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Megadeth

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Acoustic Rock
Heavy Metal
Speed Metal
Thrash Metal
Instrumental

http://www.megadeth.com
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25 июл 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says DAVE MUSTAINE Wanted MEGADETH To Re-Record Songs From METALLICA's 'No Life 'Til Leather' Demo
21 июл 2025 :	MEGADETH Was Not Asked To Perform At 'Back To The Beginning', Says JAMES LOMENZO: 'Not Everybody Gets Invited To Every Party'
29 июн 2025 :	MEGADETH's DIRK VERBEUREN Shares 'Holy Wars' Drum-Cam Video From Noblesville Concert
27 июн 2025 :	MEGADETH To Release Ultra-Limited 'Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good!' 40th-Anniversary Box Set In October
21 июн 2025 :	STEVE DIGIORGIO Says He Spoke To DAVID ELLEFSON About Replacing Bass Tracks On MEGADETH's 'The Sick, The Dying…' Album
15 июн 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Reflects On MEGADETH's 'Risk': It Is 'Probably The Most Controversial Album In The Catalog'
15 июн 2025 :	MEGADETH And HALF SUMO Collaborate On 'Killing Is My Business…' 40th-Anniversary Fightwear Capsule
11 июн 2025 :	See Pro-Shot Video Of MEGADETH's Entire Performance At 2024 Edition Of Spain's RESURRECTION FEST
3 июн 2025 :	AL PITRELLI Reflects On His First Concert With MEGADETH: 'I Didn't Even Have Time To Get Scared'
14 май 2025 :	CHRIS ADLER On Working With MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE: 'He's The Most Generous, Nicest, Kindest Guy'
25 апр 2025 :	MEGADETH Shares 'Studio Timelapse 2025' Video Featuring Footage Of Recording Sessions For 17th Album
20 апр 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Reflects On MEGADETH's Failed 'Rust In Peace' Lineup Reunion: 'It Just Wasn't Meant To Be'
19 апр 2025 :	MEGADETH's TEEMU MÄNTYSAARI: 'Heavy Metal Was What Inspired Me To Pick Up The Guitar'
1 апр 2025 :	MEGADETH
23 мар 2025 :	MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Blasts 'Nu Metal' Bands: 'Thank God That Genre Went Away'
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7 мар 2025 :	Next MEGADETH Album To Be Released Via DAVE MUSTAINE's TRADECRAFT Imprint And BLKIIBLK RECORDS
2 мар 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Talks Songwriting Splits In MEGADETH: 'The More Fair You Can Be On All Of It, The Better'
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25 фев 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN On Making Of MEGADETH's 'Rust In Peace': 'We Knew That What We Were Doing Was Gonna Be Cool'
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10 фев 2025 :	DAVE MUSTAINE: 'We Are Almost 90 Days Into The Making Of The 17th MEGADETH Album'
2 фев 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Reflects On His Exit From MEGADETH: 'I Didn't Leave The Band On The Nicest Terms'
24 янв 2025 :	TESTAMENT's ALEX SKOLNICK Says He Was 'On Standby To Fill In' For KIKO LOUREIRO In MEGADETH In 2016

25 июл 2025

DAVID ELLEFSON Says DAVE MUSTAINE Wanted MEGADETH To Re-Record Songs From METALLICA's 'No Life 'Til Leather' Demo

On the latest episode of The David Ellefson Show, former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson reflected on the making of the band's latest album, "The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!"

Ellefson laid down his bass tracks on MEGADETH's sixteenth LP in May 2020 at a studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In July 2021, MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine announced during an episode of his Gimme Radio program "The Dave Mustaine Show" that Ellefson's bass tracks would not be used on the new MEGADETH LP.

"The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!" was released in September 2022 via UMe. Just months after TESTAMENT bassist Steve DiGiorgio recorded his parts for the effort, former MEGADETH bassist James LoMenzo rejoined the band in time for the summer 2021 leg of "The Metal Tour Of The Year" and was later named a permanent replacement for Ellefson.

