It\u2019s been a year since TESTAMENT\u2019s Dark Roots Of Earth debuted at #12 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and marked the highest U.S. first week sales ever for a Nuclear Blast artist. Since then, these Bay Area thrash metal legends have shown absolutely no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n This fall, TESTAMENT will be direct support on the upcoming not-to-be-missed Lamb Of God and Killswitch Engage co-headlining tour through North America, which launches on Tuesday, October 22nd in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n \u201cBeen wanting to tour with Lamb Of God for a long time now,\u201d shares TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy, \u201cand with Killswitch also on the bill, how can this tour be anything but killer?\u201d<\/p>\n Lamb Of God will be supporting 2012\u2019s Resolution; Killswitch Engage is out promoting their latest, Disarm The Descent. California occult rockers Huntress will be opening all 28 shows. Ticket prices have been kept as low as possible to assure fans can come out during the holiday season.<\/p>\n Advanced tickets go on sale this Friday & Saturday, July 19th & 20th. A limited number of TESTAMENT V.I.P. packages will be available for each show, which include:<\/p>\n \u00b7 A souvenir TESTAMENT V.I.P. Laminate In addition, each V.I.P. purchaser will be entered into a raffle to win Chuck Billy’s stage vest worn throughout this tour. The winner of the vest will be personally contacted by Chuck and will also receive two (2) tickets to the next local TESTAMENT show with passes to come backstage and more!<\/p>\n 10\/22\/13 Kool Haus \u2013 Toronto, ON [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n10\/23\/13 The Sound Academy \u2013 Toronto, ON [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n10\/24\/13 Metropolis – Montreal, QC \u2013 CANADA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n10\/25\/13 Roseland Ballroom – New York, NY [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n10\/26\/13 Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre – Wallingford, CT [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n10\/28\/13 LC Pavilion – Columbus, OH [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n10\/29\/13 The Fillmore Detroit – Detroit, MI [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n10\/30\/13 Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, IL [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n 11\/01\/13 The Midland by AMC – Kansas City, MO [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/02\/13 Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie – Grand Prairie, TX [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/03\/13 Socorro Entertainment Center \u2013 Socorro, TX – FREE SHOW! In the past year, TESTAMENT toured with Anthrax & Death Angel and headlined with Overkill & Flotsam And Jetsam to kick off promotion for Dark Roots Of Earth. Last September, TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy was featured on the cover of Decibel Magazine. Last November, the band\u2019s \u201cNative Blood\u201d video won \u201cBest Music Video\u201d at the 2012 American Indian Film Festival. In February, TESTAMENT appeared on the ABC Morning Show \u201cTake Five\u201d and shot their show in Huntington, New York for their upcoming live Dark Roots Of Thrash DVD\/CD to be released this fall. In April, the band received a hometown heroes reception on RECORD STORE DAY at Rasputin Music in Berkeley, California. In June, they headlined the SCION ROCK FEST in Memphis, Tennessee and Assemblyman Jim Frazier (D-Oakland) honored Chuck Billy on the California State Assembly floor. Come this September, TESTAMENT will annihilate the stage at Southern California\u2019s BATTLE OF SAN BERNARDINO with Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Anthrax, Sabaton, and Overkill.<\/p>\n Dark Roots Of Earth debuted the week following its June 2012 release at #12 on the American Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, #1 on the Independent Albums chart, and #1 on the Top Hard Music Albums chart. The album roared into the #9 position on the World Sales chart – a huge accomplishment for a metal band for a chart that included pop artists such as ADELE, JUSTIN BIEBER, LINKIN PARK, JENNIFER LOPEZ and MAROON 5.<\/p>\n Dark Roots Of Earth\u2018s first-week chart positions around the globe include:<\/p>\n #3 United Kingdom Indie Top 40 The album was produced, mixed, and mastered by acclaimed British producer Andy Sneap (ACCEPT, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE). Special bonus tracks were recorded, mixed, and mastered at Trident Studios by Juan Urteaga (MACHINE HEAD, EXODUS, TED NUGENT, NIGHT RANGER). Cover artwork was created by Eliran Kantor (ATHEIST, SIGH, ANACRUSIS, GWAR).<\/p>\n TESTAMENT\u2019s latest video. TESTAMENT is:<\/p>\n Chuck Billy \u2013 Vocals TESTAMENT online at www.TESTAMENTLEGIONS.com<\/a>. For Immediate Release: July 18, 2013 TESTAMENT TO SUPPORT LAMB OF GOD & KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ON NORTH AMERICAN TOUR It\u2019s been a year since TESTAMENT\u2019s Dark Roots Of Earth debuted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Testament](\"http:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/testa-wall012.jpg\")
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\n\u00b7\u00a0A TESTAMENT poster
\n\u00b7\u00a0An 8\u201dx 10\u201d photo of the band
\n\u00b7\u00a0A coupon for discounted online merchandise
\n\u00b7\u00a0Individual photo opportunities with band members
\n\u00b7\u00a0A group photo with the entire V.I.P. group and TESTAMENT members<\/p>\n
\n11\/05\/13 The Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, CO [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/07\/13 Marquee Theater – Tempe, AZ [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/08\/13 Hollywood Palladium \u2013 Los Angeles, CA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/09\/13 Fox Theater – Oakland, CA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/11\/13 ShoWare Center – Kent, WA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/12\/13 Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Vancouver, B.C. – CANADA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/14\/13 Shaw Conference Centre – Edmonton, AB \u2013 CANADA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/15\/13 Big Four – Calgary, AB \u2013 CANADA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/16\/13 Saskatoon Prairieland Park – Saskatoon, SK \u2013 CANADA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/18\/13 Myth – St. Paul, MN [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/19\/13 Eagles Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/20\/13 Orbit Room – Grand Rapids, MI [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/22\/13 Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/23\/13 House of Blues – Boston, MA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/24\/13 Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/25\/13 Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n11\/26\/13 The Fillmore Silver Spring – Silver Spring, MD [BUY TICKETS<\/a>]\n
\n#3 United Kingdom Rock Top 40#4 Germany Top 100
\n#4 Finland Top 50#10 Switzerland#12 U.S. Top 200#12 Canadian Top 200
\n#13 Ireland Top 20#21 Austria Top 75
\n#32 Netherlands Top 200
\n#40 Belgium Walloonia#57 United Kingdom Top 200
\n#62 Belgium Top 100
\n#86 Belgium Flanders<\/p>\n
\nEric Peterson \u2013 Guitar
\nAlex Skolnick \u2013 Guitar
\nGreg Christian \u2013 Bass
\nGene Hoglan \u2013 Drums Visit<\/p>\n
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