MegaDave to call it a day

[The Great Cull]

Anyone read the Marty Freidman book yet? I assume he didn't spill too many beans or the press would have picked up on it.

As well as Mustaines book, I have read Ellefsons (an unlikeable holy joe long before his teen wankfest was made public. He admitted to pursuing the church stuff as a career/financial option) and Menzas (it reads like a low intelligence teenage boy bragging about how great he is) and neither of them seemed very forthcoming with the truth about the band.

[Eoin McLove]

I dunno, a world without RIP isn't a world I want to live in.

[Maggot Colony]

The first gig I ever went to was Megadeth, they'll always be a special band for me, but I'd happily never hear a note from anything after Countdown as long as I live. Those first four albums are timeless, absolutely untouchable, it must be said.

Since, it's 'deth, however...


Holy Wars... The Pension is Due
Wake Up Retd.
Cruise 'round Asia
Tablets in your Mouth

In My Seated Shower
High Speed Shart
The Hip Joint Has Failed

This Was My Life Insurance

[The Heretic]

Euthanasia
Countdown to Extinction
Holy Wars....The Pension Due
Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Closed!

[Pentagrimes]

Very hard to like Auld Dave.

This is it in a nutshell really. The first 4 lps are great (SFSGSW being the weakest), Peace Sells was a huge one for me as a youngster in particular , but hes just such a bitter cunt that its hard to get past it. His absolute inability to get over the Metallica thing even now after his own successes just seems to have been an obstacle. And even aside from their output being uninteresting for 30 odd years, there's just no
affection for the guy.

I bet the new album is his rerecording of No Life Til Leather haha!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

machine FUCKIN' head! 

[Anvil]

While he comes across as a complete knobhead and cunt, he still wrote some of the best riffs in metal for both Metallica and Megadeth so gets a pass for me.  Saying that I wouldn't pay money to hear him try and hear him sing live. 

[Sworntothecans]

Dave goes for a Back to The Beginning farewell gig.
But no one shows up as Metallica book the Sphere in Vegas the same day.


Dave goes back on the 80s drug diet and challenges Hetfield to a scrap in the Octogon!

[Carnage]

...Hetfield cries.

[Pentagrimes]

While he comes across as a complete knobhead and cunt, he still wrote some of the best riffs in metal for both Metallica and Megadeth

Oh undoubtedly, no disagreement there.

[John Kimble]

My first exposure to Megadeth was Symphony of Destruction...my reaction at the time was pretty much this

https://youtu.be/B32u4V_DrTI?si=G4xuyxiCN2zXSPxj

I've come to appreciate them more over the years but Mustaine struck me as conversely their greatest weakness AND strength. Can't deny the riffs but those vocals and his overall personality, no thanks.

[Born of Fire]

People talk about his vocals a lot but they're what make the classics for me, that pissed off nasally snarl with those killer riffs is just metal perfection.

[Bürggermeister]

Agreed, the snottier he became, the better his vocal performance. His petulant rasp on SFSGSW is fucking incredible, shame he didn't stay on the gear.

[Thorn]

Same, I didn't even realise people complained about his vocals til I joined Metal Ireland, need more snarlers amongst today's thrashers.

[The Great Cull]

SGSGSW was peak snarly cunt. He sounds amazing on it. He started making stabs at "singing" on RIP (Tornado Of Souls) but he did manage to keep the delivery snarly enough up to and including Countdown.