Brotherhood of the Snake

about this album

Brotherhood of the Snake is the eleventh studio album by American thrash metal band Testament, released on October 28, 2016. It's the band's first studio recording with bassist Steve DiGiorgio since First Strike Still Deadly (2001). Brotherhood of the Snake will also mark Testament's fifth collaboration with Andy Sneap, who has mixed and engineered all of their albums since The Gathering (1999) and produced Dark Roots of Earth (2012). Background and production: The possibility of an eleventh Testament studio album was first mentioned about a week before the release of Dark Roots of Earth, when vocalist Chuck Billy stated that Testament would not take "huge gaps" between albums anymore, and would "work hard and tour for two years or so," and try to release another album when they could. Guitarist Eric Peterson added, "There's definitely some politics in the band now. I think if the record does good — which I think it will — it'll see Testament be doing another record. There're some people in the band which, is, you know, I think aren't a hundred percent there unless, you know, it keeps going well. That's pretty extreme, but, like for me, I'm down for whatever. I started the band, I'm totally into it. This is what I do. I think, you know, if Testament sees darker days, I don't know if this lineup would stick." Testament spent most of 2012 and 2013 touring in support of Dark Roots of Earth, including supporting Anthrax and Death Angel on the Worship Music tour and headlining th

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