MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine has issued the following update from the road in Dortmund, Germany:

"Today I was able to talk with Mike Gitter from Roadrunner records, who has graciously allowed me to make this record and to let me do it without some of the ridiculous things that he was ordered to tell me, and I think we are going to have a really good record.

Lemme see, I sent him the music for Track 2, and he said, "this just got my dick hard," which suggest success. I am really excited about the lyrics and the title that I have chosen for this penultimate offering to Roadrunner.

We are playing tonight in Dortmund, Germany, after a day of go-carting, an evening of Mongolian bar-b-que, and all around socializing with band and crew over the last two days off. I usually do this in the first week or so of every tour to let every one know what I am looking for, what I expect, what I will tolerate, and what I won't.

We have a first rate tour again, and although we have already had one casualty, we have replaced and resumed the race at the pace that only Megadeth and its world famous crew could achieve.

Of course, that is skipping the fact that I crashed my kart yesterday at approximately 25-30 kph and the hard bucket seat cut up along my body to contour me shape and aerodynamically keep the kart as unaffected by the wind or "drag" as it is called. As the three nano-seconds expired from the first impact and my body caroming into the wall with the edge of the seat cutting into my heavy jacket, and making contact against the delicate rib area directly under my arm, about where my elbow hangs.

My initial grunt barely muffled the clear distinct cracking sound of my rib breaking, and the electrical signal that my body felt was excruciating, but nothing as bad as the mental anguish I have put myself through since, every time I think about getting hurt out here. I am always so careful, and if I wasn't so stinking competitive, I wouldn't feel like a used heavy bag right now.

We are doing great with the progress of finishing the writing of the new record out here. I have chosen a working title and I think that it is going to stick, and the record starts out with an instrumental that is very much like 'Into The Lungs Of Hell', and there are ten more songs that are really fantastic. The is one song on here that will probably touch a lot of people; 'The Hardest Part Of Letting Go'.

That's it for today, and to all of the members of the MFC, please check in the club for important information, regarding TheLiveLine and you being invited in to cruise the new beta site and see what you like and what you don't, and look for typos and broken links, etc.

I hope that my ribs will stop hurting soon."