Believe it or not, there are a minimum of 5 good issues Dave Mustaine has mentioned about Metallica.

The rocker was fired from Metallica in early 1983, a number of months earlier than the discharge of the band’s debut album Kill ‘Em All. Kirk Hammett was introduced in as his alternative and Mustaine shaped Megadeth within the wake of the cut up.

Both bands went on to be enormous pillars of Nineteen Eighties thrash steel and each are nonetheless going robust right this moment. But early on, Mustaine did not chew his tongue when it got here to speaking about his former bandmates.

“I think that when Metallica have got all their gold and platinum records, they should have the decency to say, ‘Here, send one to Dave too, ’cause he wrote all the shit and Kirk played every one of his solos’,” Mustaine instructed Metal Forces Magazine in 1985.

“How can people vote this guy number one guitar player when he’s ripped me off? If anyone should have been voted number one it should have been me. Not that I’m jealous. I mean, I’m glad they’re doing well as I’m getting paid for it.”

Of course, he is patched issues up with the members of Metallica fairly a bit through the years and has admitted that he would have fired himself if he had been of their place as effectively.

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“I had a problem with alcohol and it cost me my job and cost me two very dear friends,” he admitted to Metal Hammer a long time later.

Since Mustaine has mentioned rather a lot about Metallica all through his life, we thought it will be attention-grabbing to compile a few of the optimistic remarks he is made about his former band. There are a minimum of 5 — however most likely many extra. The ones we’ve got listed under are from newer years.

Scroll to learn the good issues he is mentioned.