Megadeth despatched shockwaves by the metallic world final 12 months when Dave Mustaine confirmed that the band’s upcoming self-titled 17th studio album — due later this month — shall be their remaining launch.
The album will mark a number of vital milestones. It will likely be Megadeth‘s solely studio outing with guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari, who changed Kiko Loureiro in 2023, and it’ll function a high-profile cowl of Metallica‘s “Journey the Lightning” — a music Mustaine co-wrote throughout his temporary however pivotal tenure in Metallica within the early Nineteen Eighties.
To help the file, Mustaine and the band will embark on an enormous world tour celebrating each the brand new album and Megadeth‘s decades-spanning profession. Nonetheless, followers hoping for shock reunions with Megadeth alumni could also be dissatisfied.
In a brand new interview with Guitar World (through Guitar.com), the 64-year-old Mustaine was requested whether or not former Megadeth members may make visitor appearances through the band’s farewell run. “We have already executed that with Marty,” Mustaine stated, referring to Marty Friedman‘s onstage appearances with the band in 2023. “And I imply, let us take a look at the opposite individuals we have performed with… there’s lots of people.”
Mustaine made it clear that revisiting Megadeth‘s lengthy and sophisticated lineup historical past is not one thing he is fascinated about pursuing. “That might be an enormous endeavor,” he stated. “I do not assume I need to try this. I might somewhat preserve doing what we’re doing and let the followers expertise Megadeth music and be comfortable about it. It is not ‘puppet present Megadeth.'”
Elsewhere within the interview, Mustaine mirrored on his longevity in thrash metallic—one thing he does not take as a right. “I want I’d have stored in contact with [late Megadeth drummer] Gar Samuelson,” he stated. “Every time stuff like that occurs, I really feel lucky as a result of I am nonetheless kicking. However on the other facet of the coin, I believe, ‘Fuck… that would have been me.'”
For Mustaine, the choice to finish Megadeth now could be about timing, management, and gratitude. “There’s so many musicians which have come to the top of their profession, whether or not unintentional or intentional,” he stated. “Most of them do not get to exit on their very own phrases on high—and that is the place I am at in my life proper now.”
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