1989 - Thrash Metal! TIE BREAKER

1989 tie breaker:
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Testament - Practice What You Preach

Overkill - Years of Decay came in third by one less vote.

Definitely Sepultura, Testament had already begun spinning their wheels by this point.

The Overkill would still be my first choice of the 3.

Wait till you see the 1976 - 1989 poll. It seems like the entire poll is dominated by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica and Anthrax. Pretty predictable choices actually. I just need the get these three tie breakers done and then we can do the final 76 - 89.

Testament by default again.

I never cared much for Sepultura in general and never heard that particular album. Practice What You Preach however still gets regular spins from me.

Sepultura

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Testament by default again.

I never cared much for Sepultura in general and never heard that particular album. Practice What You Preach however still gets regular spins from me.

This.

I voted for Beneath the Remains. One of the top five thrash albums of all time!

I dig both albums but gotta go with Testament on this one.

detuned wrote:

Testament had already begun spinning their wheels by this point.

I thought PRACTICE was their last really solid album, and that the wheel spinning began with SOULS OF BLACK. But hey, that's just me.

Beneath the Remains is definitely the better of these two albums IMO. It's a lot faster, heavier, and crunchier. I love Testament's first two albums but PWYP is a little weak at times. Still, it has some cool songs on it like "Perilous Nation", "Time is Coming", etc.

Testament! "Sins of Omission" is one of my favorite Testament songs.

^^^ Me too! But, it wasn't enough for me to choose Testament. Sepultura gets the vote.

Fat Freddy wrote:

I dig both albums but gotta go with Testament on this one.

detuned wrote:

Testament had already begun spinning their wheels by this point.

I thought PRACTICE was their last really solid album, and that the wheel spinning began with SOULS OF BLACK. But hey, that's just me.

This - agree with Keith

I adore Practice What You Preach, probably my favourite TEstament album.

"Practice What You Preach" was a commercial thrash lp (IMHO) Good lp..."oh yeah"


"Beneath The Remains" is a dirty from the gutter type of thing. gets my vote from those two

BENEATH THE REMAINS

oh crap....I clicked on Testament by being on "dumb @$$" status

oh well ! tis all in good fun

Even though I voted for Testament, I just wanted to mention that Sepultura disc is no slouch either. I saw them on their first tour of the U.S. for the BENEATH album... great show. "Inner Self" is still a fave.

thejokeriv wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

I dig both albums but gotta go with Testament on this one.

detuned wrote:

Testament had already begun spinning their wheels by this point.

I thought PRACTICE was their last really solid album, and that the wheel spinning began with SOULS OF BLACK. But hey, that's just me.

This - agree with Keith

Practice was good (especially the first few tracks), but the ideas seemed to be a little less interesting and I could hear a decline in the making. They started to slip on that record...then lost traction on Souls Of Black.

Beneath The Remains just sounded really fresh in 1989 and Testament sounded "safe".

Sepultura for moi

"Practice" was a big step down from their first two albums, while "Beneath" is SEPULTURA's finest release.

Man, these polls sure lit a fire into this board!

Testament. I think I've only ever heard 1 or 2 Sepultura songs and didn't really like them.

Testament!

ultmetal wrote:

1989 tie breaker:
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Testament - Practice What You Preach

Overkill - Years of Decay came in third by one less vote.

Oh no it didn't...it's tied!

007 wrote:

Testament. I think I've only ever heard 1 or 2 Sepultura songs and didn't really like them.

Schizophrenia, Beneath the Remains, and Arise are three of the best thrash albums of all time.