Testament Appreciation thread

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:51 am

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The Aluminum Falcon · Post by **The Aluminum Falcon** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:27 pm

didn't the lead singer get cancer a while back?

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:37 am

yeah, he's doing well now though.

Always one of my favorite bay area bands, and one of the rare thrash bands from that era that had really good albums in the late 90s/2000.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:50 am

what did you guys think of death angel? i just downloaded one of their albums, remembered loving them in the late 80s/early 90s. thought it held up pretty well.

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:39 am

I like them, and it's also great that their best album has the gayest name for a metal album ever, "Frolic Through the Park"

I'm more of a Dark Angel fan though.

J Dub · Post by **J Dub** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:30 pm

DLG wrote:yeah, he's doing well now though.

Always one of my favorite bay area bands, and one of the rare thrash bands from that era that had really good albums in the late 90s/2000.

Their newest album, Formation of Damnation, was actually really good imo. Infinitely better than the horrific albums that Metallica and Megadeth just put out. They also still fucking slay live, I'd love to see that big four tour and have Testament open up and blow the rest of them off the stage.

catfish hunter · Post by **catfish hunter** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:05 pm

I used to jam Souls Of Black like fuck and wear the Testament executioner shirt to the stae fair.

I read in Decibel that Alex Skolnik also plays in the Trans Siberian Orchestra?

lj · Post by lj » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:18 pm

DLG wrote:yeah, he's doing well now though.

Always one of my favorite bay area bands, and one of the rare thrash bands from that era that had really good albums in the late 90s/2000.

true.
i think my favorite album might even be the gathering, and that was in like 2000 or when? but how can you go wrong with dave lombardo & james murphy ...

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bringinoutbangerz · Post by **bringinoutbangerz** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:38 pm

awesome thread

which do you all prefer?

Death Metal croak Chuck Billy or The Legacy-OG-style?

the fact that he now switches between both mid-song makes him >>>>>>>

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:20 am

yeah I like both, chuck has some brutal pipes.

I don't know if Alex plays in TSO, it was usually always dudes related to Savatage playing there, I think I saw them in 2000 with Al Pitrelli playing.

But if he is, good for him, get paid.

You guys should check out the Alex Skolnick Trio, they play jazz versions of metal songs, pretty awesome. I had some jazz band that played 70s fusion covers in college and we opened for them in the nyc one time.

I'm pretty sure they are opening for rodrigo y gabriela on the current US tour.

I think I like the first two albums best, even though I'm really sentimentally attacked to Souls and Practice because they are the first ones I bought, but objectively, the first two are better and Practice has about the worst clickety bass drum sound ever.

I also love Low, about half the tracks are monsters. Demonic was really really boring, which was a shame because Gene Hoglan played on it, but yeah, The Gathering is amazing and can hold it's own with the classic material.

Didn't really like the new one that much, to me it was exactly what all the other old thrash bands are doing now, especially Exodus, recording albums that sound like classic thrash with beefed up modern production, but they songs just don't catch me.

the best reunion thrash albums that have come out so far came from smaller bands, my two fav being the Artillery album that came out in 2009 and the Heathen album that came out this year.