Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake - guest review
Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake - guest review
Band
Testament Album
Brotherhood Of The Snake Style
Bay Area thrash metal Release date
October 28, 2016 Tracklist
01. Brotherhood Of The Snake02. The Pale King
03. Stronghold
04. Seven Seals
05. Born In A Rut
06. Centuries Of Suffering
07. Black Jack
08. Neptune's Spear
09. Canna-Business
10. The Number Game
Guest review by
Shamppy May 28, 2019
Well, with that being said, I have to give big kudos to the production values of this album. Sure, Andy Sneap did a fantastic job with the mixing process and delivered a clear, heavy-as-balls, and solid-as-it-gets sound for the album. But the real interesting part of this album is the actual production. We are talking Testament here; this is a band that knows what it's doing, but let's face it - they are not exactly youngsters and people do eventually run out of gas. That memo, however, didn't seem to make its way to Chuck Billy and Eric Peterson, because they (being the people who know the ins and outs of Testament the best) somehow made the band sound like it was in its prime.
Brotherhood Of The Snake presents Testament doing what it is known to do best: delivering fast-paced songs with punch, perfect either to sing along to or to mosh to during their live shows (I've been there while they played some of these songs, and trust me on this one, it's something you want to experience). The performance from everyone involved is just as professional as it gets.
If there's something that kinda holds this album back, it's the fact that the songs don't really vary much, and by that I more or less mean they don't at all. There's no particularly bad song, but they tend to feel a bit samey after repeated listens; there's also the fact that the band is playing in a very comfortable zone and does very little to reinvent itself. Not that I have a lot of problems with the second part, but a little more variety would have been appreciated.
Regardless, this is a solid-as-bricks album, and it shows that the band is going just as strong as ever and adds some real bangers to the live act that I hope stay there from now on.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 6 |
| Production: | 10 |
Written by Shamppy | May 28, 2019
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Posts: 3582 Written by Athropos on 29.05.2019 at 08:26 What a pointless remark.
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Posts: 3582 Written by gavdann on 06.06.2019 at 15:00 Are you trying to be funny? Disregarding a two word 'critique' about a 436 word review with just the same level of annoyance is not pointless at all. I criticized the most obvious fact: it's disrespectful and rude to overtly bash someone's work without even giving a slight hint of a reason for this extremely impolite and offensive behaviour.
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Posts: 8250 Written by gavdann on 06.06.2019 at 15:00 Nope, the response was spot on. It's your remark that is pointless. Being rude to someone who has written his first review on the website is not cool.
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