{"id":44719,"date":"2016-05-20T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=44719"},"modified":"2016-05-30T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T09:41:04","slug":"feature-testament-05-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/feature-testament-05-16\/","title":{"rendered":"TESTAMENT – Live Offerings (May 2016) | Features \/ Interviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

TESTAMENT – Live Offerings<\/strong><\/span>
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\nBay Area, California-based thrash metal outfit Testament embark on a short UK visit during mid-to-late June 2016 as part of a European tour. Beginning at the 02 Academy in Oxford, England on the 19th, the trek concludes at the Thrash N Bowl event at the Brooklyn Bowl in London on the 23rd.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re coming over for some shows,\u201d Eric Peterson chuckles, guitarist and co-founder of Testament. \u201cWe haven\u2019t played the UK for a while, so we\u2019re excited to go over there and jam it out. We just started recording our new record (The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em>); we started doing the drums Wednesday \u2013 this is our second day. Gene\u2019s already got two songs under his belt done, and we\u2019ve got a good drum tone. We\u2019re excited. It\u2019s killer. We\u2019re excited we\u2019re actually doing it. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so hard, because we\u2019re always touring. We\u2019re leaving June 15th to go over there, and I\u2019m almost telling Chuck \u2018Why are we touring? Why don\u2019t we get the record done (laughs)?\u2019 We always do this; we always plan tours while we\u2019re working on a new record. That\u2019s kind of the reason why it takes us so long, but whatever. We\u2019ll get it done. We\u2019ll be working on the record, and hopefully will get it all recorded before we leave. Then we\u2019re heading over there to do some shows in Europe and the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Testament have visited the United Kingdom on a number of occasions through the years. \u201cWe\u2019ve done a lot of UK shows,\u201d the axeman notes. \u201cWe\u2019ve been touring since \u201987. Are you talking about all of them (laughs)? The UK is one of our favourite countries to play. For a band like us that has been around for over 25 years and touring a lot, we\u2019ve gone through a lot of friends and lost a lot of friends. We\u2019re lucky enough to still be doing what we love and playing music. I would probably think that one of the highlights of doing the UK was probably a club show we did, where we did the first two records back-to-back (April 1987\u2019s The Legacy<\/em> and April 1988\u2019s The New Order<\/em>). <\/p>\n

\u201cWe usually do pretty good there \u2013 we\u2019ll sell out smaller venues. We\u2019ll book the shows a couple of months in advance and it\u2019ll sell out pretty quick, but when we did this show and announced that we would be doing the first two records, it sold out within like a day. That was pretty cool. It just shows you what the fans like \u2013 they like the old stuff. That\u2019s one of my favourite memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

1987 witnessed the respective issue of debut effort The Legacy<\/em>, in April of that year to be exact. The platter reaches its 30th anniversary in 2017, although the occasion might go initially unmarked. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna be putting out a new record, and we\u2019ll be supporting that record,\u201d Eric muses. \u201cI would imagine in the future… At the end of the cycles, we like to do something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visiting the United Kingdom for the first time during 1987, Testament supported a member of the Big Four. \u201cWe were supporting Anthrax,\u201d the composer remembers. \u201cAnthrax had put out… It wasn\u2019t Spreading The Disease<\/em> (October 1985), but Among The Living<\/em> (March 1987). Yeah, it was a great tour. I think we did like 20 dates. We had The Legacy<\/em> out, and had popped over to Europe earlier in the year. We did a show in Holland; we did the Dynamo Festival (on June 8th, 1987), and ended up doing an EP with that (Live At Eindhoven<\/em>, October 1987). Five, six months after The Legacy<\/em> came out, the record company put that EP out, and then we did the States with Anthrax.\u201d<\/p>\n

A number of compositions have entered Testament\u2019s live setlist since 1987, some of which are Eric\u2019s favourites to perform. \u201cI would say half of my favourites are on there, but half of them we never even play, which is a shame,\u201d he laments. \u201cWe have a lot of songs that we\u2019ve never played that are awesome, in my opinion. Maybe we\u2019ll change that in the future, but yeah, for sure. We do a lot of the classics, like \u2018Over The Wall\u2019 (from The Legacy<\/em>), \u2018The New Order\u2019 (from The New Order<\/em>). \u2018Dog Faced Gods\u2019 (from Low<\/em>, September 1994) is another one of my favourites, and stuff like that. \u2018D.N.R\u2019 (from June 1999\u2019s The Gathering<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\n

