Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist GLEN DROVER Working On New Album

April 12, 2012

Canadian guitarist Glen Drover (MEGADETH, KING DIAMOND, TESTAMENT, EIDOLON) has issued the following update:

"We started work on the new GLEN DROVER BAND album recently, and have just finished the first track completely. This album will follow the last album's [2011's 'Metalusion'] style, but will contain more metal stuff this time around. There won't be as many covers on this album, but one track that will be featured is a cover of an instrumental song that OZZY OSBOURNE played on the 'Diary Of A Madman' tour before Randy [Rhoads] died. it was never featured on any of the Ozzy albums, but can be found on various bootlegs from that tour. It's a really cool metal/classical piece that they played surrounding Tommy's [Aldridge] drum solo. I extended the track and turned it into a full song. This is the track that we just finished and we are all super happy with the results!

"Aside from that, I pretty much have all the material for this next album in various files in the studio here to work on. All tracks were written by myself, Jim Gilmour and Paul Yee. Some killer shit going on, that I can promise!

"Finally, there have been a lot of people asking me if there will ever be another EIDOLON record, and although I don't see that happening, we are doing something cool with this new GLEN DROVER BAND album as far as EIDOLON goes, which is aside from all the instrumental tracks that will be recorded for the album, I'm having all three past EIDOLON singers do one track each for the album! It's a mix of tracks that were written years ago, but hiding in the song archives in my studio until the other day... I was in one of my many cleaning moods, sorting through stuff and found these lost tracks. WHOA!!!! Very excited about this to say the least, as the tracks are killer!! Also, there maybe a song from the original 'Seven Spirits' album, fully re-recorded with new vocals and lyrics. The re-recording of that album has been in my head for years, as it is one of my fave albums musically. Not sure if that will ever happen, but grabbing a song or two and doing justice to it sounds good to me!"

Drover was replaced in MEGADETH by Chris Broderick, who has previously played with NEVERMORE and JAG PANZER.

Glen's debut solo album, "Metalusion", was released in April 2011 via Magna Carta Records.

On September 25, 2011, Drover took part in a historic performance that was webcast worldwide as part of the "Live At Metalworks" series from Mississauga, Canada.

Glen's "Live At Metalworks" performance will be released as a DVD in June via Magna Carta.

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