Practice What You Preach

Artist: Testament
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 075678200946
EAN: 0075678200946
ASIN: B000002IOK

Release Date: 1989-08-07

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Tracks:

Practice What You Preach
Perilous Nation
Envy Life
Time Is Coming
Blessed in Contempt
Greenhouse Effect
Sins of Omission
Ballad
Nightmare (Coming Back to You)
Confusion Fusion [Instrumental]

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Customer Reviews:

Testament rules!.......2006-07-25

This has got to be the best Testament album! This band ranks up there with Slayer. Hardcore thrash and yet the melodic subtleties blow your mind away during the slow song "The Ballad". 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.......2006-06-01

Testament's first 2 albums are typical thrash albums with great songs on it. Testament's breakthrough album is Practice What You Preach - a more polished album with more melodies and catchiness. 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. .......2006-01-31

Testament's third release "Practice what you Preach" is a superb metal effort that is under-appreciated and often overlooked. The late 80's/early 90's was a great time for heavy metal. 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.

Another great Testament disc.......2006-01-02

Testament may not have invented thrash metal, but they are still a very underrated band. The musicians in Testament are equally as talented as anybody in thrash's Big Four bands (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax), and they are more hook oriented than many speed metal bands. Lead guitarist Alex Skolnick's solos are a lot more technical than Slayer's, and are usually every bit as breathtaking as Metallica's. The guitar shredding on Testament's third studio album, "Practice What You Preach" (which was released in 1989), is, of course, no exception. Even when the rest of the band (especially the drummer) sounds somewhat generic, Skolnick soars on every track with fiery, blowtorch riffs and wonderful solos. "Time Is Coming" and the title track are both catchy numbers with chugging riffs, thumping drums, and vocals which almost echo James Hatfield (plus "Practice What You Preach" has a shout a long of "preach!" in the chorus.) These songs are also both capped off by a lengthy, wailing guitar solo. Likewise, "Perilous Nation" features up and down, classical-sounding guitar work, "Envy Life" has an ascending solo, and "Sins of Omission" is highlighted by another superb, very complex solo which has several different parts to it. Other standout tracks include "The Ballad" and the instrumental (albeit brief) album closer, "Confusion Fusion." The former track, "The Ballad," kind of sounds like Metallica's 1986 single, "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)," because it begins as a power ballad with acoustic plunking, but it gradually builds and gains momentum. Over the years, this album has taken a slight dip in sound quality, but it has aged better than some of the music from the Eighties. Testament may not be as iconic as some thrash bands, but albums like "Practice What You Preach" prove that they definitely should be. This is another great, must-own album from one of thrash's most important, most underrated, and finest bands.

A Thrash Classic!!.......2005-11-27

What can you say but Testament Rulz!! This cd is a Thrash masterpiece. "The Ballad" is one of their better slow songs ever recorded. It picks up in the end. Practice what you preach is a solid cd and only second to "The New Order". If you like Thrash and don't have this cd you're missing out!

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