TESTAMENT Schedules New York City Date

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT will perform at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City on Sunday, April 6.

TESTAMENT guitarist Eric Peterson recently spoke to Decibel magazine about the group's forthcoming album, "The Formation of Damnation", due in North America on April 29 via Nuclear Blast Records.

The band recently spent time recording the effort with producer Andy Sneap (MACHINE HEAD, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE) at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California.

"The album is very traditional-sounding," Peterson told Decibel. "The ideology of what we're doing is like 'The Legacy' [1987]. But the musicianship's a lot better, so it's like 'The Gathering' [1999]. As most bands record their first, second and third albums, they're developing, developing, developing… until they've got their sound. Then they get worse. As a rule, you get good when you're starving and start slipping as soon as you're eating well. We never really made it to the big time. But, then again, we didn't fail. Because we've always been on that borderline, we've never had to make the kinds of compromises that end up killing so many bands. As we see it, we're better off doing what we do best, especially since things seem to have turned full circle. Kids even have long hair again."

TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy will take part in a signing session at the NADY booth (4650) at NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on Friday, January 18 at 2:00 p.m.

Important: The NAMM show is **NOT** open to the public. The only attendees are NAMM member companies and their invited guests.