First Strike Still Deadly is an album released by Testament

Testament (band)

Testament is an American metal band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1983. They are often credited as one of the most popular bands of the 1980s thrash metal scene...

 in 2001. It consists of re-recordings of songs released on The Legacy and The New Order

The New Order

The New Order is the second album by American heavy metal band Testament, released on May 10, 1988. It is the album that broke Testament into the thrash metal mainstream, with singles "Trial by Fire" and "The Preacher"...

, as well as a re-recording of "Reign of Terror", which was originally on Legacy's Demo 1 and was also a b-side from the "Trial by Fire" single. On some Japanese versions of this release, a different cover is present, and the disc is an Enhanced CD

Enhanced CD

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 and includes a bonus QuickTime documentary with live clips of various incarnations of the band.

Track listing

1. "First Strike Is Deadly"
2. "Into the Pit"
3. "Trial by Fire"
4. "Disciples of the Watch"
5. "The Preacher"
6. "Burnt Offerings"
7. "Over the Wall"
8. "The New Order"
9. "The Haunting"
10. "Alone in the Dark"
11. "Reign of Terror"

Musicians

• Chuck Billy
  Chuck Billy (vocalist)
  Chuck Billy is an American vocalist, who is best known as the vocalist for the thrash metal band Testament.-Testament:Chuck Billy replaced Steve "Zetro" Souza, future Exodus vocalist, in the mid-1980s when the band was still called Legacy. Following his arrival, Testament released their first...
  
  : vocals
  Singing
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   (tracks 1-9)
• Steve Souza
  Steve Souza
  Steve 'Zetro' Souza is one of the two singers, with Chuck Billy, for the band Dublin Death Patrol. He also sings for the death/thrash metal band Tenet, and recently announced his new thrash metal project Hatriot...
  
  : vocals (tracks 10 and 11)
• Alex Skolnick
  Alex Skolnick
  Alexander Nathan Skolnick is an American jazz and metal guitarist. He was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal band Testament from 1983 until his departure in 1993...
  
  : lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  
• Eric Peterson
  Eric Peterson (musician)
  Eric Peterson is an American guitarist. He is best known as the only constant member of the US thrash metal band Testament. Eric has also formed a side-project black metal band called Dragonlord, in which he plays guitar and also sings. In Testament, Eric was originally a rhythm guitarist while...
  
  : rhythm
  Rhythm guitar
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  , lead guitar
• Steve DiGiorgio
  Steve DiGiorgio
  Steve DiGiorgio is an American bassist and musician.DiGiorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal bands such as Death, Autopsy, Control Denied, Testament, Vintersorg, Iced Earth, Sebastian Bach, Charred Walls of the Damned, Obituary, and is a founding member of Sadus. He is widely renowned for...
  
  : bass
  Bass guitar
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• John Tempesta
  John Tempesta
  John Tempesta is a heavy metal drummer who has worked several bands including: Exodus, Testament and White Zombie. He also played with former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie as a solo artist and served as drum technician for heavy metal band Anthrax earlier in his career...
  
  : drums
  Drum kit
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