Testament

We pulled all the stops for the first ''Creep Show' podcast of 2010. There's background animation, high-tech cameras and clip-on microphones for each panelist and pans and zoom courtesy of a full crew of union employees. It was almost like we were 'That Metal Show' for …

With the American Carnage Tour -- featuring titans Megadeth, Slayer and Testament on one bill that is so metallic that it could crap iron ore, currently postponed -- extreme metal mag Decibel prepared for the tour by studding the cover of their February issue with Megadeth's Dave Mustaine, Slay…

Oh, the horror! The year and nascent decade's most anticipated metal tour package -- the American Carnage Tour, featuring Slayer, Megadeth and Testament -- has been postponed due to health issues being faced by Slayer vocalist/bassist Tom Araya...

For nearly every record of their 23-year career, San Francisco thrash band Testament have tried to create songs that were both a departure and a natural progression from their last batch. Sometimes they were more melodic (1989's 'Practice What You Preach'), occasionally they were way …

Considering that they had played nearly 200 shows to support 2008's 'The Formation of Damnation,' Bay Area thrash veterans Testament were looking forward to getting off the road and back in the studio to record their next disc. In early November, vocalist Chuck Billy, guitarist Eric Peterson, bassis…

For many musicians, 2009 wasn't a banner year. The economy took a nosedive, which affected ticket and merch sales. Plus fans continued to embrace file sharing with impunity, dramatically impacting the number of albums that were Soundscanned each week...

On Christmas Eve, with all the stores and restaurants closed (except Chinese restaurants, of course) and all the TV channels broadcasting lame holiday specials, what could be more heartwarming than metal? Gorgoroth and Cephalic Carnage are fine, but over the next two days we recommend you check out …

There aren't many bands like Acrassicauda. That's because there aren't many thrash metal bands from Iraq. There also aren't many thrash metal acts who've been forced to flee their native lands for Syria, because of the explosive violence happening all around them...

"When I grew up, I was a total black metalhead." Impious drummer Michael Norén tells Noisecreep, explaining the inclusion of Gorgoroth, Dissection and, perhaps, the Black Dahlia Murder on his 'Your iPod Is Showing' list. "The people living in the small community where I was born and r…

The last decade was kind to heavy metal. Not only did veteran acts release some of their most exciting work, a flurry of new bands also came out of nowhere to demand their place among the greats. Noisecreep recently compiled lists of the best songs and albums of the past decade and it's been no…