Image: Testament – Official Press Photo
An exciting collaboration is on the horizon: Floor Jansen, the acclaimed lead singer of Nightwish, will be appearing as a guest vocalist on Testament’s soon-to-be-released album. Testament‘s vocalist Chuck Billy revealed this in an interview with Paul Saifen from AMFM Magazine.
“On this record, I don’t wanna say the word ‘ballad’, but we wrote a slower song like we had back in the ’80s and ’90s that we wrote on this record. And it’s really awesome, really good. We’re gonna bring in a guest vocalist, Floor Jansen from Nightwish. She’s gonna sing on it with me. And we’re gonna put in some string section into the song.” said Billy.
He added: “We’re not afraid to take those chances where a lot of bands criticize you, like, ‘Oh, we don’t write ballads. ‘What are you doing that [for]?’ But you know what? At this point in our lives and career, we’re writing to make us happy first and foremost and what feels good, what feels right, and this song just felt right right now to kind of do this again.”
Recording Process In Full Swing
As for the recording process, the band is almost finished. Testament will return to the studio in November to complete the final touches.
“We’re almost done recording right now. We finished, I’d say, three quarters of the recording before we left for Europe. And we have a three-week break now. And Steve’s in the studio finishing bass and Eric’s finishing up some of the rhythm guitars, but out of the 11 songs, I already tracked eight of ’em. So I just have a couple more songs to sing.” Billy explained.
He emphasized: “We have another break after this U.S. tour in November. We’ll finish up all the backing vocals and anything that needs to be — after getting to live with it, which is something nice. We never really get to live with the music after recording. It’s recorded. Here it is. Let’s go. It’s done, written in stone. Which is nice, is now we really get to live with it out on the road and talk about it together and say, ‘Hey, what if we did this or what if we tried that?’ And we’ve already came up with so much alternative stuff to try now. Like this week, Friday, I go in and I’m gonna try some new things on some vocal verses. We’re talking about tones of guitars and bringing in some string sections.”
You can watch the entire interview with Chuck Billy here:
By: www.nuclearblast.com
