Vocalist Chuck Billy Confirms Look of Nightwish’s Ground Jansen on New Testomony Album
In a contemporary interview with Paul Salfen of AMFM Mag, Testomony frontman Chuck Billy shared some lovely thrilling updates at the development of the band’s extremely expected new studio album. The document, which is the follow-up to their significantly acclaimed 2020 liberate “Titans Of Introduction“, sounds adore it’s shaping as much as be a sexy important milestone within the iconic thrash steel band’s already mythical occupation.
Billy showed that the recording classes are neatly underway, and fanatics can be expecting the similar stage of depth and craftsmanship that Testomony is understood for. The band continues to paintings with depended on collaborator Juan Urteaga, who co-produced “Titans Of Introduction” and likewise lent his experience to “Darkish Roots Of Earth” (2012) and “Brotherhood Of The Snake” (2016). Urteaga’s involvement guarantees that the brand new album will keep true to Testomony’s vintage sound whilst exploring new crushing, sonic territories.
Chuck mentioned (as transcribed by way of BLABBERMOUTH.NET)”We’re virtually executed recording presently. We completed, I’d say, 3 quarters of the recording earlier than we left for Europe. And now we have a three-week destroy now. And Steve‘s [DiGiorgio, Testament bassist] within the studio completing bass and Eric‘s [Peterson, Testament guitarist] completing up probably the most rhythm guitars, however out of the 11 songs, I already tracked 8 of ’em. So I simply have a pair extra songs to sing.
“We have now any other destroy after this U.S. excursion in November. We’ll end up all of the backing vocals and anything else that must be — after you have to reside with it, which is one thing great. We by no means in reality get to reside with the track after recording. ‘It’s recorded. Right here it’s. Let’s cross. It’s executed, written in stone.’ Which is sweet, is now we in reality get to reside with it out at the street and speak about it in combination and say, ‘Whats up, what if we did this or what if we attempted that?’
“And we’ve already got here up with such a lot choice stuff to check out now. Like this week, Friday, I’m going in and I’m gonna take a look at some new issues on some vocal verses. We’re speaking about tones of guitars and bringing in some string sections.”
Chuck went on to show the semblance of Nightwish singer Ground Jansen at the album, pronouncing: “In this document, I don’t wanna say the phrase ‘ballad’, however we wrote a slower tune like we had again within the ’80s and ’90s that we wrote in this document. And it’s in reality superior, in reality just right. We’re gonna herald a visitor vocalist, Ground Jansen from Nightwish. She’s gonna sing on it with me. And we’re gonna installed some string segment into the tune.
“We’re no longer afraid to take the ones probabilities the place numerous bands criticize you, like, ‘Oh, we don’t write ballads. ‘What are you doing that [for]?’” he defined. “However you already know what? At this level in our lives and occupation, we’re writing to make us glad at first and what feels just right, what feels proper, and this tune simply felt proper presently to more or less do that once more.”
Testomony guitarist Alex Skulnick not too long ago sat down with the Not anything Surprising podcast and mentioned the album’s standing, pronouncing: “The method has began. It in fact began remaining 12 months. Eric Peterson and I — he’s the band’s founder and the opposite guitarist — we began exchanging concepts and dealing on track remaining 12 months.
“After which generally, he and I can get in combination. He’ll paintings with the drummer. We have now this new drummer, Chris Dovas, who’s in his mid-20s and simply sounds superb. He’s the fitting age — the age you must be to play drums in this sort of track. And it’s numerous a laugh operating with him. So we’re on the level now the place drums had been recorded, some guitar portions had been recorded. We’re operating on vocal concepts.
As Testomony enters its subsequent bankruptcy, Chuck Billy and his bandmates— Skolnick, guitarist Eric Peterson, bassist Steve Di Giorgio, and drummer Chris Dovas (not too long ago becoming a member of as a full-time member)—are in a position to as soon as once more kick some critical thrash steel posterior with their uncompromising sound and constant power.
Keep tuned for extra updates at the upcoming album, and get ready your self for any other sonic attack from probably the most biggest thrash steel bands in historical past.
