Artist: PESTILENCE
Album: TESTIMONY OF THE ANCIENTS DELUXE RE-ISSUE (2CD O-CARD)

Release date: 1991/ 2017
EAN/UPS: 8715392171529
Media type: CD

Remastered slip-cased 2-CD with bonus on disc 2. Fully Remastered. An iconic landmark album within Death Metal. “Testinomy of the Ancients” gets the well-deserved reissue!

Two years after releasing one of the best death metal albums ever to surface from The Netherlands, Pestilence hit jackpot again with their 1991 album “Testimony Of The Ancients”. The biggest differences with their previous effort “Consuming Impulse” are simple: The production is more clean, short intermezzos between all the songs, the average pace is lower and Patrick Mameli has taken over lead vocals.

Pestilence has had a well-deserved place in the first wave death metal elite, mentioned in one breath with the likes of Death, Sepultura, Cynic, Atheist and the likes. Rightly so, because their progression up untill this album is comparable to, say, Carcass. With every album they developed their sound so no release sounds alike but still stays Pestilence undeniably.

Disc 2 has two live sets from DYNAMO OPEN AIR and NIGHTTOWN Rotterdam.

CD 1:

1     - The secrecies of horror     4:56     
2     - Bitterness     0:30     
3     - Twisted truth     4:02     
4     - Darkening     0:30     
5     - Lost souls     3:40     
6     - Blood     0:28     
7     - Land of tears     4:46     
8     - Free us from temptation     0:30     
9     - Prophetic revelations     5:20     
10     - Impure     1:00     
11     - Testimony     3:50     
12     - Soulless     0:32     
13     - Presence of the dead     5:50     
14     - Mindwarp     0:24     
15     - Stigmatized     5:22     
16     - In sorrow     1:12

CD 2:

1     - Chemo therapy     4:30     
2     - Presence of the dead     5:55     
3     - The process of suffocation     2:55     
4     - Lost souls     3:54     
5     - Twisted truth     4:24     
6     - Testimony     4:17     
7     - Chronic infection     3:45     
8     - Stigmatized     5:29     
9     - Out of the body     4:27     
10     - Darkening     4:04     
11     - Presence of the dead     5:48     
12     - Prophetic revelations     5:41     
13     - Suspended animation     3:40     
14     - The secrecies of horror     4:55     
15     - The traume     3:28     
16     - Land of tears     5:05