Chuck Billy Discusses Progress on New TESTAMENT Album
In a new interview with Nikki Blakk of San Francisco’s 107.7 The Bone, TESTAMENT singer Chuck Billy provided updates on the recording sessions for the band’s follow-up to 2020’s “Titans Of Creation” album. As transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Chuck shared:
“We’ve been here [in the recording studio] for — I don’t know — a couple months now, and we’re getting ready to leave for Europe in July. So we’ve gotta get everything done in June. So it’s our goal to finish everything this month.”
When asked about the number of tracks on the new album, Chuck revealed:
> “There’ll probably be 11 tracks, and then we have some covers that we’ve done. And we actually did a couple of re-recordings, a song off [TESTAMENT’s debut album] ‘The Legacy’ and a song off [TESTAMENT’s second album] ‘The New Order’, just to have a newer version. And we re-recorded them… Just one song off of each album. Our thought is, ‘Okay, we’re pushing the remasters. Why not pick a song off each, and then let’s mix them, make them sound current, and just maybe put that out there to maybe push those products. I don’t know… These will just be total separate just for fun, marketing.'”
Regarding the timeline for the album’s completion, Chuck elaborated:
“We’ve been writing the record since November last year. It took a while. We just got in the studio in May and June. So we’re finishing up. And right now, once we leave [for tour] in July, we won’t really have time until December, which is a good thing. We’ll be busy, but we’ll have like a week or two between tours to do any extra overdubs or anything. We’re gonna live with the record, which is really the first time we get to do this, because usually we’ll record it and it’s written in stone where now we know… Usually we have Andy Sneap mix it and he’s not available. So we kind of have some time to select somebody else. But in that time, we’re gonna live with the songs and come between tours to make any adjustments or changes, if we have to… We go to Europe and we come home in August and we start the U.S. tour. So we have 10 days or 11 days there before we start. And then after that, we have about 10 days before we start a European tour with KREATOR and ANTHRAX, and that’ll go through December 16th. And then we’re home for the holidays. And then we’ll start thinking about mixing and finishing, getting it out there next year.”
