Dave Mustaine levels stunning new claim that Metallica pilfered his riffs from a tape recording after he was replaced by Kirk Hammett. Phil Weller. Fri, May 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM UTC.

Ex-Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland says that bandleader Dave Mustaine calling him a “liar” negatively affected his career.Poland joined the thrash metal icons in 1984 and played on their first ...

There’s a long running history of Dave Mustaine burning bridges with the former bandmates he’d fire from Megadeth.Dude’s been known to talk a lotta shit about a lot of things, so of course he would ...

Dave Mustaine has claimed he penned "a lot of" music that "made" Metallica. Before he co-founded thrash metal band Megadeth, Mustaine was the lead guitarist for Metallica, though he was dismissed ...

Dave Mustaine reportedly wrote what would later become “Jump in the Fire” when he was a teenager. He brought the song to the band in a rough state, and the other members of Metallica helped ...

Dave Mustaine says he was responsible for much of Metallica's early success, despite never recording an album with them. Dave Mustaine Rips Ex-Metallica Bandmates: “I Wrote a Lot of Their Music ...

Mustaine, however, paints a slightly different picture. “We all drank. That’s why they called [the band] Alcoholica,” he tells The Shawn Ryan Show. “I mean, they didn’t call it Dave ...