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A performance-themed video including footage from Megadeth‘s latest live performance of their song “Puppet Parade” has been published, as per theprp. That song was first released by the legendary thrash metal band as the fourth single off their last studio album, the chart-topping self-titled record from January. Dave Mustaine and crew performed the song live for the first time on June 23rd in Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a long farewell tour that was just getting started. Cameon Nunez’s resulting footage was used for the clip in the video below.
Megadeth’s leader Dave Mustaine discussed the band’s newest member, Finnish-born guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari, who formally joined the group in September 2023 after Kiko Loureiro left, in a recent interview with Finland’s Radio City at this weekend’s Tuska festival in Helsinki, as per Blabbermouth.
Yeah, I’m excited. I’m really excited for Teemu because he’s never played here [at Tuska] with us. And Teemu is a national treasure here — the first Finnish man to ever have a Number One record in America. So I get a lot of pleasure out of seeing him have success. ‘Cause he’s such a wonderful person and is a perfect example of the Finnish spirit of people — they’re nice, they’re intelligent, they’re wonderful people. And he’s been the missing link that we’ve been looking for for many, many years.
When Dave thought back on his first experience playing with Teemu, he said this.
Well, he was very, very shy when we first hired him, because you go from being in a smaller band into a bigger band, obviously there’s gonna be a little bit of an adapting period. But Megadeth is not a little bigger band — it’s a lot fucking bigger. So, I promised him, I said, ‘Your life’s gonna change. And it’s gonna change to where you’re gonna be the happiest you’ve ever been, beyond your wildest dreams.’ And that’s happened. We’re [super tight] on stage. We play like we’ve been playing together forever. And I think that his guitar soloing on the new album [2026’s ‘Megadeth’] really helped excite me too. The album’s got over 40 solos on it, I think — I think it was 45 or 47 solos on the album, and they’re all really involved, complex solos. So it’s a great guitar players’ record, and the songwriting part is very melodic, where I think a lot of people gravitated toward. It was Number One in 11 countries, so we did something right.
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