Due to personal health issues, Dave Mustaine has decided to disband Megadeth after one last album and a final tour.
After completing the the iconic rockers’ farewell tour and dropping their last LP, the band’s 64-year old frontman has decided to walk away due to his arthritis and back problems which prevent him from being unable “to give a hundred per cent every night”.
In a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk show, Mustaine said:
“It had been a long time coming – just physical stuff that was going on with my hands … My hands were letting me down.” “And there were other things that were difficult because of all the stuff going on in my neck and my trunk. All that area there has arthritis and it has discs that are bulging.” “I’ve got a broken lumbar bone. Of course, you know I have my back fused, up by my shoulders, by my neck. And just a lot of stuff …” “I always said when it got to the point where I was unable to give a hundred per cent every night, that’s when I was gonna start considering winding down.”
Explaining that his decision came after the band finished recording their very last self-titled full length, Dave added:
“It wasn’t that I was unable to give a hundred per cent, because we finished the record, and I think we did a good job on it, but there was a period when we were working and I said to my manager … ‘I don’t know how much longer I can do this. My hands are really hurting.’ ” “And I didn’t mean to set the ball rolling. Honestly, I just was making conversation, and it turned into me talking to the band guys and sleeping on it and talking to my family and praying on it.” “And the answer was clear to me that by the time we’re done with the record, I’m gonna know how the record’s gonna do. If the record does really well, then I’ll be able to have one last really good tour.” “And the part about the farewell thing, it’s kind of like the same thing, isn’t it? We’ve got some dates that we wanna play to say goodbye to our friends.” “The thing is we’re an American band, but we play everywhere. So it’s not like we just are weekend warriors, like country acts here in the States. We’ve got a lot of touring to do in order to do our farewell properly.”
Megadeth, the 1983-formed group’s seventeenth studio album will be released in January of 2026 and their farewell This Was Our Life tour will kick of Canada in February.
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Author: Al Dente
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