RockEyez.com recently caught up with WARMACHINE vocalist/guitarist Joe Di Taranto. The following is an excerpt from the interview.

Q: Tell me your feelings about being screwed over by Dave Mustaine (MEGADETH). You guys won the poll on theliveline.com to open for Megadeth in Europe with 21% of the votes that was posted and got royally screwed by Megadeth.

Joe Di Taranto: "It wasn’t a good feeling obviously and it certainly didn’t get any better when his 'people' informed me that he was threatening to sue me for telling people the truth about what happened. The whole thing was just one big disappointment. We were so excited to do the tour. Not only because we were such huge Megadeth fans, but also because this was a great opportunity for us to finally go to Europe and play for all our fans over there. I don’t think things were done the right way or handled professionally whatsoever. We ended up winning the contest before Christmas and didn’t hear a word from anyone in the Megadeth camp. I contacted Shawn Drover (Megadeth drummer) who is a friend of mine and asked him if he had heard anything. He didn’t have a clue what was going on. I told him that either way, we were ready to go and had everything we needed to do the tour. I said the same to Dave McRobb (Megadeth webmaster). After almost three weeks of wondering what was going on, we came home after a show in Toronto and read on the Megadeth website that they picked the band that came in 3rd place. That’s how we found out. Not the greatest news in the world, but I was OK with it. I figured, 'Well that’s Dave’s decision.' The fans on the other hand were NOT happy. Then I read Dave Mustaine’s statement about Warmachine not having the 'means or any way to do the European tour' and I was just appalled. It was completely untrue and I had to make sure people knew the real truth. So I put out my statement and Dave didn’t like that at all.

Mostly, I feel sorry for the fans and everyone that voted for us to win. They put the time in to vote, ended up winning, and got nothing for it. That’s the saddest part. It’s disappointing and not fair at all to them."

Go to this location for the complete interview.