Da Capo, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing (GCP) and the Hachette Book Group, has announced Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine's memoir "In My Darkest Hour" will be published on September 8th.
New York Times journalist Joe Layden, who previously worked with Mustaine on "Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir," co-wrote "In My Darkest Hour"
"In My Darkest Hour is Dave Mustaine at his most revealing, vulnerable, and true," Ben Schafer, Executive Editor, Da Capo, said. "With lacerating honesty and soulful reflection, he speaks to the universal human experience of facing serious illness and how it changes a person, their family and friends, and one's relationship with creativity. Da Capo is proud to publish Dave Mustaine's most unblinking memoir to date, one that isn't only for Megadeth fans."
"One of the most harrowing experiences of my adult life has been my seven-year journey through cancer treatment and onward into remission," Mustaine said in a statement. "This story is considerably more than just, 'Go to the doctor, get diagnosed, get treatment and hopefully I live happily ever after.' This was a journey of me saving myself, staying alive, keeping my family together, and continuing to make music through it all."
The memoir takes readers from the treatment room to the studio, with Mustaine chronicling how the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue in 2019 inspired him to take up to writing and playing guitar, balance his radiation & chemotherapy appointments and long recording sessions to come out with Megadeth's sixteenth studio album, The Sick The Dying...and the Dead!.
Mustaine also narrates how his ailment brought him closer to his family and taught him to ask for help, grow stronger to face challenges.
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