Kentucky-based rockers HYDROGYN - now featuring ex-MEGADETH members Jeff Young (guitars) and James Lomenzo (bass) - as part of the new line-up, have launched an official Facebook page. Click here to check it out.

BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai recently caught up with Young and Hydrogyn guitarist / founder Jeff Westlake. An excerpt from the story is available below:

Stylistically Westlake and Young are very different players. Westlake established his rock-based metal approach on Hydrogyn’s Bombshell and Deadly Passions albums, while Young has his brief thrash history and catalogue of world music and classical guitar as a calling card. Hard to believe they’ve found a middle ground, but the current songwriting binge is proof enough.

Young: “First off, after working with Shitstaine I wasn’t going to play with any guitar player that had an ego. That’s why I worked with Badi Assad, and it was a great four year process that gave us a #1 album on our own. Playing with Jeff, we both came in with no ego.”

Westlake: “I think that’s why it works, but the biggest part of that has nothing to do with what Jeff is or what I am. It comes down to what kind of a person he is. I knew from talking to Michael what Jeff was like, just as he found out through Michael what I was like. We used our connection there to feel out the situation over the last couple years, and I don’t think we even realized that’s what we were doing.”

And in case anyone is in a frame of mind to dismiss the new Hydrogyn as a Megadeth has-been novelty act…

Westlake: “This is not a one-off. We plan on doing this for a very long time.”

Young: “No one that’s contributing tracks has a different attitude about that. James and Joe have heard the old Hydrogyn stuff, they’ve heard Julie’s solo stuff, and James said straight out that he doesn’t take any project that he doesn’t want to be a part of. Just from speaking with him, James is very excited about having a singer for probably the first time in his career that’s a real motherfucking singer that can sing anything.”

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