Watch: TESTAMENT Performs First Present With DAVE LOMBARDO

Testomony just lately reunited with drummer Dave Lombardo within the wake of Gene Hoglan leaving the band. Lombardo was beforehand in Testomony between 1998 and 1999, and performed on (and helped write) the 1999 document The Gathering. Now you’ll be able to take a look at the band with Lombardo behind the equipment dwell for the primary time in over 20 years from a present on April 6 on the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, CA.

In keeping with Testomony vocalist Chuck Billy in a latest interview, Lombardo has expressed curiosity in working with guitarist Eric Peterson on the brand new materials.

“All of it relies on Eric; he is the start line of what we do. So, speaking to him, he is, like, ‘Man, I’ve acquired so many riffs.’ He is prepared to write down one other document, which is nice. And I feel hopefully bringing Dave in and just a few new blood and somebody to push him a little bit bit… ‘Trigger I suppose Dave, truly, once we did The Gathering document… Eric‘s all the time been the one who’s programmed the drums on a drum machine and actually labored out the songs after which offered them to the drummers, the place I feel on that specific document Dave simply mentioned, ‘Dude, simply play.’

“And he simply jumped in and so they simply began jamming and began simply creating like that. So there was one thing to that the place Eric actually targeted on the guitar work as a substitute of getting to fret in regards to the drums. And I feel hopefully him and Dave can begin creating some cool magic by simply jamming once more and see what occurs.”

Billy later added that working with Lombardo on new materials got here up fairly early.

“After we first acquired [Dave] again and talked about getting again on tour and blah blah blah, [we said] ‘What about doing one other document?’ And the very first thing, he is, like, ‘Dude, might you think about one other document that we wrote collectively?’ And I am, like, ‘Yeah. So let’s do this.’

“I feel [Dave is] down [for doing an album]. I am not holding my breath that Dave simply is in Testomony solely however we’re gonna need to sort of maneuver round what occurs. However then once more, that is the start of the connection. We may be busy sufficient and he may simply be pleased sufficient simply working with us and it really works out. So we’re simply sort of taking it at some point at a time, one tour at a time. We all know he is gonna be with us for the following three excursions — we all know that for positive — so we’ll see what occurs after that.”