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During a question-and-answer session preceding Megadeth‘s performance at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on September 24, band founder Dave Mustaine affirmed his commitment to the declaration that the group’s 17th studio album, which reached the top of the charts, will be their final release, as per Blabbermouth. He also indicated that there remains a possibility for the dissemination of additional Megadeth material at a later date. Regarding the band’s creative methodology, Mustaine noted that they typically approach recording sessions with a predetermined plan, although this plan is subject to change.
We’ve always gone into the studio [with] songs [prepared], but if you’re a writer, you’re going to write, and you go to the studio and you’re making a record, it’s not easy to just turn off the creative juices, you know? I can’t tell you how many megabytes of riffs there are at the end of our songs, because we’ll be listening [back] to the song and spur on a new idea. And I will say or the guys will say, ‘Scroll to the end — speed to the end of the song,’ and then [we] put the new idea at the end of the song. Once the whole record’s done, that’s when we go back and find all those pieces. So, at some point, we’re going to go back with this record and see all the half-songs that are there and see what we have. And maybe we’ll end up discovering some new songs that are left over from the sessions.
He further clarified that any future material released by the band would originate from previously recorded sessions.
We have these portions of material that are at the end of several tracks over the various records,” he said. “We can go back and see if there’s anything there, because fuck, if there’s, like, half of ‘Holy Wars’ and a half of ‘Black Friday’ there, I’m going to release that. But as far as the studio is concerned, my hand… that lump in the middle of my hand, it’s getting worse, and eventually, that’s going to be an impasse. When that date comes, I’m going to get the surgery, and either it’s going to work or it’s not going to work. And if it doesn’t work, then I had a fucking great run.
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