MEGADETH frontman/founder Dave Mustaine is featured in a new interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com. An excerpt is available below.

UG: Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying was recently reissued. What does that mean to you?

Mustaine: "It’s very rewarding for me on a lot of different fronts. One, I survived and two, there were just so many prophetic lyrics that have been written by this band over the years. It’s not in any way gratifying for me to sit back and say, 'God, I told you all this stuff was gonna happen. Look at the world—it’s gone to shit right now.' It doesn’t make me feel good at all but on the other hand it does kinda say, 'If I wanna find out what’s going on in the world, maybe there’s some merit in listening to heavy metal bands ‘cause maybe they have an angle I may not be aware of.'"

UG: But you’ve always insisted Megadeth was not a political band.

Mustaine: "People have usually said we’re a thinking man’s band and I thought that was probably the most flattering description of us. I’d heard state-of-the-art speed metal band and a lot of really clever monikers. But thinking man’s band was really to the point when it came down to what I was writing lyrically."

UG: You’ve always touched on a lot of different elements in your lyrics.

Mustaine: "Lyrics are really important if you’re writing about stuff that’s really personal to you and other people can’t relate with. And you run the risk of people saying that your music is really stupid."

UG: When you remixed the first eight Megadeth albums, did you gain any insight into your own legacy?

Mustaine: "It was really fun to go back and listen to all of that stuff. You got to relive it and sometimes it was kind of a drag because you’re going back to that moment and there were times where it was difficult. There were parts that were really not appealing to have to live through again. There were things I did and the other guys had done that just made it not really fun to be around everybody because we kind of lost sight of what was going on. We kinda lost the plot."

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