Released September 3, 1991 Release date 3 September 1991 Label RC Records | Length 39:36 | |
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Recorded March-April-1991 in Tampa, Florida (USA) Similar Pestilence albums, Death metal albums |
Pestilence testimony of the ancients full album
Testimony of the Ancients is the third album by the Dutch death metal band Pestilence, released in 1991 on Roadrunner Records.
Contents
- Pestilence testimony of the ancients full album
- Pestilence the secrecies of horror
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Production
- Songs
- References
Following the departure of former bassist/vocalist Martin VanDrunen, guitarist Patrick Mameli took over vocal duties. Mameli steered the band towards a more melodic and technical approach. The resulting concept album, Testimony of the Ancients contrasted brutal death metal riffs with melodic interludes and tackled what John Serba describes as, "strangely philosophical, and oddly compelling, subject matter". After each song on the album, there was an instrumental outro track. This attempt to push the boundaries of death metal, at a time when the scene was saturated with copycat "one track minded" bands, mirrored the efforts of fellow progressive bands Atheist and Death who released Unquestionable Presence and Human respectively in 1991, the same year as Testimony. The album can also be seen as a stepping stone on the way to the following Pestilence album Spheres, which departed still further from traditional death metal and headed towards jazz fusion.
Testimony of the Ancients was reissued, along with Consuming Impulse, on Roadrunner Records' Two from the Vault series.
Pestilence the secrecies of horror
Track listing
All lyrics written by Marco Foddis; all music composed by Patrick Mameli except where noted.
All Songs Copyright Roadster Music B.V.
Personnel
Production
Songs
1The Secrecies of Horror4:56
2Bitterness0:30
3Twisted Truth4:02