Adrian Garro at Rock Cellar Magazine recently caught up with MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Rock Cellar Magazine: You’re playing a special gig with the San Diego Symphony on April 12. How did that come about?

Dave Mustaine: "Basically…Megadeth has a lot of classical influences, I think all great heavy metal bands do. I think it became really obvious how classically influenced metal was. For us, we have a great opportunity to show our fans what ‘classical’ is, and also to show classical fans what ‘metal’ is.

You remember when we were kids, watching movies and stuff. As soon as things start to get scary, what happens? Classical music in the background changes, and it keeps you moving, and feeling, you know?

What I said was, ‘I wanna do the songs that play right when Snow White is about to get poisoned, right when Bambi’s mom is going to get shot.’ It’s always the scary part in the movies."

Rock Cellar Magazine: That’s a good point.

Dave Mustaine: "It’s a long answer to a very simple question, but there’s just so much that can be said to the question. You can tell when someone’s gonna die in the movies – when the music changes!"

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Mustaine will be a featured soloist with the San Diego Symphony on April 12th. The classical special concert, billed as Symphony Interrupted, will take place at Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego, California.

Mustaine previously checked in with the following: “My trusty warhorse and I are off to start the Symphony Interrupted rehearsal.”

Ken-David Masur, Grammy-nominated producer and associate conductor of the San Diego Symphony, and Ann Spira Campbell, deputy general director of the San Diego Opera, spoke to the Valley News about Symphony Interrupted.

Masur said “We will perform the Roman Carnival overture by BERLIOZ to set (Mustaine) up as a soloist, and he will come out like all the other great soloists in the world come up on stage, and then we will perform VIVALDI’s Four Seasons. It was clear to me that (Mustaine) sees himself as a musician in the whole sense and actually it’s been also very humbling that he would like to perform with the symphony.”

Campbell said: “When I met Dave in person I saw the most talented, incredible human being – someone with 5 million Facebook followers who appeals to a younger generation. You have a real leader here – someone the younger generation looks up to as an edgy artist. To be a draw for the younger generation is too beautiful of a storm to pass up."