Ellefson said in part about the recording sessions for "The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!" (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "That was a brutal record. I'm glad to be away from it, to be honest with you. It was a terrible process. It was five years in the making. Every song I wrote for it got taken off — every riff I added, every lyric I added. It was spiteful, it was vengeful and it was hateful. And it was not my record. I went into it. I said to Dave [Mustaine], I said, 'Why don't we go in here? We're at a phase now, we should go in here like it's 'Peace Sells'. We [should go in there like we] have no money. We have no time. Write a song, record it, move on. Write a song, record it, move on.' I said, 'I feel like fans are tired of these over-digitized, fucking locked-to-the-grid, these perfect heavy metal records.' Fans want fucking records — I think — that are more organic. It sounds like a band playing in the room together.

"Then this 40th anniversary of [MEGADETH's] 'Youthanasia' [album] came up and I go back to that," Ellefson continued. "Shawn Drover [former MEGADETH drummer] got me into that record again. And I hadn't listened to it in a lot of years, and I listened to it and I go, 'Fuck, we were good, man.' That's us playing together in the room, all four of us, laying down tracks together. And I miss that."

Circling back to the process of making "The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!", David said: "There was clashes all the way down, and for me, it started in 2018 when Dave came in to — we started a tour in Oslo, and he came in and he said he wanted to re-record [METALLICA's] 'No Life 'Til Leather' demo [which Mustaine played on when he was briefly a member of METALLICA]. I'm, like, 'Are you kidding me? This is where we're at? After all this time? We're supposed to be writing a new album and new songs. And I was just, like, 'I am not down with that.' As fun as it would be to play those songs, 'cause that's one of my favorite METALLICA recordings, I was just, like, 'Yeah, I ain't down with that.' I'm sorry. I couldn't kiss the ring for that one. I was, like, 'I'm out.' And so I think our problem started then. So as we went into the record, he knew I wasn't willing to just fucking say, 'Yes, Dave,' and go along with shit. So eventually I'm out of the band. So it goes. Bands are what bands are, and it is what it is."

Ellefson added: "Sadly, I have not listened to ['The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!' since it came out]. I heard the one video… The record brings up bad feelings for me. And not being thrown out of the band, but just everything about that record."

Seven years ago, Mustaine said that he didn't want to "perpetuate false information" by giving METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich songwriting credit on the previously announced expanded version of "No Life 'Til Leather".

"No Life 'Til Leather" was released as a limited-edition cassette for Record Store Day in April 2015, available exclusively in independent record stores. It featured artwork copies from drummer Ulrich's own personal copy of the original demo, as well as his handwriting. At the time, the band also promised that expanded editions of the demo, which had never before been commercially available, would arrive on CD, vinyl and in a collector's set.

The seven-song tape was recorded with the first lineup of the band that appeared live as METALLICA, including Ulrich, guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney. The original recordings were paid for by High Velocity record label owner Kenny Kane, with a view of making them available as an EP in 1982.

Mustaine discussed the proposed expanded edition of "No Life 'Til Leather" during a June 2018 interview with U.K.'s Kerrang! magazine. Saying that the last time he spoke to Hetfield was when the METALLICA guitarist/vocalist called him to talk about the "No Life 'Til Leather" re-release, Mustaine recalled: "He was trying to get me to give publishing over to Lars, despite James and I being the sole songwriters. Lars wanted a percentage and I just said no. I love James, he's a terrific guitar player, but yeah, I can't do that. The songs are already out there. I'm not going to release something just to have a product to sell — especially if they are perpetuating false information. Lars did not write the songs. It was just me and James. Period."

Ellefson, who has lived in Scottsdale, Arizona since 1994, was fired from MEGADETH in May 2021, just days after sexually tinged messages and explicit video footage involving the bassist were posted on Twitter.

LoMenzo originally joined MEGADETH in 2006 and appeared on two of the group's studio albums, 2007's "United Abominations" and 2009's "Endgame". He was fired from the band in 2010 and replaced with Ellefson.

Ellefson was in MEGADETH from the band's inception in 1983 to 2002, when the group briefly broke up because Mustaine suffered severe nerve damage that left him unable to play.

