Megadeth Offers Inside Look At 17th Album Recording Via ‘Studio Timelapse 2025’ (Video)

Megadeth has offered fans a glimpse into the creation of their seventeenth studio album by sharing a “Studio Timelapse 2025” video. The minute-and-a-half clip showcases footage from the ongoing recording sessions. Accompanying the video, the band expressed their anticipation, stating simply: “Can’t wait to drop this one”.

The upcoming album marks Megadeth‘s first release via frontman Dave Mustaine‘s own Tradecraft imprint, in partnership with the Frontiers Label Group‘s new division, BLKIIBLK. The band has reunited with producer Chris Rakestraw, who helmed their previous two acclaimed albums, 2022’s The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! and 2016’s Dystopia.

In a recent newsletter to the Megadeth Cyber Army fan club, Mustaine provided an exciting update on the album’s direction: “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.”

Earlier this year, Mustaine shared details about the recording timeline. “We are almost 90 days into the making of the 17th Megadeth album, currently titled, Album 17. That was a difficult choice, doh!” he joked back in February 2025. He elaborated on the personnel involved: “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.” Mustaine concluded at the time, “We are off to a good start.”

Guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari, who officially joined Megadeth in September 2023 replacing Kiko Loureiro, spoke about his contribution to the new material in an interview late last year. “Yeah, actually, already a while back Dave started talking about making the next album and kind of starting to do pre-production,” Mäntysaari told Detroit’s WRIF radio station. “And as soon as he mentioned that, and kind of before that already, once it was clear that I’m gonna be staying with the band, then I kind of started putting my ideas down and just recording any riff ideas that I feel like could be something that could be used in Megadeth.”

He described the collaborative process envisioned by Mustaine: “And by now I have a bunch of riffs and ideas that I’ve gathered. And then Dave told me that he likes to work the way that everybody does their riffs and then at some point we’re gonna get together and then review things and see which riffs are gonna work together and then work out the parts between the riffs to kind of connect things and then that way come up with the skeletons for the songs.”

Mäntysaari expressed his enthusiasm for contributing: “And I’m really looking forward to doing that and hearing how he feels about my ideas as well. But what I’ve done so far is whenever I have a moment to sit down, I usually just record a little video of myself playing a riff idea and then when we have a day off at the hotel, then I would record that properly and then just like have this folder of riffs that we can look into at some point. So, I’m really looking forward to that. And Dave has been really supportive and sounds like he wants to have all the guys’ input on the next album, which is really exciting.”