The New Order

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The New Order
Testament studio album

Publication
(s)

May 10, 1988

Label (s) Megaforce Records

Format (s)

LP, CD , MC

Genre (s)

Thrash metal , speed metal

Title (number)

10

running time

39:21

occupation
  • Bass: Greg Christian
  • Drums: Louie Clemente

production

Alex Perialas

Studio (s)

Pyramid Sound, Ithaca , NY

chronology
The Legacy
(1987) 		The New Order Practice What You Preach
(1989)

The New Order is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Testament . It was released on Megaforce Records in May 1988 . Musically similar to its predecessor, it contained Hypnosis , for which samples of a thunderstorm were used, and Musical Death (A Dirge) for the first time two calm instrumentals. It was the first Testament album to hit the charts in the US, UK and Germany .

History of origin

After the highly acclaimed debut The Legacy and the live record Live at Eindhoven , which was released in autumn 1987 , Testament went back to the Pyramid Sound Studios in Ithaca , NY at the end of 1987 to record the successor. Therefore the band only had a short songwriting phase. The album was produced and mixed by Alex Perialas until the beginning of 1988 . With Reign of Terror , an eleventh song was recorded that did not make it on the album. He was guitarist Alex Skolnick too hard and was only used after his exit on the EP Return to the Apocalyptic City (1993). To Trial by Fire , along with The Preacher one of the singles, and the Aerosmith -Cover Nobody's Fault were filmed music videos. The May release was followed by a world tour, including a. with Megadeth , which for the first time also included appearances in South America .

reception

Although the album "in itself" was "certainly not much worse" than The Legacy , Holger Stratmann from Rock Hard criticized that the season was "filled up" with instrumental pieces. The similarities to the predecessor were also rated negatively. Nevertheless, it is about "first-class, high-quality Thrash" with "mega-hard, precise riffs ", a "strong performance" by Alex Skolnick and an improved drum sound compared to the previous record. Stratmann awarded 8.5 out of ten points. For Alex Henderson from allmusic , The New Order Testaments is “the best release ever”. The record is just as powerful as the debut, but the songs are more catchy. The Aerosmith cover Nobody's Fault is one of the best the band has released. The rating was 4.5 out of five stars. Alex Straka from Powermetal.de also considered The New Order to be the “far better, because more sophisticated output” compared to The Legacy , and the record was “one of the greatest Thrash Metal albums”. Especially the track Disciples of the Watch is one of the “band classics”, only Nobody's Fault he called “meaningless”.

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The New Order
  DE 49 06/06/1988 (3 weeks)
  UK 81 May 28, 1988 (1 week)
  US 136 06/25/1988 (14 weeks)
  1. Eerie Inhabitants (Billy / Peterson / Skolnick) - 5:06
  2. The New Order (Peterson / Skolnick) - 4:25
  3. Trial by Fire (Billy / Peterson / Skolnick) - 4:14
  4. Into the Pit (Billy / Peterson / Skolnick) - 2:46
  5. Hypnosis (Peterson / Skolnick) - 2:04
  6. Disciples of the Watch (Billy / Peterson / Skolnick) - 5:05
  7. The Preacher (Billy / Peterson / Skolnick) - 3:37
  8. Nobody's Fault ( Tyler / Whitford) - 3:57
  9. A Day of Reckoning (Billy / Peterson / Skolnick) - 4:00
  10. Musical Death (A Dirge) (Peterson / Skolnick) - 4:05

In 2002, Testament released a re-recording album, First Strike Still Deadly , which also included some pieces from The New Order .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Trojan: The Zero Hour , in: Rock Hard, No. 73, June 1993, p. 94
  2. ↑ www.rockhard.de: Band biography Testament  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rockhard.de  
  3. ^ Testament biography , Eduardo Rivadavia, allmusic.com
  4. ↑ Review of The New Order by Holger Stratmann , Rockhard 27/1988
  5. ^ The New Order at Allmusic (English), review by Alex Henderson
  6. ↑ www.powermetal.de: Review The New Order by Alex Straka
  7. ↑ Chart placements:
testament
John Allen • Glen Alvelais • Nick Barker • Paul Bostaph  • Mike Chlasciak • Greg Christian • Louie Clemente • Jon Dette  • Dave Lombardo  • James Murphy  • Derrick Ramirez • Steve Souza  • Steve Smyth • John Tempesta


Studio albums

The Legacy  (1987) • The New Order  (1988) • Practice What You Preach  (1989) • Souls of Black  (1990) • The Ritual  (1992) • Low  (1994) • Demonic  (1997) • The Gathering  (1999) • The Formation of Damnation  (2008) • Dark Roots of Earth  (2012) • Brotherhood of the Snake  (2016) • Titans of Creation  (2020)

Live albums

Live at Eindhoven (1987) • Return to the Apocalyptic City (1993) • Live at the Fillmore (1995) • Live in London  (2005) • Dark Roots of Thrash (2013)

Compilation albums

The Best of Testament (1996) • Signs of Chaos (1997) • The Very Best of Testament (2001) • First Strike Still Deadly (2001) • Days of Darkness (2004) • The Spitfire Collection (2007)