MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine conducted an interview with Norway's Lydverket blog back in August, in which he discussed his short stint in METALLICA.

Mustaine now comments on the interview, via the Megadeth Forums:

"Droogies!

These people are scum.

Don't listen to their interviews, don't buy their shit magazine, don't go to their pathetic garbage website. And stand by because as soon as I see that interviewer again, I am going to put him in a hospital. That is a promise. I will find him too.

Again, set up by Roadrunner and left hanging by the label. Too bad the promo person was not there like I asked so this shit wouldn't happen.

Thanks for nothing RR,

Grrrrrr!"

Jon Wiederhorn from Noisecreep.com is reporting:

With the release of his upcoming biography Hello Me ... Meet The Real Me, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine hopes readers will gain a better understanding of his turbulent past and develop a new appreciation for the man who has, at times, been one of the most crucified figures in metal.

"It's easy to hate somebody that you don't like," he tells Noisecreep. "But you know what? People don't know who I am. Who they think I am is not really who I am, because they guy that they've continued to vilify in the press, that guy's been gone a long time. And I think anyone who reads this book will see that."

Mustaine worked on his book for much of the last year with co-writer Joe Layden, who also wrote The Last Great Fight, about the legendary 1990 boxing match between James 'Buster' Douglas and Mike Tyson, in which Douglas scored a tenth-round knockout. The book is tentatively scheduled for release in late 2010. Like many musician autobiographies, Hello Me ... Meet the Real Me provides an honest, confessional perspective on life on the road and in the spotlight. But unlike some, it's not simply a tell-all story of decadence and debauchery.

"That stuff is mundane," Mustaine says. "We come to expect that from rock stars, so why would I talk about it? Everybody knows it happened. I want to talk about things that are way more important. There's stuff in there about how the band was formed, why I chose to sing, how the different band members came and went, how different songs were written, stuff that happened through the addictions and rehabs. And when I got done reading it for the first time, when I closed the last page I actually had tears in my eyes because somebody had finally gotten who I am as a person in print."

Read the entire interview here.