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Dave Mustaine wanted Megadeth to re-record songs from Metallica’s No Life ’Til Leather demo, ex-bassist David Ellefson claims

Mustaine has songwriting credits on four of the songs on Metallica’s now-legendary demo

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Every guitar hero, special guest and all-star cover from Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s epic Back to the Beginning farewell show

Jake E. Lee, Ronnie Wood and Nuno Bettencourt were among the six-string royalty joining the likes of Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Gojira for the nine-hour celebration

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Here's every single special guest and song played from Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show

Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Gojira amongst a cast of superstar guests as Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath play live for the last time

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“That’s why things were so hard for me to try and get deals”: Former Megadeth guitarist says Dave Mustaine damaged his career by calling him a “liar”

Chris Poland, who performed on Megadeth’s first two albums, likens being the subject of Mustaine’s ire to dragging around a “50-pound ball”

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“I don’t know how anyone can be in that band for more than a couple hours”: The story of Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s short but whirlwind stint in Megadeth

King played guitar for Megadeth’s first five shows in 1984 – but the partnership was never going to last

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“You have to fight to be heard in metal. But you have to give them something worth fighting for!” 20 metal bassists who took heavy bass playing in new directions

Featuring metal’s leading low-enders – from old-school thrash to modern metal

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"Rush is one of the very few bands where they somehow had a friendship in there and they made it work financially”: Megadeth bassist David Ellefson on songwriting credits and their potential to upend bands

It was “always an issue” in Megadeth, he says

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“It’s only a matter of a couple weeks before everybody converges on to the studio”: Megadeth are working on their next studio album

Sounds like Dave Mustaine’s thrash icons won’t take another six years to release their next album…

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“I was stunned and angry and told them I couldn’t even consider it”: Why Marty Friedman turned down potential Megadeth reunion in 2015

Friedman claims an insultingly low salary offer prevented Megadeth’s most legendary lineup from regrouping 10 years ago

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David Ellefson calls Megadeth’s most hated album “one of the great Megadeth records”

To quote John Cena: “Are you sure about that?”

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“Lars called me, and you’re on a shortlist”: Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson was in the running to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica

Megadeth’s David Ellefson was shortlisted to join Metallica in 2003 – and he found out because Dave Mustaine told him

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“It’s never a closed chapter. I helped start the band.” David Ellefson doesn’t rule out Megadeth return

Ellefson was dismissed from Megadeth in 2021 following a sex scandal, but seems open to rejoining the thrash icons

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“Nu metal? No guitar solos! Everyone played with their pants down round their ankles… It was a bleak period, but we came through it”: how Megadeth kicked off the 2010s with the blazing Th1rt3en album

In 2011, Dave Mustaine invited Metal Hammer into his inner sanctum

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“Dave Mustaine really wants to do another record”: Megadeth are making their next album, says bassist

According to James LoMenzo, the thrash metal icons are already at work on the follow-up to 2022’s The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!

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“Vultures were on the bedpost. It was a dark road and I was losing my lust for life”: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is metal’s great survivor

Drugs, feuds, bitter ex-bandmates – Dave Mustaine has weathered everything life threw at him. And in this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archives, he wasn’t about to roll over yet

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"The fight against Metallica was not my fight. I am glad to be friends with them." From his Megadeth days to THAT scandal, thrash metal icon David Ellefson has lived quite a life

David Ellefson talks his storied Megadeth career, bouncing back from an embarrassing scandal and the wild days of early thrash

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“The fans, the performances, the shows”: David Ellefson reveals what he misses about being in Megadeth

David Ellefson has said that, following his firing from Megadeth in 2021, being on the road with them is what he misses most

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"When you bare it all, you’ve got nothing to hide." David Ellefson on the sex scandal that got him fired from Megadeth

Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson takes a philosophical view of the controversy that saw his tenure with the thrash legends come to an end

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Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson celebrated his birthday by seeing Metallica

Former Megadeth member David Ellefson has sent “heartfelt thanks to my dear friend Lars Ulrich & the Metallica camp”

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11 legendary heavy metal bands with only one original member left

Superstars from Iron Maiden to Slipknot are still thriving, despite having just one founding member among their ranks

Guitar World

“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

Guitar World

"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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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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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson's Insane Clown Posse collab The Lucid to nu metalcore newcomers Graphic Nature, you need to check out these brilliant new metal bands

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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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