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The New Order | 
 enlarge | Artist: Testament
Label: Megaforce / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.98
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 5355
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 81849
UPC: 075678184925
EAN: 0075678184925
ASIN: B000002IMG
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Eerie Inhabitants | | • | The New Order | | • | Trial By Fire | | • | Into The Pit | | • | Hypnosis | | • | Disciples Of The Watch | | • | The Preacher | | • | Nobody's Fault | | • | A Day of Reckoning | | • | Musical Death (A Dirge) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Second best thrash metal album ever August 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is another solid offering from Testament, and is good from the start to the end.
While I list the Legacy as the best thrash metal album ever, the New Order is literally every bit as good, it's just the Legacy was the bands defining album as it came first.
The album did not sell too well for the band, possibly because MTV was too big on Metallica, Guns N Roses and Motley Crue to promote bands like Testament, certainly not because the album is lacking in material.
The sophmore effort. May 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Testament's second album was an advance similar to the jump Metallica made from Kill Em All to Ride The Lightning.
The music matured, as did the lyrics.
Powerful, angry, melodic.
It was The Legacy but much more mature.
A must have for any Testament fan. And a must have for any of the new kids who would like to find out where todays bands got their inspiration from.
Life! a game that people play!...Cryout! will we see another day! April 28, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This album is simply brilliant, The New Order is arguably one of the best thrash albums ever released in the 80's and Testament were at their peak, straight after the awesome debut album The Legacy they have managed to surpass themselves which shows how much of a definitive thrash metal group they were however Testament have never achieved the larger success of other heavy metal groups like Megadeth or Anthrax which is a shame. The songs are quite memorable which includes Disciples of the watch which is one of the greatest thrash metal songs ever recorded and also has some stand out tracks like Eerie Inhabitants with its nice melodic intro making it an excellent opening track and Into the pit which is sort of like a mosh pit anthem with catchy lyrics and fast pounding drum beats which is a personal favorite of mine you also have a great Aerosmith cover song Nobody's fault but mine which in my opinion sounds better and heavier than the original song and there's The Preacher where singer Chuck Billy screams alot "THE PREACHAAAAAA!!!". Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson both make a great guitar team and they come up with some pretty cool licks that are played at varying speeds and techniques, there were two great instrumentals one was acoustic and the other one Hypnosis was a slow melodic track, it sounded like a filler track and was slightly generic but the rest of the album was fantastic and Alex Skolnick is a master guitar player who can play some of the best technical riffs I've ever heard, my only gripe with this album is that the production sounds a bit dated but it still wasn't that bad you just have to turn up the volume a bit. While The New Order wasn't my absolute favorite (I still consider both Low and Practice What You Preach as my all time favorite Testament albums) I still think it was one of the group's finest accomplishments. More great thrash from a great band, get this classic thrash album it's worth it.
 Barely Average April 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Average is the general review I would give for all of Testament's albums. I think Alex Skolnick is a great guitarist but everything else about the band is horribly mediocre. Also, it may be my imagination but Skolnick seems to include a lot of Klezmer in his arrangements. That's great but it's a little overdone. This is supposed to be thrash and I don't want to feel like I'm at a barmitzva or watching 'Fiddler on the Roof' with every song I hear. All of the songs have the essentially the same drum beat and the same vocal arrangements. The singer is mediocre at best. The most one will hear of him is his voice break as he's screeching 'til blue in the face. I keep on imagining the last lyrics to 'Preacher' as being:
Listen to these words I screech
Catastrophic singing lessons
They shall teach
(Just follow the screecher!)
Listening to this album would be like listening to Metallica's Master of Puppets where every song is essentially in the same form as 'Battery.' Everything seems to be just a generic backdrop to Alex Skolnick's guitar lead and the band should more properly be called 'Alex Skolnick's Testament'. Take out Skolnick's solos and you essentially have nothing whatsoever: you can't tell whether you're listening to Anthrax, Exodus, or Overkill. It all sounds the same. The lyrics and singing seem more as an afterthought: generically bland and meaningless.
 Second strike isn't deadly... September 4, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Relative late-comers to the Thrash Metal elite, Testament dropped a vicious, thundering classic of a debut before gradually spiralling into a vortex of mediocrity over their next few records. Objectively, 'The New Order' is a pretty decent follow-up. The production is clearer and crunchier and the song-writing and performances are almost as strong. Nevertheless, this record has none of the intensity and youthful enthusiasm that makes 'The Legacy' special.
'Disciples of the Watch' is the only truly classic moment here - a Thrash masterpiece and one of the band's finest ever moments. Most of the rest of the album sounds self-conscious and contrived, the only time the band sound like they're having any fun is on the decent Aerosmith cover. If you judge this type of music on riffs and solos then it is probably worth purchasing, look elsewhere if you crave urgency and spark. Either way, get 'The Legacy' first.
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