In his latest Twitch stream, drummer Gene Hoglan confirmed that - following his second departure from Testament nearly two weeks ago - he has redirected his focus to Dark Angel, where he is currently writing new material for the band's first studio album since 1991's Time Does Not Heal, and also revealed that the band is planning to hit the studio before the end of the year. A tentative release in 2023 is expected for the new record.

Regarding Dark Angel's plans for this year, Hoglan commented: "We're in the process of [making a new album]. That's actually one of the reasons I can't be doing Testament stuff this year. Because, [with] Dark Angel, we are writing a record, we are moving forward... just a week-and-a-half ago, two weeks ago, I just had Mr. Eric Meyer from Dark Angel in this room. We were jamming it out, we wrote a new Dark Angel song. I've been moving forward with writing, we have gigs coming up, so this year, it won't be heavily, heavily, heavily Dark Angel, but now that my schedule's open, I can commit a little harder to some Dark Angel gigs. We do intend to be in the studio before the end of this year. So I have a lot of work a head of me, and so does Jim Durkin, he's been sending over songs, riffs, stuff like that, super exciting. We're all of the same mindset of making this just, the most absolutely kick-ass Dark Angel record that we can."

Source:	twitch.tv
Band profile:	Dark Angel