TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Explains Why Now Is The Right Time For Him To Release His Memoir

In a new interview with Denny Spinks of Rock N' Roll Medicine, Chuck Billy, the frontman of San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans TESTAMENT, spoke about his upcoming memoir, "Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments Of Chuck Billy", which is due on November 10, 2026 via Permuted Press.

TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Explains Why Now Is The Right Time For Him To Release His Memoir. In a new interview with Denny Spinks of Rock N' Roll Medicine, Chuck Billy, the frontman of San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans TESTAMENT, spoke about his upcoming memoir, "Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments Of Chuck Billy", which is due on November 10, 2026 via Permuted Press. Regarding why now was the right time for him to tell his story, the 63-year-old singer, who was diagnosed with germ cell seminoma, a rare type of cancer, a quarter century ago, said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "At first I was approached to do [the book]. I didn't seek [it] out because I'm a private guy. I haven't really talked about a lot of my younger years and a lot of that part. It's always about the band and what's going on with the band. And so I tho...