Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine reveled a sneak peek of one of the band’s new songs in a recent Cameo video. The song, “Life In Hell,” is slated to be the second track on the band’s forthcoming album, “The Sick, The Dying And The Dead.” Earlier this month in another Cameo video, Mustaine said the album was “super close” to being released. The band’s follow-up to 2016’s “Dystopia” is due sometime in the spring of 2022.
Previously in an interview with American Songwriter, Mustaine said the new album was assembled from riffs and music he has archived for years. AC/DC did something similar with their 2020 release, “Power Up,” which was complied from archived riffs written by band co-founders and brothers, Angus and Malcolm Young. “A lot of the riffs have been saved over time,” Mustaine said. “A brand new song can be made up of something I wrote when I was 15 or 55. If it’s a good riff, I’ll save it.”
Mustaine also spoke about the new album’s title track saying, “The Sick, The Dying And The Dead” title track is about the plague, but not solely centered around the current pandemic. “The song itself was a historical journey of how the plague started and where it went, starting with rats on ships carrying the disease, coming ashore in Sicily,” Mustaine said.
