MEGADETH guitarist Chris Broderick is featured in a new interview with FullMetalRock.com discussing a variety of subjects including Megadeth's support acts on their recent North American tour, the upcoming American Carnage tour, and the guitarists that have preceeded him. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Dave Mustaine keeps saying in his interviews that you are the best guitarist ever to have played in Megadeth. What is going through your mind when he says stuff like that?

Chris: "Two things, one is that its so awesome that he would say something like that and the second thing is 'Oh crap, I have to live up to that.' So it's humbling and at the same time I guess its very encouraging in a sense. But ultimately its for you guys, the fans to decide and hopefully you feel the same!"

Q: Of all the great Megadeth guitarists there have been [Jeff Young, Chris Poland, Marty Friedman, Al Pitrelli and Glen Drover] which styles were the most challenging to learn?

Chris: "I mean, they are all challenging in their own way. I would say the most foreign style was actually Poland because he has all these chromatic passing tones within pentatonics and that's always an area that I have kind of strayed away from, until now. His was challenging in the sense that it was most fundamentally different from what I do. Friedman, his stuff is challenging because he just has this corky vibe in his rhythm sense and stuff like that. Obviously he has got some technique behind his playing too. Drover has got some good technique. When I play 'Washington Is Next' I always make sure that I go over that solo a couple of times before we play it on stage. So that is another technical solo to do. So they are all different in their own way. It's been eye opening for me too [learning their styles] because it only makes me a better player to expand my palette by learning that stuff."

Go to this location for the complete interview (scroll down).

Confirmed dates for the American Carnage tour with SLAYER and TESTAMENT are as follows:

January

18 - WaMu Theatre - Seattle, WA
19 - Memorial Coliseum - Portland, OR
21 - Cow Palace - San Francisco, CA
22 - Long Beach Arena - Long Beach, CA
23 - Dodge Theatre - Phoenix, AZ
25 - Magness Arena - Denver, CO
26 - Tingley Coliseum - Albuquerque, NM
27 - El Paso Coliseum - El Paso, TX
29 - Verizon Wireless - Houston, TX
31 - Municipal Auditorium - Nashville, TN

February

1 - Gwinnett Arena - Duluth, GA
2 - Broadbent Arena - Louisville, KY
4 - Roy Wilkins Auditorium - Minneapolis, MN
5 - UIC Pavilion - Chicago, IL
6 - Cobo Arena - Detroit, MI
9 - Chevrolet Theatre - Wallingford, CT
11 - Izod Center - East Rutherford, NJ
13 - Susquehanna Center - Camden, NJ
14 - Tsongas Arena - Lowell, MA
16 - Pavillon de la Jeunesse - Quebec City, QC
18 - John Labatt Centre - London, ON
19 - Air Canada Centre - Toronto, ON
20 - Bell Centre - Montreal, QC
22 - Moncton Coliseum - Moncton, NB
23 - Metro Centre - Halifax, NS