Mustaine reformed MEGADETH 18 years ago. Originally setting out to record a solo album, Mustaine enlisted studio musicians to play on what ultimately became MEGADETH's 2004 "The System Has Failed" comeback album, subsequently recruiting former ICED EARTH bassist James MacDonough to take Ellefeson's place for the album's touring cycle.

In 2004, Ellefson sued Mustaine for $18.5 million, alleging that Mustaine still owed him substantial merchandise and publishing royalties. In January 2005, the case was dismissed in court, and five years later, Ellefson rejoined MEGADETH.

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25 июл 2025

Evil Dmitry

Чувак, давай по-честному. Нечего было маструбировать на телефон и отсылать какой-то соплячке. Тебя выгнали из-за этого. Интернет помнит всё. А если забыл - напиши мне, я тебе твое "горячее" видео пришлю.

25 июл 2025

ElectricRetard

Evil Dmitry, >напиши мне, я тебе твое "горячее" видео пришлю.
Но... Зачем?

26 июл 2025

BaphometsGuitar

Evil Dmitry, зачем ты хранишь его?

25 июл 2025

gravitgroove

нужно было идти в отказ и говорить, что все это было злым умыслом и дипфейком, и что в момент звонка он просто пытался открутить крышку у пивной бутылки.

Не пришлось бы строить очередную унылую версию своего увольнения.

25 июл 2025

Nepalcev

"Это была брутальная запись. Я рад, что больше не имею отношения к ней, если честно. Это был ужасный процесс. Он занял целых пять лет....

Потом наступило 40-летие альбома MEGADETH "Youthanasia", и я вернулся к нему. Shawn Drover снова привлёк моё внимание к этому альбому. ..."

Эээ... Что???
Юсанэйше 40 лет уже оказывается было, да ещё и до записи последнего альбома?
Дровер привлёк его внимание?
Дровер ушёл в 2014, после него ещё Дистопия сначала была записана.
Что-то с хронологией у Дэйвида совсем беда.
Или там уже нейро-ассистенты интервью дают/берут?

25 июл 2025

olly71

Nepalcev, у них настолько насыщеная была жизнь что они действительно ни хера точно не помнять так как всё перемешаплось . Это ты поехал в Германию и запомнил поезду на всю жизнь а они там были сотню раз . * Мы как то приехали в один город ну я выхожу на сцену и дежурную фразу - привет мы так долго до вас ехали и рады что наконец то выступим здесь впервые Смотрю народ в зале напрягся . ну я после третьей песни вышел за кулисы спрашиваю у местного роуди чего народ такой грусный ? А мне ты охренел ? какой мы наконец то доехали до вас ? вы за последний год уже третий раз у нас играете . Ну я ему упс сорри а чё за город то у вас ? * ( Мастейн о 1980х )

26 июл 2025

Equitant

Чёт какие-то фантомные боли у Эллефсона. Исходя из его же слов ("Я не согласен с этим", "Я не пошёл у него на поводу", "Я пас"), он и после возвращения в группу пытался вести себя как в былые времена, когда он был совладельцем Megadeth Inc. (или как оно там у них называлось), хотя теперь он был всего лишь наёмным работником на зарплате. А наёмным работникам принимать какие-то решения не положено.
Я не хочу как-то выгораживать Мастейна, но если Эллефсон был теперь только наёмником, то он и варежку открывать и что-то возражать, или не соглашаться с начальником не имеет никаких прав. В подобных случаях таким обычно говорят "что-то не нравится? - до свиданья!" Что Мастейн, видимо, и сделал, а видео с дрочевом было лишь удобным поводом для увольнения.

26 июл 2025

olly71

Equitant, вот за это и был уволен что будучи обычным наёмником вёл себя как совладелец опираясь на то что начинал с Мастейном поднимать группу сначала . Но так как Мастейн уже несколько лет не занимается административкой вообще а оставил себе только творчество то барон за слишком высокомерное поведение был выставлен на мороз людьми которые сейчас решают кадровую политику в компании и для которых Элеффсон не корефан юности .

26 июл 2025

resurgamresponses

olly71, """и для которых Элеффсон не корефан юности ."""
а он и для мегадейва не особо то корефан юности, он тот пацанчик которого мегадейв сделал известным. а это вовсе не то же самое. да , калдырили и так далее , НО...