Testament Digs In With "Dark Roots Of Earth"

A resolve not to compromise their vision powered the members of Testament through the recording of the group's 10th studio album, "Dark Roots of Earth" (Nuclear Blast USA).

"At this point we're not really thinking about what anybody else thinks," says Chuck Billy, frontman for the San Francisco Bay Area thrash outfit that has sold 1.4 million albums in the United States during the SoundScan era (1991-present). "Usually when we write and record, in the back of our minds we're thinking, 'What are fans going to think? Should there be a ballad?'