{"id":259843,"date":"2026-01-23T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259843\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:46:08","slug":"hear-megadeths-cover-of-metallicas-ride-the-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259843\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Megadeth&#8217;s Cover Of Metallica&#8217;s &#8220;Ride The Lightning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of anticipation, Megadeth\u2018s final studio album has arrived. That self-titled affair is closed out by a bonus cover of Metallica\u2018s \u201cRide The Lightning\u201d \u2014 a song Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine had a hand in writing before his 1983 ousting from Metallica. Mustaine has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2025\/10\/30\/news\/megadeths-dave-mustaine-speaks-on-megadeths-upcoming-cover-of-metallicas-ride-the-lightning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spoken at length about covering that track<\/a> already, describing it as a way of \u2018paying his respects\u2019 to his former bandmates in Metallica\u2018s vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich.<\/p>\n<p>With Mustaine preparing to eventually hang it up with Megadeth following the conclusion of a 3 to 5 year farewell tour on the back of this new record, this nod to his past has been self-described as being as his way of \u2018closing the circle\u2019 as well.<\/p>\n<p>As it currently stands, it would appear that Mustaine, Hetfield and Ulrich once again remain estranged, after a royalty dispute over Metallica\u2018s \u201cNo Life \u2018Til Leather\u201d demo once again spiked their relationship. Despite that, Mustaine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2026\/01\/20\/news\/despite-their-fractured-friendship-dave-mustaine-feels-that-a-metallica-megadeth-tour-would-make-everything-right\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remains hopeful of once again patching things up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of anticipation, Megadeth\u2018s final studio album has arrived. That self-titled affair is closed out by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,61911,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-259843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-megadeth","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}