Nick Menza & David Ellefson Wake Up Dead Drums & Bass

Previously unreleased drum-cam footage of late MEGADETH drummer Nick Menza playing along to the band's classic song 'Wake Up Dead' featuring David Ellefson's original 1986 isolated bass track which originally appeared on the band's second classic record, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?

The HD video, shot in a two-camera-angle mix and was filmed in March 2014 at Uberbeatz Studios in Seattle, Washington. The drum audio was mixed by Richard Easterling / KRM Studios and is believed to be some of the final studio drum recordings of Menza before he passed away more than two years later.

The footage was supposed to be used for the late drummer's first-ever instructional DVD, "Intense Mega Drumming", that was to feature 10 re-recorded classic MEGADETH drum tracks with tons of tips and tricks from Menza's arsenal to help teach anybody out there become a better player. The DVD, which was produced and directed by Kari Pearson and edited by Menza's manager, Robert Bolger, has since been shelved.

The unreleased video footage from the session will be a featured highlight in the recently announced official Menza documentary film "This Was My Life - The Story of Nick Menza". It is described in a press release as "an unflinching exploration into the life of one of the most successful thrash-metal drummers of all time, authorized by the Menza family.

NOTE: Some part's aren't the original, Nick liked to change things up and put his own twisted on things...