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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"
16 сен 2024 :	Watch: TESTAMENT Joined By 11-Year-Old Viral Rock Sensation MAYA NEELAKANTAN At Las Vegas Concert
14 сен 2024 :	TESTAMENT Unleashes 'Brazen' Coffee
12 сен 2024 :	CHUCK BILLY On Upcoming TESTAMENT Album: It Sounds 'New And Modern And Fresh'
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 :

16 апр 2023

DAVE LOMBARDO To Sit Out TESTAMENT's 2023 Shows, Says Future With The Band Is Uncertain

Dave Lombardo says he will sit out the remainder of TESTAMENT's 2023 shows, with no guarantee that he will return to the band.

Lombardo, who was the guest drummer on TESTAMENT's 1999 studio album "The Gathering", formally joined the long-running San Francisco Bay Area act last year. The former SLAYER drummer is currently a member of the MISFITS, MR. BUNGLE, EMPIRE STATE BASTARD and SATANIC PLANET, among others. He also played with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES from 2016 up until 2020.

In a brand new interview with BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Lombardo was asked to detail his 2023 plans and priorities. "Let's start with SUICIDAL," he said. "I haven't been able to play with SUICIDAL because he [frontman Mike Muir] is not on tour as often or as much as I'd like. When I joined them in 2016, man, it was on. But then the pandemic [happened], and I believe he has [health] issues. I think he's had a couple of surgeries on his back. It's limited the amount of shows he does a year. I haven't played with them in a while."

He continued: "I'm focusing on the MISFITS, MR. BUNGLE, EMPIRE STATE BASTARD, and in 2022, when I was on tour with TESTAMENT, I had stuff lined up that was starting to build for 2023. With TESTAMENT, we were having several scheduling conflicts. I couldn't back out of them. I won't be joining them on their upcoming tours for 2023. My focus is on BUNGLE, who I've recorded an album with back in 2019 and we did a live album. EMPIRE STATE BASTARD, I recorded an album for them in 2020. That's going to finally see the light of day later this year. We've already released a single. I'm not doing the [upcoming] shows with SATANIC PLANET… I won't be performing with them. Instead of doing live shows [with SATANIC PLANET], I really like to just be more on the production and songwriting side. It's very industrial, very dark. It's got a very evil vibe, but great guys nonetheless. Some of the most kindest people I've met in my life, which contrasts with the music."

Lombardo was then pressed about whether he will be playing with TESTAMENT in the foreseeable future, including performing on the band's next studio album. "I don't know, because everything is starting to snowball with MR. BUNGLE and EMPIRE STATE BASTARD and the MISFITS," he said. "I've been with the MISFITS since 2016. TESTAMENT is a well-oiled machine. They're always touring and releasing albums. To try to find that space or that time to release something… I don't know."

When asked whether this meant his status with TESTAMENT was "uncertain," Lombardo replied, "Yes. It's wait-and-see. I can't guarantee anything because of my commitments. I did fulfill my contractual commitment for 2022, which was quite extensive. We did one of the longest tours I have done. It was like seven weeks in Europe, which was great. I really needed to get out there and build my chops after the pandemic. That was a lifesaver. We'll see. The relationship is good. The doors are open. The communication is there. I told them that I was seeing some clashes coming up. This was in the first week of January when I reached out to Eric [Peterson, guitar] and told him. This has been brewing for a while. Actually, I saw it in November/December of last year. I started seeing, 'Oh no. This is going to happen. This is not going to happen.' It's very tricky."

Recent photos posted by TESTAMENT bassist Steve DiGiorgio on his Instagram show that the band has been rehearsing for its upcoming South American tour with drummer Chris Dovas (SEVEN SPIRES),who previously filled in for Lombardo on the first six dates of TESTAMENT's summer/fall 2022 leg of "The Bay Strikes Back Tour". Lombardo was unable to make those gigs due to a scheduling conflict with the MISFITS.

TESTAMENT's "Klash Of The Titans" tour of Latin America with KREATOR is scheduled to kick off on April 19 in Lima, Peru and run through May 9 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

In a new interview with Chile's iRock.CL, TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy was asked what it was like to play with Lombardo again last year. Chuck said: "Well, it was like old friends meeting together again, when we got to get back on the road together. It was really like old times. It felt like a normal family, I guess. It was great having him back. He came at a right time when Gene [Hoglan, longtime TESTAMENT drummer] wasn't available due to scheduling problems, and Dave had a lot of open time. So the timing worked. I know Dave's a busy man, so he has other projects too, and it's not TESTAMENT. So I imagine that'll… We can't really control all that. But it was very fun, those tours we did. He added his Lombardo-isms to the old TESTAMENT songs. So it was good."

