The New Order
Occupation
- Vocals: Chuck Billy
- Guitar: Alex Skolnick
- Guitar: Eric Peterson
- Bass: Greg Christian
- Drums: Louie Clemente
The New Order (English: The New Order ) is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Testament. It was released in May 1988 with Megaforce Records. Musically similar to its predecessor, it contained with Hypnosis, were used for the samples of a thunderstorm, and Musical Death (A Dirge ) for the first time two quiet instrumentals. It was the first Testament album to debut in the U.S., the UK and Germany in the charts.
Genesis
After the highly acclaimed debut The Legacy and published in the fall of 1987 live album Live at Eindhoven Testament the end of 1987 again went into the Pyramid Sound Studios in Ithaca, NY, to record the successor. Therefore, the band was only a fairly short songwriting period. Produced and mixed the album was up again in early 1988 by Alex Perialas. With Reign of Terror, an eleventh song was recorded that did not come on the album. He was guitarist Alex Skolnick too hard and found only after its exit on the EP Return to the Apocalyptic City (1993 ) use. At Trial by Fire, along with The Preacher one of the singles, and the Aerosmith Cover Nobody's Fault music videos were filmed. The publication in May was followed by a world tour, including with Megadeth, which included appearances in South America for the first time.
Reception
Although the album " seen for itself," " certainly not much worse" than The Legacy had broken down, criticized Holger Stratmann from Rock Hard, that the playing time with instrumental pieces " had been" filled. The similarities to its predecessor were evaluated negatively. Nevertheless, if it were " first-class, high-quality thrash " with " mega hard, precise riffs ," a "strong performance " Alex Skolnicks and one against the previous board improved drum sound. Stratmann awarded 8.5 out of ten. For Alex Henderson of allmusic is The New Order Testament " best release ever ". The plate was just as powerful as the debut, but the songs catchy. The Aerosmith Cover Nobody's Fault count to the best that the band has released. As evaluation resulted 4.5 out of five stars. Also Alex Straka of The New Order Powermetal.de held against The Legacy for the " far better, because more sophisticated output", the plate was " one of the greatest thrash metal albums ." Especially the piece Disciples of the Watch counted among the " band's classics ," Nobody's Fault only he described as " meaningless ".
Title list
Published in 2002 by Testament First Strike Still Deadly, a re-recording album on which some pieces from The New Order were included.