In My Darkest Hour: A Memoir

In In My Darkest Hour, Dave Mustaine reflects on the brutal clarity that comes with facing death. After a life marked by an alcoholic father, addiction and black magic, he reached fifty-eight thinking he had survived the worst.

Then, in 2019, Mustaine was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue, threatening his voice, his playing and his life. What follows is a powerful account of treatment, survival and the drive to keep creating.

Moving from radiation and chemotherapy straight into recording sessions, he charts the making of The Sick, The Dying...and the Dead!, Megadeth's sixteenth studio album. It is also a moving story about family, faith, vulnerability and learning how to ask for help.