Titans of Creation is the thirteenth studio album by American thrash metal band Testament, released on April 3, 2020. This album marks the first time that Testament had recorded more than one album with the same lineup since The Ritual (1992). Titans of Creation is also the band's first album be produced by Juan Urteaga, who had recorded, engineered, mixed and/or mastered their previous two studio albums Dark Roots of Earth (2012) and Brotherhood of the Snake (2016). Background, writing and recording: Testament's intention to follow-up Brotherhood of the Snake was first revealed by Chuck Billy in March 2017, who told Japan's Roppongi Rocks that the band had begun writing new material. Billy also expressed hope that the album would be released in 2018, stating, "We thought we'd have a record out after two years; it just ended up being four, because the process just... I don't know what happened, but it took forever. So this time, like, you know what? I don't wanna do that again. I told Eric exactly when we were done recording. I said, "You know what? It's a great record now, but I don't wanna go through what I had to go through to do this again. So why don't we start writing now?" So we decided that when we're not on the road, let's get together and just jam and maybe come up and at least get to that point where we were with this record — a bunch of ideas and riffs and lyrics." In a December 2017 interview with Metal Messiah Radio, Billy stated that Testament would start work