Testament - The Dark Roots Of Earth

[Metal B]

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'tin les gars! Forbidden Evil bordel!

[Larry]

Vous ressentez du feeling dans le thrash ?

Un des albums qui m'a vraiment marqué dernièrement niveau batterie dans le thrash, c'est Tempo Of The Damned d'Exodus, le batteur a un jeu monstreux, il apporte un vrai truc aux morceaux.

[olivier64]

J'écouterai ça.

[Metal B]

tant mieux,bostaph est une patate !!

J'espère que c'est une blague là quand même. Bostaph une patate ? Il vaut mieux être sourd que d'entendre ça.

alors tu es sourd !!
se mec est lié au pires albums sorti ces dernieres années.

Je ne pense pas qu'on puisse définir la qualité d'un album à la seule performance du batteur...
C'est pas la faute à Bostaph si Slayer nous sert de la merde depuis 10 ans...

Si Venom et Possesed ont sorti des tueries (pour vous, pas pour moi hein!), c'est gràce à Abbadon et Mike Sus?

[Cardinal-Sin]

Si Venom et Possesed ont sorti des tueries (pour vous, pas pour moi hein!), c'est gràce à Abbadon et Mike Sus?

notamment

[kingdavid of steel]

assurement

[Metal B]

Diantre!

[kingdavid of steel]

ventre saint gris !!

[Metal B]

Triple mazette!

[kingdavid of steel]

que le grand crick me croque !!

[Metal B]

Fichtre!

[kingdavid of steel]

monjoie !

[brother of steel]

"Saint-Denis!"

[Metal B]

Miséricorde!

[Globox666]

Tabarnak !

[Auric]

OH FAN DE CHICHOURLE !

[MDT]

OH FAN DE CHICHOURLE !

OH BONNE MERE!!!

[guardianofsteel]

Septembre l'album apparemment

[kingdavid of steel]

oh peu chere !

[olivier64]

pécaïre

[Gaëtan]

tant mieux,bostaph est une patate !!

J'espère que c'est une blague là quand même. Bostaph une patate ? Il vaut mieux être sourd que d'entendre ça.

alors tu es sourd !!
se mec est lié au pires albums sorti ces dernieres années.

Je ne pense pas qu'on puisse définir la qualité d'un album à la seule performance du batteur...
C'est pas la faute à Bostaph si Slayer nous sert de la merde depuis 10 ans...

Si Venom et Possesed ont sorti des tueries (pour vous, pas pour moi hein!), c'est gràce à Abbadon et Mike Sus?

Sauf que Hoglan c'est un gars qui s'investit dans les compos en règle général. Ça n'a jamais été qu'un simple exécutant, sauf peut-être dans Death.

[guardianofsteel]

En attendant du son, Disciple of the Watch en pro-shot :

[Everflow]

Interview de Chuck Billy sur l'album, les changements de batteur, etc. :

Backstage at Heavy TO, TESTAMENT vocalist Chuck Billy discussed his band’s forthcoming album, The Dark Roots Of Earth, exclusively with BraveWords.com. The tattooed frontman revealed that it was guitarist Eric Peterson who came up with the title. “It came pretty quick because we were at it for months working on the record, then when we decided we were going to try to fulfil a deadline and get a record out this year, it all just snowballed. That came out first and it sounded really good.”

As far as personal significance of The Dark Roots Of Earth, Chuck offered the following, “Being Native American, it has a different meaning for me - being grounded and set in tune with the earth. But we’ve always been a band that’s touched on stories of the earth or Nostradamus predictions, things like that on all our records. So it was kind of fitting; I’m big into the planet. When I first heard it, I dug it.”

Lyrically the new material deals with “things that happen every day. There’s a lot of things having to do with the earth, war of course. It’s odd that some of the songs I wrote have a lot of earth vibes in them, and then finding out the title of the record after as I was writing about that anyhow, everything just kind of fell into that. We’re still working; we have seven songs complete with vocals. All the music’s recorded. Eric just got back from London and finished all the guitar tracks. Drums are all done; Gene Hoglan (who sat behind the kit on Demonic in 1997) played drums on it.”

