Dave Mustaine Hopes To Finish New Megadeth Before Tour

Photo Credit: chuck tuck / PR PhotosDave Mustaine hopes to have a couple of new Megadeth tracks out before their European tour with Five Finger Death Punch starts next month — but there’s an even more interesting song in the works.

Mustaine tells Rolling Stone they have nine songs written and demoed with “scratch drum tracks… All we need to do is get in the studio and capture them.” There’s also a slower song that Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson are working on that isn’t quite finished.

Mustaine explains, “I said to him, ‘What was the biggest song that KISS ever had?’ He goes, ‘”Beth.”‘ I said, ‘Yeah, we should write a song like ‘Beth,’ where it’s a ballad and it’s just you singing it. I think you should write a song about what it’s like being in Megadeth with me, because I read all your lyrics, and I know that your lyrics are aimed at me. You’re upset. So why don’t you write about it?’”

If they finish it, it could appear on the band’s next album, or they might hold it for the one after that. In any case, Mustaine says, “It was actually really cool to see Ellefson writing something and hear him singing.”

Megadeth hit the road with Five Finger Death Punch January 20th in Helsinki, Finland.

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