Vlad Busca conducted an interview with Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine prior to the band’s May 22 concert at Arenele Romane in Bucharest, Romania. You can now watch the chat below.
Speaking about the state of the record industry in 2013, Mustaine said: “I think if there is anything that is really bad about the music business, it’s that it’s been infiltrated by people who are businessmen who don’t know anything about music and it’s all about the numbers.”
He continued: “I remember I was in Germany one time and this woman, who was from our label, was calling another band that was coming in ‘product.’ Not people, not the name of the band or anything like that. And I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really kind of impersonal.’ ‘Cause, I mean, this is our art, this is what we believe in; we struggle to translate our feelings and emotions into music and stuff. And sometimes you kind of get lost in the business part of it, because you have so much pressure from someone who works for a label. It’s like: sell, sell, sell, sell. Instead of how it used to be 30 years ago when music business was all one word. Now it’s, like, music, which is us, and business, which is a lot of the people who are board members and stockholders and publicly traded record companies.”
He added: “That’s what I one of the things I love about [Megadeth‘s new record label] Universal is, they spent more money on our first photo shoot than almost all the videos that [Megadeth‘s previous record company] Roadrunner did. One photo shoot! Our last video we did for Roadrunner was one sixth of the money that they spent on our photo shoot. It just shows you how out of place we were there. At the time, though, you figure going back several years, heavy metal was not popular in America. It was about, you’ve gotta be Tayor Swift or you’ve gotta… First off, we were never really in this to be the most popular band in the world. We play this music, ’cause we love this music.”
Megadeth‘s new album, “Super Collider”, is scheduled for a June 4 release via Mustaine‘s new label, Tradecraft, which is distributed by Universal Music Enterprises [UMe].
“Super Collider” is Megadeth‘s first release since the band’s recent split with Roadrunner Records.
Megadeth filmed a video for the title track and first single from the band’s new album, “Super Collider”, on May 10 in the Los Angeles area. California-based model, actress, singer and songwriter Hunter Elizabethwas cast in the lead role in the clip, which she says is “about a high-school couple still loving each other after all the years after graduation, and at the 10-year reunion, both characters find themselves successful (a model and a mathematician) and still very in love.”
“Super Collider” is Megadeth‘s first release since its recent split with Roadrunner Records.
“Super Collider” Tracklist:
1 Kingmaker
2 Super Collider
3 Burn!
4 Built For War
5 Off the Edge
6 Dance In the Rain
7 Beginning of Sorrow
8 The Blackest Crow
9 Forget To Remember
10 Don’t Turn Your Back…
11 Cold Sweat
Upcoming Shows:
May 26 De Oosterpoort Groningen, Netherlands
May 27 Ancienne Belgique Brussels, Belgium
May 29 Fri-son Fribourg, Switzerland
May 31 Auditorio Miguel Rios Madrid, Spain
Jun 01 Parc del Forum Barcelona, Spain
Jun 03 O2 Academy Newcastle Newcastle, United Kingdom
Jun 04 O2 Academy Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom
Jun 05 Manchester Academy Manchester, United Kingdom
Jun 06 O2 Academy Brixton London, United Kingdom
Jun 08 Fiera Milano Live Rho Milan, Italy
Jun 09 Snowhall Parc Amnéville, France
Jul 20 Chippewa Valley Rock Fest Cadott, WI
Aug 10 Parc Jean-Drapeau Montreal, Canada
Sep 03 Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek Raleigh, NC
Sep 05 Bridgestone ArenaNashville, TN
Sep 07 Sprint Center Kansas City, MO
Sep 08 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Maryland Heights, MO
Sep 10 Tower Amphitheater Austin, TX
Sep 12 Mandalay Bay Events Center Las Vegas, NV
Sep 13 San Manuel Amphitheatre San Bernardino, CA
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Video below for: “Kingmaker”
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