Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has revealed that he's planning another metal festival, on a similar scale as the band's popular Gigantour.
Mustaine made the revelation in a recent interview on Rock Talk with Mitch Lafon, while discussing his Grammy award-winning band's next studio album. Mustaine said a new Megadeth record should be coming out around the same time the band launches its new venture, next spring.
"We're hoping April of next year," Mustaine said. "We've got a huge festival that we're gonna be announcing...It's really a big deal. It's kind of an equivalent of Gigantour, but it's a much fresher idea."
The new tour will do three stints, he says, including 10-day tours in spring and fall and a weekend venture during the summer.
The next Megadeth album will be the band's 16th studio effort, and the follow-up to 2016's Grammy-winning Dystopia.
Mustaine excitedly teased "a bunch of other really fantastic things" that he couldn't offer many more details on, including a cruise, a "boot camp thing" and a project with Pledge Music.
While Mustaine had hoped to get another run of Big Four shows in before Slayer's retirement, but it appears that ship has sailed. Publicly, the frontman has blamed his former Metallica bandmate and longtime nemesis Lars Ulrich for standing in the way of more Big Four shows.
Photo: Getty Images