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Chuck Billy, founding member and lead singer of legendary thrash metal band Testament, has announced a memoir titled Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy, set to arrive November 10th via Permuted Press.
The hardcover book is currently available for pre-order from Amazon for $28.99, with two signed editions in gold ($49.99, limited to 999 copies) and red ($42.99) available at this location.
A press release describes the book as follows:
“This is not your typical rock memoir. Structured as two interlocking testaments, the book traces the full arc of a life lived at maximum volume—and then something louder than any riff: the fight to stay alive. The Old Testament plunges readers into the explosive birth of Bay Area thrash metal, the formation of Testament, the rivalries, the brotherhood, and the reckless, glorious chaos of becoming one of the genre’s most powerful voices.
The New Testament is something rarer and more raw—a frontman at 38, blindsided by a devastating cancer diagnosis, drawing on his Native American and Mexican-American heritage, spiritual healers, visions, and the fierce love of a metal community.”
The two sections of the memoir are linked by the Thrash of the Titans benefit concert that was organized to benefit both Billy and the late Chuck Schuldiner’s cancer battles. The book also features a foreword by Rob Halford of Judas Priest, as well as an afterword by Randy Blythe of Lamb of God.
Billy stated, “This book is about two versions of me that are really just one story. The guy who thought he was invincible, and the guy who learned how fragile life really is.”
See the cover artwork of Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy below.
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