{"id":136433,"date":"2025-11-15T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136433\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:43:21","slug":"megadeth-release-i-dont-care-video-off-megadeth-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136433\/","title":{"rendered":"Megadeth Release ‘I Don’t Care’ Video Off ‘Megadeth’ Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen Dave Mustaine<\/a> started thinking about a music video for \u201cI Don\u2019t Care,\u201d a thrashy, punky new single off Megadeth<\/a>\u2018s upcoming self-titled farewell album<\/a>, he knew what he didn\u2019t want it to be. \u201cI said, \u2018Man, I don\u2019t want this to be some video that\u2019s, like, an artsy-fartsy thing \u2026 this is a punk song’\u201d he tells Rolling Stone. So Mustaine & Co. worked with filmmaker Keith J. Leman, a cinematographer who\u2019s made clips for Jonas Brothers and Kenny Chesney, on a clip with the right energy for a song about listing all the reasons why Mustaine doesn\u2019t care about what people think of him.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanted it to be, \u2018What it\u2019s like to be a young Dave again, to hang out with my friends, drink beer, light fires, skate, do house parties and all that kind of stuff?’\u201d Mustaine says. \u201cThat is such a part of who I am, although I don\u2019t do it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe clip focuses on a group of teens skating, wreaking havoc, spraypainting graffiti and rocking out to Megadeth, all while Mustaine gives the camera the middle finger and slams a bottle in a skater\u2019s face. \u201cI don\u2019t care if I\u2019m out of line,\u201d Mustaine sings. \u201cI don\u2019t care because this life is mine.\u201d Other things he doesn\u2019t care about: if you get high, when the truth is a lie, and if you live or die. What he does care about, though, are crisp, melodic guitar solos, charging rhythms, and telling anyone with ears that he doesn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

\n\tMustaine particularly likes the energy of the actor who got a mohawk and his ears pierced with safety pins on camera. \u201cHe reminded me of Gary Oldman when he played Sid Vicious,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe also liked breaking a prop beer bottle over one of the actor\u2019s heads. That shot, he says, took a few takes. \u201cThe only one that really looked good was the one where I hit a guy in the face,\u201d Mustaine says. \u201cI cracked one on his face and he goes, \u2018It didn\u2019t really work.\u2019 So everyone goes, \u2018Do it harder.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, my God. This is so much fun.\u2019 And I was thirsty and I went to get a beer from those guys and I cracked it and I took a swig off it and I pulled it away from my face and I saw the name of the beer that was on it, and it was like one of those beers that are painted on the outfield wall in minor league baseball teams, kind of like Meisterlager or something like that. And boy, that took me screeching back to reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMustaine recently revealed that memory lane brought him back to his house-party days in another way on the album, which will come out Jan. 23, by recording a cover of \u201cRide the Lightning,\u201d<\/a> a song Metallica wrote and recorded using his riffs. \u201cOur intentions were pure,\u201d Mustaine says of the cover. \u201c[Our version] was more about: This is my life going forward. I want to do things that are respectable. And I think doing something where we can pay honor to [James Hetfield] \u2026 because it\u2019s just so fucking arrogant, but the guitar playing in Metallica changed the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Dave Mustaine started thinking about a music video for \u201cI Don\u2019t Care,\u201d a thrashy, punky new single…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[78427,156,78428,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-136433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-dave-mustaine","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-megadeth","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}