It should have been The Big Five. It’s unthinkable now, but the ‘Big Four’ of Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax came close to an expansion, with Testament seemingly set to ride hard to glory in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Bay Area thrash-metal band Testament on Tuesday announced that powerhouse drummer Dave Lombardo would be returning to the line-up for the upcoming spring dates of their ...

The ‘Big Four’ of thrash metal – Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth – all date back to 1981 save for the ’Deth, who came to be following guitarist Dave Mustaine’s expulsion from Metallica two ...

Rock fans know the “Big Four” of thrash metal: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax. But a host of other thrash bands bubbled up under the household names who became the four horsemen of the ...

Thrash metal icons Testament Have recently reissued their classic first two albums, “The Legacy” and “The New Order,” on Nuclear Blast Records. Credit: (Nuclear Blast Records/Submitted) At the end of ...

Testament have officially confirmed that legendary drummer Dave Lombardo has rejoined the band following the departure of Gene Hoglan. The move is a dream scenario for thrash fans, especially when ...

Death Angel joins Exodus and Testament on the “Bay Strikes Back Tour,” which comes to Ace of Spades Wednesday, May 25. Nuclear Blast Starting in the mid-1980s, about 90 miles west of Sacramento, a new ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Megadeth have had their fair share of top notch guitarists over the years and there was the possibility at one point of another thrash legend stepping into the band for them. That would be Testament's ...

HUNTINGTON -- Testament is going to party like it's 1986 -- and that's totally cool with the legendary thrash band and its fans. The San Francisco-based thrash metal band started blistering up the ...

“Now, you have a lot more groups that sound very similar, and you could tell, 'Oh, they're using this exact same plugin…'" Skolnick attributed the individuality of early thrash metal guitarists to the ...

When Testament singer Chuck Billy joined the Berkeley, CA-based hard rock act Testament shortly after it formed in the early ’80s, thrash metal had not yet become fully entrenched as a musical genre.