Milwaukee Metal Fest will return May 14 to 16, 2027, at The Rave/Eagles Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with its first wave of band announcements led by Meshuggah. The Swedish band will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a headline set and will be joined on Friday by thrash metal vets Testament and New Orleans sludge legends... Continue Reading →
Swedish metal band Meshuggah will return to North America in 2027 to celebrate its 40th anniversary with an extensive tour featuring special guests Testament and Blood Incantation. Tickets for the newly announced dates, produced by Live Nation, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30, with pre-sales running throughout the week. Tickets are available... Continue Reading →
Chuck Billy, frontman of long-running Bay Area thrash metal band Testament, will release his memoir, "Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy," on Nov. 10, 2026, via Permuted Press. Pre-order it here. Structured as two interlocking testaments, the book traces the full arc of Billy's life. The "Old Testament" plunges readers into the birth of... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki—And just like that, another year has come and gone. And what a year 2025 was for heavy music, led by this summer’s instantly legendary Back to the Beginning concert and Ozzy Osbourne’s passing just a couple weeks later—not unexpected but no less devastating because of that. Those titanic events served to shine... Continue Reading →
In support of Nuclear Blast Records' reissues of its 1989 album "Practice What You Preach," Testament will launch a special spring 2025 "evening with" tour featuring the band performing and telling stories from the classic thrash metal album. The set list will include deep cuts and classic ballads, some of which will be heard live for the first time ever. The tour... Continue Reading →
Following the news that Metallica is headed to Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival for the first time ever in 2025 for a “No Repeat Weekend” offering two nights and two unique sets, festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents has announced more details for the event, set for May 8, 9, 10 and 11 at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. In addition to Metallica, which... Continue Reading →
Veteran Bay Area thrash metal band Testament will release remastered versions of its classic albums "The Legacy" and "The New Order" digitally and on vinyl on July 12, 2024, via Nuclear Blast Records. "When 'The Legacy' and 'The New Order' were first recorded, we were new and had limited resources to record the albums being a young band," vocalist... Continue Reading →
Milwaukee Metal Fest has revealed the daily set times for the 2024 event, featuring such heavy-hitters as Slaughter to Prevail, Mr. Bungle, Blind Guardian, Testament, Hatebreed and many more May 17 to 19, with a pre-party on May 16, at The Rave/Eagles Club in Milwaukee, Wiconsin. The band schedule is as follows, with the lineup and set times... Continue Reading →
Milwaukee Metal Fest, scheduled for May 16 to 19, 2024, has added 11 more bands to its lineup, including Testament, Hammerfall and a reunion of Soilent Green. Other newly announced acts are Paleface Swiss, Exhumed, It Dies Today, Errors of Humanity, Casket Robbery, Hellwitch, Belushi Speed Ball and Illusion of Fate. "The spirit of the... Continue Reading →
The inaugural Metal Injection Festival, set for Sept. 16 and 17, 2023, in Orange County, California, has revealed the daily set times. See the full schedule below. Saturday, Sept. 16 at The Observatory 10:30 P.M. || Max & Iggor Cavalera (performing a special "Morbid Visions" and "Bestial Devastation" set)9:00 P.M. || Exhumed7:45 P.M. || Incite6:30 P.M. || Fueled By Fire 5:30... Continue Reading →