A range of material figures among those the axe-slinger would like to introduce to Testament\u2019s live setlist. \u201cI\u2019d really like to play some of the crazier stuff, like \u2018Fall Of Sipledome\u2019 which is off of The Gathering<\/em>, tracks like \u2018Seven Days Of May\u2019 off of Souls Of Black<\/em> (October 1990), or more stuff off of Demonic<\/em> (June 1997) like \u2018Hatred\u2019s Rise\u2019 or \u2018Murky Waters\u2019,\u201d he cites. \u201cThere\u2019s some great stuff on that record that we never do, and Low<\/em> (laughs). We rarely ever play anything off of Low<\/em>, although \u2018Dog Faced Gods\u2019 we\u2019ve just added into our set \u2013 there\u2019s some good stuff on that record as well. <\/p>\n

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\u201cMaybe some more stuff off of The Ritual<\/em>; maybe the song \u2018The Ritual\u2019, which sounds like a ballad that\u2019s darker. That\u2019s a pretty cool tune. Yeah, stuff like that. We seem to do a lot of our title tracks, and then we seem to do a lot of songs off of The New Order<\/em>. I love that record; it\u2019s got a lot of classic stuff on it, but yeah, stuff like that. We\u2019ll have to push them in for the next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

A slew of tracks compromise Testament\u2019s overall catalogue. \u201cYeah,\u201d Eric concurs. \u201cThere\u2019s almost a hundred, so it\u2019s hard to… We tend to stick to the same songs, though. I\u2019ve really gotta push the envelope to get anything new in the set (laughs). With the last one we did though, in South America, we got like five songs that we\u2019ve never played… Or not never played, but brought them back into the fold. <\/p>\n

\u201cSongs like \u2018True Believer\u2019 off of The Gathering<\/em>, \u2018Eyes Of Wrath\u2019 off of The Gathering<\/em>. \u2018Dog Faced Gods\u2019 like I mentioned, which we hadn\u2019t played in a while. I\u2019m just trying to get stuff that we\u2019ve not always done into the set. We always do \u2018Over The Wall\u2019, we always do \u2018Practice What You Preach\u2019 (from the August 1989 album of the same name), we always play \u2018The New Order\u2019, and we always play \u2018Into The Pit\u2019 (from The New Order<\/em>). It\u2019s great when you\u2019re a band that has to play certain songs, but there are so many songs which would just be so heavy live, like \u2018Fall Of Sipledome\u2019 \u2013 that song is just nuts. <\/p>\n

\u201cOf course some of the slower songs, those are some of the favourite songs for our fans, and the reaction we do get when we play them is awesome. Songs like \u2018The Legacy\u2019, or \u2018Return To Serenity\u2019 (from The Ritual<\/em>). \u2018Return To Serenity\u2019 is a song that we\u2019ve never really played live, but that was one of the biggest radio songs for the band when that album came out. Although it\u2019s not a thrash metal song and doesn\u2019t really represent the band as a whole, it would be a good piece in the set and bring in some diversity for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Classic cuts are naturally live staples, although other strong numbers are being omitted. \u201cYeah,\u201d the musician seconds. \u201cIn my opinion, I\u2019d like to do some songs that we haven\u2019t done before.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latter half of the 90s is arguably somewhat under-represented within the setlist. \u201cWe\u2019re slowly starting to add stuff like that in there,\u201d Eric comments. \u201cWe used to play that stuff a lot, but then when we kind of got The Ritual<\/em> line-up back, we went back to the old stuff. We\u2019ve just recently been bringing in some of the stuff from the era where Alex (Skolnick, guitars) and the other guys weren\u2019t playing with us \u2013 we\u2019re starting to bring some of that stuff back in.<\/p>\n

