In a new interview with Argentina's César Fuentes Rodríguez, former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson spoke about his time in the band.

Among other topics, he discussed the band's 2022 album "The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!" for which he laid down the original bass tracks in May 2020 at a studio in Nashville, Tennessee.

A year later, Ellefson was fired from MEGADETH, just days after sexually tinged messages and explicit video footage involving the bassist were posted on Twitter.

In July 2021, MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine announced during an episode of his Gimme Radio program "The Dave Mustaine Show" that Ellefson's bass tracks would not be used on the LP.

"The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!" was released in September 2020 via UMe.

Just months after TESTAMENT bassist Steve DiGiorgio recorded his parts for the effort, former MEGADETH bassist James LoMenzo rejoined the band in time for the summer 2021 leg of "The Metal Tour Of The Year." In response to Ellefson's comments about Mustaine's decision to re-record the METALLICA demo "No Life 'Til Leather," which featured Mustaine, Ellefson said: "So, 'Ride The Lightning' — I wasn't gonna there when they were putting it together, but it seems to me that if that song was done [while Dave was still in the band], it would've been on [METALLICA's debut album] 'Kill 'Em All.' So to me, to whatever degree that tune was there, and I know Dave had a couple riffs — that spider chord [in the bridge], he used to play that one in the apartment, so I knew that was riff of his.

I didn't sense it was in a song, but whatever.

He has a whole different memory of it.

It's his song, it's his moment.

I'm not here to argue it.

Whatever.

So I just found it interesting that that would go on a final record.

But whatever.

It's his band.

He can do whatever he wants."