{"id":2123204,"date":"2025-10-29T18:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123204"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:51:24","slug":"does-megadeths-new-album-have-a-metallica-cover-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/does-megadeths-new-album-have-a-metallica-cover-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Does MEGADETH&#8217;s New Album Have A METALLICA Cover Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Megadeth<\/strong> is set to release their final, self-titled album on January 23, 2026 and it seems there&#8217;s going to be a bit of a surprise on there.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start back in June with a recently-resurfaced quote from <strong>Dave Mustaine<\/strong> in an interview with <em>Stjernepose<\/em>, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQZWtQbEdsq\/\">posted by Loudwire<\/a>: &#8220;We have 13 new songs for the new album\u2026 One of the songs is a cover song but I actually wrote it, so it&#8217;s kind of like a cover, kind of like my song. Then there&#8217;s two extra songs for when the record&#8217;s been out for a while just to keep everybody excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the songs is a cover song but I actually wrote it.&#8221; Alright, so there are three options based on that quote:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mustaine<\/strong> re-recorded a <strong>Megadeth<\/strong> song, which seems unlikely given <strong>Mustaine<\/strong> generally &#8220;remixes&#8221; albums heavily enough to where they can be classified as re-recordings. Possible? Sure. Likely? I&#8217;m guessing not.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mustaine<\/strong> re-recorded an <strong>MD.45<\/strong> song. I&#8217;m also guessing this isn&#8217;t the case, seeing as <strong>Mustaine<\/strong> barely ever acknowledges <strong>MD. 45<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mustaine<\/strong> re-recorded a <strong>Metallica<\/strong> song, which I&#8217;m guessing is the case. <strong>Mustaine<\/strong> has long felt that he doesn&#8217;t get enough credit for his work in <strong>Metallica<\/strong> \u2013 so much so that it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/news\/drama\/dispute-between-dave-mustaine-lars-ulrich-leads-to-metallicas-no-life-til-leather-reissue-being-shelved\">tanked the <em>No Life &#8216;Til Leather<\/em> reissue<\/a>, which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/news\/dave-ellefson-reveals-dave-mustaine-wanted-to-re-record-metallicas-no-life-til-leather-demo-amid-royalty-dispute\"><strong>Mustaine<\/strong> thought about re-recording<\/a>. <strong>Mustaine<\/strong> has also stated <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/news\/dave-mustaine-recalls-his-metallica-days-and-how-he-wrote-a-lot-of-their-music-that-made-them\">that he feels <strong>Metallica<\/strong> is coasting off his music<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also seems safe to assume that whatever the cover is, is a bonus track. <strong>Megadeth<\/strong> has been <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQXPVC9kepe\/\">revealing the tracklisting to their final record<\/a> lately on Instagram and that last track might say &#8220;Ride The Lightning&#8221;? It hasn&#8217;t been revealed yet, but check out the below screenshot and see what you think. That would be fucking wild.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n\t\t<strong style=\"display: block;margin: 0 auto;max-width: 660px;font-size: 1.625rem;\">Want More Metal? 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Let&#8217;s start back in June with a recently-resurfaced quote from Dave Mustaine in an interview with Stjernepose, as posted by Loudwire: &#8220;We have 13 new songs for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Does-MEGADETHs-New-Album-Have-A-METALLICA-Cover-Song.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123206,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123204\/revisions\/2123206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}