{"id":71458,"date":"2025-08-15T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71458\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:16:07","slug":"megadeth-announce-they-are-retiring-dont-be-sad-be-happy-for-us-all-megadeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71458\/","title":{"rendered":"Megadeth announce they are retiring: \u2018Don\u2019t be sad, be happy for us all\u2019 | Megadeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call it a symphony for dissolution. American thrash metal giants Megadeth<\/a> have announced they are retiring and that their forthcoming album will be their last. They will also embark on a farewell tour in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many musicians that have come to the end of their career, whether accidental or intentional,\u201d Megadeth<\/a> founder and frontman Dave Mustaine shared in a statement on Thursday. \u201cMost of them don\u2019t get to go out on their own terms on top, and that\u2019s where I\u2019m at in my life right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have traveled the world and have made millions upon millions of fans and the hardest part of all of this is saying goodbye to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mustaine and the band have yet to reveal the final album\u2019s title, release date or the band\u2019s remaining tour dates, but shared a video.<\/p>\n

The frontman said that now is the perfect time for the band to release a final album and embark on their final tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be mad, don\u2019t be sad, be happy for us all, come celebrate with me these next few years. We have done something together that\u2019s truly wonderful and will probably never happen again,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started a musical style, we started a revolution, we changed the guitar world and how it\u2019s played, and we changed the world. The bands I played in have influenced the world. I love you all for it. Thank you for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement arrived after the band shared a teaser post on Wednesday hinting at retirement that read, \u201cThe end is near \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Megadeth was founded in 1983 after Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica, where he was lead guitarist, during recording sessions in New York by Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield as a result of his alcohol and drug use.<\/p>\n

His bandmates put him on a coach to Los Angeles, where he formed a short-lived band named Fallen Angels that evolved into Megadeth.<\/p>\n

Megadeth released their debut album, Killing Is My Business \u2026 and Business Is Good!, in 1985. The band became huge in the 1990s \u2013 one of thrash metal\u2019s \u201cBig Four\u201d alongside Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax.<\/p>\n

In 2019 Mustaine announced he had been diagnosed with throat cancer<\/a> and the band cancelled their tour while he underwent treatment.<\/p>\n

This article was amended on 15 August 2025. An earlier version said that Dave Mustaine co-founded Metallica; the band was founded by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, with Mustaine as lead guitarist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Call it a symphony for dissolution. American thrash metal giants Megadeth have announced they are retiring and that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-71458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}