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“Where would I be right now if I didn’t have one of the biggest bands in the world spending their time trying to hold me back?” Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine claims Metallica and others held him back during early career

The singer/guitarist now believes “there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be friends”

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“Was this an attempt to challenge Metallica’s success with the Black Album?” A guide to every Megadeth album – and guitarist

As Dave Mustaine prepares to ride Megadeth out into the sunset, we chart the thrash pioneers’ explosive studio output, album by album, guitarist by guitarist

Guitar World

“We spent the night in a BDSM dungeon and our tour manager slept in a coffin”: Endorsed by Megadeth and influenced by their genre’s most evil-sounding bands, Worm are a wild new force in black metal

Inspired by infamous documentary Until The Light Takes Us, the musician known as Phantom Slaughter launched an unhinged project – and now Megadeth’s Marty Friedman is involved

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“Unmistakably the work of metal’s mouthiest frontman”: Every Megadeth album ranked from worst to best

The metal icons have released their final album and are on their last-ever tour – here’s how they got here

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“We spent the night in a BDSM dungeon and our tour manager slept in a coffin”: The story of Worm, the battiest band in modern black metal

Inspired by black metal doc Until The Light Takes Us, the musician known as Phantom Slaughter launched an unhinged project endorsed by Megadeth’s Marty Friedman

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"This is going to be a long tour, and at the end of it, I want some time to live life.” Heavy metal legend and ever-controversial icon Dave Mustaine on the end of Megadeth, making peace with Metallica and what's next

Dave Mustaine remains defiant even as Megadeth approach the end

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“I wanted to pay my respects to James Hetfield, who I think is an amazing guitar player, and Lars Ulrich, who was an excellent songwriter”: Dave Mustaine breaks down Megadeth’s final album, track by track – and why he paid tribute to Metallica

The thrash pioneer reveals the stories behind the thrash icons’ final songs

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“The recording was brutal. Daytime was Dragon's Kiss, nighttime was Jason Becker's Perpetual Burn. I was in the studio 16 to 18 hours a day”: Marty Friedman on leaving Megadeth, reconnecting with Dave Mustaine, and why he wasn't a good fit for Ozzy

Friedman recalls 18-hour days working on his solo debut alongside Jason Becker’s first album, how Kiss were the blueprint for his career, and why he’s avoiding making a follow-up to 2024’s Drama

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Team GB target Magic Monday and hat-trick of Olympic medals … with help from Metallica

Team GB are hopeful of winning medals in snowboard Big Air, curling and freeski slopestyle in a single day at the Winter Olympics

The Guardian - UK

"James says, 'Kill him!' This guy looks at the two of us and says, 'Who’s gonna kill me?' And James pointed at me." Dave Mustaine looks back on Metallica's wild early days

Metallica's early years were a wild ride

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“It's not that I don't want to stay, it's that my hands are betraying me”: Dave Mustaine says his hand problems are forcing him to end Megadeth

His worsening condition means his playing days are numbered

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“It was the best career move I ever made”: Why Marty Friedman has no regrets leaving Megadeth

Friedman says he's flourished in his time away from the group

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"If there was another way around this, I would swallow my pride and say, 'I was able to find some miracle cure.'" Heavy metal legend and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on why now is the right time to say goodbye

Dave would love to continue Megadeth even longer, but it just isn't on the cards

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Dave Mustaine shares his biggest regret after releasing Megadeth’s final album

Exclusive: Heavy metal frontman reflects on the band’s farewell while addressing his many health issues over the years, and the stories behind Megadeth’s last album

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“Dave was telling us how those songs from back in the day came about. It helped us understand how to make a good Megadeth album”: Teemu Mäntysaari on the making of Megadeth’s final album

Mäntysaari says Dave Mustaine's last hurrah was a very modern collaboration built upon the established principles of Megadeth's sound

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“We were at a club, and some guy was punching on a girl, and James says, ‘Kill him!’ This guy turns around and looks at the two of us and says, ‘Who’s gonna kill me?’ And James pointed at me…": Dave Mustaine on early days with, and split from, Metallica

Plus he says his younger self “just needed to be loved”

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What the 2026 Grammys got right about rock and metal this year - and what they got very wrong

As is so often the case, the rock and metal representation at this year's Grammys was a mix of deserved recognition and total clangers

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From reggae/metal mash-ups to riff-stacked prog, these are the 11 new metal tracks that everybody needs to hear this week

Skindred, Sevendust and Møl spearhead a week of amazing new music. Listen to it all and vote for your favourite song here.

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“Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it was like, ‘Oh my god’”: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago

1986 was the year where thrash metal broke through. We got the genre’s leading bands to look back on those whirlwind 12 months.

Guitar World

“He took offense to that and we hung up, and I don't remember speaking to him since then”: Ahead of Megadeth's final album, Dave Mustaine sets the record straight on why he and James Hetfield don’t talk anymore

The story goes way back to Metallica's legendary No Life 'Til Leather demo

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“Why would I want to play with those guys?” Dave Mustaine doesn’t want to reunite with certain former Megadeth members because they bad-mouthed him in interviews

It doesn’t help that other ex-members have apparently given up their instruments, as well

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"You guys got more money than God, why do you have to take my money?" Dave Mustaine on his conversation with James Hetfield that ended Metallica's plan to release their legendary No Life 'Til Leather demo on vinyl and CD

Dave Mustaine understandably isn't prepared to be pressured into backing down on his contributions to Metallica's early success

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Dave Mustaine reveals his physical struggles means Megadeth had to end

Dave Mustaine knew Megadeth had to end after physical struggles working on their last album.

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“Ask any of the people who have played with him… he’s incredibly talented, but very mysterious”: Dave Mustaine admits he nearly passed on Marty Friedman for Megadeth because he didn’t like his hair

But then he heard Friedman play...

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“We’ve been through guitar player after guitar player. We get to the solo, and he nails it. I just thought, ‘Oh my God’”: Dave Mustaine recounts the hiring and firing of every Megadeth guitarist

As Megadeth prepare for their final album release and tour, Mustaine looks back at some Mega-memories, the ghosts that still haunt him and the lead guitarists he played with along the way

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