Albuquerque’s Metalhead Mayor Attends TESTAMENT, EXODUS And DEATH ANGEL Concert

Albuquerque, New Mexico’s mayor Tim Keller attended TESTAMENT‘s live performance final night time (Saturday, April 16) at Sunshine Theater in Albuquerque as a part of the band’s “The Bay Strikes Again Tour” with EXODUS and DEATH ANGEL.

Earlier right this moment, TESTAMENT shared a photograph of all the band with Keller, apparently taken backstage on the venue, and included the next caption: “Thanks to the mayor of Albuquerque Tim Keller @mayorkeller for coming to our present final night time! We love assembly members of our thrash metallic household! #metalheads #testomony #testamentlegions #thebaystrikesback”.

Born and raised in Albuquerque, Keller is well-known as a fan of heavy metallic music and has typically attended exhibits within the metropolis. He has additionally launched metallic bands, together with ANTHRAX and TRIVIUM, onstage.

“Albuquerque has at all times been fairly sturdy on the heavy metallic entrance,” Keller instructed The New York Occasions 4 years in the past. “What can I say, that is one thing I have been into for a very long time.”

Keller instructed the Albuquerque Journal that his favourite heavy metallic group is the Brazilian band SEPULTURA. “They’re superior,” he mentioned. “It is the music of empowerment.”

Keller steadily sports activities heavy metallic merchandise in public. Again in November 2020, he donned a MACHINE HEAD hooded sweatshirt when he solid his poll within the U.S. presidential election. Two years earlier, he wore a PANTERA Christmas sweater for a signing of a invoice granting household paid parental go away to metropolis staff. The laws made Albuquerque the primary metropolis in New Mexico to increase paid parental go away advantages to its municipal workforce.

Keller, a Democrat, took over as mayor of New Mexico’s largest metropolis in December 2017. He changed two-term mayor Richard Berry, who didn’t search re-election.

Keller was elected to a second four-year time period final November. He pulled off the win with almost 60% of the vote.

Keller and his spouse, Liz, have two younger kids.

TESTAMENT, EXODUS and DEATH ANGEL kicked off the 2022 version of “The Bay Strikes Again Tour” on April 9 on the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California. The present marked TESTAMENT‘s first look with drummer Dave Lombardo since he rejoined the group earlier this 12 months.

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