Steve Wildsmith from Thedailytimes.com is reporting:

He helped found METALLICA and, after losing his job in that band, went on to form another pillar of the genre that would redefine metal.

As bandleader of MEGADETH since 1983, he had released one album after another that continually put him in the top tier of rock 'n' roll guitar players. He had toured the world, performing to a generation of headbanging young people who awaited the release of every new record like Moses taking those first stone tablets from God.

He swam in a sea of booze, indulged in every conceivable form of sexual excess and smoked, snorted, shot up and gobbled every substance both legal and illicit. But in 2002, it all seemed to come to an abrupt end when an accident left him unable to even make a fist with his left hand, much less pick up a guitar - and Dave Mustaine found himself spiritually, emotionally and mentally destitute.

And then he found God.

For fans who associate the ferocity and brutality of Megadeth's brand of speed metal with doom and darkness, such a profound conversion by Mustaine was earth-shattering. But, Mustaine told The Daily Times during a recent interview, his own world was already shattered, and becoming a Christian was the one way he's found to put the pieces back together.

"There was a moment of reckoning when my arm was destroyed, and I was up on this hill, and there was a cross at the top of it," Mustaine said. "It was just one of those thoughts -- I was baptized a Lutheran, brought up as a Jehovah's Witness, got into witchcraft and Satanism and practicing black magic. My wife was in another thing, and I was thinking that was a cult, so I'd gone back to being a Jehovah's Witness, but I wasn't happy.

"Looking up at that cross, I said six simple words -- 'What have I got to lose?' And my whole life has changed. It's been hard, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I'd rather ... go my whole life believing that there is a God and find out there isn't than live my whole life thinking there isn't a God and then find out, when I die, that there is."

Read the entire interview here.