024: Album Dive: Testament The New Order

There are some albums in the annals of Thrash metal history that are considered “art”: timeless, heavy, classic and almost perfect. Testament released one of those pieces of art and it is known as “The New Order”; one of THE finest thrash releases of one of THE finest years of thrash: 1988!!!

JOIN US as we get into the “eerie” space in thrash that Testament inhabits with The New Order. We’ll go deep down into the mystical shamanistical rabbit hole that gave us (and again, we really can’t stress this enough) one of THE finest moments of thrash metal EVER!!

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00.00: Intro/All the listening excitement of a yawning sloth/Caffeine, Slayer and proper Slayer listening etiquette/It’s all in the air…

04.13: 1988: Testament’s The New Order/#softintroreprise #savageadam/ The “eerie”ness that inhabits the mighty Testament sound and album art/Milley gets emotional when touched on his shakra

08.47: Same technical personnel as The Legacy: Alex Perialas (aka Alex Paralysis), Johnny and Marsha Zazula, Tom Coyne and the rest of the Magical Wizard People of the Liger, Robert Hunter (drummer from Raven!)/Andy Meyn (photographer) /Bill Benson (the Derek Riggs of Testament)/Testament chart positions and notable points

14.54: The New Order tour with Megadeth, Sanctuary, Flotsam and Jetsam, Nuclear Assault, Vio-Lence, Forbidden, Voivod, Sanctionary, Destruction, Carnivore, Death Angel, Athiest/the word is Wizardery/Monsters of Rock European tour

18.07: The Recording process and the fine print “minimum”/Testament’s multiple tour stops in ATL

21.17: The Tracks: Eerie inhabitants (the perfect ominous opener)/Chuck Billy IS #shamanmetal/The shredtastical awesomeness of Alex Skolnick /Accentuation: a pricey word (and a bargain word to follow it)

26.45: The New Order (more magically eerie Testament creepiness)/Maiden influence/C.O.T.L.O.S.

30.13: Trial by Fire (still more eerie riffy goodness)/And now, a word from Nigel Nigelson…

34.12: Into the Pit (Flangie)/Another graduate of the Joe Satriani school of shredtastical awesomeness!!/ The 1st instrumental: the eerie shreddy witchiness of Hypnosis

38.17: Disciples of the Watch (Track 1, Side 2)/Killer intro and Killer riffs/Overall more depth in the Production/Definite Iron Maiden influence (kudos and commendments)/Low End Movement and The Diarrhea Resistance

42.34: The Preacher (the Pre-Pterodactyl scream)/Who’s fault was it? (Nobody’s Fault…Aerosmith)/ #getyourwings/tangentionally tangential comment regarding Testament’s cover of The Scorpions’ Sails of Charon (#magicalmetal)

47.48: Day of Reckoning (the archetype of the thrash metal sound), Metal Nerdery tracking analysis of Side 2 and the Reshuffled tracklisting (The Anals and The Buttholes)

51.28: The 2nd instrumental - Musical Death (A Dirge): a dedication to Cliff Burton (RIP)/CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORDERY ABOUT METAL NERDERY/Drop us a line, write us a letter, give us some kudos and commendments (and condiments, if you like), purchase some swag (we might have a loincloth/pasta partnership in the works…stay tuned), and help grow the GLOBAL Metal Nerdery Syndicate!!! metalnerdery.com/merch