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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

The 10 best Metallica songs not by Metallica
By Matt Mills published
From Avenged Sevenfold to Evile, many have used the Four Horsemen’s influence to pen some similar yet still-incredible anthems

“The fans, the performances, the shows”: David Ellefson reveals what he misses about being in Megadeth
By Matt Mills published
David Ellefson has said that, following his firing from Megadeth in 2021, being on the road with them is what he misses most

"We were rivals once but it doesn't feel like there's any rivalry now. We're all on the same team, for heavy metal": Revisiting the first ever Big Four show, as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax invaded Poland in the summer of 2010
By Paul Brannigan published
When thrash's Big Four rolled into Warsaw in June 2010, heavy metal history was made
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