TESTAMENT

Release Year: 1997
Artist Origin: USA
Style: energetic straightforward thrash death metal

mid nineties were quite a serious crisis for traditional thrash worldwide - Testament decided to go dark and straightforward way, borrowing even more ferocious, death metal oriented ideas, surprising quite a few ears used to extreme sonic paradigm; Bay Area titans feel at home with this deadly role: their tuning parameters significantly get down the scale, Chuck Billy effectively experiments with lower growls, while Gene Hoglan [ex.Dark Angel, Death] pounds the shit out of his drums with ease - eleven tracks certainly outstand in the rich catalog of the band, but they are worth that head to bang as well!; British first press digipak edition