It's crazy how good all the newer ones are. They definitely carry the torch for true thrash

Greatest Thrash Metal band ever in my opinion!! I love all their albums including The Ritual and Demonic. 12. Demonic 11. The Ritual 10. Titans Of Creation 9. Brotherhood Of The Snake 8. The Formation Of Damnation 7. Dark Roots Of The Earth 6. Low 5. Souls Of Black 4. The Gathering 3. Practice What You Preach 2. The New Order 1. The Legacy

Death Angel is another one up there with Testament and Overkill who have been putting out amazing material lately.

"The Gathering" is their Magnum Opus. Killer stuff with.. Dave Lombardo! It can't get much better than this. Masterpiece.

Clicked on this video faster than Gene Hoglan’s feet. Sea of Tranquility rules 🤘 Testament is one of the greatest metal bands ever, incredibly consistent catalog quality-wise.

Great Band. My Ranking: 1- Practice What You Preach 2- The Legacy 3- The Ritual 4- The Gathering 5- Dark Roots Of Earth 6- Souls Of Black 7- Brotherhood Of The Snake 8- The New Order 9- The Formation Of Damnation 10- Titans Of Creation 11- Low 12- Demonic

First to Pete and Steve, you guys and the rest of the crew have been a blessing during the pandemic keeping people entertained and informed. Testament has always been my favorite thrash metal band, they have performed vastly better than their more well advertised peers and simply have better written, better performed and better sounding material. No matter the brilliance of the other albums 'Low' is always going to be my favorite from the dedication to Criss Oliva to the incredible production of GGGarth this is the record for me.

Steve was the right man for this job Pete.

Cool that Pete put Titans of Creation so high. It's a masterpiece.

This is actually a pretty hard Ranking but for me. Testament is one of the few thrash bands that stayed consistently good. Souls of Black and Practice what you Preach are their 2 most complete albums to me.

Death Angel are another band who have consistently brought out strong releases and seem to be getting better and better

I think The Ritual is massively underrated, proven by Pete ranking it last. Some absolute catchy barnstormers on that one. Electric Crown absolutely rules.

This is the band that set the standard for thrash absolutely crushing stuff

The New Order is their greatest album.

#1 - "The Legacy" - (1987) #2 - "The New Order" - (1988) #3 - "Practice What You Preach" - (1989) #4 - "Souls of Black" - (1990) #5 - "Formation of Damnation" - (2008) #6 - "The Gathering" - (1999) #7 - "Brotherhood of the Snake" - (2016) #8 - "Titans of Creation" - (2020) #9 - "Dark Roots of Earth" - (2012) #10 - "Low" - (1994) #11 - "The Ritual" - (1992) #12 - "Demonic" - (1997)

So glad you finally did this one. Testament was and is one of the best thrash bands ever. They haven't put out any bad albums so you really can't go wrong. Here's my ranking: 1. Gathering 2. New Order 3. Titans of Creation 4. Low 5. Practice What You Preach 6. The Ritual 7. Formation of Dalmatian 8. Legacy 9. Dark Roots 10. Demonic 11. Brotherhood of The Snake 12. Souls of Black

Thank you , “Pete” and “Steve” for your picks. I picked my favorite Top 5. 5. Dark Roots of Earth 4. Titans of Creation 3. The Gathering 2. Practice What You Preach 1. The New Order 🎼🎤🎸🎵🥁

My number 1 is The Gathering! Testament is such a underrated band. Saw them twice. I was supposed to see them last spring.

My ranking for the Testament albums would be🤘 12. Low 1994 11. Demonic 1997 10. The Ritual 1992 9. Brotherhood Of The Snake 2016 8. Souls Of Black 1990 7. Dark Roots Of Earth 2012 6. Titans Of Creation 2020 5. The Gathering 1999 4. The Formation Of Damnation 2008 3. The Legacy 1987 2. The New Order 1988 1. Practice What You Preach 1989

Great show. I need more Testament in my life and just ordered a couple cd's due to this show. BTW I was cranking that Nervosa cd just before watching this video and really digging it. Great stuff!

Good commentary fellas ! Another great program .....

