TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY To Tell His Story In Upcoming Memoir, 'Holding My Breath The Two Testaments
- Jrocks Metalzone
- 4 days ago
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He screamed his way into metal history. Then cancer tried to silence him for good. Now, for the first time, Chuck Billy — the iconic frontman of San Francisco Bay Area thrash legends TESTAMENT — tells the whole truth in his unflinching memoir, "Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments Of Chuck Billy", due on November 10, 2026 via Permuted Press.
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.
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