The album will feature two new members for the first time, replacing lead guitarist Chris Broderick and drummer Shawn Drover, who departed in 2014. Instead the album features new guitarist Kiko Loureiro, from the power-metal group Angra, and Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler, who recorded on ‘Dystopia’ but is not a permanent member of the band. The album will also be engineered by Lamb of God producer Josh Wilbur.

“There’s a lot of riffing going on in there, that’s for damn sure,” Dave Mustaine told Revolver when speaking about the new album earlier this year. “There’s a lot of solos, a lot of pounding drums and bass. I knew from the start that I wanted to go back to my roots, and I wanted to make a thrash record.”

Mustaine also talked about the influence of having long term Megadeth fan Chris Adler on the album, as he recalled “there were several times while we were tracking where Chris would say, ‘I think these parts should go like this, because that’s how my Megadeth is.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I like that ‘my Megadeth’ stuff!’”

Megadeth debuted a new song from the album earlier this week, ‘Fatal Illusion’, which showcases those thrashing riffs and Adler’s drumming pedigree. You can listen to the song via Youtube below: