{"id":24833,"date":"2026-05-07T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/?p=24833"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:22:42","slug":"interview-david-ellefson-jeff-young-of-kings-of-thrash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/?p=24833","title":{"rendered":"Interview: David Ellefson &amp; Jeff Young of Kings of Thrash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before Kings of Thrash played The Vault in New Bedford, I had a chance to sit down with bassist David Ellefson, also known as the co-founder of Megadeth, and guitarist Jeff Young, former Megadeth guitarist. We discussed all things Kings of Thrash, and how it felt for them to be playing these classic Megadeth songs after so many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w368a9Fm0K8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sat down with Kings of Thrash\/former Megadeth members David Ellefson and Jeff Young to discuss all things Kings of Thrash, and how it feels for them to be playing these classic Megadeth songs after so many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1459,201,1460,1461],"class_list":["post-24833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-david-ellefson","tag-interview","tag-jeff-young","tag-kings-of-thrash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-05-KOTInterviewHeader.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mENz-6sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24838,"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833\/revisions\/24838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}