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Dave Mustaine
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American musician
Dave Mustaine is an American musician best known as the founder and lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica, and later as the founder and frontman of the thrash metal band Megadeth. He is a significant figure in heavy metal music history who helped shape the genre's sound and style through his work with both bands.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Scott
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- La Mesa
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- speed metal
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.megadeth.com
- Image
- HF2022Megadeth 2.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Los Angeles
- Voice type
- baritone
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- member of
- Megadeth
- short name
- Dave Mustaine
- Commons category
- Dave Mustaine
- date of birth
- 1961-09-13
- start of work period
- 1981-00-00
- social media followers
- 1013815
- name in native language
- David Scott Mustaine
- nickname
- Dave
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Encyclopedic overview
David Scott Mustaine (born September 13, 1961) is an American musician. He is the co-founder, frontman, primary songwriter and sole consistent member of the thrash metal band Megadeth and was the lead guitarist of Metallica from 1981 to 1983. Megadeth has released seventeen studio albums, sold over 50 million records worldwide, with five albums platinum-certified, and won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2017 at the 59th Grammy Awards, for the title track of their fifteenth studio album, Dystopia.
Prior to forming Megadeth, Mustaine was the lead guitarist of Metallica but did not appear on any albums. He was, however, credited as a writer on four songs from Kill 'Em All and two songs from Ride the Lightning. Mustaine was born into a family of Jehovah's Witnesses. He now identifies as a born-again Christian. He has experienced alcohol and drug problems throughout his life, and briefly battled throat cancer in 2019. Mustaine has been married to Pamela Anne Casselberry since 1991, with whom he has two children, Electra and Justis Mustaine.
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