Megadeth might not be spring chickens anymore, however test your self with any predictions that the band shall be stopping. In a current interview, Dave Mustaine stated he wasn’t going to be slowing down anytime quickly.

When talking to The SDR Present, Mustaine says that, regardless of being 62 and having been at it for some time, he plans for Megadeth to nonetheless write a number of extra albums, one each couple of years. This could imply he can be within the studio till about 2031, when he turns 70.

“I used to be speaking about that the opposite day. If it takes two years between an album—let’s simply say it does, if I’m in a position to put them out quick—it’ll most likely be three years, however let’s simply say it’s two years. And I put an album out. We’ve nonetheless bought a few yr left on this one, no less than. In order that’ll take us into ’25. We’ve bought all types of anniversary excursions that we’re planning proper now. Rust In Peace is gonna be 25 years previous, I believe, or 30 years previous subsequent yr, and all types of shit like that. After which if we prepare to enter the studio, let’s simply say it takes a yr to do this. That’s ’26. One other two years, that’s ’27, ’28. After which we return into the studio. Once more, we do two extra information. I’ll be 70 by the point ’31 comes round now.”

At all times a little bit of a conspiracy theorist, Mustaine’s conspiracy desires appear to be constructive these days, as he factors to “all of the loopy new developments” in drugs as reasoning that he couldn’t solely dwell so much longer, however keep wholesome and make music for lots of that point.

“Now, do I believe I’ll be capable to proceed making music? Due to the development of contemporary drugs proper now—stuff like medbeds, and the entire loopy new developments that they’ve made for folks with completely different persistent diseases, me with persistent ache and with most cancers… It’s in remission. I don’t act like, ‘Oh, poor me.’ ‘Trigger it’s not ‘poor me’, man. I gained. I fucking gained. I beat most cancers, and I’m gonna hold preventing to maintain it outdoors the door,” he says.

“Say I do three information, and that’s 9 years. It’s gonna be some time from now. I’m realistically considering, what sort of form am I gonna be in my 70s? And I’ve gotta let you know, I really feel actually good proper now. I’m nonetheless rolling and nonetheless coaching and nonetheless doing my cardio and consuming nicely, hardly ingesting in any respect and simply taking actually excellent care of myself. So I believe, except one thing actually fallacious occurs, I see myself dwelling until I’m in my 80s or possibly 90s, if I’m fortunate.”

Whether or not or not he’s right about these developments, a constructive mindset is half the battle for ageing, so we’re keen to guess Megadeth shall be making music for a while.