Rodrigo y Gabriela have added a number of October dates to their upcoming North American tour. With the new album, 11:11, being released on September 8th, the tour begins in mid-September and now runs through most of October.
Starting today, Rodrigo y Gabriela are offering a free mp3 to their fans.  “Atman” is a Sanskrit word meaning the only deathless part of the human being.  The song is dedicated to Dimebag Darrel and Alex Skolnick of Testament guests on the track with a guitar solo.  Rod says:
“Dimebag is the best guitarist ever…and having Alex Skolnick playing on this track (Atman) was …read more

Ride for Dime is an annual charity ride and concert held in remembrance for the victims of the 2004 shooting at Alrosa Villa in Columbus, OH, where “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, Erin Halk, Nathan Bray and Jeff  “Mayhem” Thompson were killed.
The ride starts this year at 2:30pm at the Longhorn Harley-Davidson/Buell located at 2830 W. Interstate 20, Grand Prairie, TX. This ride will be 38 miles long, with a special trip past Dimebag’s house and studio, and end up at The Palladium Ballroom, located at 1135 S. Lamar in Dallas, TX.
At 6:00pm, the BBQ & Bash All Star Jam begins, hosted …read more

Classic Rock Magazine recently interviewed Glen Tipton of Judas Priest. The subject of some of the questions were Rob’s voice, criticism of Nostradamus and the decision of touring with Megadeth And Testament on Priest Feast. You can read the entire interview HERE, but here is my take on these three questions:

Free CD Giveaway: Danzig 777 I Luciferi & Testament The Spitfire Collection
Sometimes cds in stores are expensive. That’s why when I come across something at a good price I grab it up. In this case I found Danzig 7: I Luciferi and Testament’s The Spitfire Collection. I can’t disclose where I got them, but when I found these discs I saw the price tag and they were marked $39.00. Obviously I knew this had to be a typo of some sort so I grabber two copies of each, for myself and for this giveaway thinking that they were probably $3.90.

As you know, Testament’s More Than Meets The Eye Video debuted last weekend on Headbanger’s Ball as reported by Blabbermouth. This weekend the video will be featured again on Headbangers Ball as well as never before seen footage of their video shoot at the famed Alcatraz prison off of the San Francisco bay. There will also be other things Testament within the show along with the regular mediocre videos that they will show at the ungodly hour (for us old folks) of 2 AM est, this Saturday night/Sunday morning. Check out the video below.
 

Testament – New Music – More …read more

2008 has been a great year for metal. Here is my Top 10 Favorite Metal Albums of 2008 (that I own). I know that there are probably a lot of other amazing metal albums that came out this year but I can only go off of what I own and what I’ve heard. So more or less these are my favorites and not some definitive collection of what I think is the best. How many people can honestly say that they have heard and thoroughly listened to every new metal album that came out this year? Anyway, let’s get …read more

I can’t help but think of Transformers every time I see the name of this song. Here is Testament’s More Than Meets The Eye from The Formation Of Damnation.
 

Testament – New Music – More Music Videos

Testament’s 2008 release The Formation Of Damnation will be issued in a limited number of 2500 on green vinyl. I like green vinyl. It’s pretty cool, in fact any color vinyl besides black is pretty damn entertaining just to hold and look at. I have Slipknot’s Roadrunner debut on green vinyl and a 10″ Torche Ep on Orange vinyl. Swing on over to TestamentLegions and get it while it’s hot…or before it goes on ebay.
Orders are limited to the USA. The cost of the record is $20.00 and shipping is $5.00.
Image Source: Testament Legions Merch

From Nuclear Blast Newsletter:
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…

What? One lousy update yesterday? Yeah, I know. That’s not like me but I had a few things in order that I had to take care of last night. So let’s go over June really quick.
I went to see Dark Tranquility, Divine Heresy, Firewind and Soldiers Of Scrape on the Tyranny And Bloodshred tour…minus the tyranny. That was a bad ass show. I’ll announce the winner of the autographed Bleed The Fifth CD tonight.
Withered’s new album Folie Circulaire came out on the 17th, an extremely heavy and noisy album to say the least, but it’s one of those that just grows …read more