DAVE MUSTAINE Says New MEGADETH Album Will Be Released In March

Australia's The Metal Forge recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

On Gigantour:

"Gigantour is about the spirit of heavy metal, not just MEGADETH. It's not about Dave Mustaine. It's not about any one band. It's about metal. And the fans understand that. Gigantour has been fantastic and beautiful. We've seen fans sacrificing cattle and young critters, so everything's been perfect. And that Gigantour spirit is so dominant in Australia. Australia's a very hardcore country, with a huge number of metal enthusiasts. They deserve this. It's been a long time coming for fans down there to have a festival that's pure metal, without the bullshit. They need the real deal, and you know what? I'm just the kind of guy to help them get it together. We're getting into partnerships with the promoter down there right now to make Gigantour an annual thing. This is something that's going to continue on every year now. We only have a couple more shows to go and then we're heading down your way. The Big Day Out will soon become the Small Day Out, motherfuckers.”

On MEGADETH's upcoming album, "United Abominations":

"There's a couple of little things that need to be finished, but as soon as they're done, we'll start mixing it. What I can tell you though is that this new album isn't anything like 'The System Has Failed' (2004). I love this album! This album makes my nipples so hard you could use them to cut glass. I'm totally excited by this album. But having said that, I'm not going to tell you what it sounds like, because if I say it sounds like this, you're only going to say that it sounds like that. We should just sit down, have a couple of drinks and listen to it together. It's only then that know what I'm talking about, and I can watch as the album socks you in the face! (Laughs)"

"'United Abominations' will be released in March. I hate those phrases which say sometime early next year, maybe, could, unknown, as of yet and temporarily. If I have to get out there like The Naked Cowboy (who is otherwise known as Robert Burck) in Times Square (New York) and sing in my underwear, this album will be released in March. While there's a lot of girls that would line up to see me singing in my underwear, I would like to avoid that and see the album come out officially."

On the upcoming live effort, entitled "That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires", which will be released on both on CD and DVD through Image Entertainment:

"That comes out soon. The main focus of that is the DVD, not so much the CD. The CD. is purely for the collectors out there who want to have the audio component as well as the visual. The visual show is what it's all about. I think most people want to see what a real MEGADETH audience looks like, and this is it. I mean, I've been bragging about them for the last fifteen years. People want to see who these fuckers are! (Laughs) I can guarantee you that when you see this show, you're going to say, 'Oh my God! Mustaine was right!' We're mental on the stage, right? But those fucking Latinos man, they're on something. There's something in the water! They're passionate. No wonder the Latino women are so fierce."

Read the entire interview at www.themetalforge.com.