Megadeth, Dave Mustaine Done with Mainstream: 'I'm Not Making Another Radio Song, Ever'

Fans got an answer during Mustaine's interview with Full Metal Jackie (via Ultimate-Guitar).

"I'm going in the studio March 2 no matter what," he said. "And the songs that we have right now, we talked to the label, and I said, 'I'm not making another radio song ever.'

"'Cause that's what record companies want. And I think that was the bane of Megadeth's existence. When Countdown to Extinction came out, we had so many radio songs ... From 'Countdown' to 'Youthanasia' to 'Cryptic Writings' to 'Risk' and going down and down and down, it was more radio, radio, radio..."

Mustaine said he still loves that stuff, but he believed that fans were looking for something different.

"They wanna hear stuff like 'The Conjuring,' like 'Set the World Afire,' like 'Devil's Island', stuff like 'Holy Wars,' stuff like 'Take No Prisoners,' he said. "And I get it — I wrote those songs, I can do that in my sleep — but when you're having someone else say, 'This is what you have to do,' either you listen or you don't."

Megadeth know very little about consistency. The metal group has featured more than a dozen different members during its three-decade run. Even Mustaine took roughly three years off when he shut down the band altogether in the early 2000s.

But he's dead set on keeping the name alive for the next album, which will definitely not be radio friendly.

A lot of people don't like (the last) record, because there's so many radio-type songs on it, and I think a lot of that has to do with the producer that you're working with," Mustaine said.

Here's one of those deeper cuts he wants to hearken back to:

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Dave Mustaine, Megadeth