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6 июн 2025 :	TESTAMENT To Finish Mixing New Album This Week: 'We're About 70, 80 Percent Done'
2 июн 2025 :	ERIC PETERSON Says TESTAMENT's Collaboration With NIGHTWISH's FLOOR JANSEN Is 'Not Gonna Happen'
27 май 2025 :
13 май 2025 :	Watch: TESTAMENT Celebrates 35th Anniversary Of 'Practice What You Preach' In Flint
2 май 2025 :	Watch: TESTAMENT Celebrates 35th Anniversary Of 'Practice What You Preach' Album At 'An Evening With…' Tour Kick-Off
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

2 июн 2025

ERIC PETERSON Says TESTAMENT's Collaboration With NIGHTWISH's FLOOR JANSEN Is 'Not Gonna Happen'

In a new interview with Andrew McKaysmith of the Scars And Guitars podcast, TESTAMENT guitarist Eric Peterson spoke about the band's upcoming follow-up to 2020's "Titans Of Creation" album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm really excited about the new record. There's some 'Gathering'[-style] stuff on there, there's some New Wave Of British Heavy Metal stuff that's like in A that's got that typical kind of old — I don't wanna say SAXON, but some of those cool music that's in A. [There's a] really good ballad. There's some really crazy black metal stuff on there, but TESTAMENT. Yeah, it's gonna be a good one."

Asked if it's true that NIGHTWISH singer Floor Jansen makes a guest appearance on the new TESTAMENT album, Eric said: "No, that's not gonna happen. It was something that was being discussed, and I think it got out there before it was agreeable. And I think she got a little upset — from what I was told. I don't know. This is all hearsay for me. But I think it was too much. And she's, like, 'I didn't even… I mean, I was talking about [doing it], yeah, but I don't…' She would've been great on this song, by the way. This song would've been perfect for her. And then we were, like, 'Let's find someone else.' And I'm, like, 'If anybody's gonna do it, it's gonna be her. And if not…' Chuck [Billy, TESTAMENT singer] sounds great on his own on it. It's a ballad. It's really good. It doesn't really need another singer, but it could have been cool with Floor."

Eric added: "I really like Floor on the live at Wacken 2013 [NIGHTWISH's 'Showtime, Storytime' Blu-ray, DVD, CD and LP], when she came into NIGHTWISH and the end of the tour, they ended it at the Wacken [Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany]. That was my first [introduction to her with NIGHTWISH], 'cause I followed her with the NIGHTWISH stuff, and I was, like, 'I like NIGHTWISH.' But when I watched that show, man, she just killed it on those songs. It's just, like, hair on your arm standing up, like, 'Wow.'"

Last November, Billy told Australia's Jaimunji about the TESTAMENT song which was supposed to be a duet with Jansen: "Yeah, I reached out to her. Me and Floor became friends maybe under 10 years ago. Me and her, Joey Belladonna [ANTHRAX], Udo Dirkschneider [ex-ACCEPT], we all did this Christmas performance show through Europe. And we were singing our songs, but with a Christmas theme with an orchestra. And so we all traveled together and became friends. And she's a powerhouse of a vocalist. Great voice. And when we wrote the song and the lyrics, first thing I thought was, 'Okay, this song, it, it needs a strong girl's voice,' and, of course, Floor is the first one that came to mind."

He continued at the time: "This song, it's gonna be pretty epic. We're gonna put a string section on it, acoustic guitars. It's gonna have a lot going on, but it's a really, really beautiful song. It's really deep. And with Floor, it's kind of me and her kind of singing the lyrics kind of to each other, and the meaning of the song and what we're saying, it's kind of, like, I'll say my part and she's answering me through the vocal. So it's gonna be very strong, very cool. And I can't wait to hear what she's gonna do on it… We haven't sent it to her because we haven't laid down the acoustic guitars yet for it, but the song's done. I tracked it all. I tracked her parts. And I wanna wait till she hears it for the first time with the acoustics and get the vibe — I want her to be in the vibe once she gets it… And Alex [Skolnick, TESTAMENT guitarist] has a connection to some guys that are gonna do the strings on it, who played on some huge records, so what we've heard so far, it's pretty cool."

Last January, Chuck spoke to Belgian Jasper about being open to new influences and not staying musically stagnant over the course of TESTAMENT's nearly four-decade career. He said: "Well, we've always had a sense of being TESTAMENT because Eric doesn't like venture out and try to listen to new bands. He sticks to the classics that he likes and also he likes a lot of black metal. So he kind of listens to his niche of music, but he doesn't listen to something… Like Sirius [XM] radio, that's where we all find what's new and modern and coming out now — he doesn't listen to any of that, so he's not influenced by that, but [new TESTAMENT drummer] Chris [Dovas], being with Chris and spending so much time with him, Chris has turned him on to some newer bands, and Eric's, like, 'Whoa. Wow, that's brutal.' So I know his gears are turning when he's creating songs with Chris. And I know that since Eric didn't follow the leader all the time, he's always had his own style of writing, and it's staying true to TESTAMENT."

