Testament’s upcoming album will be released in autumn 2025

Eric Peterson of Testament confirmed in a recent interview with The Mixtape podcast that he and his bandmates have finished mixing their upcoming studio album with Swedish producer Jens Bogren. Bogren has worked with a number of artists, including Opeth, Kreator, Paradise Lost, Soilwork and Amon Amarth. “Titans Of Creation” from 2020, which was co-produced by Juan Urteaga, who previously collaborated with Testament on “Dark Roots Of Earth” (2012) and “Brotherhood Of The Snake” (2016), will be followed up with this LP.

We just finished mixing last Friday, and we’re gonna be mastering it this week. [We’re] in the middle of okaying art for the album. Everything needs to be turned in before we leave [for our tour of] Australia. A busy week coming up, but I’m excited because it’s all done. We’re just putting it all together, getting ready to send it in to the label, and then, yeah, it’s gonna be coming out in the fall. And it came out really good. Jens Bogren mixed it, and I’m really, really happy with it.

Peterson shares his secret for his continued motivation.

It’s a good question. Obviously, we’ve slowed down as far as the timing on how we put records out. [There’s] a lot more going on in our lives. We tour a lot more places. New blood in the band, I think. So this time around, Chris is with us. But, yeah, it feels good right now. Everybody’s happy. We get on really well. That’s a good thing, especially in the writing area. So I foresee some really good couple of new Testament records coming out — this one, and we’re already working on the new one, which is unheard of for us. Usually we start writing a couple of years later after we put out a record, but we’ve kept the writing going. It’s just a lot of fun jamming.

He goes a little bit into the creative process too.

Yeah, so like I was saying, just with this new lineup — it’s not a new lineup, but we have a new drummer — it all starts with me, with riffs, and a drummer, I think. And it was just a lot of fun. And we’re already working on new stuff for a record after the one that you haven’t even heard yet. So it’s cool. And then we know if there’s downtime, we’re, like, ‘Let’s jam.’ So I think when we’re done in ’26, maybe early ’27 with this record, [we’ll be, like], ‘Okay, now what do you got? Now we’re gonna write again.’ ‘Cause we’re getting older. I don’t think we have enough time to wait five years. We’ll be in our seventies or something. I’m trying to take advantage of knowing that I’m into it now and that we’ve got a got a good thing going. Just don’t waste it.