MEGADETH drummer Shawn Drover spoke with Aaron Willschick from Puregrainaudio.com recently about a number of topics including the band's upcoming album, Endgame, which is due on September 15 through Roadrunner Records. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Puregrainaudio.com: Can you let us in on any news about the new album's sound or what we can expect?

Drover: "Well it’s completed, the tracks are recorded and it’s being mixed and mastered as we speak. It’s that close to being one hundred percent done and then you know we deliver it to the record company and all of that stuff. What does it sound like? You know, to me, it sounds like a good solid Megadeth metal record you know. From what I’m hearing, there seems to be a little bit for everybody you know, a lot of different elements that Megadeth has done in the past and um, I think a lot of fans are really going to dig it. Whether you’re a fan of heavy, fast, thrashy stuff or more mid-tempo stuff or slower stuff whatever it is, slower or heavier stuff, it’s got a little bit of everything in there."

Puregrainaudio.com: What’s perhaps different about this new forthcoming record compared to your last record United Abominations?

Drover: "It’s just, you know like any other Megadeth record, not two Megadeth records sound the same. You can’t name two Megadeth records that sound similar can you? I really think that this is just another offering from the band, you know, um it’s just got a lot of great metal songs on it, sonically I think it sounds amazing, the songs are really well arranged... It’s a heavy record so uh, I think it’s great so hopefully a lot of people will share that opinion, but that remains to be seen. You know again, I don’t like to refer it to any other record, you gotta keep moving, you can’t rely on the past, you gotta keep moving forward. So all I can say is it’s a good, solid, sonic metal record, it’s a good record."

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