\u201cLou (Clemente, drums) and Greg (Christian, bass) aren\u2019t in the band any more, but when we got that line-up back together, those guys didn\u2019t really see the evolution of Testament and how those records really kind of brought us back from the dead. I mean, after The Ritual<\/em>… It\u2019s a good record, but I don\u2019t think it was a thrash favourite. I think once we kind of had a rebirth with Low<\/em>, Demonic<\/em> and The Gathering<\/em>, we saw Testament\u2019s status rise again, if not get bigger. Then when they came back, we went back to the old stuff. Like I said, we\u2019re starting to bring that other stuff back in, but the last records have been pretty good, I think. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been getting back to our roots, and recording-wise and just songwriting-wise, I think we\u2019re as strong or as crazy as we used to be \u2013 especially with this new one. The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em> is gonna be… I don\u2019t wanna… I\u2019m just trying to give you a name to describe it, but it doesn\u2019t sound like that so don\u2019t take it out of context. This is gonna be our kind of Reign In Blood<\/em> record (Slayer<\/a>, October 1986), because it\u2019s just super-brutal but still melodic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tracks for The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em> were penned under different circumstances than had been the case in the past. \u201cActually, this record is the strangest that has been written,\u201d the rhythm player judges. \u201cI usually do write most of the material, but we used to collaborate and get together. This record though, I literally wrote it by myself in my room. The rest of the band are in other bands. Alex Skolnick is doing Metal Allegiance here and there, and he\u2019s got a lot of other stuff going on like his jazz thing. He lives on the other side of the country. Gene (Hoglan, drums) and Steve DiGiorgio (bass) are in Death and they do other things, and Chuck (Billy, vocals) is doing other things. <\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of just was left with writing the record by myself. There\u2019s good things and bad things about it, and the bad thing is it\u2019s kind of all on me. It\u2019s kind of cool to have a little diversity, but at the same time, where I\u2019m at in my playing and my influence on music right now, I was able to come up with some good stuff. We\u2019ve got ten new tracks, and they\u2019re super-brutal. I\u2019m really excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em> will be inevitably critiqued against predecessor Dark Roots Of Earth<\/em><\/a> (July 2012). \u201cIt\u2019s different,\u201d Eric observes. \u201cThis one is more thrash. I mean, this has got some of the fastest stuff that we have ever played. Usually, we have one or two thrash songs, and then we have some mid-tempo, and then we have a slow, heavy one, and then up-tempo kind of stuff. Half of the new record is thrash, which we\u2019ve never done before. Even with our first record, there\u2019s \u2018Over The Wall\u2019 and \u2018First Strike Is Deadly\u2019, but then there\u2019s stuff that\u2019s back and forth from mid-tempo to thrash like \u2018Do Or Die\u2019 or \u2018Apocalyptic City\u2019. Full-on thrash though, like six or seven songs, has never been done by us. It\u2019s kind of a trip to hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albeit the tenth studio full-length from Testament, Dark Roots Of Earth<\/em> was a strong effort, ample proof that the assortment are still knocking it out of the park so to speak. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing, too,\u201d the guitarist begins. \u201cWith each record getting good reviews and critical acclaim and stuff like that, it\u2019s always like \u2018What can you do with this music?\u2019 Everything\u2019s been done with it. There\u2019s so many bands that are a part of it, but we have the Testament card. We were one of the originals of this type of music. I mean, there are bands out there that are just doing some crazy shit, but they\u2019re number 120 out of 500 thrash bands, so maybe they get overlooked. <\/p>\n

