Dave Mustaine has elaborated further on what appeared to be a thinly veiled threat against a Norwegian journalist for publishing an interview (see video below) with the MEGADETH mainman that focused primarily on his brief tenure as the guitarist in METALLICA.

In a post on MEGADETH's official forum from early this morning (Friday, October 16), Mustaine wrote regarding the "Lydverket" interview, "These people are scum. Don't listen to their interviews, don't buy their shit magazine, don't go to their pathetic garbage website. And stand by, because as soon as I see that interviewer again, I am going to put him in a hospital. That is a promise. I will find him too."

The journalist in question — Kristin Winsents, who is actually a female — laughed off Mustaine's reaction to her report and said that she was not intimidated by his threats.

"The fact that he doesn't even remember that the interview was conducted by a woman tells me that he doesn't remember the circumstances very well at all," Winsents said.

"I did my best in following the restrictions put forth by the record label prior to the interview, which included not mentioning his METALLICA past. However, he was the one who brought this up," she said, adding, "Frankly, when you have been an artist for more than 30 years, you should know how an interview setting works. I'm a journalist, not a member of his fan club."

Responding to Winsents' comments, Mustaine once again took to MEGADETH's official forum to make the following statement:

"You have got to be kidding! As if there aren't enough stupid people in the world.

"Now I have some 'thing' reading my post in my forum from me — a guy who is notoriously a wise guy (since she doesn't seem very bright, I'll give you a clue — I mean me), AND I PURPOSELY SAID 'GUY' FOR A REASON, SO THIS SELF-CENTERED SCRIBE would say, 'Well he has got to be joking, because I am (maybe not) a girl.'

"Did you think I was going to like it? Deep down inside, are you that mean-spirited that you had to do this to me? DO we REALLY need one more person asking me about [METALLICA], or do we really need one more person to jump on me?

"Oh yeah, we wouldn't have you in our fanclub: even MEGADETH has standards.

"Instead, you insult someone who is reasonably smart, and say I don't remember you were a girl. And people wonder why I want to have my interviews monitored; because of assholes who keep asking the [METALLICA] questions. You show the clip that says, 'I am tired of being second,' and then you cleverly cut to 'Crush 'Em' and play the line that says, 'You'll never be more than second best?'

"You disgust me!

"Besides not being very clever, being an instigator, and just plain not very smart, you can now add 'gullible' to the litany of tabloid rag journalism credits you've amassed over your illustrious career (NOT!). Oh, by the way, if those credits mattered before, they don't matter anymore now that you are just a trash novelist.

"When you have credits in the USA, then you will matter to me.

"And while you're at it, why don't you put the entire interview up, so that people can see that I said that I don't want to answer it; so that people will see just how you really are. Just disgraceful! I hope you don't have any children that will follow in your claw prints.

"That was a long interview and you cut it up for your own benefit. You didn't play one note of our new record. Nothing. Am I supposed to say, 'Wow, what a funny bitch?'

"We were promoting our new record 'Endgame', since you probably don't know the name of it (add to list of several billion things you don't know) and you didn't say shit about it. NOTHING.

"Did you think that I came all the way to Germany and the UK to sit down and have you try to humiliate me? What the fuck is wrong with you???

"Shame on you and shame on your shitty style — OR LACK THEREOF. More like shame on whoever gave you anything better than a dismissive wave and a parting gift.

"The problem, is, NOW I really am pissed, and YESTERDAY I was joking.

"And frankly, if you are a noteworthy journalist, host or presenter I feel sorry for the good people of Norway.

"In closing, I am not going to put you in the hospital, since you clearly don't know that it was a JOKE (and I do know you were/are a female). Frankly, I wouldn't even slap you, because shit splatters."

****UPDATE***: Around 50 minutes after posting the above statement, Mustaine wrote the following message on the MEGADETH forum:

"Now that I am awake, I have had a chance to think about what I have said and I have handled this wrong.

"I was deeply offended by what I saw in an interview yesterday, and I posted something. I made a mistake saying something.

"I read the journalist's reply, and I am glad she laughed it off, and I wanted to delete my previous post this morning, but not until I wrote this.

"Kristin, we will never be friends, but thank you for not taking this serious."

"Lydverket" is the Norwegian broadcaster NRK's weekly pop music show.

Pictured below are Kristin Winsents and Dave Mustaine on the day the interview was conducted — August 7, 2009 at the Langham Hotel in London, England.