Audio Cassette review:
Testament - The New Order

Testament - The New Order

Band: Testament Title: The New Order Rating: Release Date: 17 October, 1990 Media: Audio Cassette 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)

Customer Reviews Second strike isn't deadly... Objectively, 'The New Order' is a pretty decent follow-up. Relative late-comers to the Thrash Metal elite, Testament dropped a vicious, thundering classic of a debut before gradually spiralling into a vortex of mediocrity over their next few records. The production is clearer and crunchier and the song-writing and performances are almost as strong. Nevertheless, this record has none of the intensity and youthful enthusiasm that makes 'The Legacy' special. 'Disciples of the Watch' is the only truly classic moment here - a Thrash masterpiece and one of the band's finest ever moments. Most of the rest of the album sounds self-conscious and contrived, the only time the band sound like they're having any fun is on the decent Aerosmith cover. If you judge this type of music on riffs and solos then it is probably worth purchasing, look elsewhere if you crave urgency and spark. Either way, get 'The Legacy' first. . Listen To the new order! Or I'll burn you to that cross! The vocals and guitars are meld to create a classic thrash album. This is a very good record, and confirms why Testament should be in the big four of thrash in place of Anthrax. The songwriting on here is fairly solid, and there are plenty of memorable songs. The intro song is a great example, after leading off with a winding baroque sounding solo, the song kicks into a great classic thrash stomp with great vocals a memorable chorus and another thrashtastic solo. What more can you want. Songs like Into the Pit, Eerie Inhabitants, Disciples of The Watch, Trial By Fire and the title track are all solid excellent thrashers. Even more the bands cover of Aerosmith's Nobody's fault is BETTER than the origional and is very good along with the beautiful instrumental. The album does have some filler in Day of Reckoning and The Preacher but overall its a solid thrash record that can be comfortably mentioned in the list of top 10 thrash albums ever. Very good. Maybe not essential if you only want a few thrash records to listen to but its still great. . Couldn't be more under-rated I'm sitting here trying to think of any flaws and with the band, there just isn't. Every now and then i forget how totally awesome Testament is, only to rediscover how much i love every single song by them. Great singing, great riffs, great basslines, great drums, great solos, great harmonies, everything. the only one thing i could MAYBE say that isnt so good about the older Testament cds is that the recording quality is very. . . 80's. But if you're into metal as much as you should be, then you should be into all sorts of old 80s bands with not so great recording. buy this cd people, and every other testament cd while you're at it. they're all pretty much best-of's. you need all of them. you will not be dissapointed. . . You can see a complete list of all Testament discography, or go back to the Testament tabs