Megadeth: Dave Mustaine would like to do the last live in space

“They’ve sent a lot of celebrities into space: if they can, why not me?”: this is more or less the reasoning behind Dave Mustaine to share his rather ambitious goal for Megadeth’s last show.

In a recent interview for “Metal Hammer”, the 64-year-old musician spoke about the approachingfarewell of his bandamong the milestones of thrash metal, and said: “I hope we play in space. I think it would be a really perfect climax. And I’m not talking about a simple ‘vomit comet’. But a live show on the Moon, like, a real moon landing, would be fantastic.”

Thinking of pop star Katy Perry, who took part in a suborbital space flight operated by Blue Origin, the company founded by Jeff Bezos, Mustaine then argued that his ambitions are not entirely far-fetched. “I saw that they sent a lot of celebrities into space and I thought, ‘Well, if they can, why not me?’ I’m just seeing how all this progresses,” said the Megadeth frontman: “I know Elon Musk and Richard Branson were working on interstellar travel. I think people will travel to space much sooner than you think“.

During the interview, Mustaine then clarified why he thinks concerts in space will become a reality and, although making a somewhat imprecise estimate, he declared: “People already travel above 40,000 feet altitude, and when you get to that kind of atmosphere you’re practically already in space. I really think it will happen. The question is: will people be able to inhabit the Moon?”. However, the International Aeronautics Federation has defined the Kármán line, an imaginary line that conventionally marks the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, at a height of 100 km above sea level.

Currently on Megadeth’s farewell tour, in support of their last eponymous album arriving on January 23rdwill take place next year and will start on 22 September in Istanbul, Türkiye, before concluding on 28 October in Glasgow, Scotland. At the moment, the tour includes a date in Italy scheduled for Ferrara on 14 June 2026. The band performed last year in our country for an investigation at Alcatraz in Milan in June 2024 (here is our interview with Dave Mustaine backstage at the concert).