The timeline for the next Megadeth album is slowly coming together with vocalist/guitarist Dave Mustaine revealing some details recently to Full Metal Jackie. Loudwire shared the below transcription of their latest chat, with Mustaine offering the following of the band’s future plans:
“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.”
He went on to mention that the “Dystopia” album cycle will end later this year and went on to state:
“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.”
