Yungblud is coming off a Grammy win for masking Black Sabbath’s “Adjustments” on the Again to the Starting live performance and has been embraced by many elder rockers, however in a current chat with NME, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine expressed some concern about Yungblud’s future given the trail of this previous yr.
Not solely did Yungblud have a breakout efficiency at Again to the Starting cementing his shut friendship with the late Ozzy Osbourne, he completed out his yr recording and releasing an EP with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry and reworked one in all his prime Idols songs, “Zombie,” with Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan.
What Dave Mustaine Stated About Yungblud
Throughout the NME interview, the questioning turned to Dave Mustaine’s familiarity with the present steel scene and getting his ideas on a number of the newer acts. When he was requested about Yungblud, he admitted not being conversant in the rising artist’s music.
However when the interviewer listed off a few of Yungblud’s 2025 accomplishments with veteran rock and steel artists, Mustaine voiced a priority.
He was requested if one artist could possibly be tasked with carrying the torch for rock and steel for a brand new technology. He responded, “Maybe. However whenever you say any individual is working with everyone, that to me means they’ve reached a degree the place they should both take a break, or discover one thing else [to separate them from the pack] since you run the chance of your track sounding just like the final individual’s track, which then sounds just like the final individual’s track.”
What Yungblud Has Stated About Being Embraced by Rock + Steel’s Largest Names
“Truthfully, I am nonetheless pinching myself,” Yungblud informed Loudwire Nights host Chuck Amstrong final fall in regards to the yr he was having.
Ozzy, particularly, had all the time resonated with Yungblud earlier than the upstart musician ever met his idol.
“Ozzy was all the time actually my North Star, you realize what I imply,” he stated. “So the truth that I used to be going to, one, get to satisfy him and chill with him [and] him being in my video was simply psychological.”
He added that Ozzy had personally shared some recommendation. “The factor he stated to me when he gave me his cross was, ‘By no means compromise, be your self, they’re going to perceive it later. Belief me.’ That is what he stated,” shared Yungblud.
The Again to the Starting efficiency began opening different doorways too.
“Quite a lot of rock stars began reaching out to me, lots of people have been like, ‘Wow, that took balls, we respect it,'” he stated.
“I am getting emails from Brian Could and Joe Perry and I am like, ‘What? Wow.’ I believe my complete objective was to essentially assault basic rock on this album.”
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Although a few of his rock idols could have lit the hearth for his present Idols album, it is finally his personal imaginative and prescient that has helped it resonate with listeners.
Yungblud shared in Loudwire’s January 2026 cowl story, “Once you make an album from you coronary heart and your soul and other people do not prefer it or folks do not such as you or they do not consider you, you may’t actually do a lot about it as a result of it got here out of you, got here out of your chest,” he says, candidly. “Simply as a lot because the oxygen you breathe or simply as a lot as me fucking telling me mum that I like her, you realize what I am saying? I meant it that a lot. I meant it that a lot.”
See the place we ranked Yungblud’s Idols album in our 13 Finest Rock Albums of 2025 checklist beneath.
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