Megadethin Dave Mustaine: ”Risk” olisi pitänyt julkaista omana sooloalbuminani

Yhdysvaltalaisen thrash metallin legendan Megadethin kitaristi-laulaja Dave Mustaine on antanut hiljattain haastattelun uDiscoverille, jossa on kertonut vuonna 1999 julkaistun ”Risk” -albumin olleen virhe julkaista Megadethin nimen alla. Mustainen mukaan albumi olisi pitänyt julkaista miehen omana sooloalbumina, jotta se olisi saanut paremman vastaanoton. Voit lukea Mustainen ajatuksia aiheesta tästä:

”We did write some songs with [a] much larger scope in mind, obviously. ”I think if you look at the record ’Youthanasia’ [1994], for example, there was an accompanying DVD that we put out with that record called ’Evolver’, and during ’Evolver’, there was a scene in there — if you have seen that, you may recall — [producer] Max Norman is holding a metronome and he’s counting out beats per minute.”

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”This is what happens when you have a production team and somebody has control over the time and different stuff like that that goes along with creating the songs. Because the BPM [beats per minute] for that record… He had said the key to hit songs is everything being in the 120 BPM range. So it wouldn’t surprise me if you got a metronome and went and listened to ’Youthanasia’ how many songs you would find are in that 120 BPM range. And that’s one of the reasons why, when I went back and remixed those and remastered those records, we reset some of those songs back to their original temps, which a lot of them were a little faster. ’Cause the songs felt better, but when you slowed them down, sure, they got a certain heaviness to them, which was awesome, but there was also that speed complex that you have to add into the equation if it’s MEGADETH music. Thus the backlash with ’Risk’, because people expected that speed and thrashy kind of stuff. If that record would have been called the ’Dave Mustaine Project’, people would have loved it. But because it said MEGADETH, they expected MEGADETH. And that was my mistake; I should have called it a solo record. But I had the band guys on there, which would have been totally disrespectful to do that.”