Earlier today it was revealed that on February 13th, 2007, Spitfire will issue a new TESTAMENT "best of" collection entitled Testament - The Spitfire Collection.

The complete tracklisting for the set has since been confirmed, and is as follows: 'The New Order', 'Souls Of Black', 'Practice What You Preach', 'Hatreds Rise', 'The Burning Times', 'John Doe', 'Careful What You Wish For', 'Down For Life', 'Riding The Snake', 'Over The Wall', 'The Preacher', 'Into The Pit', 'Trial By Fire', 'Disciples Of The Watch'.

In other news, the band have lined up the following 2007 live dates:

January

27 - San Francisco, CA at The Independent

February

7 - Melbourne, Australia at The Prince Hotel
8 - 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 Hall
24 - Katowice, Poland at Hala Spodek

July

26 - Subotica, Serbia at Hellwood Festival

August

25 - Gemunden, Germany at Up From The Ground Open Air Fest

In a recent exclusive interview with BW&BK;, guitarist Eric Peterson offered the following update about the band's 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.”