Audio Cassette review:
Testament - Practice What You Preach

Testament - Practice What You Preach

Band: Testament Title: Practice What You Preach Rating: Release Date: 07 August, 1989 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Practice What You Preach 2: Perilous Nation 3: Envy Life 4: Time Is Coming 5: Blessed in Contempt 6: Greenhouse Effect 7: Sins of Omission 8: Ballad 9: Nightmare (Coming Back to You) 10: Confusion Fusion [Instrumental]

Customer Reviews Testament rules! Hardcore thrash and yet the melodic subtleties blow your mind away during the slow song "The Ballad". This has got to be the best Testament album! This band ranks up there with Slayer. The lead singer Chuck has an awesome voice and if you've ever seen them in concert he bangs his head NON-STOP! My personal favorites on this album are "Sins Of Omission" and "Nightmare(Coming Back To You)". There's some really cool hardcore bass goin on in "Confusion Fusion". Every single song on this album rocks. You can listen to this album from start to finish without wanting to skip any songs. In other words. . . go buy this album NOW!!! And then buy some of their other albums. NOW!!! . different but thrash still Testament's breakthrough album is Practice What You Preach - a more polished album with more melodies and catchiness. Testament's first 2 albums are typical thrash albums with great songs on it. The songs aren't as thrashy or as fast as the previous albums but it still sounds and feels like Testament. This is one of my favorites currently and I just love the music this band comes up with!! \m/. Great album often overlooked. The late 80's/early 90's was a great time for heavy metal. Testament's third release "Practice what you Preach" is a superb metal effort that is under-appreciated and often overlooked. Classic albums from Metallica, Slayer and Pantera were pushing out the hair metal crap that for some reason carried the title of metal. It was a good time to be a fan of rock and roll. Great new bands were starting to gain notariety. One of these bands was the San Fransisco quintet Testament. Putting out a number of albums in a span of a few years Testament were set on making it big. Why they never did is a mystery to me. This album was the follow up to arguably the most popular and in my opinion best Testament album "The New Order. " Perhaps this one may have been a little too rushed following the release of their masterpiece. A few of the songs on the end could be viewed by some as filler songs but I still love them. It seems that every thrash band has four main albums that really define them as a band. For Metallica it was Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice for All, and Metallica (Black Album), for Megadeth it was Peace Sells, Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction and So Far So Good So What and for Testament it is The Legacy, The New Order, Practice What you Preach and The Ritual. You wont find too many people that agree with me but Testament's work is just as impressive as the afore mentioned bands. Testament is the lost thrash band and deserve more credit then they are given. . . You can see a complete list of all Testament discography, or go back to the Testament tabs