{"id":77524,"date":"2019-10-29T16:57:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=77524"},"modified":"2019-10-29T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:05:12","slug":"megadeth-dave-mustaine-completes-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=77524","title":{"rendered":"MEGADETH &#8211; Dave Mustaine Completes Cancer Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Davemustaine2015-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77525\" width=\"303\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Davemustaine2015-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Davemustaine2015-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Davemustaine2015-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Davemustaine2015-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Davemustaine2015-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"> <strong>MEGADETH <\/strong>bassist David Ellefson has revealed that frontman Dave Mustaine is in recovery mode after completing throat cancer treatments and is &#8220;very optimistic&#8221; about the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Speaking to Pomelo Rocker in a new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AT1ttKfwWqA&amp;feature=youtu.be\">interview<\/a><\/strong>, Ellefson had the following to say about Mustaine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&#8220;With\n Dave&#8217;s throat cancer treatments that he has now completed, and he&#8217;s \njust going through the recovery now, we&#8217;re hopeful and optimistic about a\n full recovery for him with that. Once he&#8217;s through that process, we&#8217;re \ngonna just let that take as much time as it needs, and then we&#8217;ll resume\n with the album. I&#8217;d like to hope maybe 2020 we&#8217;ll be able to get a new \nalbum out&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&#8220;Sometime life throws you cards you didn&#8217;t expect.  Megadeth, we&#8217;ve always been a resilient band and we&#8217;ve always just  worked around obstacles. Dave&#8217;s a fighter, as we know. Just talking to him, he sounds very optimistic about the future for Megadeth.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lightningstrike3-37.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77528\" width=\"126\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lightningstrike3-37.png 200w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lightningstrike3-37-167x300.png 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<center>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Report: Man Claims Dave Mustaine Killed Him At Cloning Center <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/joDtLc386i\">https:\/\/t.co\/joDtLc386i<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Megadeth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Megadeth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMetalDen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheMetalDen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyHalloween2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyHalloween2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2xuPGbbVs5\">pic.twitter.com\/2xuPGbbVs5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Metal Den (@TheMetalDen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMetalDen\/status\/925576825094524928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> \n<\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson has revealed that frontman Dave Mustaine is in recovery mode after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77529,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77524\/revisions\/77529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}