Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine has been following up his nice words about Metallica with some more nice words about new Megadeth shredder, Chris Broderick.

In a blog on Megadeth’s official site, Mustaine has said: “Chris Broderick turned 39 yesterday, and I am so proud of this guy. I mean, I watch him play on stage and everyday he gets better and better. We are aware of the reviews, and we still are trying to have a perfect show, so if you think that you have seen a good one, just wait until he starts to feel 100% and then after that, once I start to feel we are at 100%.”

“I am going on record and I am saying unequivocally that Chris is THE BEST GUITARIST Megadeth has ever had. And the real talented musicians in Megadeth’s alumni will agree, he is an absolute monster. I mean, he plays the catalog better than anyone did. Jeff Young never wanted to do Chris Poland’s stuff, and so on, and so on, until the last guitarist we had before we disbanded over my arm injury.”

“It’s funny, because just when I think he can get no more outrageous, or any more thrilling with the guitar solos, he comes up with something really beautiful like Marty Friedman would do (he has Marty pretty well down pat), and then goes into the GIT styles that Jeff Young did, yet, there is still such a freshness to his playing and he is so raw, it’s like having a new prize bull. And even though he ain’t a such a young bull, he’s definitely an old bull like me.”

Megadeth are continuing to work on their brand new album with producer Andy Sneap.