About Nick Menza
Nicholas Menza was an American musician who was the drummer of the thrash metal band Megadeth from 1989 to 1998. He played drums on four of Megadeth's albums: Rust in Peace (1990), Countdown to Extinction (1992), Youthanasia (1994), and Cryptic Writings (1997). When the time came to record a follow-up album, Menza was not asked back and DeGrasso became the band's official drummer. Beginning his professional musical career at the age of 18, drumming in the band Rhoads featuring singer Kelle Rhoads, brother of the late Randy Rhoads, Menza released his first record with Rhoads, titled Into the Future, in Europe in 1986. For the next ten years, Menza became associated with Megadeth's "classic" period and also his Greg Voelker Rack System.
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