MEGADETH chief Dave Mustaine was interviewed this previous February for an episode of AXS TV‘s “Energy Hour” which has simply been uploaded to YouTube. Requested throughout the chat by co-host Matt Pinfield if making MEGADETH‘s newest album, final yr’s “The Sick, The Dying… And The Useless!”, was as fulfilling as recording the band’s earlier efforts had been up to now, Dave mentioned: “It was actually robust this time due to [my May 2019 throat] most cancers [diagnosis]. The plandemic and all the things was sufficient for us all to should take care of. And getting most cancers on prime of that was simply sort of the cherry on the highest. I used to be feeling sort of slightly indifferent from myself for a short while, and I have to get into that place of uncomfortability to put in writing good. ‘Trigger once I’m feeling comfortable, I do not actually push myself. After I’m feeling offended or agitated or issues aren’t going my method, I begin to really feel misplaced and that place is [where] I really feel like I create my most intense music, as a result of I am an individual that for those who bump me, at that second I do not know what’s gonna come out.”

The 61-year-old MEGADETH guitarist/vocalist revealed his most cancers battle in June 2019 on social media, saying the medical doctors had given him a 90 % probability of beating the sickness.

Mustaine addressed his most cancers battle throughout MEGADETH‘s live performance in January 2020 at The SSE Area in London, England. Chatting with the gang earlier than launching into the title observe of MEGADETH‘s earlier album, “Dystopia”, he mentioned: “A couple of yr in the past, we have been engaged on our new album again in Franklin, Tennessee, and I began to really feel some ache over right here [points to his throat]. So I went to the physician and he mentioned, ‘Dave, you might have most cancers.’ And I went, ‘Fuck! I’ve most cancers.’ And I used to be so shocked.”

He continued: “At first, I assumed, ‘Am I afraid?’ After which I mentioned, ‘No. I am fucking pissed.’ And we stopped the file; we stopped all the things. I went into remedy for most cancers. It was 51 radiation therapies and 9 chemo therapies. And when it was all mentioned and finished, daily I might assume, ‘I can not face not enjoying once more. I can not face not enjoying once more.’ So I might pray. I do know lots of you guys know that I pray. I say that in [the MEGADETH song] ‘Peace Sells’. I pray daily. I say that within the music. I’ve mentioned it because the second file. However I thought of you guys daily too. And I thought of my household. And I received this energy from you guys. And I simply saved excited about it. And on October sixteenth [2019], I went to go see the physician, and he mentioned, ‘You are 100% freed from most cancers.'”

Final September, “The Sick, The Dying… And The Useless!” debuted on the prime of the charts throughout its first week of gross sales, taking the No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200 in addition to quantity ones on Prime Album Gross sales, Prime Present Albums Gross sales, Prime Rock & Various Albums, Prime Rock Albums and Prime Arduous Rock Albums. “The Sick, The Dying… And The Useless!” was the highest-charting MEGADETH album of all time world wide, notching No. 1 In Finland, No. 2 in australia, poland, Switzerland, and Scotland, No. 3 within the U.Okay., and extra.

MEGADETH‘s earlier prime 10 entries on the Billboard 200 have been “Countdown to Extinction” (No. 2, 1992),“Youthanasia” (No. 4, 1994),“Cryptic Writings” (No. 10, 1997),“United Abominations” (No. 8, 2007),“Endgame” (No. 9, 2009),“Tremendous Collider” (No. 6, 2013) and “Dystopia” (No. 3, 2016).

MEGADETH not too long ago obtained its thirteenth Grammy nomination for “Greatest Metallic Efficiency” for the music “We’ll Be Again” from “The Sick, The Dying… And The Useless!”.

MEGADETH gained the 2017 Grammy Award for “Greatest Metallic Efficiency” for the title observe of the band’s 2016 album “Dystopia”. This marked the group’s twelfth Grammy nomination on this class (together with nominations within the discontinued “Greatest Arduous Rock/Metallic Efficiency” class).

MEGADETH‘s not too long ago accomplished “Crush The World” tour kicked off in British Columbia, with reveals in Abbotsford and Kelowna on April 28 and 29, respectively, earlier than making stops in Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Ottawa, Quebec Metropolis, Montreal and Moncton, and wrapping up on Might 15 in Halifax. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE and ONI supplied help on the tour.

MEGADETH‘s present lineup consists of guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, Belgian-born-and-now-Los-Angeles-based drummer Dirk Verbeuren, who had performed with SOILWORK for greater than a decade earlier than becoming a member of MEGADETH, Brazilian guitarist Kiko Loureiro, who was beforehand greatest recognized for his work with ANGRA, and bassist James LoMenzo. James was MEGADETH‘s bass participant within the mid-2000s and stepped again in as a touring member for the 2021 leg of “The Metallic Tour Of The Yr”. In Might 2022, it was introduced that Lomenzo was formally rejoining the MEGADETH household.