TESTAMENT va lansa un album nou in viitorul apropiat

ALEX SKOLNICK de la Testament a declarat ca noul album al trupei este 'Definitely Well On Its Way'.

Intr-un nou interviu cu Radioactive MikeZ, gazda programului de specialitate 9„Wired In The Empire” - 6.7 KCAL-FM - chitaristul TESTAMENT, Alex Skolnick, a vorbit despre progresul sesiunilor de compozitie si irnegistrare pentru urmatorul album al trupei, urmarea materialului „Titans Of Creation” din 2020. El a spus: "Well, we got delayed a little bit by the fact that 2020 basically didn't exist [due to the coronavirus pandemic]. It's a year that went away. And then there was so much touring to make up for. And for about a year of that, we had Dave Lombardo [ex-SLAYER] on drums, which was fantastic. And he's become a great friend and a great musician, but he's also spread very thin in many different bands. And now we have Chris Dovas [playing drums with us]. And he's a guy old enough to be any of our sons. But he is just unbelievable. He really brings the right energy. I mean, he brings the energy that the music had in the early days. So, yeah, we've been working with him on new material. I know Eric's [Peterson, TESTAMENT guitarist] been getting together with him. Eric has been on the East Coast a couple of times and we've gotten together and hashed out material. So between their sessions and my sessions and the recordings that we have, there's a lot of sketches that are done on digital audio workstations. There's a lot — there's a lot of stuff. I made a list and there's almost a couple of dozen sketches that just need to be consolidated and arranged. [We have to] find the best parts, develop them a little more, add vocals, but it's definitely well on its way."

Skolnick a continuat spunand ca nu exista un calendar pre-stabilit pentru lansarea urmatorului album TESTAMENT. "You can't rush it," a explicat acesta. "I think this band learned very early on, you can't rush it. Like the times in the past that the band sort of rushed to put out a recording, it never felt completely satisfactory. So sometimes it takes longer than it should, but you can always count on a good result."

In august anul trecut, Chris Dovas, noul baterist al trupei, a fost intrebat de Pod Scum cum a fost sa patrunda intr-un grup a carui lista de bateristi anteriori includea oameni precum Lombardo si Gene Hoglan. El a raspuns: "It was, especially at first because I knew that a lot of eyes were on me, and also I looked up to the band since I was a kid. Especially Lombardo and Gene — those are two of my favorite drummers right there. So to be put in that situation of taking over for them, I felt like I had a lot of responsibility and a lot of… I felt like I had something to prove a little bit, and I'm still practicing a lot and I just wanna do the best that I can do. Right now I'm not really nervous anymore because I've done two full tours with them now and we're working on the [noul album TESTAMENT] album and the friendship has been developing now and we all get along super well. They've welcomed me with open arms and it's been great and the fans have been great. I've been putting hours and hours of practice into it to make sure that I can do the best that I could do. And I look up to Dave and I look up to Gene as well, so, yeah, I just wanna play the songs well live and keep making the band sound good."

Intrebat care a fost rolul sau pana acum in procesul creativ pentru urmatorul album al lui TESTAMENT, Chris a spus: "I don't know exactly what I'm allowed and what I'm not allowed to share yet, but what you've seen publicly, though, right now is that Eric and I have been working on a lot of stuff together. And so it's been really cool to get into their brains, in a way, and how they write stuff. I'm used to people sending me tracks with scratch MIDI drums or programmed drums or something, and I've gotta put my drums to them and then hop on a Zoom call and we can edit things and move stuff around. But with them, Eric and I, he set a timer at one point for, like, 20 minutes and we would just jam random ideas. And then sometimes we'd make mistakes and stuff and that would be cool, and we could take that… It's very organic, though, and it's very involved, I guess. It's a different way of writing and I'm super excited to be a part of that method of writing. And I could see why they're so successful for all these years, now finally being a part of this current writing cycle, I guess."

In iulie 2023, Eric Peterson, chitaristul trupei, a spus ca el si Dovas au petrecut cateva zile lucrand la material pentru urmatorul album de studio al trupei TESTAMENT. Eric a distribuit cateva fotografii pe Instagramul sau si a scris intr-un mesaj insotitor: "Had a very productive week with the kid! Mr. @chrisdovas and I worked up new 7 jam ideas ranging from thrash to nwobhm mixed in w/ black thrash to dark heavy hard rock blues…let's see what happens! super stoked so far!"

Dovas a distribuit aceleasi poze pe social media si a comentat: "New TESTAMENT material in the works! Eric and I have been working hard all week on new ideas. Stoked so far!"

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