Former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza's personal and private collection of memorabilia is set be auctioned off exclusively through the online auction platform Metalpeer. The exclusive online auction will feature custom cymbals, custom snares, used sticks, used drum heads, all access backstage tour laminates, and custom 3-D canvas paintings, just to name a few.

Highlight's of the auction will also feature the blood-stained, rusty saw blade that nearly severed Menza's arm off, and the original x-ray from a gruesome power saw accident in 2007, Doctors weren't sure he'd ever play again.

Menza: "All available items come from my personal and private collection that I have collected throughout the years Including, of course Megadeth circa 1988 / 1995 and will be personally signed by me."

Eddie Boyd and Kim Anderson, founders of Metalpeer: "It's a great honored and privilege to be hosting an auction of this magnitude, We're huge fans of Nick and Megadeth and this is something no true heavy metal fan wants to miss out on."

The online Auction starts Sunday, January 25th - 6:30 PM, PST and will run through Tuesday, February 3rd - 6:30 PM, PST.

A preview of the entire auction catalog will be available online beginning Saturday, January 24th and is open to fans and collectors worldwide. All winning bidders will receive a letter of authenticity, and highest bidder will receive a free signed catalog and private drum session via Skype.

For more information and to register for a VIP All Access Pass for the auction, visit this location.

 

 

 

Menza recently uploaded the third of six webisodes documenting the making of his first-ever instructional DVD, Intense Mega Drumming. The footage shot this past March at Uberbeatz Studios in Seattle, Washington, and was produced and directed by Kari Pearson and Robert Bolger.

Says Menza: "These tapes also included exclusives, working at the studio's, casual time and party time with other band members as well as bands I toured with, brings back a lot of good memories and I'm really looking forward to seeing the finished product."

The two-disc DVD package is tentatively due in late 2015 via through an as-yet-undisclosed label.

Menza joined Megadeth for the 1989 recording Rust In Peace and for the next nine years became associated with the band's classic and most profitable era.

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. Dave Mustaine said that this was because Nick "just wasn't prepared."

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Menza joined Megadeth for the 1989 recording Rust In Peace and for the next nine years became associated with the band's "classic" and most profitable era.