Dave Mustaine Talks About His Chemistry With Teemu Mantysaari

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JAKARTA - In a new interview with Shaggy from radio stations 94.9 and 104.5 The Pick in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine spoke about adding a new tour guitarist Teemu M seriousntysaari (Wintersun, Smackbound). Teemu replaces guitarist Kiko Loureiro, who missed Megadeth's "Crush The World" tour to stay at home with his children in Finland.

"People don't believe in what's happening right now because we have excellent chemistry with Teemu," Dave started.

According to Mustaine, Megadeth was able to change their setlist slightly due to the change of guitarist.

"We have a lot of songs from our catalog that we're playing, a lot of new songs too," he said. We can add a lot of songs because Teemu is a metal fan. Kiko doesn't grow big by baptized metal..." continued Dave.

"Like the show we did a few nights ago, we opened with Hangar [18] then we followed up with Mechanix. We've never done that before, so it's a pretty tough start. And we've added a second song from a new album with Soldier On!, and we're getting ready to add a third."

"But the [this] tour will end in a few days, and the next thing, of course, is preparation for next year. We have another very good tour in America [to come]," concluded the former Metallica personnel.