TESTAMENT singer Chuck Billy has showed that the band are recently within the studio recording their long-awaited new studio album
You might recall how again on April 28, TESTAMENT drummer Chris Dovas posted a photograph to social media of his drum equipment within the recording studio which incorporated the caption, “It’s going down”. Smartly, simply in the future later, Chuck Billy additionally shared Dovas‘s put up and incorporated how personal caption, which learn: “New Album Recording underneath means. Chris is killing it. Beware kiddos”.
Again in January, TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick instructed 96.7 KCAL-FM radio display “Stressed In The Empire”, concerning the growth of the inventive procedure for the follow-up to 2020’s “Titans Of Advent” album: “Smartly, we were given behind schedule a bit of bit by means of the truth that 2020 principally didn’t exist [due to the coronavirus pandemic]. It’s a 12 months that went away.
“After which there was once such a lot traveling to make up for. And for roughly a 12 months of that, we had Dave Lombardo [ex-SLAYER] on drums, which was once improbable. And he’s grow to be a really perfect buddy and a really perfect musician, however he’s additionally unfold very skinny in many various bands. And now we’ve got Chris Dovas [playing drums with us]. And he’s a man sufficiently old to be any of our sons. However he’s simply implausible. He in reality brings the precise power. I imply, he brings the power that the track had within the early days. So, yeah, we’ve been operating with him on new subject material.
“I do know Eric‘s [Peterson, TESTAMENT guitarist] been getting in conjunction with him. Eric has been at the East Coast a few occasions and we’ve gotten in combination and hashed out subject material. So between their classes and my classes and the recordings that we have got, there’s a large number of sketches which can be completed on virtual audio workstations. There’s so much — there’s a large number of stuff. I made an inventory and there’s nearly a few dozen sketches that simply want to be consolidated and organized. [We have to] to find the most productive portions, expand them a bit of extra, upload vocals, but it surely’s undoubtedly neatly on its means.”
Skolnick additionally went on to elucidate that that there’s recently no timetable for the real launch date of the brand new TESTAMENT LP. “You’ll be able to’t rush it,” he defined. “I believe this band discovered very early on, you’ll be able to’t rush it. Like the days up to now that the band form of rushed to place out a recording, it by no means felt utterly ample. So infrequently it takes longer than it will have to, however you’ll be able to all the time depend on a just right outcome.”
Again in July 2023, Peterson reported that he and Dovas had spent a while operating at the preliminary classes for TESTAMENT‘s subsequent studio effort. Eric posted some pics to Instagram and wrote in an accompanying message: “Had an overly productive week with the child! Mr. @chrisdovas and I labored up new 7 jam concepts starting from thrash to nwobhm jumbled in w/ black thrash to darkish heavy laborious rock blues…let’s see what occurs! tremendous stoked thus far!”
Dovas additionally shared the similar footage on his social media, including: “New TESTAMENT subject material within the works! Eric and I’ve been operating laborious all week on new concepts. Stoked thus far!”
In some similar thrilling information for thrash steel fanatics, TESTAMENT and KREATOR lately introduced the ‘Klash Of The Titans’ North American excursion with POSSESSED.
Q4, the “Klash Of The Titans” makes its triumphant go back to North The us. Fanatics will experience an epic evening of steel with thrash royalty TESTAMENT and KREATOR co-headlining the run.
The 33-date trek will kick off on September 12 in Reno making its means around the U.S. and can come with seven Canadian dates prior to concluding in San Francisco on October 27. Becoming a member of the evening are particular visitors Bay House demise steel pioneers and labelmates POSSESSED.
TESTAMENT states: “Get able North The us. We’re having a look ahead to a co-headline excursion with our thrash grasp pals KREATOR. That is gonna be a madhouse of a display with our Bay House homies POSSESSED opening the display so get there early. TESTAMENT will probably be appearing an old-school set celebrating the re-release of ‘The Legacy’ and ‘The New Order’.”
Tickets for the excursion move on sale this Friday, Might 3 at 10 a.m. native time.
Showed dates for TESTAMENT and KREATOR’s co-headlining “Klash Of The Titans” North American 2024 excursion with POSSESSED are:
Sep. 12 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Lodge
Sep. 13 – Las Vegas, NV – Space of Blues
Sep. 14 – Salt Lake Town, UT – The Union Tournament Centre
Sep. 16 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
Sep. 17 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre
Sep. 18 – Vancouver, BC Canada – Style
Sep. 20 – Calgary, AB Canada – MacEwan Corridor
Sep. 21 – Enoch, AB Canada – River Cree On line casino
Sep. 22 – Saskatoon, SK Canada – Coors Tournament Centre
Sep. 24 – Winnipeg, MB Canada – Burton Cummings Theatre
Sep. 26 – Maplewood, MN – Delusion Are living
Sep. 28 – Huber Heights, Oh – Rose Tune Middle
Sep. 29 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Tune Theatre
Oct. 01 – Cleveland, OH – The Agora
Oct. 03 – Toronto, ON Canada – Historical past
Oct. 04 – Montreal, QC Canada – MTelus
Oct. 05 – New Haven, CT – Faculty Side road
Oct. 06 – Boston, MA – Space of Blues
Oct. 08 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore
Oct. 10 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theatre
Oct. 11 – Bethlehem, PA – Wind Creek On line casino
Oct. 12 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
Oct. 13 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
Oct. 15 – Orlando, FL. – Laborious Rock Are living
Oct. 16 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Are living
Oct. 18 – Houston, TX – White Oak Tune Corridor (Garden)
Oct. 19 – San Antonio, TX – The Aztec
Oct. 20 – Dallas, TX – The Manufacturing facility
Oct. 22 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
Oct. 23 – Albuquerque, NM – Albuquerque Conference Middle
Oct. 24 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
Oct. 26 – Los Angeles, CA – Palladium
Oct. 27 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
Emerging from the fertile Bay House thrash steel scene within the Nineteen Eighties, TESTAMENT carved their area of interest with a valid each ferocious and fiercely melodic. In the beginning shaped underneath the identify LEGACY, the band solidified their lineup with vocalist Chuck Billy and lead guitarist Alex Skolnick along rhythm guitarist Eric Peterson, the band’s sole consistent member.
TESTAMENT unleashed a torrent of significantly acclaimed albums like “The Legacy” and “Follow What You Hold forth,” organising them as thrash titans along METALLICA, SLAYER and MEGADETH. Their track tackled social problems and darkish topics, delivered with Billy‘s distinct growl and Skolnick‘s hovering guitar solos woven into Peterson‘s punishing riffs.
In spite of lineup adjustments, TESTAMENT by no means strayed from their sonic id. They weathered the decline of thrash within the 90s, returning with renewed vigor within the 2000s. Albums like “Darkish Roots of Earth” showcased their enlargement whilst protecting their signature aggression. Nowadays, TESTAMENT is still a drive, traveling globally and handing over punishing reside displays that solidify their position as thrash steel royalty.
