Source: Blabbermouth.net

Soultone cymbals has uploaded drum-cam footage of former MEGADETH drummer Nick Menza playing the band’s classic song “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due”. Check out the clip below.

Menza joined MEGADETH for the 1990 recording “Rust In Peace” and for the next ten years became associated with the band’s “classic” and most profitable era.

By 1998, while MEGADETH was still touring in support of “Cryptic Writings”, Menza was having knee problems and sought medical advice. He was informed he had a tumor, which was later found to be benign, and had it removed. As a result, MEGADETH hired a temporary replacement, Jimmy DeGrasso, rather than cancel any dates. When the time came to record a follow-up album, Menza was not asked back and DeGrasso became the band’s official drummer. Menza has said in several interviews that, while in the hospital recovering from knee surgery, he received a phone call from MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine that simply said “Your services are not needed anymore.”

Following the reissue of the entire MEGADETH catalog, Menza was invited to reunite with the band in 2004. Days after a reunion was announced, Menza was fired after rehearsals and replaced with Shawn Drover. Mustaine said that this was because Nick “just wasn’t prepared.”

Drover was hired six days before a MEGADETH tour. Shawn‘s brother Glen had become MEGADETH‘s lead guitarist about six weeks earlier, and when the drummer spot opened, things were kept familial — especially because Mustaine dug the Drovers‘ previous band, Canadian thrash/power outfit EIDOLON.