Speaking of drums, it’s public knowledge that Paul Bostaph is not playing on the album because he’s injured. But what isn’t known is the extent of that injury, what’s wrong with him? “I don’t want to talk for Paul because I think he should do that, but we do know he has a wrist injury that he rehabilitated. He’s been doing therapy for it with his doctor; it’s a touchy thing. You want to make sure you do the right thing. We’ve always told him not to worry about it, just get better. We’ll be here when you’re ready to go. I know he rehabbed the wrist, but I don’t know what point he’s at now? I know he’s not going to make the tour.”

In addition to the mighty Gene Hoglan (DEATH, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, FEAR FACTORY), Chris Adler from LAMB OF GOD is playing drums on a couple of songs. “When we decided we were going to meet a deadline, it was like, okay, who’s playing drums? That was the first thing. So we put some feelers out there and a couple drummers got back to us. Chris actually was one of the first, but he was doing a Lamb Of God record so the scheduling wasn’t working. So we gave him a couple of tracks that he could do for us while he was doing his record. It worked out well, he had fun with it.”

The tentative release date for The Dark Roots Of Earth is “October sometime. But I don’t think we’ve ever put out a record that we weren’t ready for it to be out. So who knows what happens in this business? That’s the date we’re shooting for. It’s our career, our music, and we want the fans to enjoy it. We don’t want to be kicking ourselves in the ass because somebody else made us do something. We’ve got a tour planned coming up at the end of the year.”

Chuck leaked details of the aforementioned tour in July during an interview at the Rockstar Mayhem Fest; the lineup was supposed to be TESTAMENT, ANTHRAX, OVERKILL and DEATH ANGEL. However, shortly thereafter Overkill vocalist Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth said that his band will not be part of this tour. “Okay, well then Overkill’s not on that, I take it back – Testament, Death Angel and Anthrax. That’s what I heard, but I’m not their agent. I’m sure they heard the same thing. I heard about this tour a month ago so I’m sure they knew of it as well. So for them at the last minute to decide not to do it – I don’t know the reason but it’s too bad. It would have been fun. We haven’t toured with those guys in over 20 years, same with Anthrax. I thought that was a good package but the three will be great, if we add a fourth band – bonus.”

In other live news, it’s been reported that Testament cancelled their participation in the Sweden Rock Cruise, which sails October 6th and 7th. Chuck is quick to set matters straight, “We never cancelled – we never booked.” Despite cruise organizers advertising Testament as headliners, Chuck is adamant that he “never saw an offer come across the table. Then I heard that we’re on some cruise – really? If they want us to play so bad, get us over there. They know how to do it.”

Testament’s previous album, The Formation Of Damnation, released in 2008, was incredibly well received. Does that act as a weight on your shoulder now, serving as pressure for The Dark Roots Of Earth to be just as good if not better? “Well yeah, you always want it to be better or just as good. I think at this point in our career, well we’ve always wrote for ourselves, but you never quite know until it’s all done. Just working for as many years as we have, we know the songs are going to come out. But I think this record’s definitely, I’d say maturing. It’s not slam the world; it’s got a little more dynamics. Testament never does the same record twice.”

[Dave]

Vous ressentez du feeling dans le thrash ?

Un des albums qui m'a vraiment marqué dernièrement niveau batterie dans le thrash, c'est Tempo Of The Damned d'Exodus, le batteur a un jeu monstreux, il apporte un vrai truc aux morceaux.

tu m'étonnes, c'est Tom Hunting, le batteur originel du groupe qui a resisté à l'épreuve du temps, un très grand batteur qui a un jeu vraiment très varié et qui a su s'adapter au nouveau style du groupe qui est devenu beaucoup plus rapide et agressif que dans les 80's...

[Kiss of Death]

c'est clair, c'est un des meilleurs batteurs du circuit, un monstre de technique, même si son style est moins démonstratif qu'un Lombardo par exemple.

[Everflow]

Paul Bostaph parle de sa blessure et sa guérison en cours :

On the "serious injury" which has forced him to sit out the recording sessions for TESTAMENT's new studio album and not be able to take part in any touring activities with the band:

"I have a rehearsal studio of my own, and [back in March] I finished rehearsing and there was some equipment stacked around my drum set that, when I rehearse sometimes, I keep that studio a little dark… which is always good except for when you can't see what you are walking around. And I tripped over some stuff on the floor, fell, and subsequently, a couple of hours later, I had a lump on my wrist. I wasn't sure what it was and I went into physical therapy and the lump had caused tendonitis, so it kept me off the drum set for a while. And I just have had the lump removed. I think now it's been three weeks. And what it turned out to be was I was born with what they call an extensor muscle that was attached to my index finger of my right hand, which is an extra muscle. They removed the muscle, the tendonitis is gone. Now I'm just recovering from the surgery, so as soon as I do that, I'll be back behind the kit again."

