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Megadeth band press shot 2025

Dave Mustaine has big plans for the end of Megadeth

By Stephen Hill published

Dave Mustaine remains defiant even as Megadeth approach the end

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Megadeth posing for a photograph in the early 1990s

The drunken onstage outburst that nearly sparked a riot – and inspired a thrash metal classic

By Dave Ling published

The night one of metal’s most notorious loudmouths got a little too loudmouthed

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Mustaine Hetfield

Dave Mustaine looks back on Metallica's wild, violent early days

By Paul Brannigan published

Metallica's early years were a wild ride

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Dave Mustaine smiling

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on why now is the right time to say goodbye

By Merlin Alderslade published

Dave would love to continue Megadeth even longer, but it just isn't on the cards

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Metallica in 1986

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago

By Jon Hotten published

1986 was the year where thrash metal broke through. We got the genre’s leading bands to look back on those whirlwind 12 months.

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Dave Mustaine onstage with Megadeth in 2025

Dave Mustaine doesn’t want to reunite with certain former Megadeth members because they bad-mouthed him in interviews

By Matt Mills published

It doesn’t help that other ex-members have apparently given up their instruments, as well

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Mustaine, Hetfield, No Life Til Leather

Dave Mustaine reveals the conversation with James Hetfield that ended Metallica's plan to release the No Life 'Til Leather demo on vinyl

By Paul Brannigan published

Dave Mustaine understandably isn't prepared to be pressured into backing down on his contributions to Metallica's early success

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Composite image for Metal Hammer's Tracks Of the Week feature January 23 2026, featuring The Hu, Poppy, Megadeth, Kid Bookie and Exodus

Metal Hammer's Tracks Of The Week: January 23 2026

By Rich Hobson published

Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Poppy are among the best new metal songs this week

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Tracks & Singles
Dave Mustaine on stage snarling

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on losing his friends and peers

By Rich Hobson published

Megadeth frontman admits that metal is going through "a changing of the guard"

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Megadeth on the cover of Metal Hammer, with a copy of the band’s self-titled album

Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive Megadeth cover and a copy of the band’s self-titled final album

By Metal Hammer published

Megadeth’s self-titled swansong drops on January 23, and you can get it on vinyl in a bundle with the latest issue of Metal Hammer

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