Testament guitar Eric Peterson talks about the follow-up to last year’s all-conquering ‘The Formation Of Damnation’ album. Get your tickets for Testament’s Metal Hammer-sponsored tour now!
Peterson has said to Metal Asylum: “We’ve got a lot of riffs left over, songs maybe one or two ready to go. After touring is done in September/October, I will start putting stuff together and hopefully the new album will be out in 2010. A couple of songs are complete, just not vocally. One song is a ballad and we haven’t had a slow one since ‘Low’ (‘Trail of Tears’) and this one is incredible, I love it. It reminds me of something off Scorpions ‘Lovedrive’.”

“(The new album is) probably more melodic and more heavy; the best of both worlds, like “The Formation of Damnation.” Looking at more thrash on the new record, but yet there will be a ballad. More of everything less of nothing!”

Testament will head out on a Metal Hammer sponsored tour in July. Dates are:

July 20th – Sheffield Corporation
July 21st – Glasgow Garage
July 22nd – Newcastle 02 Academy
July 23rd – O2 Academy Bristol
July 24th – London 02 Shepherds Bush Empire
July 25th – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

After their stunning One Night Only tour earlier in the year, this is one show that no self-respecting thrash fan is going to want to miss! Get your tickets now!