TESTAMENT - 2007 Tour Dates Announced
December 9, 2006, 17 years ago
San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT have lined up the following 2007 live dates:
January
27 - San Francisco, CA at The IndependentFebruary
7 - Melbourne, Australia at The Prince Hotel8 - Sydney, Australia at The Manning Bar
9 - Canberra, Australia at The Anu Bar
11 - Perth, Australia at The Capital
March
23 - Budapest, Hungary at Almassy MK Hall24 - Katowice, Poland at Hala Spodek
July
26 - Subotica, Serbia at Hellwood FestivalAugust
25 - Gemunden, Germany at Up From The Ground Open Air FestIn a recent exclusive interview with BW&BK;, guitarist Eric Peterson offered the following update about the long-awaited follow-up to 1999's The Gathering: “I’ve already written the record twice, but I never got to finish it ‘cause of touring or drummers, just problems with the band that have arisen. I’ve worked really hard trying to get the stuff together. What I’m doing is taking the best of both of those sessions that I worked on as well as some new stuff. Alex (Skolnick - guitar) is pitching in some stuff that sounds really Testament-ish. He’s got his head on right; it’s killer. He’s able to separate the jazz from the metal. In the beginning he was trying to put the jazz in there a little bit, but now he’s playing better than he’s ever played. He’s more confident and having fun with it. There’s some really good highlighted tracks so far that are wow! It’s got a lot of old school elements, like ‘Alone In The Dark’ but a little heavier. It sounds like The New Order meets Ride The Lightning. I’m really excited. I don’t like to put blinders on when I write music, but I definitely wanted to sound a certain way. We’re putting our hat on for a certain era with the technology of today.”
