Dave Mustaine is patting himself on the back again.

In February, the singer talked about his early contributions to Metallica and said he “wrote many of the songs that made [them] famous.”

Now, Mustaine is doubling down, claiming that he was a “huge component of Metallica’s success.”

During a Twitter Spaces talk, Mustaine was asked how Megadeth was first discovered and managed to turn the talk to his role in Metallica.

“After I left Metallica, the world wanted to know what I was gonna do, because I was this huge component of Metallica’s success. I’m here, and then I’m gone.” Mustaine explained, “And people that went to go see them after I was no longer in the band and didn’t know that there was a lineup change said that there was something very, very, very wrong with the band that they heard on tape versus the band that they were watching. And that’s when people started to look for me. And the rest is history.”

Mustaine then said his replacement, Kirk Hammett, “did a good job playing my parts.”

“Coming into a band and having to play somebody else’s stuff isn’t always fun, but I think he was a gentleman and did a good job,” he concluded.