Back in February, Dave Mustaine revealed that Megadeth has reunited with producer Chris Rakestraw for the new upcoming album.
Mustaine has now offered fans an exciting preview of the band’s highly anticipated 17th studio album.
In a recent newsletter to members of the Megadeth Cyber Army fan club, Mustaine shared the following: “I’m sure by now that you have seen our clips from inside the studio from our recording record 17. I am really anxious for you to hear our new music. I can tell you that this record is a lot like the first ten years of Megadeth.”
In February, he said: “We are almost 90 days into the making of the 17th Megadeth album, currently titled, Album 17. That was a difficult choice, doh!”
“So, I started working on new Megadeth album with [producer] Chris Rakestraw from Dystopia and our most recent album, The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!, Teemu [Mäntysaari, Megadeth guitarist] came out to join me right after New Years Eve, and James [Lomenzo, Megadeth bassist] and Dirk [Verbeuren, Megadeth drummer] will be here in February.”
“We are off to a good start.. A trivia tidbit: I seem to remember that ‘Holy Wars’ and ‘Symphony Of Destruction’ were some of the last songs written on their perspective albums…”
Earlier in March, Mustaine sat down with LifeMinute in his house where he discussed some of his thoughts on the evolving world of metal. During an interview he slammed whole nü-metal genre saying: “There was a period in 2000 where we had these bands called – I think it was ‘nü-metal’, and they didn’t do any solos. Well, why didn’t they do any solos? They couldn’t do solos. And thank God that genre went away. People started to learn how to do solos. I would say, if you’re in a ‘nu metal’ band, you probably would be challenged even playing ‘Johnny B. Goode’[1958 rock and roll classic by Chuck Berry]. So I’m glad that went away.”
Besides that, he is going to tour with Disturbed on their very nü-metal album The Sickness.
Tour dates are:
9/28 Copenhagen, Denmark Royal Arena
10/1 Dusseldorf, Germany PSD Bank Dome
10/3 Stuttgart, Germany Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
10/4 Zurich, Switzerland Hallenstadion
10/6 Budapest, Hungary Arena
10/7 Prague, Czech Republic O2 Arena
10/10 Krakow, Poland Tauron Arena
10/12 Paris, France Zenith
10/14 Amsterdam, Netherlands Ziggo Dome
10/15 Brussels, Belgium Forest National Arena
10/17 Munich, Germany Olympiahalle
10/18 Berlin, Germany Velodrome
10/20 Birmingham, UK Utilita Arena
10/22 Dublin, Ireland 3Arena
10/24 Manchester, UK AO Arena
10/26 London, UK The O2
10/28 Glasgow, UK OVO Hydro
