In a new interview with Rolling Stone Music, MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine talks to Greg Prato about the band's upcoming 13th studio release, TH1RT3EN (tentatively due this fall via Roadrunner Records), and the 25th Anniversary edition of the band's Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? album. An excerpt follows:

Q: How did you find the time to record TH1RT3EN, since Megadeth has been on the road constantly?

A: "We only had a little bit of time to do this, and realistically, expecting a band of our nature, stature, our songwriting process, [and] the availability of all the band members – to try to squeeze a record in two month's timeframe, who were we kidding? But we did it. Man, we worked our butts off on that. I had some seriously long days. There were some days that I woke up at my computer, with an imprint on my face from sleeping on the keyboard."

Q: Does the album title have a deeper meaning besides being the group's 13th release?

A: "I was born on September 13th; this is my thirteenth record. It just seemed like it was the right thing to do to call it TH1RT3EN."

Q: What are some of the song titles?

A: "There's a title track, a couple of songs, there's 'Sudden Death', which was on the Guitar Hero game – that was extremely successful and garnered us another Grammy nomination. Then there was 'Never Dead', which came out for the Kunami video game Never Dead. The record itself will probably be coming out around November 1st."