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Dave Mustaine's first album was stolen copy of KISS classic

Megadeth guitarist Dave Mustaine has recalled how he "instantly became a rebel" after stealing the first album he owned.

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"This is the end, my friends. To balance out the bad news, they've kindly made one of their strongest albums of the 21st century." Heavy metal legends Megadeth are going out on a high with a killer final album

Megadeth will be missed, but what a final record to leave us with

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NAMM 2026: rumors, predictions and breaking news from the world's biggest guitar gear show

All the latest and greatest gear drops coming out of the largest music trade show in the world – with new launches from Ibanez, Taylor, EVH, Marshall and more

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“Playing in space would be a fitting climax!” Megadeth are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer

As the thrash legends release their final album, we find out why they’re calling it quits

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“It’s not ‘puppet show Megadeth’”: Dave Mustaine says he doesn't want guesting ex-members on Megadeth’s final tour

Band’s supposedly ‘final’ album arrives in two weeks

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“That would be a huge undertaking. It’s not ‘puppet show Megadeth’”: Dave Mustaine says he won’t reunite with former Megadeth members on the band’s farewell tour

Don't expect Marty Friedman, Kiko Loureiro, Chris Poland or any other ex-Megadeth guitarist to make a cameo

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“I said, ‘Man, where’s my audition?’ They said, ‘You got the gig.’ So I got my job just by warming up”: How Dave Mustaine landed the gig with Metallica

Mustaine looks back at the audition (or, should we say, non-audition?) that landed him the Metallica spot all those years ago

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“I’m not leaving things unfinished”: Dave Mustaine reveals the life-changing hand condition behind his decision to retire Megadeth

The band’s album will be their last, as his plight with Viking Disease has forced his hand

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“We’re always going to be responsible for making some of the most fun music that bassists and guitarists and drummers will ever want to play”: Dave Mustaine doesn’t know what he’ll do with himself after Megadeth call it quits

What will MegaDave get up to after retiring? Turns out, not even he’s sure

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“I was like, ‘It’s time to do your solos.’ He goes, ‘OK, I’m gonna call up my guitar teacher, have him do the solos and then have him teach me’”: Dave Mustaine on the ill-fated guitar appointment that led Megadeth to Jeff Young

The thrash icons thought they’d found Chris Poland’s replacement, only for a bizarre moment in the studio to force a change

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Dave Mustaine's painful hand condition is making it 'really painful to play' guitar

Dave Mustaine's hand condition is making it "really painful to play" guitar.

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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine reveals he's suffering from hand condition that makes it "really painful to play"

With Megadeth counting down to retirement, Mustaine reveals he's dealing with condition called Dupuytren's contracture

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The 50 best metal songs of 2025

Sleep Token, Ghost, Babymetal - these are the songs you picked as the finest 2025 had to offer

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“We were joking that we have to make this record absolutely shred and that we needed to put a lot of solos in it. I think we accomplished that”: Megadeth shares new single ahead of farewell record – and it’s a shred guitar celebration

Let There Be Shred finds Teemu Mäntysaari playing like a man possessed – and Dave Mustaine doing karate in the music video

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Dave Mustaine disbanding Megadeth due to health issues

Dave Mustaine has revealed he decided to retire his band Megadeth after one final album and tour because his health issues meant he was "unable to give a hundred per cent every night".

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Behaviour of one former Megadeth member means there will be no reunions on upcoming farewell tour

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine rules out bringing former members back as guests on farewell tour

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"One of the genre's greatest and most relentless masterpieces": Dave Mustaine attains thrash metal nirvana on Megadeth's Rust In Peace

No filler or flab on one of the most obscenely thrilling moments in all of recorded metal history

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“We were absolutely convinced we were gonna just kill in the US. Then Phil gets hepatitis and – boom! – the tour just stopped there”: A metal fan’s guide to Thin Lizzy, the hellraising 70s rock icons who inspired Metallica and Megadeth

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Megadeth announce 2026 Canadian tour with Anthrax and Exodus

Megadeth's farewell plans now include a 12-date tour of Canada with fellow thrash metal titans

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"I saw they sent a bunch of celebrities into space and I thought 'Well, if them, why not me?!'" Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine wants their final show to be in outer space

Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine has lofty ambitions for the band's final ever show. Like, seriously lofty

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Megadeth, Poppy and Heriot are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“I certainly got a new appreciation for the Megadeth stuff… it was amazing to see how far guitar quality had come in our genre of music”: Alex Skolnick on the time he was on standby for Megadeth – and what to do when you can’t match a player lick for lick

With Kiko Loureiro's wife pregnant, Megadeth needed an understudy for emergency cover. The Testament guitarist answered the call but admits Loureiro's solos were impossible

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"I think when things happen like the throat cancer, or my neck being fused, or the saturnine palsy in my arm, most people would stop." Dave Mustaine on why Megadeth's final show might still be "three to five years" away

Megadeth fans, don't panic! You'll likely still have plenty of time to catch Dave and the boys on their final run

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Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit, Bring Me The Horizon, The Offspring, Deep Purple, Sabaton, Volbeat, Bad Omens and more sign up for stacked Hellfest 2026 lineup

Hellfest has announced another epic lineup for next year

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“Dave and I were in a position where there was no Plan B. There was no escape hatch”: Megadeth were broke, homeless and way behind Metallica. But this thrash classic inspired by Patti Smith and written on a borrowed bass would change everything

How Megadeth wrote a landmark thrash metal classic in the midst of personal and financial chaos

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