TESTAMENT Frontman Comments On San Francisco Benefit Concert

May 18, 2005

TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy has issued the following update:

"The [San Francisco] Bay Area is our hometown and people have been asking us to play a hometown show so here it is. We are going back to Europe in July. So we decided to do a warm-up show the weekend before we left. We were planning to do a benefit show for Cole's Cure which never was able to happen until now. And to stop the Internet bullshit, this was a show that we had planned on doing a while back, since then Cole has passed but we are still commited to the cause. Before I left for tour there was not a confirmed venue. The confimation came while we were gone in Europe. So now it is official. If there are other bands wanting to donate there time please contact Cole's Cure. So everybody come out see a great show and help a great foundation."

TESTAMENT's benefit concert will take place on July 9, 2005 at The Pound in San Francisco. Proceeds from "Thrash of the Titans"-style show — the band's first in the San Francisco area in over two years — will benefit a family who had a child with cancer.

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The reunited TESTAMENT — Billy, Eric Peterson (guitar),Alex Skolnick (guitar),Greg Christian (bass),and Louie Clemente (drums) — have just completed a two-week European tour. The band will play two shows at Jaxx in Springfield, Virginia in early June, immediately preceding their appearance at the Louder Harder Faster festival on June 5 at the Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Joining the group's original lineup on a few tracks at all shows will be previous TESTAMENT drummer Johnny Tempesta (HELMET, ex-ROB ZOMBIE).

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