MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine recently showed a glimpse of the band’s new “mystery bassist” for the first time in a new Cameo video.
Mustaine created the video for a fan named Alex, who is a massive MGADETH fan and covers their music often. Well, it seems someone uploaded the clip to the MEGADETH Reddit page and it can be seen below.
“I’m walking around the studio right now. That’s [producer] Chris Rakestraw sitting back there on the console,” Mustaine says in the video.
“And you got our mystery bass player hiding behind the chair down there on the floor, so you can’t see him,” Mustaine teased as he flipped the camera around to show the musician laying with his arms over his head.
“We will be saying who that is soon, and you actually saw him before anybody else — even though you can’t actually see him,” he added.
It’s pretty impossible to tell who the bassist is, but Reddit users in the comment section have pointed out that they are using an Ibanez bass.
MEGADETH parted ways with bassist David Ellefson in May after personal exchanges between him and a young woman were leaked online. While Ellefson announced that he would be seeking “revenge porn” charges, MEGADETH removed his bass parts from their upcoming album and re-recorded them with a new bassist.