Artist: Testament
Title: Titans Of Creation
Label: Nuclear Blast
Cat #: NBA66890
Release Year: 2022
Duration: Album
Format: CD & Blu-Ray
Packaging Type: Collectible Longbox
Special Attributes: Limited Edition

This limited-edition collectible longbox features performance videos of all the tracks on the record. The footage was compiled at a soundstage in San Francisco and was edited into music video-style clips on Blu-Ray accompanying the CD with bonus photos and liner notes plus a button and sticker in a long box. Staying true to the record, the performances feature Gene Hoglan behind the kit. This version will be limited to 6,500 units worldwide. 

The time has arrived for Testament to unleash new thunder to the masses and reveal their thirteenth studio album: Titans Of Creation.

Just as the elements of this planet thrive within all living creatures, each musician in Testament represents a necessary component of this latest musical endeavour. Still filled with massive and unstoppable energy since their last release, Testament has taken their style to the next level and presents an album that is loyal to the roots of traditional thrash metal while still bringing alluring, brilliant, and progressive ingredients to the table. Bass is showcased, new vocals are introduced, and as
expected, the guitarwork of Peterson and Skolnick is greatly complex and mesmerizing. In 2020 the days of writing an album all together in one room are far gone, but to be able to take advantage of technology allows for Testament to go about a very similar writing process to what they always have. Basic songs are moulded, structures are added by everyone in the group, instrumentals are highlighted, and finally the lyrics and vocals are created to finalize the sonic story. Facetime and human-on-human contact still remain crucial elements to Testament's songwriting process and at some point throughout, every member physically interacts and writes with one another.

In between writing this album, the band toured relentlessly which allowed for less stress, more time in between, and greater inspiration for this album cycle. There was also plenty of anxiety-free and level-headed time for pre-production and the initial recording process with Juan Urteaga of Trident Studios. Andy Sneap was then able to tweak, mix, and master this album to his usual perfection.

Recommended if you like: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Overkill, Exodus, Sacred Reich, Death Angel.

Track Listing:
1. Children Of The Next Level
2. WWIIII
3. Dream Deceiver
4. Night Of The Witch
5. City Of Angels
6. Ishtar's Gate
7. Symptoms
8. False Prophet
9. The Healers
10. Code Of Hammurabi
11. Curse Of Osiris
12. Catacombs