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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: HTH AMPS on August 12, 2011, 04:00:54 PM
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just in the mood for some old thrash - listening to Testament (The New Order) and Skolnick's playing is just great, the attack and vibrato on single notes with that tone about to break into feedback at any minute is just hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck time.
any love for Testament here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpiGkCsMIY
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holy terrible sound quality, batman!
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I love the debut album. Was slightly disappointed in the follow ups and kind of lost track of the band.
But their last album is totally killer.
I've seen them live a couple of times and they always deliver the goods.
Definitely a fan.
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I like pretty much anything testament and the last album was an absolute stunner.
Im the same with Exodus too
Both bands have progressed a heck of a lot to get to where they currently are
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I think I've got the first album (on vinyl :lol: ) and Practice What You Preach.
They were never among my favourites, though, to be honest.
Maybe I should check out this latest album.
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Lots of Testament Love Here!
saw them in 2009 in Cardiff with Megadeth and Judas Priest and they stole the show, Skolnick has great phrasing and is my favourite lead guitarist of all of the early thrash bands (yes i prefer him even to Mr Friedman)
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Testament are killer! saw them at Notts rock city /rescue rooms few years back and they were great. formation of damnation is a great album, I think sneap produced. Looking forward to their new album. They should have edged anthrax out of the big 4, or there should have been a big 5!
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really like testament :)
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(yes i prefer him even to Mr Friedman)
Sacrilege! :o
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I liked "Low" and "the gathering", although the latter had probably more death metal influence than thrash influence. Never liked their early stuff. I also find the last album tiring. Very heavy, but somehow also boring.
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I liked "Low" and "the gathering", although the latter had probably more death metal influence than thrash influence. Never liked their early stuff. I also find the last album tiring. Very heavy, but somehow also boring.
The gathering is the only one that i cant listen to very often.
possibly due to the vocals. I find them the worst on that album it just doesnt Jive with my mental image of how testament should sound
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(yes i prefer him even to Mr Friedman)
Sacrilege! :o
Sorry Sir :oops:
they both have to be commended for the amount of melody that they put into their solos, but I prefer the blues and jazz stylings of Mr Skolnick, that being said the solos to 'Tornado of Souls' 'Addicted to Chaos' and 'Skin of My Teeth' are immense
Back to topic - I like the songs from the gathering Live (DNR in particular) and thought that the influence of James Murphy in the lead department was great (although not enough of him on the album)
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(yes i prefer him even to Mr Friedman)
Sacrilege! :o
+1, i love skolnick, he's awesome, but i like friedman even more...
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The Gathering, Formation, and First strike is deadly are regularly played around the house. that and Demonic and Low, but they are the darkest albums IMHO. the Gathering is a nice cross between the nearly death thrash testament sound of low and demonic and the old school of first strike is deadly.
I adore testament!
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I just get transported back to being 15 at school when I listen to Live At Eindhoven - great band, only got to see them for the first time last year.
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Saw them in 1988 at the Astoria - on the New Order tour
They were ok - not my cuppa tea at the time
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Testament are great. Just great.
With the release of First Strike Still Deadly a few years ago, the earlier recordings of the same songs sound a bit weedy, mind.
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Testament are great. Just great.
With the release of First Strike Still Deadly a few years ago, the earlier recordings of the same songs sound a bit weedy, mind.
^ +1
but, that style of production was what they all went for back in the day - pity.
would be cool to hear some of the classic thrash albums remixed with more balls to them, along the lines of what Iggy did with Rawa Power (oh yeah!!!) :D
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That would be good, yeah.
I don't listen to loads of thrash anymore, but I do go on binges and listen to Possessed and Nuclear Assault and Cerebral Fix all day now and again.
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I do still like Nuclear Assault - they were never that big, but I always liked their stuff as it sounded more hardcore-punk in its roots than most stuff of that era (that was called thrash).
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I do still like Nuclear Assault - they were never that big, but I always liked their stuff as it sounded more hardcore-punk in its roots than most stuff of that era (that was called thrash).
Too hardcore for me - I quite liked Flotsam and Jetsam, Agent Steel, Overkill as well as the "Big 4" (not so much Slayer). But I was still listening to my hair metal and AOR/wimphem bands. Strange time, the '80s. :lol: