{"id":51376,"date":"2016-03-10T18:35:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T23:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=51376"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:46:43","slug":"audio-interview-with-chuck-billy-of-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2016\/audio-interview-with-chuck-billy-of-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Billy of Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by Steve Patrick<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; Sr. Columnist &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Chuck-Billy-2016-Chris-A-Photography.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck  Billy 2016 Chris A Photography\" width=\"900\" height=\"624\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Chuck-Billy-2016-Chris-A-Photography.jpg 900w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Chuck-Billy-2016-Chris-A-Photography-350x243.jpg 350w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Chuck-Billy-2016-Chris-A-Photography-500x347.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bay Area thrash pioneers Testament are currently out on tour with their peers Slayer and death metal innovators Carcass. Testament is also in the midst of recording the follow up to 2012&#8217;s <em>Dark Roots of the Earth<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the Slayer\/Carcass tour, frontman Chuck Billy took some time to speak with Hardrock Haven. In the course of the conversation Billy went over the sound of the new Testament material, what led him into band management, which Testament song he&#8217;d like to hear Slayer cover, his Native American heritage, and how he&#8217;ll never forget getting pranked onstage by Mot\u00f6rhead.<\/p>\n<p><center>::: Listen to the Interview :::<\/center><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/int2016\/Audio Inverview with Chuck Billy.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Your browser does not support this audio format.<\/audio><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testamentlegions.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.testamentlegions.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Appears Courtesy of Chris A. Photography.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by Steve Patrick &#8211; Sr. Columnist &#8212; Bay Area thrash pioneers Testament are currently out on tour with their peers Slayer and death metal innovators Carcass. Testament is also in the midst of recording the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2016\/audio-interview-with-chuck-billy-of-testament\/\" title=\"Chuck Billy of Testament\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13653],"tags":[9214,1749,12129,203,762],"class_list":{"0":"post-51376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arcint2016","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-chuck-billy","10":"tag-dark-roots-of-the-earth","11":"tag-interview","12":"tag-testament"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}