TESTAMENT is pleased to announce a string of headlining dates this October with Louisiana metallers Soilent Green. The tour includes TESTAMENT’s appearance at the Hammerstein Ballroom on October 9 in New York City, where they will be direct support to headliners Children of Bodom; also special guests, The Black Dahlia Murder and Between The Buried and Me. More news and tour dates after the fold…

Guitarist Eric Peterson checked in to discuss the Metal Masters tour and the band’s upcoming US headlining dates: “We just finished the Metal Masters tour, and it was a great tour to be on. Unfortunately, it went by too quick. We got to know everyone towards the end, and it started to feel like family. It’s too bad it had to end so soon, especially after getting to know everyone. Hopefully, the Metal Masters will continue next year in Europe.

“In the meantime, we’re heading to Japan and Australia. The last time we played there in ’06, we promised our fans we’d have a new record out the next time we came around. We kept our promise and we’re excited to get back there and play it for them.

“Once we get back, we’ll be headlining some east coast shows, including a one-off with Children of Bodom at the infamous Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. We’ll have full production, so we’re excited to put on our whole show. This tour is going to focus on secondary markets, so we don’t spoil anything for next year. We plan on having a big year and putting a big package together, wink wink.”

September Remaining tour dates

09/25/08 The Arena – Brisbane, Australia
09/26/08 HiFi – Melbourne Australia
09/27/08 The Metro – Sydney, Australia
October 2008:
10/01/08 Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City, OK
10/03/08 Rex Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
10/04/08 The Lost Horizon – Syracuse, NY
10/05/08 Lulu’s – State College, PA
10/07/08 Chameleon Club – Lancaster, PA
10/08/08 Crocodile Rock – Allentown, PA
10/09/08 Hammerstein Ballroom – New York, NY*
10/10/08 Webster Theate – Hartford, CT
All dates with Soilent Green, except for date marked with *, which is with Children of Bodom, Black Dahlia Murder, and Between Buried And Me
October 2008:
Testament in Mexico (venues TBA):
10/27/08 Monterey, Mexico
10/29/08 Guadalajara, Mexico
10/30/08 Puebla, Mexico
10/31/08 Mexico City, Mexico
November 2008:
11/09/08 Southern Amp Festival Christchurch NZ

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Dry raped you say? Yeah, it’s just like dry humping, only it’s not consensual and it was from a dude behind me. I don’t really think he meant to, but he was excited to see Hatebreed and was pushed up against me and jumping up and down a lot so it really felt like I was being dry humped. It’s expected though when you’re at a crowded venue with a big band and your up against the barrier. It made me rather uncomfortable but it didn’t last long. He must have got off quick.

So Hatebreed was an awesome show last night, but let me start from the beginning because there was 5 bands and all of them were really good. Catalepsy kicked off the show and they were really heavy in a deathcore way…and in to aerobics. All the guitar players liked to do the jogging in place thing while playing the rhythm riffs. If you’re new to this band too, you will find that they have three guitar player and they all play 7 strings. Now I don’t know the concept behind this but it’s not like Iron Maiden, 3 guitar players. I don’t see the necessity of three guitar player in a band like this. Especially an opener. Sometimes you have to look at it in a business way and think that that’s one more person to pay, one more mouth to feed on the road. But they played well and got one dude moshing his ass off all by himself.

Next up was War Of Ages. I talked to Leroy, the singer before the show for a few minutes. Nothing special. Facedown Records was cool enough to get me on the guest list and I wanted to get an interview with the band but I really didn’t know enough about them, so I thought it would be better not to this time. They had a bass trigger issue so things started a little late and it seem that they only played a 15 or 20 minute set. They had their prayer before they started playing and then commenced to kick ass. There still wasn’t too many people yet but more were trickling in. The show started at 6:30 and most of the time they start shows there at 8:00.

After War Of Ages finished up, Soilent Green started setting up and this big drunk asshole was talking a bunch of shit and starting to get on people nerves to include mine. He kept saying how he smoked joint with Phil Anselmo on the stage a long time ago. He was probably one of the most annoying drunks I’ve encountered at a show in a long time. I’m not an aggressive person. I’m 5′7″ tall and weigh about 170 and I know my limitations, however I’ve never wanted to beat the hell out of a drunk dude so much in my entire life. That’s how annoying he was. Anyway, Soilent Green was good and played well, but I’m not a big fan of their music, so they were probably the least favorite of the bands that played last night.

Emmure came on after Soilent Green and were really cool. They kind of bring an almost urban vibe to their music. The only thing was that the singer, “Big Al”, seemed as if he was using more of the high pitch scream/growl than usual. I don’t know if his vocal cords were taking a beating from being on the road a lot or what. But other than that they played great and put on a good show.

