Dave Mustaine is readying his final Megadeth album , aptly titled Megadeth . More than 40 years since Mustaine founded the band, he views the album – coming after 13 Grammy nominations, a win for Best Metal Performance and 17 albums – as a fitting coda to the vaunted thrash pioneers’ run. As part of the album, Mustaine confirms to Rolling Stone the rumors that he re-recorded his version of “Ride the Lightning,” the title song of Metallica ’s 1984 album for which he got a co-writing credit following his 1983 departure from the band.

“It wasn’t really that I wanted to do my version,” he tells Rolling Stone . “I think that we all wanted it to turn out a certain way, and for me, this was about something so much more than how a song turns out. It was about respect.”

That respec

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