Dave Mustaine says David Ellefson won’t rejoin Megadeth, teases bassist’s “thriller” alternative
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has reiterated that David Ellefson, who was dismissed from the band in Could, won’t return to Megadeth – and has additionally teased followers with a quick glimpse on the bassist’s alternative on the thrash outfit’s new album.
Mustaine not too long ago joined Cameo – a platform by which followers will pay to obtain personalised movies from celebrities – in an effort to lift cash for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
In a video commissioned by YouTube channel Rock Feed (who donated about $150 to the ASPCA), Mustaine said bluntly: “Any likelihood on Ellefson coming again in a while? The reply to that’s no.”
Mustaine additionally quashed rumours that ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted might fill the function, saying: “I don’t assume that’s gonna occur”. Newsted denied the rumours himself in Could.
Final month, Mustaine confirmed that though he was current for a lot of the album’s recording course of, Ellefson won’t seem on Megadeth’s forthcoming sixteenth full-length, tentatively titled ‘The Sick, The Dying… And The Useless!’.
Mustaine said final week that every one of Ellefson’s elements had been re-recorded by a brand new bassist, whose identification remains to be secret. Nevertheless, in one other Cameo video shared yesterday on Reddit – this time recorded for a fan named Alex – Mustaine gave a quick, obscured glimpse on the new member.
“I’m strolling across the studio proper now,” Mustaine says within the clip. “That’s [producer] Chris Rakestraw sitting again there on the console. And you bought our thriller bass participant hiding behind the chair down there on the ground, so you possibly can’t see him.
“We will probably be saying who that’s quickly, and also you really noticed him earlier than anyone else – despite the fact that you possibly can’t actually see him.”
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Band co-founder Ellefson was dismissed from Megadeth in Could after it was alleged he groomed an underage lady on-line. Ellefson vehemently denied the allegations, saying: “These have been non-public, grownup interactions that have been taken out of context and manipulated.”
Megadeth introduced Ellefson’s departure from the band on Could 24 in an announcement that learn: “Whereas we have no idea each element of what occurred, with an already strained relationship, what has already been revealed now is sufficient to make working collectively not possible transferring ahead.”
Ellefson has filed revenge-porn expenses towards the particular person he alleges “illegally” uploaded the “very non-public video” that prompted the allegations towards him. He has reportedly met with police in Scottsdale, Arizona, who’re investigating.