{"id":75505,"date":"2020-04-03T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=75505"},"modified":"2022-09-09T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:35:54","slug":"news-testament-release-12th-studio-album-titans-of-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-testament-release-12th-studio-album-titans-of-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"TESTAMENT Release 12th Studio Album \u2018Titans Of Creation\u2019 (April 3rd, 2020) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>TESTAMENT Release 12th Studio Album \u2018Titans Of Creation\u2019<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>April 3rd, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/testament2020promophoto1news.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>San Francisco, California-based thrash metal group Testament issued 12th full-length studio album proper <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-testament-titans-of-creation\/\"><em>Titans Of Creation<\/em><\/a> on April 3rd, 2020 through Nuclear Blast Records.<\/p>\n<p><em>Titans Of Creation<\/em> was produced by Chuck Billy and Eric Peterson, while Juan Urteaga of Trident Studios handled co-producing, recording and engineering. Mixing and mastering duties fell to Andy Sneap at Backstage Recording Studio in Derbyshire, England.<\/p>\n<p>Cover artwork was once again created by longtime collaborator Eliran Kantor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/testament_titansofcreationnews.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The track listing is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>01. \u2018Children Of The Next Level\u2019<br \/>\n02. \u2018WWIII\u2019<br \/>\n03. \u2018Dream Deceiver\u2019<br \/>\n04. \u2018Night Of The Witch\u2019<br \/>\n05. \u2018City Of Angels\u2019<br \/>\n06. \u2018Ishtars Gate\u2019<br \/>\n07. \u2018Symptoms\u2019<br \/>\n08. \u2018False Prophet\u2019<br \/>\n09. \u2018The Healers\u2019<br \/>\n10. \u2018Code Of Hammurabi\u2019<br \/>\n11. \u2018Curse Of Osiris\u2019<br \/>\n12. \u2018Catacombs\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Testament\u2019s line-up was as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Billy (vocals)<br \/>\nEric Peterson (guitar)<br \/>\nAlex Skolnick (guitar)<br \/>\nSteve Di Giorgio (bass)<br \/>\nGene Hoglan (drums)<\/p>\n<p>A special limited edition version of the album, entitled <em>Titans Of Creation &#8211; Video Album<\/em>, was released on September 9th, 2022. The Blu-ray \/ CD set features performance videos of all the tracks on the record, as well as bonus photos and liner notes, plus a button and sticker housed in a collectible longbox. <\/p>\n<p>An animated music video was released for the track \u2018Children Of The Next Level\u2019. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the song \u2018Night Of The Witch\u2019. Both clips can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>Eleventh studio record <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-testament-brotherhood-of-the-snake\/\"><em>Brotherhood Of The Snake<\/em><\/a> was <a href=\"\/site\/news-testament-release-11th-studio-album-brotherhood-of-the-snake\/\">released<\/a> in October 2016 via Nuclear Blast.<\/p>\n<p><em>Promotional photograph by Stephanie Cabral.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9hDhc1Bd4U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cF2hIrXq2ss\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TESTAMENT Release 12th Studio Album \u2018Titans Of Creation\u2019 April 3rd, 2020 San Francisco, California-based thrash metal group Testament issued 12th full-length studio album proper Titans Of Creation on April 3rd, 2020 through Nuclear Blast Records. Titans Of Creation was produced by Chuck Billy and Eric Peterson, while Juan Urteaga of Trident Studios handled co-producing, recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[999],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testament-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95348,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75505\/revisions\/95348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}