TESTAMENT Vocalist Chuck Billy, Guitarist Eric Peterson On Touring In The Early Days - "We Were Pillagers Back Then"
October 24, 2014, 10 years ago
Shockwave Magazine caught up with Testament's Chuck Billy (vocals) and Eric Peterson (guitars) on Motörhead's Motörboat cruise, which ran from September 22nd - 26th. They answer five random questions in the clip below:
The Metal & Cultural Impact Conference (MACI) will take place November 6th - 8th, and is under the umbrella of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS).
Josh Bernstein (Revolver Golden Gods Awards Founder and former Producer, as well as Alternative Press Music Awards Producer) will be giving the closing keynote, Heavy Metal: A Business, A Lifestyle, Past, Present & Future. Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick will be giving a panel on Louder Education, which was a web series originally produced with Metal Injection. Both Alex and Josh will be presenting on Saturday, November 8th.
Other events of interest are a heavy metal "masks" art exhibit and screening of the Heavy Metal Africa documentary, March Of The Gods. There will be a closing concert (off-campus) of local/regional metal bands during the evening of Saturday, November 8th.
In addition to Alex and Josh, a few speakers of note are: Vivek Venkatesh and Jason Netherton of Misery Index (both presenting on Thursday, November 6th in the Death Metal/Black Metal category). Laina Dawes, author of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation In Heavy Metal, will be presenting on Saturday, November 8th in the Women In Metal category.
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