If you happen to be a part of Megadeth’s Cyber Army fan club, then you might have already heard the big news: Megadeth is working on a new album.
The announcement was later posted on the band’s subreddit (as reported on by Blabbermouth.net), saying that Dave Mustaine, the band’s frontman, was “moving to the studio” so he could work on the album “for the next six months.” Apparently, a new album has been a point of discussion amongst the bandmates for a while now, evidently not long after the release of their last album, The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!, back in 2022. Since then, they’ve been busy touring⸺rather expensively, one might note⸺so it isn’t as though they’ve had a lot of time to really hunker down and make some magic happen.
“Yeah, actually, already a while back Dave started talking about making the next album and kind of starting to do pre-production,” said Teemu Mäntysaari, the band’s new guitarist, in reference to the record’s development. I kind of started writing down my ideas and simply recording any riff ideas that I feel may be used in Megadeth as soon as he suggested that, and kind of before that anyway, once it was obvious that I would be sticking with the band. And by this point, I’ve collected a number of riffs and ideas. View Mäntysaari’s one-on-one interview with mxdwn here to learn more.
