Watch: Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON Performs With OVERKILL For First Time

Former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson made his dwell debut with New Jersey thrashers OVERKILL on Thursday, April 11 at C3 Stage in Guadalajara, Mexico.

OVERKILL‘s setlist was as follows:

01. Scorched
02. Deliver Me The Evening
03. Electrical Rattlesnake
04. Hiya From The Gutter
05. Depraved Place
06. Coma
07. Horrorscope
08. Lengthy Time Dyin’
09. The Surgeon
10. Imply, Inexperienced, Killing Machine
11. Ironbound
12. Elimination

Encore:

13. Hammerhead
14. Rotten To The Core
15. Fuck You (THE SUBHUMANS cowl)

Fan-filmed video of the live performance could be seen under.

In a current interview with Steel & Rock Zone, Ellefson spoke concerning the announcement that he was recruited by OVERKILL to play bass for the band on their “Scorching Latin America 2024” tour. The previous MEGADETH member is filling in for authentic OVERKILL bassist D.D. Verni, who’s unable to make the reveals as he’s recovering from shoulder surgical procedure.

Concerning how he ended up being requested to fill in for Verni, Ellefson mentioned: “I acquired approached earlier than the top of the yr. It was simply delivered to my consideration that D.D. was going to undergo this surgical procedure. They did not know if he was gonna be higher or not. So I used to be sort of placed on alert that, ‘Hey, we might have some assist.’ And we grew up collectively, OVERKILL and MEGADETH. I bear in mind the ‘Peace Sells’ tour, OVERKILL was our direct assist. So we have been good associates, all of us. And I at all times mentioned, look, if there have been gonna be two extra added to the ‘Huge 4’ [of 1980s thrash metal], it will be EXODUS in California and OVERKILL on the East Coast. So, to me, these are brothers in arms. So, once they hit me just a few weeks in the past about it, I mentioned, ‘Certain. Depend me in should you want me to do it.'”

OVERKILL‘s 10-date “Scorching Latin America 2024” tour will embrace further stops in Costa Rica, Chile and Peru earlier than closing on April 28 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

When Ellefson‘s addition to OVERKILL‘s touring lineup was first introduced, OVERKILL singer Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth mentioned in a press release: “South, Central America and Mexico, with D.D. on the mend from surgical procedure and the chance in entrance of us, the place to go however again to the roots of THRASH! Please welcome Mr. David Ellefson to the OVERKILL, touring ranks this April 2024! ‘David, are you able to assist?’ The reply: ‘Sure, let’s go!’ We won’t wait to see you guys! Horns up!”

Verni commented: “Bummed to not be capable of thrash it up with our Latin America followers, however gotta get this wing workin!!….however who higher than one of many nice authentic thrash bass gamers, and previous pal, David Ellefson to fill in.”

Ellefson mentioned: “It is an honor to fill in for my pal, the mighty D.D. Verni, as he takes time to heal up proper now. OVERKILL at all times brings the fury and I am trying ahead to scorching Latin America with them!”

Ellefson was fired from MEGADETH practically three years in the past. MEGADETH chief Dave Mustaine ended up hiring TESTAMENT‘s Steve DiGiorgio to re-record Ellefson‘s bass elements on MEGADETH‘s newest album, “The Sick, The Dying… And The Lifeless!”

In Could 2022, MEGADETH introduced bass participant James LoMenzo as a everlasting member of the band. LoMenzo was MEGADETH‘s bass participant within the mid-2000s and initially stepped again in as a touring member for “The Steel Tour Of The 12 months”.

Ellefson was in MEGADETH from the band’s inception in 1983 to 2002, and once more from 2010 till his newest exit.