During a conversation with Consequence, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine talked about his current relationship with former Metallica bandmates, Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield.
About their relationship, Mustaine said:
“It took a while for James (Hetfield) and Lars (Ulrich) and I to kind of come around and become friends again. But I would say we’re probably better off now than we’ve been for a long time. And it comes and goes.
“I think the emotions between all of us, it’s probably understandable for a lot of people who break up with someone, it’s like a marriage and you part ways and sometimes you try and justify in your head the decision that you make.
”And sometimes the facts are all you need, and other times you feel compelled to kinda tell the story and you don’t really need to. And then there are people who tell the story and then add little salacious facts, like a tape recorder that has a feature to add stuff that never happened.
”So, I just look at that whole period with Metallica as something that was really great for me. And I wish them the best.”