Megadeth recently announced a North American “Destroy All Enemies” tour featuring support from Mudvanye and All That Remains. The tour starts in early August and runs through the end of September.
In a recent interview with Diario El Salvador, Mustaine was asked what he thought the future of heavy metal is going to look like. “Well, I think as long as people make good records, there’s nothing to worry about,” he said. “It went through a period in the ’90s when a lot of musicians tried to jump into the metal community and say they were metal players and they weren’t, really; they were just kind of normal players, and you could tell, and it really hurt our community. But these things correct themselves all the time, and I’m glad to see the community’s looking strong right now.”
Earlier this year Mustaine gave his views on the current thrash metal genre. “Well, it’s hard to say how I view the genre, because there are so many different subsections of heavy metal,” he told Trece channel in Paraguay. “When it first started, it was hard rock and then heavy metal came, and then The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal came and then there was power metal and speed metal and thrash metal and black metal and white metal and death metal and core metal and true metal. God, how many metals can you possibly have? So for me, what I’m aware of is what Megadeth is doing.”
He also spoke on the longevity of Megadeth saying: “The secret, I think, is being honest with yourself. And I don’t try and act like I’m better than other people, because I know I’m not. I know there’s a better singer out there than me. I know there’s a better guitar player out there than me. So I enjoy what I possess, the gifts I have. I enjoy the friends that I’ve made, and I love my job, so I can’t wait to do it.”
