{"id":973808,"date":"2019-12-02T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=915667"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:26:24","slug":"megadeths-dave-mustaine-previews-really-crushing-new-songs-ahead-of-winter-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/megadeths-dave-mustaine-previews-really-crushing-new-songs-ahead-of-winter-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Megadeth\u2019s Dave Mustaine Previews \u2018Really Crushing New Songs\u2019 Ahead of Winter Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Although Megadeth<\/a> had hoped to record the follow-up to their 2016 album Dystopia<\/em> this year, frontman Dave Mustaine\u2019s cancer diagnosis<\/a> sidelined their progress. But despite the medical setback, the singer-guitarist is promising to release a handful of new tracks ahead of the band\u2019s winter European tour.<\/p>\n

Before Megadeth paused work on the LP, Mustaine tells Rolling Stone<\/em> that they had composed \u201cnine really crushing songs.\u201d They presented those to their management, and Mustaine was pleased when various people who worked with them all picked the same three tracks to release. (The group will put finishing touches on those in the coming months.) \u201cAll we need to do is get in the studio and capture them,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019ve got scratch drum tracks. We just have to get Dirk [Verbeuren, drums] to play through the songs once or twice and then it\u2019s up to me and David [Ellefson, bass] and Kiko [Loureiro, lead guitar] to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t have finished names for the songs yet, just working titles \u2014 \u201cThe Dogs of Chernobyl\u201d has a feel similar to Dystopia, <\/em>while he says \u201cFaster Than Anything Else\u201d and \u201cRattlehead, Part Two\u201d speak for themselves. The exact number of songs Megadeth will release as \u201cearly offerings,\u201d as he called them in an interview with Rolling Stone <\/em>this week, is still up in the air. \u201cIt might be two, it might be four,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Beyond those tracks, Mustaine has high hopes for the rest of the album. He has been encouraging Ellefson, who cofounded Megadeth with Mustaine in 1983, to write a song that would spotlight his playing. Ellefson has had a tenuous relationship with Mustaine and tried to sue the frontman when he was away from the band; they mended fences and Ellefson rejoined the band in 2010. \u201cI said to him, \u2018What was the biggest song that Kiss ever had?’\u201d Mustaine says. \u201cHe goes, \u2018Beth.\u2019 I said, \u2018Yeah, we should write a song like \u201cBeth,\u201d where it\u2019s a ballad and it\u2019s just you singing it. I think you should write a song about what it\u2019s like being in Megadeth with me, because I read all your lyrics, and I know that your lyrics are aimed at me. You\u2019re upset. So why don\u2019t you write about it?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Mustaine heard an early version of Ellefson\u2019s ballad and was happy with it, but it still needs fine-tuning. \u201cI\u2019m going to try to work on it now for this record, and if it doesn\u2019t get on this record, I\u2019m going to try to work on it on the next record,\u201d Mustaine says. \u201cBecause it was actually really cool to see Ellefson writing something and hear him singing.\u201d He hopes fans will appreciate their story of forgiveness.<\/p>\n

Mustaine says that Loureiro and Verbeuren have also both contributed \u201csome monstrous fucking tracks\u201d for inclusion on the new LP. The band just has to decide on how many songs it needs to record; the band\u2019s label wants at least 11 tracks, but Megadeth also need to write bonus tracks. \u201cYou need another track for Japan and another track for Best Buy, and another track for Apple, and another track for Spotify, and it\u2019s like, fuck, when does it stop?\u201d Mustaine says. But despite the malaise, he says, \u201cWe\u2019re so ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Mustaine and Megadeth are gearing up for the European tour, which kicks off in Helsinki on January 20th and will run to the end of February. \u201cI\u2019m so excited,\u201d Mustaine says. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to fire up my guitars.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Although Megadeth had hoped to record the follow-up to their 2016 album Dystopia this year, frontman Dave Mustaine\u2019s cancer diagnosis sidelined their progress. But despite the medical setback, the singer-guitarist is promising to release a handful of new tracks ahead of the band\u2019s winter European tour. Before Megadeth paused work on the LP, Mustaine tells Rolling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 06:38:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}