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Dave Mustaine
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American musician
Dave Mustaine is an American musician best known as the founder and lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica, and later as the founder and frontman of the thrash metal band Megadeth. He is a significant figure in heavy metal music history who helped shape the genre's sound and style through his work with both bands.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Rust in Peace
- Mustaine
- Mustaine : a heavy metal memoir
- Dave Mustaine Autobiography
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1961-09-13
Discography
- Wake Up Dead2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Dave Mustaine (born David Scott Mustaine on September 13, 1961 in La Mesa, California, United States) is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer. He grew up in various Southern California suburbs. As the central figure of Megadeth and a former Metallica lead guitarist and co-songwriter, he is one of a handful of people considered to have pioneered thrash metal and speed metal. In 1981 Dave Mustaine left his first band Panic to join Metallica as the lead guitarist. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2017 · cited 8,256x
- Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
· 2019 · cited 6,684x
- Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease
· 2015 · cited 5,653x
- Proposed minimum reporting standards for chemical analysis
· 2007 · cited 4,819x
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Encyclopedic overview
David Scott Mustaine (born September 13, 1961) is an American musician. He is the co-founder, frontman, primary songwriter and sole consistent member of the thrash metal band Megadeth and was the lead guitarist of Metallica from 1981 to 1983. Megadeth has released seventeen studio albums, sold over 50 million records worldwide, with five albums platinum-certified, and won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2017 at the 59th Grammy Awards, for the title track of their fifteenth studio album, Dystopia.
Prior to forming Megadeth, Mustaine was the lead guitarist of Metallica but did not appear on any albums. He was, however, credited as a writer on four songs from Kill 'Em All and two songs from Ride the Lightning. Mustaine was born into a family of Jehovah's Witnesses. He now identifies as a born-again Christian. He has experienced alcohol and drug problems throughout his life, and briefly battled throat cancer in 2019. Mustaine has been married to Pamela Anne Casselberry since 1991, with whom he has two children, Electra and Justis Mustaine.
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