"We right now have a bunch of dates that's gonna take us up until August of next year," Mustaine told 94.5 FMX in Lubbock, Texas recently. "That's when we start recording the next record. We've already started working on writing stuff , and I figure that's a long enough time for us to gestate a record. Sometimes we've been forced to really kind of write on the spot. Right now we've got an amazing luxury to be able to take some time."