Dave Mustaine talks new albumand Metallica

Fri 26th Nov, 2010 in International News

In an interview with FasterLouder in the lead up to next month’s No Sleep Til Festival, Megadeth frontman and one of metal’s biggest personalities Dave Mustaine has spoken about the band’s new album and revealed how the ‘Big Four’ tour has brought him closer to ex-bandates and one-time enemies James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.

The full interview will be published on FasterLouder next Monday, but highlights include Mustain discussing the new Megadeth album, which is scheduled for release next year, revealing that it will continue the return to thrash the band started on their last album Endgame: “Right now, we’re in the studio already preparing for the next record and I’ve been going over finals for the last week, just trying to get everything in the right places. I’m super super excited about getting ready to do this next record. It will be more like Endgame and maybe a little bit… maybe sticking in that vein and going a little forward toward what I like. I like playing the more aggressive stuff.”

On a more personal note, the notoriously inflammatory front man also opened up about how great it was to be playing with Metallica again on the ‘Big Four Tour’: “The truth of the matter is, I caused a lot of problems over my career, I made a lot of enemies, and right now I don’t really have any enemies any more, because I’ve spent the latter part of my career being much more grateful for what I have. I have friends again in this business – I never was friendless, but the people that mattered, I didn’t have in my life any more. It’s great to be able to pick up my phone and see a text message from Kerry [King] and it’s great to be able to check my voice mail and have a voice mail from James [Hetfield] or Lars [Ulrich]. ”

”[At the beginning of the tour] I went up and told the guys I didn’t want to try and fix our relationship, I really wanted to have a new one. And that seemed to be agreeable to everyone, and it started off a really great new relationship with everyone.”