Megadeth valmistelemassa uutta materiaalia

Yhdysvaltalaisen thrash metal -legenda Megadethin nokkamies Dave Mustaine antoi äskettäin Loudwiren Full Metal Jackie -radio-ohjelmalle haastattelun liittyen yhtyeen suunnitelmiin tämän vuoden osalta ja hän kertookin aloittaneensa uuden materiaalin ideoimisen kitaristi Kiko Loureiron kanssa. Mustainen mukaan yhtye on aikeissa päättää viimevuotisen ”Dystopia”-albuminsa kiertueen tämän vuoden aikana sekä aloittaa uusien kappaleiden kirjoittamisen kiertämisen ohella. Mustaine kommentoi seuraavasti ”Dystopia”-levyn positiivista vastaanottoa sekä tämän heijastumista yhtyeen seuraavaan albumiin:

”The creation process for Dystopia was really invigorating. Going into the studio this time it wasn’t like there was a preconceived notion of what the song should sound like or how many [songs] should be on the record or who should do what solo, where or anything like that. Before, a lot of the records were pretty thought out from beginning to end prior to us even going into the studio. I think it was really liberating the way that we did this record. I think that that’s going to continue on when we go in the studio next time because knowing now … See, the whole thing was going and … to do Dystopia I pretty much was at the point where I figured I don’t care anymore about trying to write stuff for radio because it just backfires.”

”Whenever you try and do something for somebody it usually doesn’t work, it ends up being something that’s hit or miss. At this stage in my life I don’t want to be taking any chances. I want to have fun, I want to write music that I love listening to, and I think that’s what we did with Dystopia. I’m really looking forward to the next time in the studio.”

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Kysytäessä, miten tämänhetkinen poliittinen ilmapiiri on inspiroinut häntä uusien kappaleiden kirjoittamisessa, Mustaine vastasi:

”I’m not really focusing on songwriting right now so I don’t really know how to answer that question. Right now we’re so busy with the new record and the success of the tour and all the awards. Everything that’s come along with this campaign, especially having Kiko [Loureiro, guitar] and Dirk [Verbeuren, drums] in the band now with Chris Adler coming in and being a session drummer for us to help us get the record done.”

”Getting Dirk into the band now it’s great because we feel like we’re a band again. Not that we didn’t with any of the previous guys before but when we had the setback, we had a couple people that needed to be replaced, that’s a difficult thing to do. When you have to decide, “Hey, this is somebody who I’m going to be spending the rest of my life with,” because … I mean, whether you…”

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”Think about it. Soon as you get into a group with another person it’s forever. Whether it lasts forever or not the connection is forever. I think that’s kind of more about what I was focusing on than any kind of politics or anything right now.”

Mustaine kertoi myös Megadethin suunnitelmista keikkailun suhteen:

”We’ve got some dates that are up at our website right now. We have some American dates that we’re looking at in summertime and some at the end of the year too. We can’t really say what they are yet but we’re pretty excited about what this year has for us. This campaign started Jan. 22 of last year and it just continues to chug along picking up momentum. Like I was mentioning earlier with the Clio Award, those are things that we just didn’t expect. It was really exciting for us to be able to get that award.”

”These are things that keep driving us to want to do more. Like, with the Megadeth beer, with the boot camp, with the things that Kiko, and David, and Dirk do with their clinics outside of the boot camp. I know that Kiko does stuff down in South America, a lot of times he’ll do speaking engagements. David Ellefson does a lot of stuff like that too. Dirk’s just kind of coming around to that right now. It’s really exciting to watch those guys grow and develop in these areas too.”

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Hän vahvisti myös ”Dystopia”-kiertueen päättyvän tämän vuoden aikana:

”It’ll end this year, yeah.”

Vaikka Megadeth ei ole vielä varsinaisesti aloittanut uusien kappaleiden kirjoittamista, Mustaine kertoi ideoineensa uutta materiaalia kitaristi Kiko Loureiron kanssa:

”I think the end of … What we’re looking at, we’re trying to start the songwriting process this year while we’re out on the road, which will be good for us to start putting pen to paper and writing stuff. Kiko and I have actually been talking a lot about it the last couple weeks, sending files back and forth and so on and so forth, which is exciting for me because that’s what makes me tick is writing music. When I see new files coming back and forth through my email it’s like, “Yes.” It’s like Christmas.”

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