“We Are A Band Once more”

Dave Mustaine and his Megadeth bandmates welcomed guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari into the band final 12 months and it appears that evidently he is right here to remain. Talking to the Loudwire Nights podcast (transcribed by Blabbermouth), Mustaine stated that Mäntysaari is an ideal match for the band, going as far as to match their chemistry to the interval during which legendary guitarist Marty Friedman was a member of Megadeth.

 “Properly, we’re a band once more. It does not really feel like me and a few facet gamers or some session guys. Not that it felt like that with any of the earlier lineups, however that was one of many fears that I had. I really feel like Kiko [Loureiro] did us a very large courtesy by serving to us discover Teemu as a result of with Kiko needing to step down… I assumed I used to be gonna end my profession out with Kiko, and when issues got here up with him, he could not tour anymore as a result of he wanted to be residence for his children. So I see he is touring once more, which I am completely happy that he is nonetheless enjoying. However he needed to go residence. And when he did, he launched us to Teemu. And it was a good nearer connection between me and Teemu than Kiko and I had. We’ll [Kiko and I] at all times be buddies, however this new relationship I’ve is — it harkens me again to the times once we had Marty Friedman within the band and the 4 of us truly felt like a band.”

That is fairly excessive reward coming from Mustaine however the chemistry have to be actual since he is already interested by engaged on a brand new file to observe up 2022’s The Sick, the Dying… and the Useless! It might be the primary ‘Deth file to characteristic Mäntysaari.

“We’re not gonna be taking as lengthy in between choices as we did this time. There have been loads of setbacks — the pandemic, the blockade, you identify it. It is simply so many issues that went on. [My throat] most cancers therapy, the lineup change, having to start out from scratch with a brand new bassist. And the most cancers therapy additionally was tough on the blokes as a result of they have been watching me undergo all these things. And someday, I’d be seemingly regular. The opposite day, I’d be so medicated that I could not keep awake. And that was laborious for the blokes to see. I had two days that I used to be actually, actually sick that I threw up. Out of the entire therapy, I assumed that was actually good. I used to be combating with the whole lot, each ethical fiber of my being, to make it possible for I stayed within the sport, as a result of they stored saying time and again, ‘Should you do not eat, for those who shed extra pounds, we’re gonna put a tube in you.’ And I obtained so critical. And we began to select up the tempo once we have been doing the [The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!] file.”