TESTAMENT — Practice What You Preach (review)

TESTAMENT — Practice What You Preach album cover Album · 1989 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Kingcrimsonprog
Practice What You Preach is one of the crowning achievements in Testament’s long and excellent career. The band started off strong and continued to release strong material. This, their third studio album introduced a wider array of lyrical topics, vocal styles and guitar melodies to their already impressive formula.

With songs like ‘Sin Of Omission,’ “Nightmare (Coming Back To You)” and the impressive Title Track it is no wonder why people still love this record and band.

Every musician is on top form, with exciting lead bass sections, melodic and impressive guitar solos, furious drumming and Chuck Billy’s fantastic voice all gelling perfectly together to create dynamic and interesting music with both enough harsh and heavy metal credibility and thoughtful melodic sections to appease most sections of the metal listening public.

Testament represent all the best traits of the Thrash Metal movement and provide an excellent standard of musicianship, songwriting, virtuosity and (for the time) production value that was of the best quality without being overblown and commercially sheened.

You will frequently read the sentiment that it is a great shame Testament never broke as big as Metallica, Megadeth et al and listening to any Testament album you will find yourself agreeing, this isn’t something people just blindly say like sheep, Testament really are legend-quality even if they unfortunately never achieved a legend level of success.

To conclude; If you like Metal you really ought to check out Testament, and if you like Testament then you really ought to check out Practice What You Preach.
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