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Megadeth's return to the UK for Bloodstock was far from perfect, but a riotous, career-spanning celebration all the same

Dave Mustaine needed a little help from the crowd on this one, but it all made for a hella fun, thrashing good time

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Inside the new issue of Total Guitar: The 50 Greatest Acoustic Guitar Songs Of All Time

Also in issue 374! Interviews: Ben Howard, Skindred, Nat Myers, mehro and more! Reviews: Blackstar Debut 50R, Dave Mustaine 2023 Flying Vs, Danelectro Blackout '59M NOS, Fender Gold Foil Telecaster, EHX Lizard Queen. Learn songs by AC/DC, The Hives and Billie Eilish.

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Epiphone Dave Mustaine Flying V Custom review – a metal-tailored V that virtually plays itself

MegaDave's signature 24-fret V reveals itself as a serious metal guitar at any price

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Watch Marty Friedman nail the greatest solo in thrash metal history as he plays Tornado Of Souls with Megadeth at Wacken

Fan-shot footage offers a pit's eye view of a historic moment as Friedman rejoins Megadeth for a live cameo and blazes through his ripping lead from the Rust In Peace classic

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Watch Dave Mustaine angrily call out a drunk loudmouth fan at a Megadeth show before making a weird joke about incest

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine gets increasingly angry at a drunk fan who insists that he can play guitar as well as Mustaine can

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"This guy Bon Scott sounds like he’s got peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth!": Megadeth's Dave Mustaine on how AC/DC changed his life

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on how Let There Be Rock – and a girl called Cindy – blew his mind

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“I'd hear Dave Mustaine aimlessly riffing on the couch, and it's the riffs that ended up on the first two Megadeth – and, frankly, Metallica – records”: Megadeth's first lead guitarist Greg Handevidt on the birth of a metal institution

The first guitar player to stand toe-to-toe with Dave Mustaine in Megadeth looks back on his intense initial meeting with the metal icon, and his memories of the band's mythical demo tape – their equivalent of Metallica's No Life 'Til Leather

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The 10 greatest Megadeth riffs of all time

Love him or hate him, no one can deny that Megadeth mastermind Dave Mustaine has written a host of legendary riffs. Here are the 10 most neck-snapping.

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Ten songs that fought back against the PMRC

In 80s America, the Parents Music Resource Center sought to censor music by imposing a series of draconian rules. Here’s how a group of rock, metal and punk bands fought back

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"I don't even own a Strat! I used my Dean Thoroughbred, a far cry from what David Gilmour used": How ex-Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland ended up covering Pink Floyd

Dave Mustaine's former right-hand man was surprised to find himself tackling Floyd's San Tropez, but it's the perfect showcase for his flexible chops. He explains his approach to playing Gilmour's leads, what he thinks of Megadeth's latest material, and why he was "so bummed out" when he first heard Peace…

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"I think this song is about Dave Mustaine considering moving to Colombia": Megadeth and The Offspring take on Shakira in one of 2023's best mash-ups

Listen to My Hips Aren't Alright, the internet's latest brain-melting mash-up, in which Megadeth and The Offspring meet Shakira

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"His dedication to Gibson’s quality and legacy is beyond reproach" – players pay tribute as Cesar Gueikian officially announced as President and CEO of Gibson Brands

Adam Jones and Dave Mustaine salute Cesar as the interim chief's interim role moves to permanent

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Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson pay tribute to late Megadeth drummer Lee Rauch

However the former bandmates disagree on whether or not Rauch featured on Megadeth’s Last Rites demo

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Dave Mustaine explains why "it's not really that hard to shred fast" and what makes his Gibson and Epiphone models impossible to tell apart

The Megadeth leader shares how working with Gibson is "the greatest thing that's ever happened" in his career, the "massive piece of the puzzle" that makes a good guitarist, and why he "unfairly" poked fun at Kirk Hammett

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Dave Mustaine thinks everyone has been using the whammy bar wrong – with two exceptions

“Whatever you do on the guitar with the whammy bar you should be able to emulate with your fingers,” says the Megadeth icon

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Dave Mustaine’s signature Vs from Epiphone and Kramer are officially released and they look mighty thrashable

Today is a V big deal for Mustaine fans as Epiphone unveils Classic and Prophecy versions of his signature Flying V, and Kramer drops a trio of Vanguards

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Dave Mustaine’s Epiphone and Kramer signature models are finally here – and it looks like they’ve been worth the wait

More than 3 years after the guitars were announced, Mustaine's affordable signature models have arrived, complete with Seymour Duncan or Fishman Fluence pickups and an assortment of metal-friendly aesthetics

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Listen to this fake Megadeth album written by an enthusiastic mega fan in under 24 hours

Bradley Hall wrote an entire fake Megadeth album called Megabeans in just one day as an ode to Rust In Peace, with songs including Master Of Muppets and Hangry Again

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Ice-T on metal, Dave Mustaine and making it against the odds: “My hustle is strong. It’s a survival instinct”

Body Count frontman, hip hop icon, controversy magnet, friend of Megadeth, Lemmy, Slayer and more – it’s Ice-T’s world, we just live in it

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10 metal musicians who hate backing tracks and 6 who don’t have a problem with them

From Kiss and W.A.S.P. to Iron Maiden, Slipknot and Megadeth, metal is divided over the use of backing tracks live

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Ex Megadeth bassist says Dave Mustaine's long-held Metallica grudge is "f***ing pathetic"

David Ellefson takes aim at former Megadeth bandmate Dave Mustaine over his decades-long beef with Metallica

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Gibson’s new 80s Flying V and Explorer models party like it’s 1984 with ebony finishes and high output humbuckers

Fat tones in a black suit are the order of the day as the firm casts its gaze back to an era of angular designs and heavy tone

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Celebrating the ridiculous moment Megadeth's Dave Mustaine appeared on Daffy Duck spin-off, Duck Dodgers

Remembering the time the world's state-of-the-art speed metal band rocked the outer reaches of the universe with the help of a duck

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Buckethead is selling his iconic, one-of-a-kind Jackson KFC KV2 Custom V model

The virtuoso is parting ways with his custom-built Jackson V, which he acquired in 1999 and used heavily during his time with Guns N' Roses

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Angry again: how Last Action Hero's incredible soundtrack helped keep metal alive in the 90s

Megadeth, Anthrax, Alice In Chains, Queensrÿche... Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero may have flopped with critics, but 30 years on, its soundtrack is an absolute classic

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