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David Ellefson
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American bass guitarist
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David Ellefson is an American musician, bassist, composer, and guitarist born in Jackson, Minnesota, in 1964. He is a member of the American thrash metal band Megadeth and has been active in the music industry since 1982. His work spans heavy metal and rock music, with genres including thrash and speed metal. Ellefson speaks and writes in English and follows Lutheranism.
He is the author of five works, including *My Life with Deth*, *More Life with Deth*, *Rock Star Hitman*, *Making Music Your Business*, and *Unsung*. His copyright is represented by Broadcast Music, Inc. Ellefson has also appeared in the acting department and is referenced by 298 other encyclopedia articles. He is known by the nicknames Dave Junior and Junior.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, TMDb, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film & TV
Jackson, Minnesota, USA
David Ellefson is a musician. He is a renowned bassist and was member of the American thrash metal band Megadeth.
Known for
- Robot Dracula — David2026
- This Was My Life: Nick Menza's Metal Memories with Megadeth and Beyond2025
- Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow — Self2025
- Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer — Self2025
- Beneath the Bassline - Lost Backstage — Self2021
- Dwellers — Ellefson2021
- Bay Area Godfathers II — Self2021
- Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story — Self2019
- Megadeth Bloodstock 2017 — Bass2017
- Sepultura Endurance — himself2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1964
Discography
- Sleeping Giants2019
Member of
- Megadeth1983–2002
- Soulfly2006–2006
- Megadeth2010–2021
- Metal Allegiancesince 2014
- The Lucidsince 2020
- Ellefson-Sotosince 2021
- Supergroup A
- F5
- Altitudes & Attitude
- Killing Machine
- Ellefson
- Avian
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,532
- Total plays
- 9,194
Tags
David Warren Ellefson (born November 12, 1964 in Jackson, Minnesota) is a bass guitar player who is best known as one of the founding members of American thrash metal band Megadeth. He currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is also currently a member of Temple of Brutality, F5, Killing Machine, but as of 2010 he has rejoined and made Megadeth his top priority. Early life Ellefson started to play bass guitar because of its presence in heavy rock music. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/D
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1964-11-12 ) November 12, 1964 (age 61) , Jackson, Minnesota
- Genres
- Heavy metal thrash metal speed metal power metal hard rock
- Occupation
- Bassist
- Years active
- 1982–present
- Member of
- The Lucid Dieth Metal Allegiance Kings of Thrash Metal Church
- Formerly of
- Megadeth KK's Priest
- Website
- davidellefson .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jackson
- Occupation
- executive producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Field of work
- rock music
- Genre
- heavy metal music
- Instrument
- bass guitar
- Official website
- www.davidellefson.com
- Image
- David Ellefson (cropped2).jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Dave Ellefson
- date of birth
- 1964-11-12
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- writing language
- English language
- nickname
- Junior
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
David Ellefson (born November 12, 1964) is an American musician, best known for his long tenure as the bassist and backing vocalist for heavy metal band Megadeth across two stints.
Ellefson initially became an accomplished bassist and honed his songwriting skills while leading several of his own bands through the club scene of North America's Midwest region before relocating to Los Angeles. He was then the bassist of Megadeth from 1983 to their breakup in 2002, and again from 2010 to 2021.
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