Former MEGADETH guitarist Glen Drover released his solo debut, Metalusion, on April 5th via Magna Carta. Drover is featured in a new interview with Montreal-based CHOM FM's Metal File, recorded on the day of release. Check it out here.

Drover recently spoke with BW&BK; about the new record. An excerpt from the story is available below:

“I called the album Metalusion because it’s a little bit metal, and it’s got these hard-edged fusion influences in there. With Jim (Gilmour) coming from SAGA, the tunes that he wrote are geared in that progressive Saga-ish vein. There’s definitely a metal thing going on because of my playing, but we took different influences and style and brought them all together. As a whole I think the material is really cohesive, which is something I’m really happy about. It’s all about the music and being very self-indulgent in the writing. That’s really where it comes from. Getting hooked up with a decent record deal is the icing on the cake.”

Metalusion is earmarked as a Glen Drover solo album, but he considers it a group effort. A recently launched Facebook page under the Glen Drover Band banner, featuring a complete line-up and bio, drives the point home.

“They’re all cool guys. There are no egos, there’s no bullshit. These guys are doing it for the love of the music and there’s no ‘God, I hope this is going to pay off…’ attitude. Jim submitted some ideas which I formed into songs. Some of the tracks were written half by me, half by him. Same thing with Paul. All three guys definitely put their flavour into the music in terms of their performances. I let them do their thing and it turned out perfect. These guys are so good… everything they sent me was fucking cool right off the bat. It was really exciting to be sending out these song ideas and then everyone else adding to them. Yeah, it was my baby in the end, but I look at the album as more of a band effort, definitely.”

Go to this location for the complete story.

The Metalusion tracklist is as follows:

'Ground Zero'

'Frozen Dream'

'Egyptian Danza'

'Colors Of Infinity'

'Illusions Of Starlight'

'Don't Let The World Pass You By'

'Mirage'

'Ascension'

'The Purple Lagoon'

'Filthy Habits'

Metalusion is now available via iTunes at this location.

Go to Drover's official Facebook page here.