San Francisco thrash metal legends
TESTAMENT will play their classic first two albums —
"The Legacy" and
"The New Order" — for one night only at Islington Academy in London, England on March 25.
This unique
"Metal Hammer Presents..." event will showcase the face-melting albums that kick-started the
TESTAMENT story and helped create a monumental legacy that now stretches over 25 years. The set is also set to include a neck-cracking encore that will be drawn from the very best of the rest of the band's back catalog, possibly including cuts from the group's 2008
Metal Hammer Golden Gods "Album Of The Year",
"The Formation Of Damnation".
Founding guitarist
Eric Peterson spoke exclusively to
Metal Hammer about this one-off event: "If anybody's gonna get a special show it's London! They don't say the term 'London Rocks' around the world for nothing! Oi! We will expect all the legions to be present at this show! Heavy futten met-all!"
Tickets are available now.
Professionally filmed video footage of
TESTAMENT's September 21, 2008 performance at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Japan can be viewed below. The band was in Japan taking part in the two-night
Thrash Domination 2008 event alongside
FORBIDDEN and
VOIVOD.
"The Formation of Damnation" debuted at #59 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and is
TESTAMENT's highest-charting release in the band's 24-year history. The album, which has sold more than 50,000 copies in the U.S. so far (according to
Nielsen SoundScan) also dominated at radio, holding the #1 spot on both
CMJ and
FMQB for several consecutive weeks.
An e-card for
"The Formation of Damnation" can be accessed at
this location.
"The Legacy":
"Practice What You Preach":
