Megadeth, meanwhile, just released a new album called The Sick, the Dying…and the Dead! in September.Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. Following his dismissal, Mustaine went on to create Megadeth. Mustaine was famously fired from Metallica in 1983 and replaced by Kirk Hammett, who remains the band’s guitarist today. From June 2010 to September 2011, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax played 14 concerts as the Big 4 of thrash metal. “I think it’d be good for Megadeth, and it could be great for Metallica too.” Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine opened up on a number of topics in a new interview, including his desire to stage more Big 4 concerts and a failed collaboration with one-time Metallica bandmate James Hetfield. The METALLICA singer/guitarists former bandmate Dave Mustaine took to Twitter to wish James a happy birthhday, calling Hetfield 'my first. “I guess that’s one of the things that has always kept me pushing forward,” he adds. James Hetfield turned 51 years old on Sunday (August 3). “I do think that it’s possible that one day James is going to come around and that he and I are going to be able to do something together again.” “I think the world really does want us to do that, and I think there is a pretty good possibility of it happening down the line,” Mustaine says. In an interview with site VWMusic, Mustaine shares that he’s been “secretly hoping” that he and the “Enter Sandman” rocker might be able to “write together again.”

Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine hasn’t been in Metallica for nearly 40 years, but he’s leaving the door open to work with James Hetfield again.

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