Megadeth are bringing their ‘Gigantour’ festival trek
back in 2013 and frontman Dave Mustaine confirmed that David Draiman‘s new band
Device will be part of the run this year.
The news came out as Mustaine was speaking with Syracuse
DJ Joe D. on his ‘Saturday Night Scream‘ program on 95X. The conversation
turned to the recent collaboration with Draiman on Megadeth’s upcoming album,
‘Super Collider.’ Mustaine explained, “[We] met when we did the [Rockstar
Energy Drink] Mayhem Festival a couple of years ago. That was the year that my
arm got blown out on the tour again and I finished the tour with just two
fingers … I think that kind of impressed David a little bit. So we kind of
talked a little bit and became friends.”
Mustaine said the fact he’d been using producer Johnny K.
for his new album helped as the knob-turner had worked on some of Disturbed’s
records. He recalls, “The record was done and I was over at his house listening
to the new Device record. I said, ‘Hey, you know what?! Would you be interested
in singing this part at the end of ‘Dance in the Rain’ … and Dave did it, and
I’ve gotta tell you, I think that, knowing how the two artists sound, I don’t
know that the other guy is even capable of touching the performance that
Draiman did. So that was awesome for us. And I was so excited, I asked him to
be on Gigantour this year.”
Mustaine says that while he’s fine with confirming
Device, he’s holding the rest of the bands for Gigantour under wraps. But he
adds, “I think [fans] are gonna be pretty stoked, because each one of the other
bands on there, they’re new bands comprised of a person who was a major
celebrity from a really large band that went on to do something new — another
really good clue for you and your listeners.”
To hear Mustaine’s full interview, check out the audio
player here.
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