It’s now been roughly 5 years since influential thrash metallic band Testomony launched their most up-to-date album Titans Of Creation. They’ve gone on tour, launched remasters of previous information, and even obtained the keys to Albuquerque. Hell, guitarist Alex Skolnick almost stood in for Megadeth’s Kiko Loureiro when the latter was nonetheless in that band.
However throughout a current interview with Australia’s Wall Of Sound (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Testomony frontman Chuck Billy not solely advised that the album might be coming as quickly as the top of the primary quarter/starting of second quarter 2025, however that it’s additionally going to be an absolute killer.
“It’s popping out actually good. We labored on it for most likely the final yr or so with Chris [Dovas, TESTAMENT drummer], lots with Chris. Eric [Peterson, Testament guitarist and main songwriter] and Chris received lots completed and got here up with some killer stuff, man.”
That’s fairly thrilling! It’s attention-grabbing to listen to that Dovas, the latest member of Testomony who joined full-time after Dave Lombardo stop the band, has as a lot enter into the writing of this upcoming album. In accordance with Billy, Dovas’ addition to the band has already paid dividends, claiming that the previous Seven Spires drummer can stand toe to toe with thrash metallic’s greatest males behind the package.
“Nicely, I’ll give him props. He’s proper up there with all these guys, man, as a result of he’s coming in younger, new-influence chops, too, and including a unique dimension to Testomony. That’s why I’m excited concerning the writing, as a result of he, I assume, impressed Eric sufficient to only write some fairly kick-ass, balls-out stuff, however slightly bit round it of all the things. So it was a extremely good writing session on this document… Eric had such a great writing session, he’s already speaking about after this [European] tour with Anthrax and Kreator, beginning [in] early [2025], they’re gonna get collectively and simply begin writing extra songs. Simply maintain chugging ahead. And [2025] is gonna be slightly gradual. We’re not going to Europe [this] yr. We’re gonna simply most likely have one headlining tour on the finish of the yr, and that’s about it. Possibly a brief run in America. We’ll see. So we’ve a window to do numerous jamming. So hopefully we will get some extra songs written and get forward of one other document.”
