David Ellefson would like to be a part of Megadeth's farewell - new interview posted
18David Ellefson would like to be a part of Megadeth's farewell - new interview posted
Megadeth have rcnetly announced their decision to call it quits as a band after they wrap up a global farewell tour that will begin in 2026 ... they will also release their final studio album, stay tuned for more details on that ....
we have recently seen Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne end their careers and now Megadeth .. 2025 is relentless and recently Brent Hinds passing tragically from Mastodon ...
Megadeth do revolved around the works and decisions of frontman/guitarist Dave Mustaine. ... the current version of Megadeth is full of great and experienced players, outside of Mustaine himself, none of them have ties to Megadeth like David Ellefson ..
In a newly shared episode of ‘The David Ellefson Show‘, Ellefson admitted that they have had some disagreements and more ... he would like to at least have some type of participation in Megadeth‘s farewell, ... but that is yet to be determined ... .
watch interview here • David Ellefson Reacts to Megadeth’s Retire...
David said of that:
“So, there’s a lot of history here with [Megadeth]. This band started with a resentment. It started with a ‘fu ck you’, Dave‘s sort of revenge against Metallica. And it wasn’t entirely that. I mean, that gets a little blown out of proportion. To some degree, Dave was his own artist away from Metallica. He had ‘Mechanix‘ and some songs before Metallica, and he certainly wrote songs after.
So I think that that’s a little unfair to paint that entirely on Dave that Megadeth was just this revenge toward Metallica. It may have been often fueled by it, but how could it not be? He was not a founding member of Metallica. He was there for, as I always call it, a year and a half in the life of Metallica. And [he] certainly changed the course of what they did. But they went on and had their own successes.
But, look, for Dave to call it quits or to retire, I should say… Farewell… I don’t even know if he’s retiring. He’s just basically saying Megadeth‘s over… Would I like to be a part of it? Yeah, of course. Who wouldn’t? I’m a founding member of it. I’m a 30-plus-year member of it. Is that gonna happen? Who knows? It’s too early to tell. I don’t know what they have planned. I have no idea what it is. They just made an announcement about it.
Do I think there should be some sort of farewell that everybody gets to participate in? I mean, look, [the] ‘Back To The Beginning‘ with Black Sabbath. Look, they made nice. They brought all four of Black Sabbath. They brought everybody back. You had Jake [E. Lee]. Now, was everybody there? No. There were some key people — Bob Daisley — some people that weren’t there.
But for the most part, they brought a lot of the people back. And just speaking of Black Sabbath, they brought the original, the core four back, and they said goodbye. Not only did they say goodbye, everybody got to say goodbye to them. And I think when you’re doing a farewell, that’s important, that you get to say goodbye and everybody gets to say goodbye to you. I think that that’s an important part of it. But that’s me. I’m not in the band anymore. I have no say in it. So that’s just me. That’s just one guy with an opinion, quite honestly.”
David Ellefson would like to be a part of Megadeth's farewell - new interview posted