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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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“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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“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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“Even though Dave might claim that he wrote Leper Messiah, he didn’t”: The story of every song Dave Mustaine co-wrote for Metallica – and what Megadeth did with those riffs

From The Four Horsemen to The Call Of Ktulu, this is everything you need to know about the six (maybe seven) Metallica songs with Dave Mustaine’s name on them

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Slayer’s Kerry King prefers Metallica over Megadeth because “Metallica has a singer”

“Sorry, Dave!”

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“It was about completing the circle and us showing what James and I as guitar players did to change the world”: Dave Mustaine reveals why Megadeth are covering Metallica on their final album

Megadeth's new album will find Mustaine and co playing a Metallica classic, co-written by Mustaine in the early days, and MegaDave promises us we've never heard Ride the Lightning like this before

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Dave Mustaine has covered Metallica to show his huge 'respect' to James Hetfield

Dave Mustaine says he has covered Metallica and Megadeth's farewell album to make "clear" his massive "respect" for frontman James Hetfield.

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“This is a tip of a hat to Metallica for everything that they’ve done, and everything that we’ve done”: Dave Mustaine explains why Megadeth reimagined Ride The Lightning for their final album

Megadeth’s leader calls his sped-up rendition of the Metalli-classic a mark of “respect” towards his ex-bandmates

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“One of the songs is a cover song but I actually wrote it, so it’s kind of like a cover, kind of like my song”: Are Megadeth set to include a version of Metallica's Ride The Lightning on their final album?

Dave Mustaine hinted at it earlier this year, and a new tracklisting has added fuel to the fire

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Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson hopes the band's final tour isn't a ploy to 'boost ticket sales'

Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson is not convinced the band's final tour and album is the end.

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“We’ve seen this movie before: boost ticket sales, go away, then the bigger offers come”: Former Megadeth member isn’t fully convinced the band are retiring

Ex-bassist David Ellefson hopes the thrashers’ upcoming farewell shows aren’t “just an attempt to boost ticket sales”

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Only 250 are in stock, so order fast!

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Watch video for new Megadeth single Tipping Point

Tipping Point is the 1st single from Megadeth's upcoming final album

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The thrash metal legends’ final album will drop next year

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“I think we’re all being pushed to the edge right now”: Listen to Megadeth’s thrash-adocious new single Tipping Point, the first taste of Dave Mustaine and co.’s final album

The speedsters’ self-titled swansong is due out at some point next year

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“I don’t try to point out stupidity, and I don’t like to make people feel bad – unless they annoy me”: The Beatles-inspired 90s song that finally gave these thrash heavyweights the mainstream hit that had eluded them

Just like the Pied Piper…

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“I came upon the V, but I didn’t think much of it because of the weird shape. I didn’t think it was very playable”: Dave Mustaine first discovered the Flying V when he joined Metallica and wasn’t a fan – this is what changed his mind

Mustaine is undoubtedly one of the Flying V’s main poster boys, with several signature models under his belt

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“As much as it sucked to start over, I saw Dave become a vastly better guitar player pretty quickly after Metallica”: Dave Ellefson has his say on whether Metallica did Dave Mustaine a favour by sacking him

It put a rocket under him, he reckons

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“One of my favorite moments”: That time Eric Johnson shredded a custom Dean V – which had been built for Dave Mustaine to use on the Experience Hendrix tour

The custom axe nods to one of Hendrix’s most iconic guitars and was used by the Megadeth frontman on the Experience Hendrix tour

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 7-13

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Sept. 7-13 include singer-guitarist Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, comedian Leslie Jones from ″Saturday Night Live” and model Angie Everhart

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"He's the Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart of the riff": Gibson salutes Tony Iommi in star-studded new film series

Iommi: The Godfather Of Heavy Metal features interviews with Brian May, Slash, Dave Mustaine, Kirk Hammett, Scott Ian and more

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“Fuelled by a combustible mix of chemicals, vengeance and spite”: Every Megadeth album ranked, from worst to best

Dave Mustaine has announced the metal icons’ final album – here’s how they got here

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Megadeth Farewell Tour: Will Ex-bassist David Ellefson Return After He Was Fired Over 2021 Sex Scandal with Alleged Minor

Megadeth has confirmed that their upcoming seventeenth and final studio album will be released in 2026, accompanied by a global farewell tour, marking the band's retirement after more than four decades in thrash metal.

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Megadeth Farewell Tour Dates: Where Are the Cities for the Band's Last Thrash Metal Ride?

Megadeth reveal final album plans and 2026 farewell tour. Find out which cities could host their last thrash metal shows.

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