In March 2022, Billy told the WSOU 89.5 FM radio station that he didn't expect Lombardo to focus only on TESTAMENT in the ensuing months. "I'm not holding my breath that Dave just is in TESTAMENT only but we're gonna have to kind of maneuver around what happens," he said. "But then again, this is the beginning of the relationship. We might be busy enough and he might just be happy enough just working with us and it works out. So we're just kind of taking it one day at a time, one tour at a time. We know he's gonna be with us for the next three tours — we know that for sure — so we'll see what happens after that."

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16 апр 2023

olly71

Нахера надо было принимать приглашение если ты такой бля занятой ? и года не прошло. Я пониаю Слеер почему этого клоуна выгоняли три раза. TESTAMENT имеют статус группы которая не будет подстраиваться или ждать одного члена команды ( ну только если это не Билли или Петерсен ). Найдут другого барабанщика который не так занят как этот кубинец.

16 апр 2023

GreitWhiteHunter

olly71, В интервью же четко написано, что "он выполнил свои обязательства перед группой за 22 год". Со стороны группы к нему претензий нет, как я понимаю. В чем проблема? Ты сам-то часто на одном рабочем месте задерживаешься? Или каждый раз увольняешься только со скандалом?)))

16 апр 2023

olly71

GreitWhiteHunter, Как я понимаю его брали в группу не только на 22 год но и на последующие времена . 22 год закончился сейчас 23 и что пока этот будет кататся с другими группами TESTAMENT будут сидеть и ждать пока он освободится ? чего сильно сомневаюсь. Нормальные музыканты обычно знают какая у них главная группа как правило это самая известная и зарабатывающая больше других и ей уделяется время всё что для неё требуется а на остальные группы ты тратишь только то время которое остаётся от основной. Вот так это работает или ты теряешь должность и заработки в основной группе а потом скулишь в интервью как с тобой несправедливо поступили. И да я уже 25 лет работаю только на себя уже в третьей стране и на меня работают и да я могу легко уволить того кто не уделяет работе времени меньше чем этого я хочу.

16 апр 2023

Reflection

Хотелось бы к ним Ника Баркера на постоянку. Он, конечно, тоже в куче проектов играет, как и Дейв, но делает это скорее по другим причинам и мог бы поставить для Testament высокий приоритет.

16 апр 2023

Aiming High

Странно,сам в прошлом году предложил им свои услуги,а теперь очень занят)

Шапито какой-то.

Имхо, из всего, что он перечислил, только ради Мисфитс стоит как-то бортовать Тестамент.
Может, я ничего не понимаю в этих высоких материях, но по-моему, после таких вот заявлений в духе "ну, я не знаю, что там будет дальше; возможно, я вернусь, а возможно и нет" Тестамент должны распрощаться с Ломбардо навсегда и нанять ударника, который будет уделять все 100% рабочего времени им. В конце концов, это группа из числа ведущих трэш-коллектовов мира. Наверняка в америке найдётся немало статусных и классных ударников, готовых наняться в Тестамент, как бы там ни был крут Ломбардо...

17 апр 2023

Mister

А вроде были разговоры о том, как здорово с ним и музыку писать, и вообще. Теперь как будто зря с Хогланом разошлись, который тоже везде играет, но лет 10 умудрялся время находить.

17 апр 2023

Kliops144

Так может, ему еще не "продлили" официально сами Тестамент.

17 апр 2023

Gleb Monster

Конечно, все мы взрослые люди и всё понимаем. Только бизнес, никакого рок-н-ролла. И всё же было бы честнее сразу называть вещи своими именами. «Наняли Ломбарду на год с возможностью продления» — и нет вопросов.

18 апр 2023

rassol

Gleb Monster, Вот тоже странно. Сказали бы, мол, временно, потом - как пойдёт. К чему весь этот цирк?

17 апр 2023

graillyc

там вон уже Эрик в инстаграме написал, что в туре будет играть Chris Dovas (Seven Spires)
непонятно, конечно, что с альбомом следующим, но посмотрим