During a recent conversation with Guitar World magazine, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine shared his opinion on the competition between Metallica and Megadeth.
Dave said:
“In my mind, there is no competition between Megadeth and Metallica. We’re different bands, and I believe Megadeth has been more consistent. But the sad thing is that the drama between us has been more popular than the music ever was. And remember, Metallica got a big head start, and they did so on the back of what I helped create.
”They became one of the biggest bands in the world, and here’s one of the biggest bands wasting their breath trying to discredit me by saying, ‘Dave‘s not a good guitar player.’ Excuse me, what the f*ck did you say? I think I wrote many of the songs that made you famous, so you probably should recheck that bulls**t statement. But this is the s**t those guys say, and you’ve got the sheep who follow them around believing it.”
More, Mustaine was asked who he thinks is at fault for perpetuating the issues:
“The issue is that people don’t know their history and take sides. I never wanted to take sides; I wanted things to be reconciled and to be friends, but for whatever reason, they didn’t. And Metallica is represented by the same agent as Megadeth, and I’ve asked our agent, ‘You’re Metallica‘s agent, too; why won’t those guys play with us? What are they afraid of?’
”And they’ve confirmed they’re going out [this summer] with Five Finger Death Punch and the Pantera thing, so it’s clearly about the money. The fact is simple: the world wants to see Megadeth and Metallica play together. And in case anyone is wondering: there’s fucking money in that.
”The fans want to see Metallica and Megadeth share the stage. Does Megadeth need Metallica? No. But Metallica talks about their fans, but they don’t give them what they’ve been asking for. What are they afraid of? I don’t know. It’s not me; it’s them.”
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As a fan of both bands and thrash metal it would be for the fans. I would definitely go to see either band but two for 1 is even better. I know the history of both bands and I can say that Megadeth has been much more consistent putting out the more hardcore metal of the two. Even Megadeth’s sellout album Risk had crunchy metal songs on it. But Dave shouldn’t ever take advice from Lars again. Please Dave don’t take a Risk going pop metal again. Stick with what you do best which is hardcore trash metal. Now if Metallica could only have continued putting out albums like they’re first 5 albums they’d have been the better of the two bands. But I guess they listened to Lars or something . After the first 5 they got softer and away from what true metal fans wanted. Some of the songs were okay but definitely not like what fans expected. I have to side with Dave on this one.