Megadeth will release their self-titled final album on Jan. 23, and the set will include a customarily headline-grabbing send-off from Dave Mustaine : a cover of Metallica 's "Ride the Lightning."
Mustaine confirmed the rumor to Rolling Stone in a new interview. You can learn more and see the full Megadeth track listing below.
Why Is Dave Mustaine Covering 'Ride the Lightning' on Final Megadeth Album?
The "Ride the Lightning" cover is fair game, considering Mustaine wrote part of the song before Metallica fired him in 1983.
“It wasn’t really that I wanted to do my version,” the Megadeth leader told 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 re

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