Thanks guys! Been waiting for this and I have also enjoyed revisiting these albums. Was really into Testament '87 to '90, then when they returned in '08...wow! 1. Practice What You Preach 1989 2. The Gathering 1999 3. Dark Roots of Earth 2012 4. Low 1994 5. Titans of Creation 2020 6. The Legacy 1987 7. Souls of Black 1990 8. The Formation of the Damnation 2008 9. The New Order 1988 10. Brotherhood of the Snake 2016 11. The Ritual 1992 12. Demonic 1997

Can we talk about how cool Steve Keeler is? Are we going to finally acknowledge and celebrate that ?

"The New Order" is probably my favourite, but frankly some of the modern stuff has just been fantastic. I'd go as far as to say that "The Brotherhood Of The Snake" is one of the best thrash albums of the 2010's.

I have been waiting for this one since you ranked Testament songs with Caffrey and Steve in his shop. Thought for sure Chris would sit in on this one. Great job on one of THE GREATEST Metal bands Evah !

So keen for this

Awesome show guys!

This definitely makes me want to get into the catalog again.

The gathering is #1 for me. I really like first strike still deadly as well. They re recorded a bunch of the the early classics and it sounds incredible.

How about a Flotsam & Jetsam ranking? Hugely underrated band, and there are some hidden gems in their catalog

1. The Gathering 2. Demonic 3. Low Love the mid period Testament. Martin could put me on The Contrarians for this ranking.

The Big Four should be the Big Five... Testament belongs there.

Still have their original demo cassette when they were known as Legacy. Seen them a bunch. Good show guys!

Great show, excellent content

Great ranking guys. Also my fav thrash band, overkill not far behind. Absolutely love them all, but practice what you preach is my favorite. Thanks for sharing!🤟

The New Order and Practice What You Preach are my favorites.

I confess i dont like thrash metal, but i like the ballad songs like the legacy, and trial of tears. Love melody with my heavy rock, and metal. Great to see the passion for the genre.

Thanks for ranking the studio discography of testement!

Great show as always Pete and Steve, Testament easily one of the most consistent bands of all time. Yes Hudson Valley Squares is easily my favorite thing on tv/internet by a long way. Looking forward to the live stream. Btw speaking of Eddie Trunk, would love to see him in the celebrity chair on Hudson Valley Squares at some time. Love all your work Pete and Steve and all the Hudson Valley Squares.!!!!

The New Order has always been my favorite. As soon as I heard Trial By Fire, I was hooked. The Ritual is also amazing. I met them at a signing during that tour. Nice group of guys.

I've seen Testament live ten times over the years: seven times between 1989 and 1997, and three times between 2012 and 2017. They have always been amazing, particularly Chuck Billy, whose voice sounds even stronger today than it did in the early 90's.

Good ranking guys much love goes out to my brothers

I loved Titans of Creation, can’t wait to explore others, thanks for doing this

Woah, Pete actually did it. Great stuff! I'm a huge fan of slow Testament, so for me it goes... 1. The Ritual 2. Practice What You Preach 3. Titans of Creation 4. Formation of Damnation I love the rest too, but to me The Ritual is a hidden treasure, but it might take some people reappraisal. It has aged insanely well.

Awesome episode Pete :) Steve is such a cool guy🤘 My ranking : 1. The New Order 2. The Legacy 3. Low (My first album) 4. Practice What you Preach 5. The Ritual 6. Souls of Black

I agree with you guys so much on Testament being one of the best thrash metal bands. The New Order has to be my fave. I listened to this twice today. Once on the way to work, and once on the way back. Love their newer stuff too. Nice show guys.

good show Guys!!

You guys rule! Good rankings too. I definitely agree with the top 2 from both of you. Also really do jam that Nervosa album! Just found them from Elliot's Little Punk People interview and it riffs real good indeed!

Testament's The Gathering made me listen to the Death discography right after I finished their's. Was huge fan of Riding the Snake (its riff was monstrous) and still holds up extremely well - Fall of Sipledome and Hammer of the Gods mop up faces for nights on end.!

