Testamentin Chuck Billy: ”Uudella levyllä on enemmän blast beatia”

Thrash metal -yhtye Testamentin vokalisti Chuck Billy on kommentoinut yhtyeen tulevaa albumia Metal Wanin tekemässä haastattelussa. Hän kertoi muunmuassa sen, että levyllä ei ole balladia, tempo on nopeampi ja blast beatia on enemmän.

”Eric just kind of writes as he feels, so, yeah, there is a little bit of everything, but definitely he’s got his foot to the pedal a little more on this record. The tempos are a lot faster and there’s more blast beats going on all over the place. But, again, there is some other stuff. There’s no ballad; I mean, there’s nothing that slow, like we did on the last record. But there is some mid… I think one mid-tempo tune. But it ends up thrashing anyhow. Like I said, he has his foot on the gas a little more on this record.”

”Well, it’s definitely not ’Dark Roots’. It’s a little more chunkier, but, like I said, it has a lot of blast beats stuff in there, where it gets thrashier. So that’s why it’s kind of been more of a challenge for me too, ’cause it’s something that Eric’s doing different that’s… It’s just not the norm for me to go, ’Oh, okay, that’s like this song over here. I’ll write this.’ It’s a challenge, so I enjoy the challenge, and I enjoy the reward once I find the right melody to fit his stuff, ’cause he’s all over it.”