In a new chat with IMPACT Metal Channel, Steve DiGiorgio said Testament’s new album will have a different sound.
“It’s pretty evil. The last album has some cool, catchy songs mixed in with some fast stuff,” the bassist explained about the musical direction of the upcoming record. “And it’s one of my particularly favorite Testament records, the way it came out, ‘Titans.'”
He continued, “So if I say anything, it’s supposedly in a good way catchy; it’s not a turn-off. But this new one, I would definitely say it is much more evil-sounding. Having the new kid [Chris Dovas] on drums has really picked things up, and Chuck’s [Billy, Testament vocalist] singing just as good as ever.”
“And for being 62 now, he still sounds like Chuck. And we have this [slower song] — they’ve been talking about it even before we wrote the song; it’s a ballad-type song. But it’s a Testament ballad. There’s acoustic guitar in it, but then there’s still elements of kind of heavy, slow. But having Floor Jansen sing on it, the Nightwish singer. She’s gonna do a little guest spot in the song,” DiGiorgio revealed.
The musician went on to talk about the new music from Testament, “So, there’s a pretty big variety, considering there’s a ballad combined with some pretty fast, evil sh*t, too. So, I guess, just to keep it simple, it’s another Testament record. The Testament variety is there in all forms again. But this early, it’s also hard to tell until it’s done and we can sit back and listen to it.”
Steve concluded, “Especially me — I’m the worst guesser of how something’s gonna be. Sometimes I think it’s silly and everybody gets behind it, or sometimes I’m really excited about it and kind of no big reaction. So, I don’t know what that means. But I’ll just wait and see. But I know that playing it in the studio was intense. It wasn’t easy to play, so I think that’s why I feel it’s evil, ’cause [there were] some difficult, fast passages and stuff.”
The new Testament record will be a follow-up to 2020’s ‘Titans of Creation’ album. The band will probably release it in the middle of the next year.
