MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine spoke to BW&BK recently about a number of topics including the band's forthcoming album, United Abominations, due out on May 15th via Roadrunner. Here is a rare glimpse of Mustaine in domestic-mode:

"Kids are a really big catalyst for life-change, especially when they have to suffer from the bad decisions you make. One time Justice came home and some piece of shit on the school bus had said something to him because the Behind The Music thing had just come out. And the kid said something to Justice like 'your dad's a crack head.' I was never a crack-head. The guys that can afford drugs don't have a drug problem. When you run out and start sucking dick and selling your stuff and other people's stuff, that becomes a problem. I was just a heavy drug user, but that lifestyle has changed for me. But when I saw it affect Justice I called up the other dad and said, 'you know, I think you need to talk to your kid.' Sadly, the kid that had done that, the parents had just divorced. Same thing - he's crying out for attention. He's fighting with another kid, trying to put another kid down so he would fill good. Unfortunately Justice was the kid he was trying to put down because he had his own pain. I'm a product of a divorced family. It's so amazing how all this stuff ties back to lack of love and that's what made this record so fresh with me. I just felt that when Glen (Drover - guitar), Shawn (Drover - drums) and James (Lomenzo - bass) came in, it's the last component for this new incarnation of Megadeth."

A major Megadeth feature is set to run in BW&BK #104 - due out in late May. Watch for more snippets of BW&BK's chat with Dave Mustaine in the coming days.