During a recent appearance on Full Metal Jackie’s weekend radio show, Alex Skolnick invited Metallica members to join Metal Allegiance.
“Oh, absolutely. There are a number of them,” the guitarist replied when asked whether there is a dream collaborator he’d love to perform with but haven’t yet. “We’ve been very fortunate to have a lot of our peers and good friends of ours and even people that are hard to pin down, like this year, my buddy Gary Holt, who’s obviously founder of Exodus, but also in recent years a member of Slayer.”
He continued, “But as far as somebody, we haven’t had, If you talk about this so-called big four of thrash metal, well, we’ve had three of the big four. We’ve had members of Anthrax, you have John Bush who was there in the 90s. Charlie [Benante] has joined us at times. Obviously. we’ve had members of Megadeth. One of them is one of the core four.”
“Slayer, we’ve had Gary [Hot]. Original drummer Dave Lombardo has played with us as well. The other big four band, Metallica, we’ve never had anybody from that band. So that would be one. Anybody from one of the more classic bands – Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden. So we have a wish list that remains to be fulfilled,” Skolnick revealed.
Bassist Mark Menghi formed Metal Allegiance in 2014. Skolnick, David Ellefson, and Mike Portnoy joined him. The group doesn’t have a lead singer but often features guest musicians.
Skolnick also recently announced to RadioBypass that Metal Allegiance will return with new music. He stated, “We’ve been talking about it for some time. It’s always easier said than done, given everybody’s schedules, but we’re continuing to talk about it and I’m pretty sure that [2025] is the year we will get started on it.”
“So I don’t know what it’s gonna look like, I don’t know how it’s going to compare to the past albums. Maybe we’ll get our feet wet with an EP or a single — who knows? — but either way, we’re gonna get started and see how it goes, probably later this [coming] year,” the rocker explained.
Metal Allegiance has released two albums so far: their 2015 self-titled debut and ‘Volume II: Power Drunk Majesty.’