TESTAMENT “Souls Of Black” /CD/

Fourth album by legendary American Thrash metal band. It preceded several changes in style to rather diverse styles of metal, including the traditional heavy metal sound heard in its succeeding album “The Ritual”. The first album Testament recorded without producer Alex Perialas, Souls of Black unites the thrashers with the better-known Michael Rosen. With Perialas having served Testament so well, many headbangers wondered how great an impact this change would have on the unit. But they needn't have worried -- Testament sounds very much like it did on its three previous albums and is as heavy as ever. The band's outlook was still far from cheerful. While it had moved away from gothic and occult themes, Testament still sees the world as a hellish, insufferable place plagued by evil governments and the threat of another world war.
Megaforce Records/Atlantic Recording Corporation, 1990 (7 82143-2). First press. Made in U.S.A.