Megadeth’s guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari on the band’s new album: “Plan is to finish the album in 2025”

News have been revealed from Megadeth‘s lead guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari on a new upcoming album by the band. In an interview with John The Metal Man on YouTube, Teemu Mäntysaari said:

“Yeah, that’s actually the plan. Right now everybody’s gathering their own riff ideas, and then, at some point, we’re gonna put them together and probably record in Nashville. And the plan is to get the next album done next year.”

Since the last Megadeth album “The Sick, The Dying… And the Dead” published in 2022, the band has seen some changes. Bassist David Ellefson was removed from the band and guitarist Kiko Loureiro had to leave the band due to familial reasons. Finnish guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari then took his place in the American thrash metal band Megadeth.

Teemu Mäntysaari also revealed he had been thinking about writing new music with Megadeth for a while now:

“I’ve got a bunch of stuff. What I do is I just pick up the guitar, I usually improvise and come up with ideas, then I record it on my phone, just the video. And I leave it there maybe for a week or two so I forget it. I wanna forget it, and then when I look back at it, then that maybe inspires me to look at the riff from a different perspective and maybe I get another idea from that. And then I record it down on my computer, laid out with the click track and do double-tracked guitars, and then save it in the folder of ideas. And what we’ve been talking about is that Dave [Mustaine, Megadeth leader] often wants to work in this riff-based idea, not necessarily that everybody brings full songs, but you bring riffs and then we listen to them together and then we pick things that might go together well. And then that’s how the songs start to actually form.”