Megadeth recently revealed the final details of their forthcoming album, “The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!” The album will come out on Sept. 2 via UMe and feature 12 new tracks and two cover songs. The band has also released two singles/videos for the album thus far, “We’ll Be Back: Chapter 1” and “Night Stalkers: Chapter 2” which also features Ice- T.
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2019. Recently the singer gave an update on his health in an interview with The Irish Times, and he talked about his battle with the disease affected the way he approaches life both on and off the stage. “I think I’m 100 percent,” he said. “I got my all-clear from the doctor in October of [2019]. I should be coming up on my three-year anniversary. That’s pretty cool stuff.”
“We worked really hard on all of the treatment and on the nutrition and all the personal stuff that I had to do outside the hospital. The doctors set up this really brutal program to address the cancer. They wanted to kill it without having to do any surgery. I told the doctors that I was a little concerned that Eddie Van Halen had part of his tongue cut out. Bruce Dickinson — the Iron Maiden lead singer — and [actor] Michael Douglas had got it too, and I was part of the club. We had a great program. My doctors are really great. Whenever anybody goes to see a doctor and gives you the all-clear for your health, you are usually really, really grateful. It doesn’t have any power over me anymore. I want to make sure that people don’t get discouraged when they hear news like that. I went to two doctors in Tennessee, and they knew how important it was for me to continue singing.”
Mustaine previously told Full Metal Jackie about his cancer battle: “Well, obviously, there’s a diet, there’s the food sources and liquids and how they affect my blood, my sugar in my blood, the dairy stuff in my blood,” he said. “But I’ve never really worried too much about that ’cause I kind of have just gone out there and screamed my point across. So I think that that’s one thing that as I try and live a cleaner life because of the cancer… I’m cancer-free now, thank God,” he continued. “I just went and saw my radiologist and he told me October [2019] was the month that they had said that I was cancer-free. So I’m coming up on, I think it’s three years now.”
“I don’t even think about it anymore. But it was something that made me take into consideration life in general, not so much what I do when I get onstage but just how much do I really appreciate the people around me? How much do I have a capacity in my heart to tolerate people that get on my nerves? Am I gonna send somebody away mad at each other and never see ’em again?”
“It’s been a real eye-opening experience,” Mustaine explained. “And I just noticed on TV, too, that they’re starting to do commercials about this type of cancer. And I’d never seen this before in my life and now I’m seeing it on TV. And I’m thinking, ‘Wow, this is crazy.’ They used to never have these kind of massive sicknesses like this where you have television commercials about throat cancer. It used to be just cancer, cancer, cancer — not into specifics like this. Now you know something really weird’s happening. And it happens to a lot of people, I’m told. So I would just encourage people to be healthy, kick ass, take down names. And if you’re an adult male and you have any respect for yourself and the people around you that love you, go get yourself checked up.”
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