Billy went on to say that fans will be able to hear a noticeable musical evolution on TESTAMENT's upcoming LP.

"This new record, it's still staying true to TESTAMENT, but it is influenced by what's going on, which I'm kind of excited [about], because [Eric's] always kept it in the same vein but always trying to improve what TESTAMENT's doing, where this one, it's pushing me vocally, pushing Alex [Skolnick, TESTAMENT guitarist] solo-wise — everybody's getting pushed to the limits of trying something different and new and fresh and not making the same old record. We don't ever wanna do that. We wanna make something that we enjoy and we feel that we're confident to put this out there to the public and I think they're gonna react to it.

"Eric's always been the guy that had to, like, kind of tell the drummer, 'Play this beat, play that beat, try this,' where I think with Chris, Chris was just ready to go," Chuck explained. "Chris was ahead of him, like doing stuff where Eric's, like, 'Whoa, what was that? Oh, wow. I like that.' And just getting to be Eric and just play guitar. [And] it's been so good that now that we wrote the songs for this record, January, February and March [of 2025], Eric and Chris are getting back together to work on the next record already, because they had such a great time and it just clicked. And we're, like, we don't have time to sit around and wait anymore. Let's just keep carrying on. Don't waste time and stretch us out for two, three years, four years. Let's write another record, put this [new one] out [first] and be ready to go, get ahead of the curve."

Last November, Billy told Australia's The Rockpit, about TESTAMENT's upcoming LP: "Well, this [album is] gonna be very special. I think I'm more excited about this one, just because of the fact — the timing of everything. I'm a big person believer in things happen for reasons. And Chris Dovas jamming with us and having a lot of time to come up and spend with Eric at Eric's place, just jamming, coming up a lot of music and working on it hard and tracking it at home and doing demos. And I could tell, when I first started getting the songs and the riffs sent, that it was something different. It's still Eric and I recognize it, but he was being pushed and inspired 'cause Chris is a very fast, aggressive drummer, and I can tell that it just inspired Eric just to be Eric and play guitar instead of trying to think about building a song or making a song — 'Let's just jam.' And that's the kind of way they approached it. And next thing you know, they had 10, 11, 12 jams that were sounding pretty strong, but individually identified just different vibes. And I was, like, 'Okay, this is what it is.' And then, as it just built vocally and everything, that's when we were kind of, 'Wow. It just feels fresh and new and challenging again. Vocally, for me, I've got a wide range of tones on this one — I'm screaming again, which I haven't done that a lot on a lot of records in the past, but a lot on this one. And we are still writing for ourselves, but we're still excited that when we write a song, how it hits live, and that's always been the payoff, is do these songs we write in the studio hit live like we want 'em to? And that's the fun part."

In June 2024, Chuck told Nikki Blakk of the San Francisco, California radio station 107.7 The Bone about the lyrical themes covered in the new TESTAMENT songs: "[It's] not as focused [on], like, the aliens, creating mankind and that kind of stuff, but there is some of that. There's a lot. Each song definitely has its own identity lyrically. And again, we're writing stuff that is real, that happens with the environment; we're singing about that again. A.I., we're singing stuff about that. That's a big thing. So, there's always an inspiration for songs. I think it's a little easier. There's so much going on in our world to write about now. It's a crazy world today, so there's a lot of stuff to talk about. And I like singing about what's real and what's going on instead of some fantasy lyrics, because, for me, I think when I sing 'em, I have more conviction, I believe in 'em a little more. And maybe it's easier for me to remember the lyrics live. [Laughs]"

Naming specific tracks, Chuck said: "There's a song, 'Havana Syndrome', which is about the Havana Syndrome. People, look that up. There's 'Infanticide A.I.', which is another song going A.I. direction. And there's actually a slower song. We haven't done a slower song. I'm not gonna say 'ballad', but I'm gonna say a slower song that has a lot of groove and soul, called 'Meant To Be'. And it's like a classic TESTAMENT-type ballad, I guess, if you wanna use that word. But we've got a little bit of everything, but, again, I think it's really sticking to TESTAMENT, having to have some melodic stuff, even though there's some really brutal lyrics and real brutal, more of a death voice. I still put the hook in with more of a melodic hook or something. It's still classic TESTAMENT. If you listen to it, you'll go, 'That's TESTAMENT, but a little more octane to it.'"

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