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\u201cLuckily for us, we were in the right place at the right time 25 or 30 years ago. With that being said though, all this time later, we\u2019re still delivering the goods. I can honestly say with this new one, it\u2019s hands down gonna be the heaviest record Testament has ever put out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em> has to be quite heavy an affair, the likes of Demonic<\/em> arguably being Testament at its heaviest. \u201cThere\u2019s stuff like that on here,\u201d Eric divulges. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like Demonic<\/em> and The Gathering<\/em>, but a little bit wiser I think. Chuck\u2019s not singing so death. I mean, he does some death stuff but he\u2019s singing more like he did on the last record and then with the craziness of The Gathering<\/em> or even heavy stuff like Demonic<\/em>. Yeah, I\u2019m excited to put this record. It\u2019s gonna be killer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albeit still thrash, June 1997 outing Demonic<\/em> entered the death realm. \u201cYeah,\u201d Eric agrees. \u201cWe definitely went into the darker side; it\u2019s almost like you had a band that had ballads on the radio and commercially kind of accessible songs, but then all of a sudden, we just signed a deal with the Devil or something (laughs). No, I\u2019m teasing on that… But that record was definitely the 666 special, and it kind of gave us a rebirth in the whole underground fanzine scene. We kind of went back there a little bit. Even though we were a band that had sold millions of records, we kind of went back underground a little bit, dabbled in that, and kind of rebuilt the foundation back up, I think. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had definitely lost some ground with Souls Of Black<\/em> and The Ritual<\/em>; we were playing bigger shows and supporting bigger artists, but it really seemed like we were slightly going downhill a little bit. Once some of the original people left though, we kind of reinvented ourselves and saw it go back up again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Testament arguably updated its sound following the departure of original members, for better or for worse. \u201cWe just got onto what we knew we needed to,\u201d the co-founder reckons. \u201cWe kind of got rid of the major label, who were like \u2018You\u2019ve gotta write the song.\u2019 It\u2019s like we finally said \u2018Fuck you, we\u2019re gonna write what we want.\u2019 In that part of our career too, in 1992, everybody was telling us that Testament was done. We heard that so much from everybody, so we were just like \u2018Alright, fuck it. Let\u2019s do what we want.\u2019 We stopped trying to be corporate, and listening to people that don\u2019t even go to our shows telling us how to play. It was kind of retarded, so we really kind of took everything into our hands at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thrash entities were becoming more accessible during the early 90s. Megadeth<\/a> issued single offerings like \u2018Symphony Of Destruction\u2019 (from July 1992\u2019s Countdown To Extinction<\/em>), while Metallica released August 1991 multi-platinum smash The Black Album<\/em>. \u201cYeah, but they did it right,\u201d Eric submits. \u201cEven though Metallica crossed over a little bit to that more polished thing, that record\u2019s awesome. That\u2019s a good example of success \u2013 from being a thrash band to being more mainstream \u2013 and they\u2019re one of the few that pulled it off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Testament catalogue boasts some compositions which garner radio appeal within the genre market. \u201cThe earlier stuff I think like \u2018Electric Crown\u2019 (from The Ritual<\/em>), \u2018The Legacy\u2019, \u2018Souls Of Black\u2019 and \u2018Practice What You Preach\u2019, if you\u2019re looking at radio stuff,\u201d the axeman lists. \u201cThen we have Liquid Metal<\/em> and we have SiriusXM<\/em>, and they\u2019re always playing a lot of the old, classic stuff. Yeah, we\u2019re pretty versatile. We could go from mid-tempo to just \u2018Legions Of The Dead\u2019 \u2013 crazy, thrashing mad \u2013 to more melodic like \u2018True Believer\u2019 or something, also off of The Gathering<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a big diversity on there, although it\u2019s got a good flow. Even with the record before last, we had the title track \u2018The Formation Of Damnation\u2019 (April 2008). We do the Wall Of Death on that one, and then on the same hand, we have \u2018Cold Embrace\u2019 off of Dark Roots Of Earth<\/em> which is more like an older school ballad. We try to mix it up, and we\u2019ve got a lot of different influences.\u201d<\/p>\n

A point of interest is the fact that while other thrash bands became more accessible during the 90s, Testament became less accessible. \u201cWe just kind of really made a strong stance by not getting huge, but claiming our stance in terms of where we were at and just not budging,\u201d Eric tells. \u201cWe have a really good foundation. We\u2019re not gonna get smaller and we\u2019re not gonna get a little bigger, but we\u2019re just kind of rock solid where we\u2019re at. I don\u2019t know, though. It\u2019s weird. It seems like for all this time \u2013 and I hear it from a lot of people \u2013 like \u2018You guys are getting bigger and bigger.\u2019 I\u2019m like \u2018We are? Okay…\u2019 (laughs). I\u2019m just happy to stay busy. It seems we have some respect, so that\u2019s cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

The songwriter feels Testament have matured with age. \u201cThere was something weird back then,\u201d he reminisces. \u201cI don\u2019t know if we just didn\u2019t have a good handle on ourselves, or the infrastructure within. It could\u2019ve been a lot of things that just weren\u2019t clicking right, but I don\u2019t know. Now, we just seem to really know who we are and what we\u2019re about and what we\u2019re doing. We know how to do what we need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eric accredits a specific record with Testament\u2019s resurgence. \u201cProbably The Gathering<\/em>,\u201d he identifies. \u201cWe toured for eight years on that record; after The Gathering<\/em> came out, we didn\u2019t do anything until The Formation Of Damnation<\/em>. The Gathering<\/em> was \u201999, and Formation<\/em> was 2008 (laughs). That\u2019s a long time, but we kept touring every year and played festivals. It isn\u2019t like right now, where they\u2019re like \u2018They don\u2019t want you guys unless you have a new record out.\u2019 It was the longest tour ever (laughs). We were really seen as coming back to where we were, but stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

