It's Official: Ex-TESTAMENT Guitarist STEVE SMYTH Joins NEVERMORE - Apr. 23, 2004
Former
TESTAMENT guitarist
Steve Smyth has officially joined
NEVERMORE as the group's second guitarist.
Smyth, whose departure from
TESTAMENT was exclusively reported
here last weekend, has partaken in the filming of
NEVERMORE's video for the track
"I, Voyager", off their most recent album,
"Enemies Of Reality". Photos of
Smyth and the rest of
NEVERMORE at the video shoot can be viewed at
this location (photos by
Stephanie Cabral).
Smyth, who originally joined
TESTAMENT in 1999, is expected to continue his involvement with
DRAGONLORD, the "black metal" project led by
TESTAMENT guitarist
Eric Peterson. The group are presently working on the material for their long-awaited follow-up to 2001's
"Rapture", tentatively due in early. "We're still at the demo/writing stages of the [new
DRAGONLORD] record, and hope to be close to completion sometime in July with the songwriting stage,"
Steve said.