Ex-MEGADETH guitarist Jeff Young, who recently joined Kentucky based rockers HYDROGYN, is featured in a new interview with MetalAssault.com. An excerpt is available below.

Q: How does Hydrogyn's music compare to whatever you've previously done in your career?

Jeff Young: "The new album launches from the classic Hyrogyn sound that they established, but at the same time it has totally been redefined and as I mentioned before, fans of Megadeth, PANTERA and stuff are going to like a lot of the album. Because James (Lomenzo / bass) and I are in the band, there is going to be that aspect of chops-oriented playing. The best thing about is Julie (Westlake) is probably one of the very few singers I've found in rock that can just really sing anything in any range. She doesn't lose her voice. She's got perfect pitch and you and I both know from seeing rock concerts that there are lot of rock singers who may sound great on the album but when you see them live, they just can't pull it off. So that's one of the best things, is to have the confidence to get up on stage and do a two-hour show knowing that your singer is going to be in tune on every note, she's going to sound powerful and not lose her voice half way into the show. For us the main thing is that she came from a country background but she can sing anything from country to AC/DC, including Brian Johnson and Bon Scott era. She's covered Ronnie James Dio and David Coverdale songs in the past. So she just has a really powerful voice."

"I've worked with probably four or five amazing female singers in my life. She's definitely the cream of the crop. The other cool thing as far as Jeff (Westlake) and my guitar playing goes, when you listen to a lot of two-guitar bands, sometimes when they're playing the lead, you can distinguish who is playing it. But a lot of times when they are playing rhythm, you can't really tell who's doing what or who's style is what. A lot of times they play the same part. One thing Jeff and I are concentrating on is how our styles compliment and contrast each other. Even during the rhythm you can definitely tell who's doing what and there's always a counter point in our guitar work, a conversation going back and forth. It's very natural. We don't actually sit down and work out the parts per se. It's just an intuitive thing that we have between us. If you see the 'Gold Dust Woman' video on youtube, that was the first time we played together. We met the night before that. We never rehearsed the song but you can hear how the guitars go back and forth and compliment each other. We kind of started from that night. It kind of set the benchmark and the template. From there, in every song we've made it critical that our guitar playing has that counterpoint with each other."

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