Great show Pete and Stephen!! first off I had great tix last year for Testament in Long Island, but of course Covid fucked that up Testament is my all time fave Thrash band and on of my fave bands period!! this list like you guys said is very hard since i love all their albums and changes at times... my top 10 Practice What You Preach Souls Of Black Titans of Creation Low The legacy Brotherhood of the Snake Demonic Formation of Damnation ( great Metal Masters Tour with Priest, Heaven Hell & Motherhead) Dark Roots The Gathering Honorable Mention: The Ritual

Thanks for the recommendations. Loved the Titans of Creation CD... what a treat. Years ago I saw Testament with (opener) Annihilator (Jeff Waters) in a small club. What a show. Brings back fond memories though the hearing loss has lasted a lifetime! Thanks again.

I'm going to do a Top 5, I like almost All of the Testament Albums, I like these 5 the most. 5 - The Ritual 4 - The Legacy 3 - Practice what You Preach 2 - The New Order 1 - Souls of Black Alex Skolnick 👍

I love them all and I agree the hardest part was ranking my bottom half, all are excellent albums, I love the newest ones so I may have some of those higher than many. Here's my rankings though: 1 - The Legacy 2 - The New Order 3 - Titans Of Creation 4 - The Gathering 5 - Dark Roots Of Earth 6 - Souls Of Black 7 - Brotherhood Of The Snake 8 - The Formation Of Damnation 9 - Low 10 - Practice What You Preach 11 - Demonic 12 - The Ritual

Their last album was one of the records of the year. Massive respect to them

Pete, some day - can you please rank Flotsam & Jetsam? They are worthy! 🤘

Great band! Thanks for this video. I need to get to know the middle albums better. Say...a good topic for a video would be the subject of ballads. I have heard Martin Popoff say he doesn’t like ballads at all. It would be a good topic for a video with him - or maybe the Hudson Valley Squares. A rant about what works - or doesn’t - about ballads. Where they work best on albums, what features are necessary to make them work, which bands are phenomenal at them, etc. Think about it. Thanks again for the great discussion!

Great video guys! How bout a future Death Angel, Clutch or Black Label Society ranking?

The Evil Has Landed BLEW me away back in '08. I was also glad Chuck got his health back such amazing metal vocals...

Great show very well done!!! Testament such a consistently phenomenal band. In my humble opinion they blow right past Anthrax and Slayer and join Metallica and Megadeath to make up the big three of thrash metal. With a strong honorable mention to Overkill. The Legacy and the New Order are my favorites but really the entire catalog is epic.

can't get enough of over the wall. amazing.

great band - love all of their albums

Great episode guys. Other than the top 2 I think most people would have wildly different orders. Great band.

Low is amazing and still holds up. It came out as i was entering my metal renaissance as a teen in the 90's, along with Burn My Eyes and Far Beyond Driven, it defined the freewheeling 90's groovy thrash that still makes me happy.

The New Order was my introduction to Testament and it is my favorite. A true masterpiece of an album

Very good show. I'm did just the same journey in the 80's. Listen too thrash and death. And i'm still into that music. Yes the new Nervosa album is just great.

Weird... I searched this yesterday to see if you've done Testament yet and... here we are! Still building my Testament collection, so far only have the first six albums... can't even begin to rank those, don't know how you guys did all 12!

Testament and possibly Overkill are the only thrash bands that haven't put out any really shitty records

I never really got into and appreciated thrash until I heard Testament. They are king IMO!

Steve reminds me of Garth from Waynes World

I love that guy. You’re a lovable Genius Steve ✊🏿🤘🏾🤎🖤 I Honestly think “ Low “ is their best album...”Formation “ next. And, “Practice “ 3.

NERVOSA!!! Thank you for mentioning this,but the band's previous albums with Fernanda Lira on bass and on vocals are PHENOMENAL!!!!

Great video as always. The Ritual is higher on my list as I used to listen to that while playing The Secret of Monkey Island 2. With the time it took to do 'The 4 Map Pieces', I am sure you can imagine, The Ritual got a lot of listening time. The Gathering takes my number 1 spot. But you chaps are right, no bad albums here.

"The Ritual" reminds me of Megadeth's "Youthanasia." But neither album should be slept on because holy shit there's some cool stuff on there. "Electric Crown" is a killer

Practice What You Preach is my favorite. I love the songwriting and the sound of the record.

Great show guys ...... My top three by Testament...3rd Souls of Black .....2nd Practice what you preach........and number one .........The Ritual ! 🤘👍

Dark Roots is my fav. Not really a thrash fan but this just clicked with me.

