David Ellefson says Megadeth‘s music is the “most timeless” of all the large thrash bands.

In a brand new interview with Fox Rochester [via Blabbermouth], Ellefson – who served within the heavy metallic outfit from 1983 till 2002, after which once more from 2010 to 2021 – praises his former band for reaching audiences past listeners of the thrash style itself.

“There was a benchmark we had after we began Megadeth, to jot down very epic-oriented music, stuff that might actually be a soundtrack. And likewise stuff that was timeless. I feel the music has actually stood the check of time,” he says. “It doesn’t sound dated.”

“I feel the Megadeth music, out of everyone within the thrash style, I’ll go on file as saying, I feel might be essentially the most timeless and can most likely stand the check of time essentially the most and be essentially the most listened to by folks that aren’t even simply metalheads,” he goes on.

Ellefson provides that the band will not be given sufficient credit score for his or her “melodic” sound, including: “It’s heavy, nevertheless it’s melodic. It’s listenable.

“So I feel that’s jus the character of rock and roll. The younger generations are at all times the creators they usually’re at all times pushing the envelope a little bit farther.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Ellefson notes how heavy metallic grew to become heavier after Megadeth with bands like Slipknot and Mudvayne.

“I keep in mind after we have been on tour with Ronnie James Dio, who’s an icon – this was 1988 – speaking with him in the future on tour about how the following era comes up. And our thrash metallic was actually heavy in comparison with what he was doing,” he continues.

“Then the masked bands come out – Slipknot, Mudvayne and all these things – so it will get heavier and heavier. Look, rock and roll has at all times been about pushing the bounds, beginning with Elvis [Presley]. That’s simply the character of what it’s purported to be.”

Ellefson makes use of Kiss for example of how thrash and heavy types of metallic from the Seventies and Eighties had turn into “household leisure” by the Nineties. The change was clear, he says, as a result of bands had “progressed” previous what “our mother and father didn’t need us to take heed to”.

He says: “I keep in mind seeing the Kiss reunion in 1996. Me and [then-Megadeth guitarist] Marty Friedman went down, and I used to be us going, as heavy and darkish and daunting as this was, and our mother and father didn’t need us to take heed to it, it was like household leisure by then due to what had progressed previous it.”