During 2001, vocalist Chuck Billy was diagnosed with germ cell seminoma. \u201cThat was another reason why we didn\u2019t put out a record,\u201d the axe-slinger mentions. \u201cWe kind of went through that little episode in our career, in our life.\u201d<\/p>\n

A release date for The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em> has yet to be revealed. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be coming out September, October,\u201d Eric offers. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna get delivered at the end of June, and it\u2019ll be probably be delivered to the record company by the end of the summer just in time for a really big tour we\u2019re doing of Europe. I can\u2019t mention who it is, but we\u2019ll be doing a big tour in Europe at the end of the year. And yeah, it\u2019s gonna be killer. We\u2019ll have a new record out, and be on tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to a core track listing of ten compositions, a small number of cover interpretations might be delivered as well. \u201cThey were a lot of fun, the last ones we did,\u201d the musician recalls. \u201cWe did \u2018Animal Magnetism\u2019 (Scorpions, originally featured on the March 1980 album of the same name), but we tuned it down like five steps. It was just really, really low tuning. We did \u2018Powerslave\u2019 by Iron Maiden (originally featured on the September 1984 album of the same name), but we couldn\u2019t do much to that because it is pretty awesome the way it is. We did \u2018Dragon Attack\u2019 by Queen (originally featured on June 1980\u2019s The Game<\/em>), and totally reinvented it Testament style. That was kind of my favourite \u2013 that one came out really good. This time around, there are a couple of songs we are looking at. It\u2019s fun to do covers. We\u2019ve just got to get the right ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the ten scheduled to comprise The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em>, not all have been fully authored at the time of writing. \u201cThere are two songs I have that aren\u2019t finished,\u201d Eric informs. \u201cProbably next week after Gene gets some songs under his belt, I\u2019ll go in a room with him and kind of doodle around, and try to make fully fledged songs out of these riffs I\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rhythm player is sitting behind the production chair for Testament\u2019s 11th studio long-player. \u201cI\u2019ve kind of produced since The Gathering<\/em> or even Demonic<\/em>,\u201d he briefs. \u201cI\u2019ve never really thought of it as that, other than just making everything happen with the arrangements and making sure that everything is recorded right. Engineering wise, we\u2019re working with Juan Urteaga. He\u2019s kind of like the new, up and coming Bay Area engineer \/ producer; he\u2019s done work with Testament before, he did the last two Machine Head records (September 2011\u2019s Unto The Locust<\/em> and November 2014\u2019s Bloodstone & Diamonds<\/em>), and he works with a lot of underground death metal bands. He\u2019s done some other stuff; he\u2019s worked with Ted Nugent and Night Ranger, and he\u2019s done the last couple of Vicious Rumors records. So yeah, we\u2019re excited about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve \u2018Zetro\u2019 Souza \u2013 vocalist for Exodus and formerly of Testament (while Testament operated under original moniker Legacy) \u2013 has lyrically collaborated with Chuck Billy, once again. \u201cI think Zetro actually wrote a song with Chuck, yeah, so that\u2019s pretty cool,\u201d Eric confirms. <\/p>\n

The title track from The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em> will be available for listening in the coming weeks. \u201cThe label\u2019s getting everything ready,\u201d the guitarist shares. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna be putting out a single in mid-to-late June, so it\u2019ll probably come out a little after we start touring. So yeah, we\u2019ll be having that out while we\u2019re on tour in Europe in June.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether that aforementioned title track will be included in Testament\u2019s setlist during its forthcoming European trek is uncertain. \u201cWe\u2019ll see,\u201d Eric ponders. \u201cLike I said, the band\u2019s all over the place (laughs). Me and Gene are the only ones who have ever played it, and Steve. I don\u2019t think Alex has \u2013 Alex played the lead on it, but I don\u2019t think he even knows the song. We\u2019ll have to wait and see. At some point we\u2019re gonna be playing it, because it\u2019s a killer song. I\u2019m excited about it.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em> will be released later in 2016 via Nuclear Blast Records.<\/p>\n

Interview published in May 2016. All promotional photographs by Stephanie Cabral, with all live photographs by Andrada Mihailescu.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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