On Testament's 11th album they returned to their thrashroots of the 80's and 90's but updated it to a headcrushing good production of 2012. Powerful heavy and intense thrash with strong vocals. Some tracks are pretty good but as always the case with this band they lack something and the songs are all built up in the same way and I loose some of my interest after 4 tracks. Almost all tracks has the same tempo which is enervating and it's too much of the crushing heaviness all the time. They should pause sometimes to play calmer parts to make the tracks better and more variated. But "Cold embrace" is almost a ballad for 3 minutes and they vary the tempos in the songs quite a lot so it's not bad at all, I just mean that they could have done it even better. If I listen to the tracks one at a time they are really good. The whole album is just too much.

Testament's drummer Paul Bostaph were replaced by former Testament-drummer (the 1997 Demonic album) Gene Hoglan due to Bostaph getting some kind of injury. 

1)Rise up (8,5)

2)Native blood (8,0)

3)Dark roots of the earth (8,0)

4)True american hate (8,0)

5)A day in the death (7,5)

6)Cold embrace (7,0)

7)Man kills mankind (8,0)

8)Throne of thorns (6,5)

9)Last stand for independence (7,5)

Score: 7,67

Chuck Billy-vocals (b.1962)

Alex Skolnick-guitars (b.1968)

Eric Peterson-guitars (b.1964)

Greg Christian-bass (b.1966)

Gene Hoglan-drums (b.1967)

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