On why it has seemingly taken so long to get the surgery done:

"Usually, when it comes to, especially a wrist, or anything in particular when it comes down to physical injury, the last thing you wanna do is go to the knife unless it's a clear-cut case where you need surgery. When it comes to a wrist, it's such a delicate area that I know drummers that have gone and had surgery on their wrist, and now they don't play anymore. It's something where when you have a wrist injury, you wanna exhaust all possibilities in terms of physical therapy 'cause the problem could go away with time and healing.

"When I was younger, I had tendonitis, and every doctor I saw wanted to cut me. 'Surgery will fix it,' [they told me]. And I said I didn't wanna do that. So I [followed] my own therapies and it went away over time. So with that experience in mind, instead of going straight to surgery, which… Even MRIs didn't show what the problem was with my wrist, because I don't think too many people are born with an extra muscle where mine was. So that was it. And I'm on the healing path."

On how it seems to have taken a long time to get to this point in his recovery:

"It actually did seem like a long time, but not only because of TESTAMENT's schedule. I'm really not the kind of person who likes to sit around and do nothing, and because of the wrist injury, that's literally what I was doing — other than running, 'cause my feet work. I'm used to playing drums all the time. You don't really know how much you use your hands until you can't. So I couldn't even twiddle my thumbs. So, yeah, it did seem like a long time. TESTAMENT had a timetable; they had to get a record done. There was no way that I could force myself to get behind the kit to record a record or do any kind of touring without knowing that I would do more permanent damage and potentially not be able to play drums anymore, and that's not an option."

On when fans can expect to see him behind the kit again:

"As soon as I'm ready to play. Basically, the tendonitis problem is gone; it was the result of the 'mini-me' that was in my wrist. The tendonitis that was caused from that is gone, but now they had to make an incision in my wrist, and because of that, anytime you get an incision, scar tissue develops after the surgery. So the scar issue is around all my tendons, and that has to be broken up through physical therapy, which is now happening. I'm getting my range of motion back, and after I get my range of motion back, then I get my strength back, and as soon as I get the confidence to start playing behind the kit, which is all repetitive motion. When you've got scar tissue surrounding tendons, and it's really tight and you try to push it, and you start doing any kind of a repetitive-motion exercise, which would be drumming, you could make whatever you were trying to fix, like, worse, or permanent.

"I've been getting timetables [from doctors] ever since I injured [my wrist], and they never turn out. The last time I saw my doctor, the doctor said, 'Take up the sticks whenever you're ready.' So as soon as I feel healthy enough and I'm confident that my wrist feels good, then I'll start picking up the sticks again and I'll start playing.

"I'm a very physical player, so there's only one way I know how to play, and if I can't do that, then that's just not playing drums to me. So I'm just gonna take my time."

On how he feels about Gene Hoglan (DETHKLOK, FEAR FACTORY, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, DARK ANGEL, DEATH) playing drums on the new TESTAMENT album:

"Gene's a god behind the drum set. The only thing that I think about when I heard that Gene was doing the new TESTAMENT record is, 'Oh, God, I've gotta learn that dude's parts?' There's a benchmark for metal drumming — I think Gene and [Dave] Lombardo [from SLAYER], those two guys set it, for me."

On whether it was awkward not being around for the writing and recording of the new TESTAMENT album considering that he is still the band's official drummer:

"Yes, it was very strange. I've been going through a lot this entire year. This entire year has been very interesting. Not only did I have the wrist injury, I went through a divorce this year as well. So the divorce came first, then the wrist injury happened. And it was like, 'OK. What next?' I was really kind of disconnected from creativity this year. The physical injury really kind of threw me back; I didn't know what was wrong and I didn't know if I would be playing drums anymore. And the band had to forge ahead. And they had my 100 percent understanding and blessing to do that."