Over the past year, thrash metal veterans Testament have put on some dynamite shows, both as headliners and opening for Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell and Motorhead on the Metal Masters tour. But as accomplished and proficient as they've become, they were, perhaps, even more aggressive, hungry and explosive 20 years ago, as evidenced by the worldwide premiere of the full-length, 10-song Live at Eindhoven '87 album, which comes out April 14 on Prosthetic Records. (click "more" to hear a track from the album and read liner notes penned by guitarist Alex Skolnick) Read more...

MTV2 will be teaming up with Revolver magazine to present the premiere hard rock and heavy metal awards show, the first annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which will storm through Los Angeles' Club Nokia on Tuesday, April 7. The event will feature Ozzy Osbourne, Killswitch Engage, Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan and more, and will be aired on MTV2 as a one-hour special on Saturday, May 2.

"We're working really hard to make this an event worthy of the music it celebrates," Revolver editor in chief Tom Beaujour tells HeadbangersBlog.com. "Metal deserves this and deserves to have it done f---ing right." Read more...

At a time when fans and critics and putting together their year end top ten lists, Testament pop up with a video for "More Than Meets the Eye" to remind us all not to forget their latest album, The Formation of Damnation, which came out early this year. Even if it's a calculated move, it's a relevant one. In the wake of new albums by Metallica, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Meshuggah and Unearth, to name but a few, it's easy for a record that came out in April to slip between the cracks. And slip, it should not.

The Formation of Damnation is not only the first studio album of new material by Testament in nine years, and a disc that reunites almost all of the band's powerhouse lineup for the first time since 1994, it's also a multifaceted, dynamic powder keg that puts the group back on the map in the middle of a serious thrash metal renaissance. Click more to watch the video and read comments by singer Chuck Billy, guitarist Eric Peterson and producer Kevin J. Custer (Kingdom of Sorrow, Beneath the Massacre) of Toaster in the Tub. Read more...

Testament singer Chuck Billy ponders how King of Metal got his name, photo by Jon Wiederhorn

You know how David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart and other talk show personalities sometimes go out and find some really odd or dumb people in the street to make fun of? Well, that's pretty much what Metal Injection.net correspondent Dave Hill (a.k.a. King of Metal) did last week with a batch of Testament fans outside B.B. Kings in New York City, and some of the shtick is hysterical.

To wit, the following response to a non-metal guy who doesn't know who Testament are: "Who's Testament?," snorts The King. "Only one of the top, like, 40 thrash metal bands of all time." Click more to enjoy the hilarity. Read more...