MEGADETH Drummer On Making Of 'TH1RT3EN', Return Of DAVID ELLEFSON

August 10, 2011

Art Hates You recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH drummer Shawn Drover. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Art Hates You: What's the status of the new album?

Drover: We are done and just got the master from our producer last night. We were just listening to it this morning and we're really pleased on how it turned out and really excited for everyone to hear it.

Art Hates You: How did Johnny K approach the band versus past producers?

Drover: Well, the only producer I worked with before then was Andy Sneap (who produced "Endgame"),who's a real good friend of mine. Overall, his method on how to do things wasn't really that much different. He was on par, going in there and listening to the plethora of riffs. Johnny would go in and pick and choose the right parts from all of the riffs. Sonically, the music sounds a little bit differently than what Andy did, but you never want two albums, or two songs to sound the exact same.

Art Hates You: How did Dave Ellefson's [bass] return help the band?

Drover: Him and Dave [Mustaine, guitar/vocals] almost can read each other's mind and know what each other is thinking at this point. I think that was the main difference between this and "Endgame". He just approaches things differently and Dave [Mustaine] knows what he wants and Ellefson can read it and handle it differently than former bassists. But it was exciting to watch the two of them together and we hope the fans dig it.

Art Hates You: There are rumors that Gigantour will be coming back in 2012. Any chance of the band doing the "Countdown To Extinction" album in its entirety?

Drover: Gigantour is still being discussed and it will be up to Dave [Mustaine] in the end if it happens or not, but it might. However, I don't think we want to start going down the nostalgia trip if we start doing an entire album again every time we have a 20th year anniversary of an album. I mean, you'll start doing the 20th anniversary of "Cryptic Writings" or "Risk", and that's not something we want to do. Or we could have done "Peace Sells" this year for its 25th anniversary. So it's something we don't want to always do. It was cool to do "Rust In Peace" for the 20th anniversary, but I don't think we're dying to do something like that again.

Read the entire interview from Art Hates You.

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