Back to the 80 / 90s !!

Sounds perhaps a little anachronistic first or old-fashioned, but I love the (Thrash) Metal of the 80s and 90s!
During this time such classics and gems such as Reign in Blood are published or Master of Puppets and The Legacy of Testaement. In my opinion, they are among the Big4, and then Big5.
Testament was even then one of my favorite bands and I find it a pity that they have never (as Metallica) made the veracity breakthrough. With Metallica now they can not compare more because Metallica probably would not be so successful today if they had not changed their style with the Black Album. But somehow are Slayer or Anthrax a few known / successful, although they have no guitar god like Alex Skolnick. At the time I started to learn guitar and have Skolnick admired for its liquid and clean advanced sweeping / arpeggio technique (and it has very very, very very long time until I could like ....);

For Bluray:

It comes in sleek metal case (Steelbook) and there are 2 audio CDs and the Bluray included. On the CD is the set list from the concert and had to be broken just because more than 74 minutes.
I have the last LP not gehört- my last was the formation of Damnation- and can say about Dark Roots also not much, because on the live BR MMN simply (yet?) The classics (eg Into the Pit, Trial by Fire ...) EXTREMELY stand out! But I think that the new songs get stuck after a few passages as well. The set list is so very well done. In any case, the
Songs from the new LP typical Testament. I love the classic (ie no drop something tuning or 8-string guitars with the deep F or H or samples and triggered drum) thrash metal sound and will immediately notice the (mostly by thirds) of 2- Polyphonic guitar sound on. Well, although I play the guitar, but I dare say that even non-musicians a new Testament after the first few riffs thus reveals himself to those, but at the latest after a Skolnik solo, which harmonizes perfectly with Peterson's riffs.
I'm sorry that I was a little fan-boy moderately schwurbel about Testament, but to the many new styles, Prog Metal CDs (which I now mainly hear), and Djent NuMetal, I am again extremely impressed with my old Love ended the 90's Thrash and find it unfortunate that these bands have-it's hard now I'm old-fashioned? According to me. I also hear Periphery and TesseracT- be me in 20 years and still able to inspire (if I still ever hear something ...)

The picture and sound of the BR are very good and very close to the reference status MMN. The Kreator-BR was also praised for it, I'm going to get next, and compare times. Camera work is very good and the cutter have done a great job. Each musician (except the bass perhaps) gets enough attention and solos there is often a diagonal split screen, so you can see both guitarists. The Bidqualität is very good, has been well recorded digitally, there can be seen no grain. Sharpness and contrast sins excellent and gitb no lay-error, like Metallica, where the camera is shaking with the bass drum)
BTW: I was amazed at how a drummer, as Hoglan, who can get a potbelly not only stubborn down gambles a 0815 shoe so?
I myself have often "tried" me with samples behind the drums and knows how exhausting thrash / speed metal for a drummer is ...

-> Full points

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One reviewer wrote that the sound would consist of overdubs. The presumption could be whether the excellent sound already have, but I doubt the first. I've seen the show once (heard more than seen) and will make sure time the second time around. Would it really be so, I was a little disappointed. Then when this was done completely in retrospect and I assume that the audience has heard 100% live, except VLT. triggered bass drums. In metal and rock area Full- / Half playback is not so easy to make, as in keys- and sample-heavy music. I think the metal is to play under all honor Half- or even full playback when the out come they would be forever a laughing stock. Such musicians as Testament have also not necessary at all.
The fact that the record company later in the studio too much "improved" could be of course, but really very very hard to make without having to listen to it. You can not just overdub part of it and other so lassen- that would be extremely hear. Where it would be feasible, would be if the drums had been fully triggered, but after that it sounds MMN not other except the bass drums, but that's standard, because no drummer in the world a blastbeat double-bass as loud as a mid-tempo DB can play and with a compressor can be at the site well not work out much, since search the drum not only changes the volume but also the sound. A softly played fast bass drum sounds very different than a slow and noisy played. But that can trigger modern.
From repeated short drüberschauen but the attacks on the Gutaristen and Beck Hits are synchronous to the screen ....
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The sound is excellent! One could almost think it's playback because the sound is like mastering and without error. The einizge that might disturb some, that it is "only" Stereo "is. On this point, the producers go even explicitly with a small display at the top and mean it as a kind of advantage. I can dispense with 5.1. Considering that the FOH mixer (ie, the sound for the audience mixes), also (mostly) works in Stereo, then that is to get over. Namely, when has 5.1 tracks at live concerts, then the most artificially in the studio produced or the only thing you hear on the Surrounds, the Publkium and reverb tails. Of course there are exceptions (eg by Peter Gabriel and ...), the wurden- exlpizit recorded on 5.1 different music, different story. Most of it makes no difference, whether one Dolby IIx activated on AVR in a stereo track or hear the real 5.1 track. So for me, the sound is perfect. Not (much) compressed (has nothing to do with MP3 or data reduction), virtually no noise and a very rich Drum. The guitars and the vocals come as of plate- even the bass comes through eingermaßen well.
- Full> Again score

Tools, equipment
There could be a little more! There is a well-produced music video (Native Blood), which Mr. Billy has roots on the subject and 10 minutes behind the scenes that are put together something weird / unloving because also is not original sound here, but a testament Muskk runs. Here I would have liked at least a few words of the hero or the fans. This is partly offset by the Audio CDs. In part because I would have liked a few words of my youth hero and I usually never hear live CDs. Either with video what to see or mastered studio part. This concert is but so well blended that I will often hear it even in the car.
4 stars

That will be 4.6 stars.