Many MEGADETH fans were shocked last month when drummer Shawn Drover and guitarist Chris Broderick nearly simultaneously announced their departures from the band. In his first interview since leaving the band, Broderick spoke with SiriusXM host Jose Mangin about his decision to leave and also announced that he and Drover had formed a new band.

When asked about his future plans, Broderick revealed, “Well, one of the things that I’ve always wanted to do is a solo CD, so I’m definitely gonna be working on that in 2015. But one of the things that I’ve really recently become very excited about is, through talking with Shawn Drover, we’ve talked about how we had all this material that was never gonna get released, all these killer, heavy riffs that we had written and stuff, and so we just decided, ‘Hey, why don’t we put the stuff out? Why don’t we form a band and get out these killer riffs, just to see what people think?’ So we formed a band, we’re working with a killer singer — he’s awesome — and we’ve got record labels that have made some good offers on the table, and we’re really excited about where that’s gonna go.”

Details on the band name and the identity of the singer will be forthcoming according to Broderick.