The cover appears as a bonus track on Megadeth’s freshly-minted self-titled final album, which dropped yesterday (January 23), and it’s very much a “closing the circle” moment for one of metal’s most ...

Megadeth will release their self-titled final album on Jan. 23, and the set will include a customarily headline-grabbing send-off from Dave Mustaine: a cover of Metallica‘s “Ride the Lightning.” ...

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On the band’s final album, the American thrash metal band Megadeth recorded a version of Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning” in honor of his time as a founding member. The album dropped today. Mustaine ...

Dave Mustaine has had quite the career. Following a brief stint as lead guitarist of Metallica, his bandmates booted him before he ever recorded a note due to ongoing substance use issues. Although ...

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine (photo: Travis Shinn). Megadeth’s final studio album will look back to a formative moment in frontman Dave Mustaine’s career by including a “reimagined” take on Metallica’s ...

After more than 40 guitar-shredding years, Megadeth is going out on their own thunderous terms. The Grammy-winning thrash metal pioneers’ self-titled 17th and final studio album, out Friday, quickly ...

Megadeth will call it quits next year, but not without frontman Dave Mustaine seemingly taking one last shot at his former band, Metallica, by "covering" a song of theirs that he "actually wrote." As ...