Too many Testament albums, which ones should I get?

Huggbees · **Joined:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:00 pm **Posts:** 29

Besides there newest one, which I already love.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:44 pm

The Gathering, easily.

Then Practice What You Preach and then The New Order.

5/3/// · **Joined:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:16 am **Posts:** 177

Their first three are my favourites, get The Legacy first then New Order then Pratise What You Preach. Classic thrash! :dio:

Faffel · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:52 am

The Gathering is their best.

ganeshaRules · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:15 am

5/3/// wrote:

Their first three are my favourites, get The Legacy first then New Order then Pratise What You Preach. Classic thrash! :dio:

+1

Seinfeld26 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:30 pm

The Gathering = One of the best thrash metal albums of the 90's. You soooo need to get that one.

After that, get The Legacy and especially Practice What You Preach for some classic bay area thrash. Get The Ritual for a great early-90's heavy metal album in the vein of The Black Album and Youthanasia. Get Low for a solid (if IMO somewhat overrated) Machine Head-like groove/thrash metal album. And then get Demonic for an interesting mid-paced death metal album.

Adveser · **Joined:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 am **Posts:** 2491

The New Order, end of story.

Thrashtildeth · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:34 am

Souls of Black always gets a bad rap for some reason.

It kicks ass.

Basically, none of their albums really disappoint. The first 4 are undeniably solid gold thrash.

The Ritual is a good listen if you don't mind a more mainstream metal/black album style sound.

The rest of the 90's albums are heavier and deathier, but still thrashy, and good if you're into that sort of thing.

And Formation of Damnation is good too.

Basically they're all good and the one you should purchase depends directly on your preferred style of sound.

The Evil Dead · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:48 pm

I think First Strike Still Deadly is a great place to start.

IronGuardian · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:54 am

ganeshaRules wrote:

5/3/// wrote:

Their first three are my favourites, get The Legacy first then New Order then Pratise What You Preach. Classic thrash! :dio:

+1

Agreed as well. Actually, the groove/thrash that they've played ever since never really did much for me.

stub · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:46 pm

Seinfeld26 wrote:

The Gathering = One of the best thrash metal albums of the 90's.

Since the 90's were a desert for thrash metal, that really doesn't mean much.imo the Gathering has some good songs, and some shity groove thrashers.And by the way, were are the solos?what the hell was James Murphy doing?

imo,The Legacy>PracticeWYP>The New Order>Souls of Black>Low>The Gathering>The FormationOD>Demonic

haven't heard The Ritual in almost 14 years, but i remember it's quite boring...actually i find all their albums boring except for The Legacy,which REALLY kicks ass.

Wsx26 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:13 am

The Legacy and The New Order. Essential.

DeadRed · **Posted:** Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:01 am

Wsx26 wrote:

The Legacy and The New Order. Essential.

Agree, defenetly the 2 most solid Testament albums.

unreal · **Joined:** Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:31 pm **Posts:** 126

Get The Legacy. Thats all you need.

DeadRed · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:01 am

Wsx26 wrote:

The Legacy and The New Order. Essential.

100% agree, first 2 is the only solid Testament albums (although they did many great songs since then too).

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