Mustaine eyes Grammy and Rock Hall honours

Dave Mustaine says he still hopes Megadeth will eventually win a Grammy and be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

The band will release their 15th album Dystopia on January 22 and the mainman hopes it’ll help in his quest for Grammy and Rock Hall recognition. Having released their debut album in 1985, Megadeth became eligible for the Rock Hall in 2010.

Mustaine’s previous band, Metallica, were inducted in 2009.

He tells Noisey: “In the beginning, the Grammy thing was really important to us. Then, we started to see that it wasn’t really as easy as somebody would think, because the people that are on the board, they’ve gotta listen to 45 Latin records and a bunch of Hawaiian stuff and then Weird Al Yankovich kinds of records.

“So when it comes time to listen to metal, they just go, ‘Oh fuck, I ain’t listening to that, what’s the name that I recognise there?’ That’s why they saw Jethro Tull and went, ‘Okay, give Jethro Tull the metal award.’

“There’s been some bad ones. But I’m cool with it, if I get the Grammy or if I don’t get the Grammy, I’ve been recognised by my peers a lot, I’ve been nominated almost a dozen times so at the end of that day it’s like, are you satisfied with what you have? I’m content, I’m not satisfied. I’m not giving up yet.

He continues: “I’m hoping that I’ll be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, too. But if they don’t want me in there, it’s okay. I mean, I am in there vis a vis Metallica, and no matter what those guys say or what anybody believes about their induction ceremony, they wouldn’t have been there if it wasn’t for me being in the band, because I was there in the beginning, so I have some satisfaction.”

Mustaine also discusses the ‘negative perception’ some sections of the rock community has of him and his band.

He adds: “People talk shit about me. People compliment me all the time. You have to take the good with the bad. If you go through life trying to make everybody happy, then what’s your purpose? Because you’re never going to make everyone happy, you have to accept the cards you’ve been dealt and a make the best out of it.

“There’s a lot of things that have happened to me in my career that I love, some that I don’t.”

Megadeth tour North America in the spring.

Stef wrote close to 5,000 stories during his time as assistant online news editor and later as online news editor between 2014-2016. An accomplished reporter and journalist, Stef has written extensively for a number of UK newspapers and also played bass with UK rock favourites Logan. His favourite bands are Pixies and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Stef left the world of rock'n'roll news behind when he moved to his beloved Canada in 2016, but he started on his next 5000 stories in 2022. 

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