TESTAMENT To Soon Focus On New Record; Video Interview Available
August 19, 2009, 15 years ago
Germany's Metal Hammer reports:
"Thrash legends TESTAMENT will soon focus on a new record, as vocalist Chuck Billy and guitarist Eric Peterson revealed in a video-interview with the German edition of Metal Hammer. How the schedule for the record will be, how Testament remember the old days of thrash and why the Norwegian black metal scene was in Chuck's opinion the only thing comparable to the Bay Area thrash scene, can be discovered here ."Hot on the heels of their blistering European headlining tour, thrash gods Testament are leaving in September for two headlining Mexican dates, and four headlining shows in Japan as part of the Thrash Domination Tour, with EXODUS, KREATOR and HEATHEN.
The tour kicks off in Monterrey, Mexico on September 12th and concludes September 21st with a performance in Nagoya, Japan.
The band has been touring non-stop in support of their award-winning album, The Formation Of Damnation, including a six week headlining European tour featuring a performance to over 80,000 fans at the Wacken Open Air Festival, the Priest Feast tour in Europe with JUDAS PRIEST earlier this year and a phenomenal run on the Metal Masters tour last summer with HEAVEN AND HELL and MOTÖRHEAD.
Mexican dates:
September
12 - Monterrey, Mexico - Moterrey Arena13 - Mexico City, Mexico - Cuervo Salon
Japanese dates:
September
17 - Osaka, Japan - Big Kat (with Kreator)19 - Kawasaki, Japan - Club Citta (with Exodus, Kreator, Heathen)
20 - Kawasaki, Japan - Club Citta (with Exodus, Kreator, Heathen)
21 - Nagoya, Japan - Ell
