Eric Peterson on Testament and 40 Years in Thrash
Testament founder Eric Peterson joins MAKE // BREAK to talk Para Bellum, four decades of thrash, touring burnout, AI and creativity, and how horror movies, strange books, and stubborn personal taste still drive the riffs.
Episode 015 – Eric Peterson | MAKE // BREAK
Eric Peterson is the founding guitarist and primary songwriter of Bay Area thrash legends Testament, a band that’s spent more than four decades pushing heavy music forward while peers have fallen away. With Testament’s fourteenth album Para Bellum, he’s still co-producing, evolving the band’s sound, and keeping the riffs sharper than players half his age. In this episode of MAKE // BREAK, Eric sits down with host Lance Marwood to unpack the real cost of that longevity: the grind of touring and airports, staying physically ready for extreme music, protecting creativity in an AI era, and why horror films, cult novels, and personal taste still shape everything he writes.
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