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Here’s a nice little “HOLY SHITBALLS!” moment to cap off your Monday: after a seven year absence, Dave Ellefson has returned to Megadeth. And to think, not that long ago, these two were suing one another. Hilarious.

Old-school Megadeth fans will remember that Ellefson survived through various incarnations of ‘Deth, and for many years appeared to be on the only person on earth who could actually stomach Mustaine. He was the bass player for basically every Megadeth classic ever.

You can read some statements from the band at SMN, but to be honest, it’s all the usual bullshit that you’ve heard a million times before. Hopefully these two will get deeper into their rift and reunion when they start doing press for Megadeth’s upcoming tour.

And you know what? I could not find a picture of these two together without the rest of the band around. Twenty years as partners, and they never snapped a photo just the two of them. Good times.

-AR

“Builtforsin” got all riled up in the comments of yesterday’s Axl-penned post about James Lomenzo’s stint in White Lion. Seems Mr. sin isn’t too fond of our posts about ’80s hair metal:

Can we get over this pussy 80’s throwback/hair metal band/musical disaster fuckfest you guys got going on over the last few days and get to some shit people care about. I understand news is slow but FUCK. This shit is horrible. Maybe take a day off so you can save up an article or two of some not queer shit? Review an album, SOMETHING? You guys get less metal everyday.

Hey, builtforsin, guess what? FUCK YOU! It’s our site and we’ll post whatever we damn well please! I’m not even into White Lion — like, at all — but just because you asked, here’s some video footage of White Lion guitarist Vito Bratta shredding it up live in 1988. At least commenters “braincake” and “columbo” knows what’s up.

-VN

I always forget that current Megadeth bassist James Lomenzo used to be in White Lion. I guess I can accept that he was in Black Label Society (and David Lee Roth), since Zakk Wylde usta use an awful lotta hairspray, but Megadeth? Doesn’t that seem kinda like if Metallica hired the dude from Dangerous Toys or something?

Anyways, I mention it because the “Oh Don Piano!” moment of the day is Lomenzo saying he’d be open to a White Lion reunion. I’m sure the five White Lion fans left the world are all very excited. But I don’t think anyone should get their hopes up. And I can’t be the only one who’d rather hear Lomenzo play tracks from Endgame or pretend to be Dave Ellefson, can I?

-AR

It’s always funny when ’80s hair bands try to make comebacks with fierce, tough-looking imagery. For example, MetalSucks reader Cameron M. sent us this link to http://www.whitelion2.com/ (apparently they couldn’t pry http://www.whitelion.com/ away from esteemed moving company White Lion Van Lines), debuting the band’s new Metal with a capital-M imagery:

Yeah! “Return of the pride, dude! We’re back, and we’re tough!” Mysteriously, the only other thing on the page is a link to their MySpace page.

“Now if only you’d just click our MySpace link and be our friend, please? Pretty please? You can listen to our wussy-ass new music while you’re at it.”

-VN