TESTAMENT have announced a new live date, on October 30th at Warehouse Live in Houston, Texas. Also on the bill for the show are ANTHRAX and DEATH ANGEL.

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In other Testament news, Lick Library's Andy James teaches you how to play 'More Than Meets The Eye' in the sample lesson below. You are shown the tuning for the song and some of the intro. The full guitar lesson shows you how to play the verse, middle 8 sections, 1st solo, 2nd solo and outro.

Check out the sample below and find the full lesson at this location.

Canada's Lithium Magazine caught up with Testament frontman Chuck Billy at the Heavy T.O. show in Toronto, Ontario, which was held July 23rd - 24th at Downsview Park. An excerpt from the interview, which features discussion on the band's forthcoming album The Dark Roots Of Earth, is available below:

Q: Is there anything on it that’s going to be a little different?

Chuck: "With this one we kind of wrote, I wouldn’t say a ballad, but something a little slower; we’ve got one of those on this record. Eric’s (Peterson/guitars) always written some really strong ballads for the band, or whatever you want to call them. There’s some other stuff, there’s definitely some songs that are the fastest we’ve ever played, there’s some mid-tempo, there’s a little bit of everything on there. It’s definitely Testament, but we never try to do the same record twice. There are some good hooks on it."

Q: When you’re writing, is it the same kind of process as back in the day?

Chuck: "Well, now it is because Alex (original lead guitarist Alex Skolnick) was more on this record, where for years after he left, Eric was writing most of the songs. This year Alex came in and worked with Eric for weeks all day, all night arranging, contributing parts and he’s on a lot more on this record. I think Eric felt like he was writing The New Order record, because Alex is really good at taking what Eric’s doing and interpreting it to what he does, too. It seemed to work. It’s going to be a good record and it’s going to be a different record."

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The Dark Roots Of Earth is tentatively due in October via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD is currently being recorded with British producer Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE) and is the follow-up to 2008's The Formation Of Damnation.

Bravewords.com’s Aaron Small recently conducted an interview with Chuck Billy backstage during Heavy T.O. about the new album. Read the interview here.