Megadeth

Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine, who first picked up an axe at the age of 13, attempts to give everyone the chills on this tour, in support of his 13th record, by calling it TH1RT3EN. By now the story of Megadeth has passed into metal legend: Within months of getting tossed out of Metallica, Dave Mustaine started up his own rival thrash metal group as a big “fuck you” to his former bandmates. Fueled by revenge and speedballs, Megadeth would go on to sell 25 million records over the next two decades, but Mustaine’s awkward confrontation of Lars Ulrich in 2004’s Some Kind Of Monster showed that the pain of rejection (and a massive inferiority complex) still lurked years later. Nevertheless, Mustaine seems more or less no worse for wear as Megadeth approaches its 30th anniversary.

Updated 05/02/2012