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22 апр 2025 :
3 фев 2025 :	CHUCK BILLY On Upcoming TESTAMENT Album: We 'Came Up With Some Killer Stuff'
9 янв 2025 :	CHUCK BILLY: 'Everybody's Getting Pushed To The Limits' On Upcoming TESTAMENT Album
27 дек 2024 :	TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Warms Up His Voice For 90 Minutes Before Every Performance
25 дек 2024 :	New TESTAMENT Album Will Be 'Pretty Evil', Says STEVE DIGIORGIO
19 дек 2024 :	TESTAMENT's ALEX SKOLNICK: I'm 'Troubled By The Outsized Role That Religion Plays In Our Society'
10 дек 2024 :	ALEX SKOLNICK Names Only TESTAMENT Song That Is Always In The Band's Set
25 ноя 2024 :	TESTAMENT's ALEX SKOLNICK On His Early Guitar Solos: 'I Felt Like There Was Something To Prove'
18 ноя 2024 :	TESTAMENT Is '95 Percent Done Recording' New Album: 'It's Gonna Be An Amazing Record'
13 ноя 2024 :	TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Says His Number One Ambition Is To One Day Tour With METALLICA
5 ноя 2024 :	TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Says Upcoming Duet With NIGHTWISH's FLOOR JANSEN Is 'A Really Beautiful Song'
24 окт 2024 :	TESTAMENT Announce Multi-Format Reissue Of Practice What You Preach Album; "Time Is Coming" Lyric Video Streaming
23 окт 2024 :	TESTAMENT's ERIC PETERSON On New Drummer CHRIS DOVAS: 'He Brought Some Life Back'
22 окт 2024 :	TESTAMENT Recruits NIGHTWISH's FLOOR JANSEN For 'Slower' Song On Upcoming Album
6 окт 2024 :	TESTAMENT And Modist Brewing Co. Launch West Coast IPA "Apocalyptic City"
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2 сен 2024 :	ERIC PETERSON Says Next TESTAMENT Album Will Be Mixed By Swedish Producer JENS BOGREN
30 авг 2024 :	TESTAMENT Plans To Mix New Album In December/January
22 авг 2024 :	ALEX SKOLNICK Is 'Excited' About TESTAMENT's Next Album
12 авг 2024 :	Watch TESTAMENT Perform "The Haunting" At Wacken Open Air 2024; Pro-Shot Video
27 июл 2024 :	ALEX SKOLNICK On Next TESTAMENT Album: 'It Should Be Wrapped Up By The Fall Or At The End Of The Year'
26 июл 2024 :	TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Says Seeing KISS In 1970s Changed His Life
25 июл 2024 :	TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Says His Debut Solo Album Could Be Produced By HATEBREED's JAMEY JASTA
12 июл 2024 :

3 мар 2022

DAVE LOMBARDO Says 'It Felt Like The Right Moment' For Him To Return To TESTAMENT

San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT discussed the return of drummer Dave Lombardo to the group's ranks during an appearance Tuesday (March 1) on SiriusXM's Liquid Metal with host Jose Mangin.

An original member of thrash metal legends SLAYER, Lombardo was the guest drummer on TESTAMENT's 1999 studio album "The Gathering", which also marked the first time the band worked with then-up-and-coming British producer/engineer Andy Sneap.

Asked if he had to physically audition for the drummer spot in TESTAMENT this time around, Dave quipped (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I just sent them a link to my Wikipedia. 'I've done these records, including one of yours. Can I come back?' [Laughs]"

Lombardo said that he reached out to the TESTAMENT camp the same day that the band announced it was splitting with its longtime drummer Gene Hoglan.

"I was still asleep, and my wife, she just said, 'Hey, Gene just left TESTAMENT,'" Dave recalled. "And she's been always telling me, 'Man, I can't wait for you guys to get together for that 'Gathering' reunion.' 'Cause we had been talking about this two and a half, three years ago — before the pandemic. And so I immediately — I didn't even get my other eye open and I was texting [TESTAMENT singer] Chuck [Billy]. I said, 'Hey, man, what's going on?' I don't know exactly what I mentioned in my text, but it was very simple, 'Hey, what's happening?' And he immediately called me back. And I remember Tiffany [Chuck's wife] was on the phone; Chuck was on the phone. We were, like, 'Hey.' It was a great come-together moment, like, 'Hey, here we go. This is the moment we've been waiting for.'"

