David Ellefson , co-founder of Megadeth , was recently dismissed from the band after being involved in a sex scandal with a young woman . And, according to Dave Mustaine , this time the bassist's departure is definitive.
Throughout the band's history, Ellefson has left and returned to the group on several occasions due to tensions with the frontman, between 2002 and 2010, a period during which a lawsuit was filed against Mustaine over financial issues, but the two reconciled.
Ellefson's dismissal was announced in May of this year. With the next album in the final mixing stages, the bassist was also replaced in the studio by a musician who has not yet been revealed.
In videos posted on the Cameo , where he sells personalized videos to fans, Mustaine responded emphatically to the possibility of his former bandmate's return. "Any chance of Ellefson coming back later? The answer to that is no," he commented in a video (via Louder Sound ).
In another video uploaded to the platform , the Megadeth frontman joked while showing the replacement who will join the band. “I’m walking around the studio now (…). And you have our mystery bassist hiding behind the chair on the floor, so you can’t see him,” he commented (via Metal Injection ). “We’ll tell you who it is soon, and you actually saw him before anyone else – although you can’t really see him.”
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