event Megadeth

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. The revenge- and speedball-fueled Megadeth would go on to sell 25 million records, but Mustaine’s awkward confrontation of Lars Ulrich in 2004’s Some Kind Of Monster showed the lurking pain of rejection (and a massive inferiority complex). Nevertheless, Mustaine seems more or less no worse for wear as Megadeth kicks off its first “Gigantour” in nearly four years. Nominally second-billed but perhaps even more legendary is Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, who shows no signs of slowing down despite recently turning 66. While some critics point out that Motörhead has done little to revolutionize or energize the genre since carving out its niche in the ’70s, it’s hard to argue with 1980’s Ace Of Spades, a staple in every self-respecting metalhead’s collection.