TESTAMENT's February 15 concert at the Paramount Theatre in Huntington, New York as part of
"The Dark Roots Of Thrash" tour will be professionally filmed for a 90-minute DVD, to be released via
Nuclear Blast.
In a recent interview with
RockMusicStar.com,
TESTAMENT vocalist
Chuck Billy stated about the band's current tour: "We have a new show, with new songs that we are going to perform. We had previously played three legs of a tour with
ANTHRAX, so we are trying to put in some new songs for this one, do a new show. We also plan on filming a DVD on this tour. We did a couple live DVDs/CDs, and we want to do some songs that are not on those, and to create something new … Our set will be about an hour and a half, with five songs off of the new record,
'Dark Roots Of Earth'."
TESTAMENT's setlist for the February 9 concert at The Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia was as follows:
01.
Rise Up02.
More Than Meets The Eye 03.
Burnt Offerings 04.
Native Blood 05.
True American Hate 06.
Dark Roots Of Earth 07.
Into The Pit 08.
Practice What You Preach 09.
Riding The Snake 10.
Eyes Of Wrath 11.
Trial By Fire 12.
The Haunting 13.
The New Order 14.
D.N.R. (Do Not Resuscitate) 15.
3 Days In Darkness 16.
The Formation Of DamnationTESTAMENT's new album,
"Dark Roots Of Earth", sold more than 20,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No, 12 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on July 31, 2012 via
Nuclear Blast Records.
"Dark Roots Of Earth" was produced, mixed and mastered by acclaimed British producer
Andy Sneap (
ARCH ENEMY,
NEVERMORE,
ACCEPT,
EXODUS). Special bonus tracks were recorded, mixed and mastered by
Juan Urteaga (
MACHINE HEAD,
EXODUS,
TED NUGENT,
NIGHT RANGER) at his
Trident Studios. The cover artwork for the effort (see below) was painted by
Eliran Kantor, who has previously worked with
ATHEIST,
SIGH,
ANACRUSIS and
GWAR, among others.
