Thrashcast Episode 66: Testament's "Practice What You Preach" album from 1989
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Show Notes:
Episode Sixty-Six: After a month off Thrashcast finally returns with a review of Testament's 1989 album Practice What You Preach. Many consider this to be the band's most progressive at the time, drawing influences from traditional heavy metal, jazz fusion, and progressive/technical metal. This album was a major breakthrough release; achieving near gold status and also becoming the first album to enter the top 100 on the billboard200 charts.
Released on August 8th, 1989, the album moved away from the occult-horror themes found on the first two releases and went for personal, social and environmental themes in the lyrics. The title track Practice What You Preach was a moderate hit and was played on mainstream rock radio, as did The Ballad and Greenhouse Effect. The music videos created for this album also received heavy rotation throughout MTV's Headbangers ball and the helped the band to quickly sell over 450,000 in the United States alone.
Fun Facts: The album artwork was created by William Benson and it was a very colourful piece while maintaining imagery of environmental horrors. Certainly this piece reflected the album's lyrical themes and proved the band had much to say on their third release.
Kenneth Gallant, HMS
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