Testament - First Strike Still Deadly

Picked this up recently and just listened to it. Fantastic!!! This is how I like my Thrash. Fast, romping, understandable. I can only buy so much music and thus only so much Thrash but these guys are now on my Metal map!

Now I am much more likely to get the new one of which I've heard the one sample around here.

Have you never heard Testament before?

i like "first strike" a lot as well. i don't have any of the 80's testament stuff but i love all the 90's stuff beginning with "low."

Never Eyesore....not until someone posted that sample of the new one a while back.

Scott aint eddicated.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Never Eyesore....not until someone posted that sample of the new one a while back.

Do check them out, then. Everything before Low has that early 80s thrash sound, though, it's nothing like that heavy, brutal sound of First Strike. It would be awesome if they went back and redid all those early songs. Haha. Pipe dream, of course, and they're quite awesome as is. The Ritual is their "black album," though nothing quite as drastic. It's just a groovier, more mainstream Testament. But it's killer. And Demonic, if you've not read, is their heaviest, with Chuck singing in a death metal style for nearly the entire album except on the song "Hatreds Rise," which is easily the best song. But aside from Demonic, you'd probably dig it all.

I can keep an eye out for cheapo copies around here, if you want?

Practice What You Preach and The Ritual are my faves, but you really can't go wrong with Testament.

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I can keep an eye out for cheapo copies around here, if you want?

Thanks bro! Very thoughtful and if you do, let me know!

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Never Eyesore....not until someone posted that sample of the new one a while back.

Daaaaaaaamn. Testament was kind of the first real metal band that I heard when I was younger. I started with Souls Of Black a definate must get also Ritual is right up there.

First Strike Still Deadly is a fantastic compilation album. The songs so much heavier than before, it works really well. Also, it's cool to hear Steve Souza on a few tracks.

When it comes to Testament, as it stands, my favourite albums are Practice What You Preach and The Gathering, two very different albums, but both great platters of thrash.

Scott,I think you would really like older Testament.Practice what you preach and The New Order are my favorites,but they're all great.

Practice What you Preach. Get it and love it.

You must own:

LOW (my personal fave)
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH
THE RITUAL
THE NEW ORDER

and from what little I've heard of the new one, that sounds like a winner too.

The only essential Testament in my eyes are

The Legacy and The New Order (ironically I own neither). The rest never did much for me.

spectrefate wrote:

The only essential Testament in my eyes are

The Legacy and The New Order (ironically I own neither). The rest never did much for me.

Well then,you're an idiot!

I have to put my foot down somewhere, I can't like EVERYTHING otherwise I will have a house full of CDs and 40 years of debt.

true dat homey

I had The New Order for the longest time, purchased mainly for the Aerosmith cover, but for some reason never bothered with anything else by them. That all changed about 2 or 3 years ago when I suddenly had an awakening and bought pretty much everything I could find. I'm anxiously awaiting the new one.

i prefer The Gathering & Demonic over all the others.

Testament can do no wrong! Absolutly amazing band, and they should be in the big 4 instead of slayer and/or Anthrax!

kmorg wrote:

Testament can do no wrong! Absolutly amazing band, and they should be in the big 4 instead of slayer and/or Anthrax!

Bite your tounge.

spectrefate wrote:

kmorg wrote:

Testament can do no wrong! Absolutly amazing band, and they should be in the big 4 instead of slayer and/or Anthrax!

Bite your tounge.

Yeah, I'm sorry....... I forgot to add Megadeth to the list too!

OK, I can see Testament instead of Megadeth. They only have a couple of great albums.

What? Testament should be in instead of Anthrax. I feel Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer are deserving of their place in the Big Four, but Anthrax... they always seemed to lack a certain something, whereas Testament have akways gone strong.

kmorg wrote:

Testament can do no wrong! Absolutly amazing band, and they should be in the big 4 instead of slayer and/or Anthrax!

they may be in your favorite four, but they came to the game to late to be in the big 4. Exodus might have made it, if it were a big five.