Dave went on to say that the timing was right for his return to TESTAMENT.

"'The Gathering' reunion didn't have to happen putting Gene out, separating Gene and saying, 'Gene, we're gonna go with Dave for a while now.' Nothing like that happened," he said. "This happened organically. And it happened at a time where my other bands, two of the bands that I have, MR. BUNGLE and DEAD CROSS, [Mike] Patton sings in them and he's trying to get healthy and is taking a little hiatus. And SUICIDAL TENDENCIES hasn't been touring much lately. So that leaves me with a lot of little odd projects here and there that I work on in my free time. So it just felt like the right moment.

"I know it can be deceiving because I am in so many different bands, but there's 24 hours in a day and I only sleep eight hours, or seven to eight hours, so that leaves me 16 other hours," he explained. "And I don't take Saturdays and Sundays off. So it was a no-brainer."

Chuck said that he was surprised to hear from Dave so quickly after TESTAMENT made the news of its split with Gene public.

"Right when it happened, it was within minutes after the announcement," Billy recalled. "And Dave doesn't remember, but [his text message to me was] simply 'Lombardo?' That was the text. I'm, like, 'You're shitting me. Tiffany, Lombardo just wrote me, 'Lombardo?'' I called him right away. I said, 'Hey, dude, what's happening?' He was, like, 'Dude, I heard the news.' I'm, like, 'Dude, I would have called you right away, but I just thought it was kind of far-fetched for you to kind of jam because I know you're probably pretty busy with all the other projects going on.' And he was, like, 'No. I've got a big opening and I'd love to get back.' And we talked about 'The Gathering', doing that again. And here we are — it could be a reality to get to play 'The Gathering' like we spoke of."

"The Gathering" was widely considered to be an improvement over 1997's "Demonic", an album that saw Billy employ a more guttural style of vocals and was released at a time when thrash acts as TESTAMENT had fallen out of favor.

Hoglan originally played drums on "Demonic", but didn't stick around long enough to do any touring with the band. He officially joined TESTAMENT in 2011 and played on the group's last three albums: 2012's "Dark Roots Of Earth", 2016's "Brotherhood Of The Snake" and 2020's "Titans Of Creation".

TESTAMENT, EXODUS and DEATH ANGEL played the sole 2021 date of "The Bay Strikes Back Tour" last November at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California. The gig took place less than two months after the three bands shared the stage at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento.

"The Bay Strikes Back Tour" was originally scheduled to kick off on October 6 at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California and make stops in Austin, New York, and Detroit before concluding in Oakland. The tour has since been rescheduled to take place in April and May 2

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3 мар 2022

father

Справедливости ради - для состава The Gathering не хватает Мёрфи, который мог сильно влиять на звучание альбома. Но в любом случае смена барабанщика реально крутая.

3 мар 2022

WahrandPhain

father а почему все так дрочат на зе газерин? Скучнейшая банальнейшая шляпа же, абсолютно безыдейная. Сыграно хорошо да, а материала нет.

3 мар 2022

graillyc

WahrandPhain, вы видимо относитесь к той части слушателей, что воспринимают его как-то иначе, совершенно наоборот, вот и все)
Gathering отличнейший в плане материала, его разнородности, да и идейной наполненности в принципе. И качество это материала высочайшее, под стать исполнению.

Вообще, затирать про это можно долго, но ваш вопрос скорее сводится к "дело вкусов"

3 мар 2022

Petrovich Sexyy

Альбом охуенный. Для меня так вообще лучший.

О какой такой идейности - безыдейности постоянно вспоминает WahrandPhain я хз.

3 мар 2022

overgrin

это интересно
посмотрим как пойдет

3 мар 2022

WahrandPhain

Petrovich Sexyy для меня он неотличим от ексодусов/ слееров /хираксов, типичнейший бай ареа трэш, аккуратный, правильный, хоть сейчас на евровидение. Прилизанный и безопасный, фальшивый как иллюзия того, что можно убицца на детской карусельке с лошадками. Даже не так - этот альбом и есть карусельные лошадки, его можно спокойно включать всей семье. А я хочу Euthanasia Coaster как Deathhammer и Insulter. Чтобы вышибало нахуй зубы и мозги. Это трэш в моем представлении ,все ИМХО.