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Testament - The New Order Audio CD

A fair review of the Testament "The New Order" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Testament reviews here, or go back to the Testament tabs.

Testament Band: Testament
Title: The New Order
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Eerie Inhabitants 2: New Order 3: Trial by Fire 4: Into the Pit 5: Hypnosis 6: Disciples of the Watch 7: Preacher 8: Nobody's Fault 9: Day of Reckoning 10: Musical Death (A Dirge)

Testament's Master of Puppets
How is it possible for one of the most influential metal bands to be completely unknown to almost everybody but the most hardcore metal fan. Testament has been around for almost as long as Metallica, and Iron Maiden, yet have to date no commercial success, and could almost be billed as the Anvil of the Bay area thrash scene. What a conundrum. If anything it speaks to the depravity of the metal fan who let legendary bands, such as Testament, Overkill, Exodus, Death Angel, Etc. go completely unnoticed while their fellow act, Metallica sells a hundred million albums and enters the rock and roll hall of fame. Ridiculous.

The New Order is a must have for all fans of thrash, and if you consider yourself one, and don't have it, reconsider yourself, and go follow the Jonas Brothers. This release is as metal as it gets with classics such as Eerie Inhabitants, The New Order, Trial By Fire, and just about every other song on the album.

Testament starts to slowly move away from the classic horror, and occult themes they sang about in their first album, and gets a little political with some of their lyrical content, yet still remains completely metal. Which is pretty much where they have stayed with their expressive implication; a little demonic, a little real life, and totally brutal. This is probably Testament's best classic album, and should be a part of every metal heads library.
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the best album
Fast heavy great solos. This is by far the best testament album ever. This is could really compete with metallica or any of the huge thrash bands out there. If you are a huge thrash/ speed metal fan please pick this album up. .


Second best thrash metal album ever


While I list the Legacy as the best thrash metal album ever, the New Order is literally every bit as good, it's just the Legacy was the bands defining album as it came first. This is another solid offering from Testament, and is good from the start to the end.

The album did not sell too well for the band, possibly because MTV was too big on Metallica, Guns N Roses and Motley Crue to promote bands like Testament, certainly not because the album is lacking in material.


The sophmore effort.

The music matured, as did the lyrics. Testament's second album was an advance similar to the jump Metallica made from Kill Em All to Ride The Lightning.
Powerful, angry, melodic.
It was The Legacy but much more mature.
A must have for any Testament fan. And a must have for any of the new kids who would like to find out where todays bands got their inspiration from.


Life! a game that people play!...Cryout! will we see another day!
The songs are quite memorable which includes Disciples of the watch which is one of the greatest thrash metal songs ever recorded and also has some stand out tracks like Eerie Inhabitants with its nice melodic intro making it an excellent opening track and Into the pit which is sort of like a mosh pit anthem with catchy lyrics and fast pounding drum beats which is a personal favorite of mine you also have a great Aerosmith cover song Nobody's fault but mine which in my opinion sounds better and heavier than the original song and there's The Preacher where singer Chuck Billy screams alot "THE PREACHAAAAAA!!!". This album is simply brilliant, The New Order is arguably one of the best thrash albums ever released in the 80's and Testament were at their peak, straight after the awesome debut album The Legacy they have managed to surpass themselves which shows how much of a definitive thrash metal group they were however Testament have never achieved the larger success of other heavy metal groups like Megadeth or Anthrax which is a shame. Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson both make a great guitar team and they come up with some pretty cool licks that are played at varying speeds and techniques, there were two great instrumentals one was acoustic and the other one Hypnosis was a slow melodic track, it sounded like a filler track and was slightly generic but the rest of the album was fantastic and Alex Skolnick is a master guitar player who can play some of the best technical riffs I've ever heard, my only gripe with this album is that the production sounds a bit dated but it still wasn't that bad you just have to turn up the volume a bit. While The New Order wasn't my absolute favorite (I still consider both Low and Practice What You Preach as my all time favorite Testament albums) I still think it was one of the group's finest accomplishments. More great thrash from a great band, get this classic thrash album it's worth it.
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