TESTAMENT Announces Mini-Tour, Speaks on New Album

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 recorded the effort in part with producer Andy Sneap 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, developingŚ 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.”

Check the tour dates section for details of their U.S. tour.