Metal Anarchy

During an X Spaces chat, Megadeth guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine shared some insight into the band’s new album sessions. According to him, the group already have “some really great ideas” in the works.

Mustaine said the following:

“Right now I’m in the studio working with [engineer] Chris Rakestraw. And everybody else is gone. Teemu [Mäntysaari, MEGADETH guitarist] is in Switzerland and James [LoMenzo, MEGADETH bassist] and Dirk [Verbeuren, MEGADETH drummer] are in Los Angeles. So it’s just me here by myself with Chris. And Chris leaves tomorrow to go on a vacation, and I’m working up to the last second today to get as much done as I can before he takes off because we won’t be starting again until he returns somewhere around New Year’s Day. And at that point, it’s only a matter of a couple weeks before everybody converges on to the studio. And for that I’m pumped. And you guys are gonna be excited.”

He also added:

“It’s been frustrating, because I wanna be farther along than I am right now. But that’s quite all right.

When you write original music, you’ve always gotta start at the first step. And that’s what I’ve been doing my whole career. So, before we did this, I had all four of us listen to the entire catalog — every single song; 205 songs — and I wanted to make sure they knew chord progressions, lyric patterns, all kinds of stuff like that, so that they would hear tempos and starts and stops and everything to help them be able to songwrite and contribute also. And it’s been really great because Teemu is contributing, Dirk is contributing, like last time, James contributed back in the day and he’s got more stuff coming on this record.

It was funny because sometimes when you think, ‘Ah, I don’t really know that that riff is that good,’ and then you go back and you listen to it another day and say, ‘Yeah, that’s pretty cool.’ ‘Well, you already listened to it and you didn’t like it.’ ‘What?’ That kind of thing. So, we went through a bunch of riffs over and over and over and over and over again, and so far we’ve got some really great ideas we’re working on.”

[via Blabbermouth]