Mustaine & Roadrunner patch up their differences
Tue, 01 Nov 2011
Megadeth's Dave Mustaine & his label home, Roadrunner Records have kissed & made up after Mustaine publicly berated the metal label for what he believes was a lack of promotion for the band's 2009 'Endgame' album.
Mustaine told Billboard (via Gibson):
"We have had kind of an up and down time with Roadrunner, but right now everything is good. This album signified the era of, hopefully, a new regime. They were very helpful, and we helped things by putting down some firm boundaries and standing our ground and saying ‘we can’t do that’ when we had to. So I’m very excited, very optimistic about the future."
Megadeth will today release their new album 'TH1RT3EN' (Nov.1) in the US and their 13th record will mark the return of bassist Dave Ellefson to the fold. The last time Ellefson chops were heard on a Megadeth album was on 'The World Needs a Hero' which was released in 2001.
Mustaine said of the reunion:
"That was fun, too. Dave's a really great player. We had our differences and all that stuff, and went our separate ways. I'm the last person on Earth who would've thought he'd be back in Megadeth, and I think Dave was the second-to-last person. When we got back together again, he was a much better bass player and a better man, too. He had done a lot of growth. When the opportunity came to play again, it was not as far-fetched as one would think."
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