{"id":266448,"date":"2026-01-27T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266448\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:20:09","slug":"dave-mustaine-on-megadeths-final-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266448\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Mustaine on Megadeth&#8217;s final album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Spending more than 40 years as one of heavy metal\u2019s Big Four alongside Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax, Megadeth are one of the genre\u2019s best-loved bands, having been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one, and having four UK top 10 albums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At the helm is long-haired frontman Dave Mustaine, who started the band after his departure from Metallica and guided the band through multiple highs and lows, and it\u2019s clear from speaking to him that rock and roll is not just a job but his lifelong passion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spending more than 40 years as one of heavy metal\u2019s Big Four alongside Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax, Megadeth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,6405],"class_list":["post-266448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-movies-reviews-munster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266448","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=266448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}