According a listing on Apple Music, Testament will release their long-awaited new album Titans of Creation on April 3. Titans of Creation was recorded with Juan Urteaga (Exodus, Exhumed, Machine Head) who also worked on Testament's past two albums, and was mixed by Andy Sneap (Judas Priest).
Here's the track list.
01. Children Of The Next Level
02. WWII
03. Dream Deceiver
04. Night Of The Witch
05. City Of Angels
06. Ishtars Gate
07. Symptoms
08. False Prophet
09. The Healers
10. Code Of Hammurabi
11. Curse Of Osiris
12. Catacombs
Testament vocalist Chuck Billy said in an interview back in September 2019 that the new record has "a lot of Mercyful Fate kind of stuff" and "some black metal stuff."
"This one definitely has some different elements. I think Eric [Peterson, guitar] definitely stepped back into little of his — I don't know — maybe, Mercyful Fate shoes. There's a lot of Mercyful Fate kind of stuff. Eric does some black metal stuff. There's some blast beats, which he's kind of mixed in there, which that's not the norm for us. So it's a little different again. I think all the songs definitely have their own identity and stand on their own."
Billy also said at a press conference during Hellfest that the new album is faster than 2016's Brotherhood of the Snake. So basically this new album is going to be all guns blazing, all the time.
"It's definitely faster than the last record. But I think the way we've been writing the last couple of records, we work a long time on the riffs, but when we get in the studio is when we really start putting the pressure on ourselves, and I think we've been working better under pressure. It's not my favorite time of year when it's time to write lyrics and get prepared to do the record, so it gets tough. But it really drives us to really reach down and do something. 'Cause when you get to a point when you wrote 120 songs, it's a little tough to get inspired by 'What else can I write?' 'What else can we do?' 'How do we keep it fresh?'"
"I give Eric credit, because he doesn't follow anybody else — he has his own taste in music, and he brings what he does to Testament. And it always keeps us on our toes, and me especially, because when I hear the riff, I expect, 'Maybe it's gonna be the old-school thrash — maybe.' But then when I get it, okay, I hear the thrash, but then there's some new elements and maybe some new chords that he chooses to play that maybe aren't comfortable for me. And when I first hear them, I go, 'Wow. That's different. Maybe I'm not so comfortable.' But it pushes me to experiment and challenge myself to try something different. And I think that's what keeps the Testament records always sounding different — we don't copy ourselves. So I'm very proud of what we did, because again we had our backs against the wall and a little pressure on us, and the songs came out great. And I think everybody's gonna enjoy the record again. We have some really good stuff on it — some good thrash, some good melodic stuff, some good melodies on the vocals. So there's a little bit of everything."
Expect a single soon.
[via Blabbermouth]
