Dave Mustaine had some strong words for a local journalist during Megadeth’s recent concert in Helsinki, Finland.
The frontman’s outburst — which you can see in the TikTok video further down the page from @schtillborn — occurred a little more than halfway through the band’s set. Following a performance of “Angry Again,” Mustaine wryly chuckled as he began recounting what happened before the show.
“So before we took the stage tonight, we were doing some press backstage,” the singer explained. “And I was doing an interview with some guy from a newspaper here – big newspaper, you can probably figure out who it was. And the guy was such a jerk.”
Mustaine then noted one question in particular that really upset him.
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“He asked me, if I fought James Hetfield, who would win?” Mustaine revealed. “And I thought, ‘What kind of an idiot would say something like that?”
The long-standing hostility between Mustaine and Metallica is one of the most well-known feuds in all of metal. Mustaine was previously Metallica’s lead guitarist before being abruptly fired in 1983.
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Though he later found success with Megadeth, and Metallica rose to worldwide fame, both sides continued to have tension for decades. Things seem to have peacefully settled since the early 2000s, as the rockers have reportedly made amends. Still, that didn’t stop Mustaine from cursing out the unnamed reporter who posed the hypothetical question.
“I want to dedicate this next song to [the reporter] but we don’t have a song called ‘I’m an asshole,’” Mustaine declared to the crowd. “Instead, we’ll do another new song called ‘Let There Be Shred.’”
Megadeth’s European tour wraps up on July 5 in Lisbon, Portugal. They’ll begin a North American summer tour in Reno, Nevada on July 18.
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