In a brand new interview with Poland’s Teraz Rock, Megadeth chief Dave Mustaine addressed the long-rumored thought of a solo album, saying it stays a chance because the band strikes ahead with its newest launch and touring plans.
When reminded that he almost launched a solo report greater than twenty years in the past, Mustaine mirrored on the interval surrounding 2004’s The System Has Failed. On the time, a critical arm damage led him to imagine his enjoying profession was over, prompting him to tell his bandmates that Megadeth was completed.
“I hadn’t touched a guitar for 17 months,” Mustaine recalled. That modified after his godfather Alice Cooper invited him to participate in a profit live performance for a deceased crew member. Regardless of his doubts about his potential to play, the efficiency reignited his ardour. “In some way the pilot gentle was reignited and the hearth inside me began burning once more,” he mentioned.
Mustaine defined that makes an attempt to reunite the traditional lineup with Marty Friedman, Nick Menza, and David Ellefson finally failed, main him to report with different musicians as a substitute, together with acclaimed drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and bassist Jimmie Sloas. Although initially supposed as a solo effort, the album was launched beneath the Megadeth title.
Requested if he would possibly pursue a solo album following Megadeth‘s eventual farewell tour, Mustaine remained ambivalent. “I’d. I do not assume so. I’d,” he mentioned. For now, his focus is firmly on the band.
“Proper now, issues are going so nice for us, we’re not even actually excited about the tip. We’re excited about the start of this, this marketing campaign, and heading out and, and displaying this [new] music to our followers. And we have been wanting on the excursions that we have on our schedule, and all the pieces’s doing very well ticket-wise. Dates are promoting out means upfront, and that is good for us too as a result of in most of the locations that we booked, we have needed to go to a unique configuration.
“Some locations will likely be arrange for, say, for instance, 7,000 seats and so they’ve received some seats up within the high that they’ve blocked off. And a band is available in and so they preserve promoting tickets, they will open up these areas. ‘Trigger plenty of instances they do not open these areas up as a result of it seems unhealthy for bands that do not promote out the venue. And we have had plenty of concert events already that has — it is gone to a bigger-size venue.”
Megadeth‘s new self-titled album, Megadeth, was launched on January 23, 2026, by way of Mustaine’s Tradecraft imprint in partnership with Frontiers Label Group’s BLKIIBLK label.
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