KINGS OF THRASH, the brand new band that includes former MEGADETH members David Ellefson (bass) and Jeff Younger (guitar), performed the second present of its Australian tour earlier tonight (Thursday, July 13) at The Zoo in Brisbane. Fan-filmed video of the efficiency will be seen beneath.

KINGS OF THRASH launched a reside CD/DVD bundle known as “Greatest Of The West…Stay At The Whisky A Go Go” on March 24 by way of Cleopatra Information. The 17-song set, that includes performances of MEGADETH‘s traditional albums “Killing Is My Enterprise… And Enterprise Is Good!” and “So Far, So Good… So What!”, was recorded and filmed reside on the legendary Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California on October 15, 2022 and contains an look by one other former MEGADETH member, Chris Poland (guitar). The DVD was directed by Michael Sarna for Inmotion Leisure.

Requested in a current interview with Final Guitar if he and Ellefson have acquired any suggestions from MEGADETH chief Dave Mustaine about their new band or their current reside reveals, tour, Younger mentioned: “Nah, we could not care much less… and it is a win-win for him. As a result of all of the publishing, for instance, on the ‘Greatest Of The West’, he is getting all that cash. We’re making him cash and he would not must do something. So, we’re performing the songs as a result of they’re a part of our historical past and the followers wish to hear them and we’ll profit from that, and so will he, so it is a win-win. How a lot cooler can something be than that? So, if he has one thing to say about it… I would not think about it could be very goal… not that something he is ever mentioned has been goal.”

Jeff‘s Final Guitar feedback had been just like these he made final 12 months when he advised Thomas S. Orwat, Jr. of the Rock Interview Collection that he and Ellefson had been “actually not involved” about Mustaine‘s response to KINGS OF THRASH. “I do not concentrate,” he mentioned. “I have not actually paid consideration or adopted MEGADETH since, I feel, I heard the ‘Rust In Peace’ album a few instances, after which what you would possibly hear on the radio or within the press.

“For us, this is not about any spite or retaliation; it is a celebration of the music that we had been all part of, that we helped create,” he defined. “And it is enjoyable for us to do that.

“Folks mentioned, ‘It’s best to do that.’ And we mentioned, ‘Hey, yeah, you are proper. We ought to do that.’ It is a win-win — it is a win for us, and it is a win for [Mustaine], as a result of any efficiency royalties, something… If we did embrace reside tracks, he would earn a living off that. It is selling albums that hopefully followers will return and purchase, which is placing cash proper in his pocket. Particularly ‘Killing Is My Enterprise’, I feel lots of people are gonna return and wanna rediscover that album after this tour.

“For us, it is all about positivity,” Younger added. “We’re all in this second — we’re residing within the second, and we’re not trying past. We’re not studying any of the feedback on Blabbermouth or any of the stuff. As a result of we all know what our intent is, and intent is every little thing. And our intent’s constructive. We like taking part in collectively. We all know we’re crafting unique music. We’re not counting on this; we needn’t experience the coattails of this. That is simply one thing that the followers needed, and also you wanna give followers what they need.”

Ellefson advised Sure! You CAN Play Guitar! that the intention behind KINGS OF THRASH is to not stick it to his former bandmates. “This can be a celebration, not a retaliation,” he defined. “This can be a good second. This can be a blissful second, to have fun these songs and these tracks and these information. So we go at it with simply enjoyable… It is, like, ‘Wow. Would not or not it’s enjoyable if we went out and performed these information?’ And we’re doing it. So it is meant to be this celebration and bringing folks collectively. And actually, that was sort of all the time my position in MEGADETH. Dave [Mustaine] all the time known as me ‘The Ambassador’, and I used to be all the time that man, and I am that man. So it is, like, let me simply proceed that position in our neighborhood and have considered one of good will.”

Ellefson was fired from MEGADETH greater than two years in the past after sexually tinged messages and specific video footage involving the bassist had been posted on Twitter.

David was in MEGADETH from the band’s inception in 1983 to 2002, and once more from 2010 till his newest exit.

In 2004, Ellefson filed an $18.5-million lawsuit in opposition to Dave Mustaine, alleging the MEGADETH chief shortchanged him on income and backed out of a deal to show Megadeth Inc. over to him when the band broke up in 2002. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed and Ellefson rejoined MEGADETH in 2010.

Younger‘s whole profession with MEGADETH was spent recording and touring in help of the band’s 1988 platinum-selling album “So Far, So Good…So What!”

Jeff made headlines in December 2009 for accusing Mustaine of, amongst different issues, “dissing, exaggerating and simply plain mendacity on some stage about almost each gifted musician that has handed by means of his dysfunctional little ensemble.” He additionally disputed Mustaine‘s declare in an interview that Younger‘s drug downside led to MEGADETH‘s 1988 Australian tour being known as off and the group being “banned” from performing within the nation.

Chatting with Ralph Rasmussen of Radio Bypass about KINGS OF THRASH‘s current reveals and future plans, Ellefson mentioned: “That was a factor the place… In fact all people knew our names — me, Jeff Younger and Chris Poland. We marketed we had been gonna play the ‘Killing Is My Enterprise’ and ‘So Far, So Good… So What!’ information. And because it seems, we ended up taking part in, like, half of ‘Peace Sells’ too. That is in all probability probably the most frickin’ muscular setlist I’ve performed since in all probability [MEGADETH‘s] ‘Impolite Awakening’ [live album and DVD], once we filmed that in 2001 and I used to be 20 years youthful. So we turned up the gasoline; there was no screwing round on that one. And it was nice. It was tremendous cool. It was tremendous enjoyable. It made me simply understand how cool these songs are, how the element and intricacies… It was a really totally different period, too. The songs had been written underneath a lot totally different pretenses. There was an actual innovation in these information, the stuff of the ’80s, again then, that we had been doing.”

He continued: “We picked 4 cities. We mentioned, ‘Let’s simply exit and fireplace this off, sort of a proof of idea, present all people what we have got.’ I feel the primary night time, once we performed in San Diego, the followers straight away acquired it. They had been, like, ‘Oh my God. Holy shit. We have been asking for this and wanting this for years. And oh my God. There they are surely. These are actually the fellows that performed on these information. That is it.’ And our drummer Fred and our singer Chaz, they acquired it of their hear as youthful guys, so that they get it and had been excited to be there with us doing it. So, yeah, it actually was only a second in time for that to fireplace off like that so properly. And now consequently, look, we have got reside recordings, we have got extra stuff developing right here within the New 12 months for that. So, yeah, that was just the start; that was simply the primary firework we blew off. There’s positively gonna be extra after this.”

Jeff was filled with reward for Aching and Leon, telling Ghost Cult: “We actually really feel in a method how Ozzy [Osbourne] should have felt introducing Randy Rhoads to the world with these younger two guys we have now, each half our age and each so composed and mature musically for his or her age. And we have simply been having a blast. And it is nice that they are followers of the music they usually’ve actually studied it. Chaz, the singer/guitar participant, performs in a MEGADETH tribute and fronts a SOUNDGARDEN tribute. So he has a few of that Chris Cornell huskiness… So it is actually cool to listen to him sing these songs with a bit extra huskiness and that younger exuberance that he has. I feel the youngsters are gonna love him ‘trigger he has that Dimebag Darrell sort of likability.”