Megadeth, Dave Mustaine: “Luckily the NU metal has gone”

Interviewed by “Lifeminute”, of which he was recently a guest with his wife and family, Dave Mustaine did not use minor terms to cut off the Nu Metal genre, declaring himself happy that he “disappeared”.

The former metallic and leader of the giants of the Thrash Metal Megadeth has moved as the main criticism of the bands ascribable to the Nu Metal genre that of having dominated the world of rock between the nineties and the early 2000s without knowing, according to him, “to do thin”.

“There was a period, in 2000, in which these bands were called, I think, Nu Metal, and they did not do some toilets. And why they did not make aceoli? Why were they not able to do them. And thank goodness that that genre was disappeared. People start to learn to learn to play the solos,” said Mustaine: “I would say that if you are part of a Nu Metal band, you would probably have difficulty. B. Goode ‘.

When he was asked if there were new bands he likes to listen, the 63 -year -old musician did not show himself particularly enthusiastic and said: “I prefer the oldest music.

If I think of new, I must say, that all the best agreements have already been taken. If you think about it, when I started 40 years ago, the music scene was not full of millions of guys who recorded guitar riffs on the computer and then loaded them online. There is good and bad in everything, and when people make music for their art, it’s fantastic. But when these records built at the table start to get out, on which the members of the band have even played, it is a cheat. I prefer the bands that really sound what they do. “

However, the Megadeth frontman spent words of appreciation for David Gilmour of Pink Floyd: “One of my favorite guitarists is one of the simplest in the world: David Gilmour”, he said: “With a single note he manages to do more than some guitarists today manage to do with twelve. It is only a matter of feeling. of your soul, and it’s up to you to play in the right way “.

Interviewed by Rockol last year on the occasion of the Italian date of the “Crush the World” tour, regarding his point of view compared to today’s music, Mustine He said: “Nowadays there are many more different subgenres than metal: there is a metal that we can consider” real “and a metal that is instead created through programs”. And again: “And I am not necessarily referring to artificial intelligence, but to the programs or software that allows you to write and compose songs and music as a person”.