NEW MUSIC FROM OLD SCHOOL HESHERS TESTAMENT

Pretty much every metal site has already posted this news, but fuck it, it’s news-worthy: classic thrash band Testament have posted new music on their MySpace page. The new song “More Than Meets the Eye” comes from their new album The Formation of Damnation due April 29th on Nuclear Blast, the first to feature long-departed guitarist Alex Skolnick since 1992’s The Ritual.

If there’s one thing evident from this new song, it’s that Testament still know how to kick up a fucking metal groove like nobody’s business. After seeing Exodus last month absolutely destroy a New York audience, we’re starting to wonder — what is it about these supposed “B” rate thrash acts, 20+ year later, that actually seems to have outlasted, in terms of quality, the supposed “A” thrash acts like Metallica and Megadeth? Did success get to the heads of those bands, extinguishing the fire inside that bands Testament and Exodus still have burning bright? Whatever it is, Testament still have it; this song is pretty fucking sick.

-VN