Hatebreed took about 30 minutes or so to come on after Emmure. Mr Drunk-shit disappeared for awhile and it was kind of peaceful for a bit. By this time the venue was starting to look more full. Chants of HATEBREED!-HATEBREED! started up but died out before the band took the stage. When Hatebreed took the stage the place erupted. I honestly can’t remember what song they opened with but they played most of the classics and some from cd’s and ep’s before Perseverance, which I didn’t know. They played Doomsayer, Live For This, Defeatists, As Diehard As They Come, This Is Now, among the others and closed the show with Destroy Everything and I Will Be Heard. Everything sounded tight and there was some crazy pit action going on behind me during their set. The band looked like they were having a good time as well. When Jamie wasn’t singing he was smiling. It has been a few years since they came through NC. This was my first Hatebreed show and Aside from the dry-raping, I had a blast. My neck is sore and my voice is raspy. As you can see I didn’t take any pictures. There is a good reason for the lack of pics. Cameras were not allowed in the Hatebreed show. It kind of sucked but at the same time it was nice not having to carry that damn thing around.

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Fortunately tonight’s Hatebreed show in Richmond and Sunday’s show in Raleigh with Emmure, Soilent Green, War Of Ages and Catalepsy. I’ll be there Sunday night so keep an eye out for pictures and a review on Monday!

Luau Band list after the fold…

Bands That Were To Play Saturdays Luau:

• Sevendust
• Ratt
• Hatebreed
• Saving Abel
• All That Remains
• Taproot
• Soilent Green
• Arsis
• Eve To Adam
• Revery
• The Grant Austin Taylor Band
• Download
• Construkt
• Unrestricted
• Conflict Of Interest

Some of these bands may still be playing w/ Hatebreed at Steppin’ Out.

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War of Ages released their new album Arise and Conquer on July 22nd and will be touring in support of it.

TOUR DATES:

With HATEBREED, Emmure and Soilent Green

• Sep 2  – Detroit, MI – I-Rock Nightclub
• Sep 3  – Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s Down Under
• Sep 4 – Lancaster, PA – Chameleon Club
• Sep 5 – Richmond, VA – The Canal Club
• Sep 7 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theater
• Sep 8 – West Springfield, VA – JAXX
• Sep 9 – Farmingdale, NY – The Crazy Donkey
• Sep 10 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
• Sep 11 – Portland, MN – The Asylum

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05/01/08 The Machine Shop – Flint, MI (w/ TESTAMENT)
05/02/08 Peabody’s Down Under – Cleveland, OH (w/ TESTAMENT)
05/03/08 Crocodile Rock Café -Allentown, PA
05/04/08 Crazy Donkey – Long Island, NY
05/06/08 Northern Lights – Albany, NY
05/07/08 Sonar – Baltimore, MD
05/08/08 Jaxx – Springfield, VA
05/09/08 Volume 11 – Raleigh, NC
05/10/08 Steppin Out – Virginia Beach, VA
05/11/08 Lucky’s Pub – Wilmington, NC
05/13/08 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
05/14/08 Boomerz -Seminole, FL
05/16/08 Scout Bar – Houston, TX
05/17/08 Ridglea Theatre -Ft. Worth, TX
05/18/08 Rock Bottom -San Antonio, TX
05/19/08 Club 101 – El Paso, TX
05/21/08 Gator’s – Farmington, NM
05/22/08 The Sets – Phoenix, AZ
05/23/08 Jillian’s – Las Vegas, NV
05/24/08 House of Blues – Hollywood, CA
05/25/08 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA
05/26/08 The Dome – Bakersfield, CA
05/27/08 Fat Cats – Modesto, CA
05/28/08 The Boardwalk – Sacramento, CA
05/30/08 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
05/31/08 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
06/02/08 Marquis Theatre – Denver, CO
06/04/08 Pop’s – St. Louis, MO
06/05/08 Alrosa Villa – Columbus, OH
06/06/08 The Pearl Room – Mokena (Chicago), IL
06/07/08 Harpo’s Concert Theater – Detroit, MI
06/08/08 The Opera House -Toronto, ON – CANADA
06/09/08 Fou Founes Electriques – Montreal, QC – CANADA
06/10/08 L’Anti – Quebec City, QC – CANADA
06/11/08 BB Kings Blues Club – New York, NY

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This months feature The Hottest Chicks In Metal, starring Marta of Bleeding Through, Maria Brink of In This Moment, Karin Axelsson of Sonic Sydicate, Kristen Randall of Winds Of Plague, Laura Nichol of Light This City, Lennon Murphy of Devil’s Gift, Lennon and lastly L.A. Ink’s Kat Von D. You may be asking “Why is Kat Von D there? She’s not metal.”, Yeah, me too. But she’s got a lot of tattoos, listens to a lot of H.I.M. and is dating Nikki Sixx so that must make her metal, right? All very attractive and intelligent ladies. I wish I could scan and post some photos but image use policies are very strict on our Blog network, sorry. Moving on to the rest of the issue.

