his new band The Lucid, speaking to YouTube show Aftershocks TV. The band, which also features members of Fear Factory and Sponge, released their debut album last week.

Megadeth bassist David Ellefson has formed a new band, The Lucid, alongside members of Fear Factory and Sponge.The Lucid will be releasing their self-titled debut album next month (October 15), which can be pre-ordered here.The band have also just released their first single ‘Maggot Wind’, which you can check out below.“It’s been a real blast making a record with these guys and I must say that it’s refreshing to explore some new musical avenues… to step out a bit from what each of us have done stylistically in our own careers,” Ellefson said about his new project, which also features Sponge vocalist Vinnie Dombroski, Fear Factory drummer Mike Heller and guitarist Drew Fortier, who’s been playing with Bang Tango since 2015.“There was an

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.

Megadeth will be releasing new music in 2021 – that’s according to the band’s bassist David Ellefson.Speaking in a new interview, Ellefson discussed the progress of the band’s forthcoming album, the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Dystopia’.“Basic tracks are done. Overdubs now are continuing,” Ellefson told the Decibel Geek podcast.

The track is set to land on the debut album from Ellefson's self-titled solo band

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.