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Marty Friedman wants you to stop calling him an ‘ex-Megadeth guitarist’
By Matt Mills published
Though still proud of his time in the celebrated thrashers, Friedman feels his music and theirs have become wildly different

Marty Friedman revisits Megadeth reunion at Budokan: “People were crying and screaming and smiling”
By Matt Mills published
The former Megadeth guitarist performed with the thrash metal favourites in his new home country of Japan last year

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has no fears over the future of heavy metal
By Stef Lach published
Dave Mustaine of metal giants Megadeth believes the genre's future is bright

"Join us as we destroy all enemies!" Megadeth announce US tour with Mudvayne and All That Remains
By Merlin Alderslade published
Megadeth are hitting the road and bringing some major metal friends with them

Watch Megadeth perform a secret acoustic set outside a hotel in Buenos Aires
By Matt Mills published
The thrash metal icons played the impromptu three-song show during their ongoing South American tour

“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
By Dave Ling published
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

10 classic metal albums that should be played live in full (but haven’t yet)
By Stephen Hill published
From Metallica’s …And Justice For All to Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other, these masterpieces are so good that live crowds need to hear them in their entirety

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