Steve Keeler is becoming my favorite of the Hudson Valley Squares, very sober analysis, lots of information and witty sense of humor! my ranking of Testament's records is close to his.

1.Low 2.The Gathering 3.The Legacy 4.The New Order 5.Titans of Creation 6.Dark Roots of Earth 7.Brotherhood of the Snake 8.The Formation of Damnation 9.Practice What You Preach 10.Demonic 11.Souls of Black 12.The Ritual

Great ranking. Agree 💯 the newer ones since Alex's comeback are quite hard to beat, probably equal to those from the eighties. Nervosa's new album is amazing. Kudos to the new lineup with my comrade Diva Satánica fronting the band.

Testament- Great band! My all time favorite album is the legacy! All of the other albums are great too.

Testament is a symbol of consistency I love this band.

Having recently discovered Testiment and not having a special bond with their early albums, I think Titans is far and away their best. Every song except maybe Healers and Catacombs is awesome.

lets just all agree:TESTAMENT HAVE NOT EVEN A MEDIOCRE ALBUM! all albums, no matter the line-up, are just good!even the one i have 12, has some 3-4 killer songs!i mean, i've listened soo many times the Demonic album, and i got it near the middle! 1) The Gathering 2) The New Order 3) Practice What You Preach 4) The Formation Of Damnation 5) The Legacy 6) Low 7) Demonic 8) Dark Roots Of Earth 9) Titans Of Creation 10) Souls Of Black 11) The Ritual 12) Brotherhood Of The Snake ALL HAIL TESTAMENT!!!!! ALL HAIL CHUCK AND ERIC!!! GREECE LOVES YA

And now Dave Lombardo is back in Testament. Whoo!

I had never heard of Testament until I bought the Souls of Black tape when it came out in 1990...based solely on the album cover (best metal album cover ever IMO). Been a huge fan ever since.

Don’t forget about Death Angel. Since they reformed its been one winner after another.

It took me a couple years of checking ebay and Discogs to find sealed CD copies of the original Atlantic pressings of The Lagacy, Practice What You Preach, and The New Order.

Great show! 12: Brotherhood of the Snake 11: Demonic 10: Low 9: Formation of Damnation 8: The Ritual 7: Titans of Creations 6: The Gathering 5: Souls of Black 4: The Legacy 3: Dark Roots of Earth 2: The New Order 1: Practice What you Preach

Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, Overkill, Exodus - Big 8....Death Angel....man so many good ones

Great show! Could you rank the albums of Therapy?

Okay, I'm going to cut myself off, and thank you for agreeing with my initial opinion of the 1992 album" being a hiccup" as you call it. 1 million % agree

Yo Pete GREAT t-shirt there w/ Strapping Young Lad!

I have never really been fond of the production of "The Ritual," but I absolutely love the songs. It was actually the first Testament album I'd bought.

I saw Dublin Death Patrol (2007?) and my son and I met Zetro and Chuck backstage...what a night! Chuck signed my son's Practice What you Preach album... now framed...Zet was cool, Told my son to stick with school because Metalheads were smart!

Pete Pardo - Testament & Overkill have the strongest discography start to finish. AMEN!

Chuck did his finest singing from Souls to The Ritual, solid vocal melodies at the time. Could never get into his growling from 93 on, specially when he incorporates it into the old stuff live. And this is coming from a death metal fan.

Top 5 1. The Ritual 2. Titans of Creation 3. Practice What You Preach 4. Dark Roots of the Earth 5. Souls of Black Pretty much like all of their albums except for Demonic.

One of my favorite thrash bands! I like all of their albums. Here´s my ranking.. 12. Demonic 11. Low 10. The Ritual 9. Titans of Creation (loved it when it came out, but I overplayed it) 8. The Gathering 7. Dark Roots of Earth 6. The New Order 5. The Legacy 4. Brotherhood of the Snake 3. Souls of Black 2. Formation of Damnation 1. Practice What You Preach That was really hard to do, especially top 7.

There are two fan remastered versions of The New Order and The Legacy here on YT that do the songs/mix complete justice. They do away with the overload of “thin mids” those albums suffered from. Both sound absolutely incredible!

Ps:I also love the Live album Testament Live at the Filmore. It has a great array of songs and the 3 acoustic tracks at the end. It's Heavy and James Murphy top notch. 🤘