I saw Testament perform the complete Legacy album live on Saturday at Milwaukee Metal Fest! What a treat and totally melted my face off! I am new to Testament and only started listening to them in the last 3 years (been listening to metal since early 90's). Strongly agree with RtL/MoP comparison, in fact, one of the reasons I like them so much is because they remind me of when I was first discovering those albums back in the day. I don't hear much Slayer, however. After experiencing Legacy live, I love it even more and firmly cemented in my top 10 of all time.
Chuck Billy has always had the best voice in the Thrash Metal Genre, in my opinion. Deep, aggressive and powerful, his voice is the living embodiment of the Thrash movement, of which I was smack in the middle of, having lived in Northern California for the great majority of my nearly 56 years.
As much as I like albums like this and Practice What You Preach, to me Testament are somewhat overrated in that they aren't at the level of a Slayer or Metallica (although I agree stylistically influenced). A lot of bland thrash/pedestrian material throughout their catalog.
Skolnick really is (too) good for this band. He is more of a jazz player. In this sense he is one of the best in thrash along with the Megadeth guitar players.
Legendary album!
Along with Metal Church - Metal Church, one of the most badass thrash debuts imo.
That's a good one!
I saw Testament perform the complete Legacy album live on Saturday at Milwaukee Metal Fest! What a treat and totally melted my face off! I am new to Testament and only started listening to them in the last 3 years (been listening to metal since early 90's). Strongly agree with RtL/MoP comparison, in fact, one of the reasons I like them so much is because they remind me of when I was first discovering those albums back in the day. I don't hear much Slayer, however. After experiencing Legacy live, I love it even more and firmly cemented in my top 10 of all time.
You are NOT disappointing with this new clutch of debut albums, this is a great one to cover!
Thanks!
Skolnick 🤘
Totally agree about the timing of this release!!
Absolutely love this album 🤘.
Practice was probably the last album I got really into.
Chuck Billy has always had the best voice in the Thrash Metal Genre, in my opinion. Deep, aggressive and powerful, his voice is the living embodiment of the Thrash movement, of which I was smack in the middle of, having lived in Northern California for the great majority of my nearly 56 years.
I liked his voice more on the earlier recordings, now he seems to just go for that aggressive sound too much.
@@LairoftheAlchemist True, around the mid to late-90's he started doing those vomit-metal vocals thing. Yuck!
Alex Skolnick is by far the best guitar player in "thrash"
Regardless of the genre, he’s just a great guitarist
Until Marty Friedman and Rust in Peace , For Thrash Metal Alex on a technical level .. blows everybody away .. He was the Malmsteen of Thrash !!
As much as I like albums like this and Practice What You Preach, to me Testament are somewhat overrated in that they aren't at the level of a Slayer or Metallica (although I agree stylistically influenced). A lot of bland thrash/pedestrian material throughout their catalog.
Skolnick really is (too) good for this band. He is more of a jazz player. In this sense he is one of the best in thrash along with the Megadeth guitar players.
I think Alex has even done some jazz projects
Cds sound better
Sometimes...but not always. Check out my video on the loudness wars and on CDs in general, I've done a few.
they sound like Metallica to me
And that's probably why they never broke really big, they were too close to Metallica.
Boy, Metallica could have sued Testament for the degree to which Over The Wall sounds like Battery ...
Yeah...haha