During a recent interview with John The Metal Mailman, Megadeth guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari offered an update on the band’s next album. According to him, the group are planning to finish the effort in 2025.
Mäntysaari said the following:
“Yeah, that’s actually the plan. Right now everybody’s gathering their own riff ideas, and then, at some point, we’re gonna put them together and probably record in Nashville. And the plan is to get the next album done next year.”
He also added the following when asked if he has been writing riffs for the new material:
“I’ve got a bunch of stuff. What I do is I just pick up the guitar, I usually improvise and come up with ideas, then I record it on my phone, just the video. And I leave it there maybe for a week or two so I forget it. I wanna forget it, and then when I look back at it, then that maybe inspires me to look at the riff from a different perspective and maybe I get another idea from that. And then I record it down on my computer, laid out with the click track and do double-tracked guitars, and then save it in the folder of ideas. And what we’ve been talking about is that Dave [Mustaine] often wants to work in this riff-based idea, not necessarily that everybody brings full songs, but you bring riffs and then we listen to them together and then we pick things that might go together well. And then that’s how the songs start to actually form.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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