There is a great write up on Iron Maiden and the Somewhere Back In Time Tour and Ed Force One. Testament talks about Formation Of Damnation and what led up to it and In Flames talks about the evolution of In Flames with their recent release A Sense Of Purpose. Soilent Green talks about their bad luck in the past few years with Katrina devastating their home town of New Orleans and their van crash in 2001. Those are about the highlights of this issue. EIC, Tom Beaujour talks about the main reason why Revolver does The Hottest Chicks In Metal issue every year and he is pretty blunt about it when he says because “we move a lot of unit”. Can’t blame them for that. Plus it’s always nice to see some of our favorite female metal stars looking sexy instead of screaming or headbanging…even though I’m sure there are people that find that aspect sexy, and that’s cool too.

So if you have $4.99 to spend and can stomach the usual crap like Atreyu and a bit about the garbage that’s infesting Taste Of Chaos this year then pick up June’s Revolver issue.

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Testament

San Francisco’s Bad-ass thrashers continue to put out great thrash albums without disappointment with their latest, unlike some other bay area legends I won’t mention. You can catch Testamenton tour this summer with Judas Priest, Motorhead and Heaven And Hell.

Frontman, Chuck Billy is a guest on fellow bay area female lead breakthrough Light This City who is currently recording their new album to be released this fall and will be on the In Thrash We Trust Tourwith God Forbid, Death Angel and Soilent Green. Don’t miss out!

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LIGHT THIS CITY offers third in-studio update for forthcoming record

San Francisco’s LIGHT THIS CITY has posted the band’s third in-studio video update exclusively at Revolver magazine’s website (http://www.revolvermag.com/). Focusing on vocal tracking, the footage features commentary from the band, snippets of music, and a brief look at Testament mainman Chuck Billy’s vocal contributions to LIGHT THIS CITY’s forthcoming record, the band’s fourth. Also contributing a guest vocal spot on the album is lead scream John from labelmates The Funeral Pyre.

“We have been in the studio in Oakland, CA with engineer Zack Ohren tracking the follow up to Facing the Thousand, which should see a release date in September,” said drummer Ben Murray. “We couldn’t be more excited on how these new songs have turned out, and we are SURE that you guys will love them. Stay tuned for more info on the album as well as more video journals as the recording progresses.”

LIGHT THIS CITY on tour

4/20 Bakersfield, CA – The Dome (420 Fest with Dragonlord, Animosity, more)

4/26 Reno, NV – Tonic Lounge

4/27 Boise, ID – The Myrtle Morgue

4/28 Sheridan, WY – Eagle’s Lodge

(In Thrash We Trust Tour with Death Angel, Soilent Green, God Forbid)

5/01 Flint, MI The – Machine Shop (with Testament)

5/02 Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s (with Testament)

5/03 Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock

5/04 Long Island, NY – Crazy Donkey

5/06 Albany, NY – Northern Lights

5/07 Baltimore, MD – Sonar

5/08 Springfield, VA – Jaxx

5/09 Raleigh, NC – Volume 11

5/10 Virginia Beach, VA – Stepping Out (Virginia Death Fest)

5/13 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade

5/14 Seminole, FL – Boomerz

5/16 Houston, TX – TBA

5/17 Ft. Worth, TX – Ridglea Theatre

5/18 San Antonio, TX – Rock Bottom

5/19 El Paso, TX – Chic’s

5/21 Farmington, NM – Gator’s

5/23 Las Vegas, NV – Jillian’s

5/24 Los Angeles, CA – House of Blues

5/25 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s

5/26 Bakersfield, CA – The Dome

5/27 Modesto, CA – Fat Cats

5/28 Sacramento, CA – The Boardwalk

5/30 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre

5/31 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven

6/02 Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre

6/04 St. Louis, MO – Pop’s

6/05 Columbus, OH – Alrosa Villa

6/06 Mokena, IL – The Pearl Room

6/07 Detroit, MI – Harpo’s

6/08 Toronto, ON – Opera House

6/09 Montreal, QBC – Foufounes

6/10 Quebec City, QBC – L’anti

6/11 New York, NY – BB Kings

Image Courtesy Of Prosthetic Records

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Children of Bodom – Hate Crew Fabric Poster
30 in. x 40 in.
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