Hey, do you know Dave Mustaine was in Metallica as soon as? Hey, do you know Dave Mustaine was in Metallica as soon as? Hey, do you know Dave Mustaine was in Metallica as soon as? Hey, do you know Dave Mustaine was in Metallica as soon as? Hey, do you know Dave Mustaine was in Metallica as soon as?
I imply actually… do you know that? As a result of for the final 40 fucking years, Dave Mustaine hasn’t shut the fuck up about Metallica and the way they might or might not have achieved him unsuitable once they kicked his ass to the curb for being an excessive amount of of an alcoholic… for Metallica. Now, as Megadeth begins to take its last bow, he’s successfully utilizing the band’s last bonus monitor ever to pay tribute to his self-proclaimed rivals.
When forming Megadeth, Dave Mustaine’s total objective in doing so was to make one thing that was sooner, louder, heavier, and simply total higher than his former band. Did he succeed? I’d enterprise to say he got here rattling shut. Now, on the twilight of his band’s profession, Mustaine says he needs to hyperlink Metallica to the tip of Megadeth as a present of respect. It’s weirdly poetic in a method, how the band that triggered Megadeth’s beginning can also be now linked in its finish.
“So, on the brand new album, we recorded Trip the Lightning, and the explanation we did that was clearly as a result of it’s a music that I had lots to do with writing. James and I, once we had been engaged on the music, it grew to become clear to me when James first began enjoying guitar how good of a guitar participant he was.
“I believed it might be actually cool to shut the circle — to indicate respect, to play the songs that I’d written with Metallica, and to honor our friendship, though it’s been strained and ruined by feelings over time once we weren’t essentially pleasant.
“However one factor I’ve at all times had is an amazing respect for James’s guitar enjoying and Lars’s songwriting. So it was cool to do that and add it to the document. We sped it up just a bit bit and performed round just a little with the solo — Teemu and I each tossed it forwards and backwards to one another.
“So that you would possibly hear some variations with the tempos, and naturally, I sing in a different way from James too. However as soon as once more, it was about finishing the circle and exhibiting what James and I, as guitar gamers, did to alter the world.”
Certain, Mustaine has a writing credit score on the music, however most traditional individuals don’t know that. They do, nonetheless, know all of the vitriol he’s spit in Metallica’s basic path over time. Regardless, it looks like he’s making an attempt to go away issues in a greater place than perhaps his previous feedback have led individuals to imagine. It’s an odd, if not noble pursuit in a bizarre method.
Individuals started placing the items collectively that this cowl was on the album during the last couple days, because the band slowly started revealing music titles. Reddit customers appropriately discovered mild outlines of the phrases “Trip The Lightning” and pieced it collectively. So now the cat’s outta the bag and it just about confirms the report from again in July the place disgraced bassist David Ellefson stated Mustaine needed to re-record contested Metallica tracks.
As for the remainder of the album’s tracklisting, it’s received cheese like “Hey, God?”, “I Don’t Care”, and “Let There Be Shred” blended in with tracks like “I Am Struggle” and “Made To Kill”. No less than it’s not Warheads On Foreheads… The tracklist is as follows:
- Tipping Level
- I Don’t Care
- Hey, God?!
- Let There Be Shred
- Puppet Parade
- One other Unhealthy Day
- Made To Kill
- Obey The Name
- I Am Struggle
- The Final Word
- Trip The Lightning (Bonus Monitor)
Megadeth’s self-titled, farewell LP is ready to launch January 23 of 2026 by way of BLKIIBLK, however you may preorder your copy right now.