Thrash metal icons Megadeth are riding high following the release of their self-titled album last month, which earned the group its first ever Billboard No. 1. It also claimed the top spot in Australia and Austria and went top 5 in several other countries.
On a recent episode of “The David Ellefson Show,” former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson shared his thoughts on the album. Ellefson was dismissed from the band years back following a leak of explicit text messages that he sent to a 19-year-old fan.
“It’s funny, I, of all people, am not on the Megadeth hate train,” he said. “I know the fanbase is divided on this new album. I hear about it. Our singer, Chaz Leon, from Kings of Thrash, he’s big Megadeth fan, big Dave fan, and he tells me, the fanbase is a bit divided on it.”
Ellefson continued: “I hear it and I go, okay, this is a Dave solo record. This is Dave and his new band, Dave and his new guys. It says Megadeth, so obviously it gets all the attention, but realistically, I hear it and to me it just doesn’t sound like Megadeth. And that’s just me — period. It sounds like Dave doing what Dave does, but with a different set of guys in a new day. And this is Dave’s retirement. So that’s my view on it in a nutshell.”
Ellefson’s full comments on the album can be viewed below.
