“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

Megadeth posing for a photograph in 2009.

After a lean period in the late 90s, the 2000s saw Megadeth bouncing back in a big way. By 2009, they’d released the acclaimed Endgame, an album which called back to their thrash roots. Metal Hammer found mainman Dave Mustaine in feisty form at the time, taking sly shots at former bandmates and revealing that he could see the end of his career in sight.

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