Testimony of the Ancients

by Pestilence

Testimony of the Ancients cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 September 1991
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Length: 42:59
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Patrick Uterwijk, Marco Foddis, Patrick Mameli, Tony Choy

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Testimony of the Ancients' captures Pestilence shifting away from raw death-thrash towards a highly intricate and progressive technical death metal sound. The Dutch band delivers incredibly aggressive, complex riffing alongside dark synthesizer interludes, exploring deeply philosophical themes of death and the afterlife.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, complex, death, progressive, atonal

Tracklist

  1. The Secrecies of Horror (4:55)
  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 (0:31)
  9. Prophetic Revelations (5:21)
  10. Impure (0:59)
  11. Testimony (3:51)
  12. Soulless (0:31)
  13. Presence of the Dead (5:50)
  14. Mindwarp (0:24)
  15. Stigmatized (5:22)
  16. In Sorrow (1:14)

Credits

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