Dave Mustaine has hinted {that a} monitor on Megadeth’s remaining album is technically a canopy tune, however one he really wrote.

Followers suspect the ‘cowl’ in query is probably going a Metallica tune, and will probably be Trip The Lightning from the band’s 1984 sophomore album of the identical title. Megadeth’s remaining album earlier than their retirement, which is self-titled, is due for launch in 2026 and options 13 tracks.

Mustaine was famously fired from Metallica in 1983 earlier than the discharge of their debut report, Kill ‘Em All. His components had been re-recorded by Kirk Hammett, however Mustaine nonetheless has writing credit on quite a few tracks, together with Trip The Lightning.

Thus far, 10 tracks have already been named and one has been launched as a single – Tipping Level. Nevertheless, in a brand new interview with Norwegian radio station Stjernepose, Mustaine says [via Loudwire], “We’ve 13 new songs for the brand new album… One of many songs is a canopy tune however I really wrote it, so it’s type of like a canopy, of my tune.”

The band additionally not too long ago shared a monitor checklist graphic to their social media, and a few followers noticed that slightly below quantity 10, there’s a faint trace of some writing which may probably spell out Trip The Lightning.

There’s no return you’ve crossed the road. Two extra tracks revealed tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/7yQ9GkuGSJ

— Megadeth (@Megadeth) October 28, 2025

The connection between Mustaine and Metallica has been considerably rocky over the a long time, and earlier this 12 months, Mustaine mirrored on his exit. Throughout an look on The Shawn Ryan Present, he argued that the band went on to make use of his music, regardless of him telling them to not.

Of his firing, he defined: “I mentioned, ‘No warning? No second probability? You’re not gonna give me a warning? You’re simply gonna kick me out?’ And I believed that was unfair. And it confirmed a grotesque lack of character. In order that pissed me off and was an enormous a part of the gas.”

“On the time, I used to be actually mad and I didn’t wanna forgive them for what they did. I instructed them after I left, ‘Don’t use my music. And naturally they used it,” he mentioned.

Mustaine highlighted Trip The Lightning in addition to The Name Of Ktulu, Phantom Lord, Metallic Militia, Bounce In The Hearth, and The 4 Horsemen as tracks that includes his work.

“And I wrote a bunch of Leper Messiah [on Metallica’s third album, Master Of Puppets] too. They didn’t give me credit score on that,” he mentioned. “You take heed to the riffs, you understand they’re my riffs… I wrote quite a lot of their music that made them, and all of the solos on that first report had been mine – the most effective Kirk may try to copy them.”

To seek out out extra in regards to the remaining Megadeth album or view their present checklist of scheduled dwell dates, head over to the band’s official web site.