photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Testament squeaked by their Bay area neighbors Metallica as well as Opeth and Motorhead to earn an encore airing of their "More Than Meets the Eye" video on 'Headbangers Ball.' Tune in Saturday night at 2 a.m. to catch the killer clip, as well as new videos by Satyricon, Machine Head and Warbringer.
And in the week's ahead stay tuned for video premieres by Kreator, Dir En Grey and much, much more.
Click more to watch this week's winning clip and footage of Testament from the 2003 Wacken Festival. 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 drink to continued success
The Bay Area thrashers of Testament will remain on the Metal Masters tour with Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell and Motorhead through August 31 in Mountain View, California. But if you missed 'em on the tour because you couldn't get to the venue by 8:30 a.m. (or whatever the hell time they took the stage) don't worry. Testament will be back in the States in early October (according to Pollstar, the October 9 show in New York City is with Children of Bodom).
MetalInjection.net recently hooked up with guitarists Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick about touring, the band's new album The Formation of Damnation and the time the band met the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda. Click "more" to see it all. Read more...
