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Photographs of Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine and Lisa Marie Presley

“She was literally getting onto the plane. I felt awkward about it, but I’ve got a bad enough reputation and so has she”: The classic Megadeth song that was originally supposed to feature Lisa Marie Presley

By Metal Hammer published

This Megadeth anthem could have sounded very different

Dave Mustaine of Megadeth performs during the Stone Free Festival at The O2 Arena on June 16, 2018 in London, England.

"Thank God that genre went away." Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has no love for nu metal

By Stef Lach published

Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine pulls no punches when it comes to nu metal bands

Disturbed

Disturbed announce arena-scale The Sickness 25th-anniversary UK and Europe tour, Megadeth opening

By Matt Mills published

Supported by thrash metal royalty, Chicago’s nu metal stars will play their debut album in full at some of the biggest venues they’ve ever headlined

Marty Friedman playing guitar onstage

Marty Friedman (ex-Megadeth) likens guitar playing to sex: “If you practise at home, you’re going to get good at practising at home. If you go out and do the real thing, you’re going to get good at doing the real thing.”

By Matt Mills published

“Everything that I always say about this can be related to sex in some way,” the legendary guitarist admits

Electra, Pamela, Dave, Angela, and Justis Mustaine with the House Of Mustaine coat of arms

"Just as Dave pioneered a genre with Megadeth, we wanted to pioneer something new in the world of wine": Dave Mustaine's wine company is now offering luxury wine-related excursions

By Fraser Lewry published

Elephant safaris! Camel trekking! White water rafting! Wine drinking! Anything is possible at House Of Mustaine

Kerry King in 2023 and Dave Mustaine onstage with Megadeth in 2024

“Dave Mustaine can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth”: Slayer’s Kerry King explains his relationships with Metallica members old and new

By Matt Mills published

The Slayer guitarist reveals he’ll spend 20 minutes with Dave Mustaine but then “bolt just before anything gets uncomfortable”

Megadeth performing live in 2024

“It’s only a matter of a couple weeks before everybody converges on to the studio”: Megadeth are working on their next studio album

By Matt Mills published

Sounds like Dave Mustaine’s thrash icons won’t take another six years to release their next album…

Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman onstage with Megadeth in 1992

“I was stunned and angry and told them I couldn’t even consider it”: Why Marty Friedman turned down potential Megadeth reunion in 2015

By Matt Mills published

Friedman claims an insultingly low salary offer prevented Megadeth’s most legendary lineup from regrouping 10 years ago

Marty Friedman playing guitar onstage

“I’m flat on my back in the ER shivering like a moron in the middle of the Arizona desert”: Marty Friedman remembers intense panic attack he suffered during final Megadeth days

By Matt Mills published

In an excerpt from memoir Dreaming Japanese, Friedman looks back on the “unusually strong” panic attack he suffered on Christmas morning, 1999

Megadeth and Metallica performing live in 2024

“That’s a gutless thing to say!” Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine once walked out of spinal surgery because Metallica’s manager insulted him

By Matt Mills published

There’s “determined”, then there’s whatever the hell “climbing off of a surgery table to prove someone wrong” is

Black Sabbath, Megadeth and Slayer

According to science, metal is the most “intelligent” genre of music you can listen to - and these are its most intelligent bands

By Liz Scarlett published

Metalheads are boffins, actually, and these bands prove it

Megadeth posing for a photograph in 1988

“We had a living, breathing Sex Pistol come in and play on it. He wanted $100 and some ‘suction’”: The insane story of Megadeth’s So Far, So Good… So What!, thrash metal’s most self-destructive album

By Malcolm Dome published

Megadeth’s first two albums were thrash classics. And then they made So Far, So Good… So What! and the debauchery caught up with them

David Ellefson sat down holding a bass guitar

David Ellefson calls Megadeth’s most hated album “one of the great Megadeth records”

By Matt Mills published

To quote John Cena: “Are you sure about that?”

Dave Mustaine and Peter Frampton onstage

"It's disappointing when someone you admire talks out their ass about you": Megadeth vs Peter Frampton is the 2024 beef no one saw coming

By Fraser Lewry published

That escalated quickly, etc

David Ellefson in 2010 and Metallica in 2002

“Lars called me, and you’re on a shortlist”: Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson was in the running to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica

By Matt Mills published

Megadeth’s David Ellefson was shortlisted to join Metallica in 2003 – and he found out because Dave Mustaine told him

Dirk Verbeuren of Megadeth performs at Lokerse Feesten Festival on August 6, 2023 in Lokeren, Belgium

Megadeth drummer hits out at fashion brand for "stealing" heavy metal imagery

By Stef Lach published

Hoodie includes Soilwork album art which has caught the attention of Megadeth and Lamb of God members

David Ellefson

“It’s never a closed chapter. I helped start the band.” David Ellefson doesn’t rule out Megadeth return

By Matt Mills published

Ellefson was dismissed from Megadeth in 2021 following a sex scandal, but seems open to rejoining the thrash icons

Metallica live 1980s

"You had guys who would jump into the crowd and then walk across people’s heads." Inside the year that turned thrash metal into a global phenomenon

By Dave Everley published

From Anthrax's Fistfull Of Metal to Exodus's Bonded By Blood and Metallica's Ride The Lightning, 1984 was the year thrash broke big

Megadeth posing for a photograph in 2009

“I’m going to get into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame one way or another and Lars Ulrich can’t keep me out!” How Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine used old rivalries as fuel for the Endgame album

By Dom Lawson published

Megadeth‘s 2009 album Endgame capped a killer decade for the thrash veterans

Marty Friedman and Gene Simmons in 2023

“I’m 5’7” but I’ll have an operation, I’ll do something”: Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman was denied a Kiss audition for being too short

By Matt Mills published

Marty Friedman’s height cruelly cost him the chance to join one of rock’s biggest-ever bands