TESTAMENT Singer Chuck Billy - New Interview Available
October 12, 2009, 15 years ago
TESTAMENT singer Chuck Billy spoke with Valerie Bastien from RockSource360 recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
RockSource360: It’s already been a year since The Formation Of Damnation was released. Have you started working on new material yet?
Billy: "We’ve got some ideas but we’re not going to start until the end of September (note: interview obviously done a few weeks ago!)."
RockSource360: What is the writing process like for the band?
Billy: "Oh, it’s just me, Eric (Peterson) and Paul (Bostaph). We get together first. We just jam and I jump in. That’s how it all starts. They start playing—Eric and Paul—and I’ll join in and if it feels like it’s natural then, we’ll build off of that. We get all excited and we build off it! Right now, Eric is always coming off with a lot of new riffs so it’s pretty easy to write songs with him because he’s constantly thinking of music. It helps having someone like that."
RockSource360: He keeps the creative flow going! Is there a song in particular that you feel is challenging or that you really enjoy singing?
Billy: "All the songs on our new record are really comfortable and my favourites. But 'Three Days in Darkness' off The Gathering is probably one for me that has a little bit of everything. The timing of the vocal, the voice, the death voices in there, the dynamic… It has a little bit of everything in that song so it’s one of my favorite to do live."
Read the entire interview here.
