Megadeth co-founder and frontman Dave Mustaine has been diagnosed with throat cancer, he revealed today (June 17). “It’s clearly something to be respected and faced head on—but I’ve faced obstacles before,” he wrote. “I’m working closely with my doctors, and we’ve mapped out a treatment plan which they feel has a 90% success rate. Treatment has already begun.”
In his statement, Mustaine said Megadeth are canceling their upcoming tour dates. He also wrote that his bandmates—bassist David Ellefson, guitarist Kiko Loureiro, and drummer Dirk Verbeuren—are working on Megadeth’s follow-up to 2016’s Dystopia. Find Dave Mustaine’s full message below.
Dave Mustaine, a vocalist and guitarist, co-founded Megadeth in the mid-’80s after he was fired from Metallica. The group released its debut Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good! in 1985. Megadeth have been nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, including Best Metal Performance, which they won in 2017 for “Dystopia.”
Mustaine has made a number of controversial remarks in recent years. In 2012, he endorsed the far-right conspiracy that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. In addition, during a concert that year, Mustaine said he believed President Obama was “staging” shootings in Aurora, Colorado and at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
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