Testament

Hello and welcome to the Mostly Yelling Podcast.

I'm your host, Greg Kendallty, and this week I am joined by the legendary Chuck Billy of Testament.

And this one's a bit of a two-parter.

The first part is an interview that covers everything from Testament's drummer changes over the years to just how damn good Chris Dovis is.

To the fact that Testament is working on a brand new record that's coming out hopefully maybe in 2028, and it sounds like it's going to be even more aggressive than Parabellum, which is really surprising, but also very exciting.

And we even talked a little bit about Chuck Billy trying out for Sepultura way back in 1996.

It's 30 years since then, and it just felt like a pretty good time to bring it up.

And then the second part of the interview talks about Chuck Billy's new book, Holding My Breath, The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy, which is out on November 10th.

It's Full Metal Jackie, and I'm very excited to welcome back to the show one of our favorites, Testament vocalist Chuck Billy.

How are you doing, my friend?

I'm doing great.

Doing well.

Happy to have you back.

This is a big year for Chuck, who is sharing his story in the new memoir, Holding My Breath, The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy.

This book is equally divided into your early years growing up and Testaments Rise to your cancer battle in your 30s and, of course, the aftermath.

There's much of your story that's been told through the years, but how was it reflecting on your youth, your family life, and analyzing it as an adult to see how your parents shaped you? Age sometimes brings wisdom.

You got Anthrax.

And then you got Testament.

You got Exodus, Bonded by Blood.

It was interesting as I was naming the records to him, he actually wrote them down in front of me.

Right, let's play something old from 1989.

This is Testament from the album Practice What You Preach.

Nice slow one from them.

This is Envy Life.

From the album The Twisted Rule, The Wicked.

That is Embrace The Moment.

And before that, Testament, Envy Life.

From the album Practice What You Preach.

Alice in Chains, Faith No More, which is one of their first American shows since 2016 after the Australia and New Zealand dates with System of a Down in January.

A Perfect Circle, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Testament, Ministry, Clutch, Helmet.

Fear Factory, Crowbar, The Black Dahlia Murder, Blood Incantation, Knocked Loose, Turnstiles in there, Soulfly, and separately Nail Bomb, a name I did not expect for a 2026 lineup.

Lacuna Coil, In This Moment, Bullet My Valentine, Primus, The Offspring, Prodigy, Guar, Steel Panther, Till Lindman, who's the front man from Rammstein, of course, Chad Gray doing Mudbane and Hell Yeah songs, Snot, Spine Shank, Dry Kill Logic, Ugly Kid Joe, Sponge, Weedus, CKY, and Skid Yeah, tickets are on sale now at SonicTempleFestival.com and the usual DWP layaway, a dollar down and a cut goes to the DWP Foundation.

I'll save Blink-182 for the take, but look at that undercard again.

Meshuggah, Blood Incantation, Testament, Crowbar, and Fear Factory on one bill is a heavier middle than Sonic Temple has ever booked.

The argument today isn't about whether the festival went soft, it's about where the heaviness is allowed to live.

Wednesday night's episode of Pawn Stars on History.

Germany's Lead Injector.

Chuck Billy from Testament was on here for a few hours.

Dave and Jeff of Imprecation out of Texas.

Don of the Dead of Nunslaughter and Satanic Threat.

How can we elevate Thrash to a next level? And it was kind of the same thing, although we were still...

in the middle stages of thrash so clash of the titans uh first started off in europe september and october 1990 it was slayer and megadeth co-headlining so you get two of the biggest bands here um you know notably absent is metallica but later you know there'd be some stuff done with metallica But Testament.

So you got a second tier band there and never got their gold record.

But, you know, they were they were kind of a big band and Suicidal Tendencies, who actually did get a gold record.