Testament Detail New Album “Dark Roots Of Earth”, Late July U.S. Release Date Set
Nuclear Blast have officially unveiled the details for Testament‘s upcoming album “Dark Roots Of Earth“. The effort was produced, mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Opeth) and has been slated for a July 31st North American release date (July 27th in Europe).
A handful of bonus tracks were recorded, mixed and mastered by Juan Urteaga (Cattle Decapitation, Vile). The track listing for the CD/DVD edition of the outing will run as follows:
01 – “Rise Up“
02 – “Native Blood“
03 – “Dark Roots Of Earth“
04 – “True American Hate“
05 – “A Day In The Death“
06 – “Cold Embrace“
07 – “Man Kills Mankind“
08 – “Throne Of Thorns“
09 – “Last Stand For Independence“
Bonus tracks:
10 – “Dragon Attack” (Queen cover)
11 – “Animal Magnetism” (Scorpions cover)
12 – “Powerslave” (Iron Maiden cover)
13 – “Throne Of Thorns” (extended version)
A vinyl pressing of the album sporting the aforementioned 3 cover tracks will also be made available. In the meantime you can check out the Eliran Kantor painted cover art for the release below:
COMMENTS
Can’t wait. Awesome artwork and choice of covers.
I was looking forward to this album ever since last year! can’t fucking wait, I seriously think that Testament should be a part of the big 4 and not Anthrax.
Testament were way too late to the party and weren’t nearly as influential as Anthrax. Likewise, Testament didn’t add anything new to the formula of the big 4 that earns them a spot there. Metallica had songwriting, Megadeth had technical prowess, Slayer had the balls to the wall sound of Satan on their side, and Anthrax brought an entirely new punchy East Coast hardcore element into their brand of thrash. Testament merely took some of these formulas and in a way perfected a few of those sounds into their own about 5 years later.
They originally formed in 1983 as “Legacy” and started out as a thrash band, everyone in the big 4 was inspired by Metallica, I also think it’s blasphemous not to have exodus in the big 4 but it makes sense due to the wobbly line up of members, although I do love the modernized feel to Anthrax’s songs.
Stoked.
Can’t f’ing wait!!!!! Too bad Paul is not on this…….
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