The New Order is the second album

Album

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 by American heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band 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...

, released on May 10, 1988. It is the album that broke Testament into the thrash metal mainstream, with singles "Trial by Fire" (which featured a music video

Music video

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, as did "Nobody's Fault

Nobody's Fault

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", which is a cover of Aerosmith

Aerosmith

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) and "The Preacher". This success would only grow with their next album Practice What You Preach

Practice What You Preach

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.

Track listing

1. "Eerie Inhabitants" (Billy/Peterson/Skolnick) – 5:05
2. "The New Order" (Peterson/Skolnick) – 4:27
3. "Trial by Fire" (Billy/Peterson/Skolnick) – 4:15
4. "Into the Pit" (Billy/Peterson/Skolnick) – 2:46
5. "Hypnosis" (Peterson/Skolnick) – 2:05
6. "Disciples of the Watch" (Billy/Peterson/Skolnick) – 5:06
7. "The Preacher" (Billy/Peterson/Skolnick) – 3:38
8. "Nobody's Fault
   Nobody's Fault
   "Nobody's Fault" is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It is the sixth track on Aerosmith's hard rock album Rocks, released in 1976. It was written by guitarist Brad Whitford and lead singer Steven Tyler...
   
   " (Tyler
   Steven Tyler
   Steven Tyler is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the frontman and lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'", due to his high screams...
   
   /Whitford
   Brad Whitford
   Bradford Ernest Whitford is the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith. He graduated Reading Memorial High School in 1970.-Career:...
   
   ) (Aerosmith
   Aerosmith
   Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
   
    Cover) – 3:56
9. "A Day of Reckoning" (Billy/Peterson/Skolnick) – 4:00
10. "Musical Death (A Dirge)" (Peterson/Skolnick) – 4:03

The tracks "Hypnosis" and "Musical Death (A Dirge)" are instrumentals.

Credits

• 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
• 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
• 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 guitar, Cover art concept
• Greg Christian
  Greg Christian
  Greg Christian is the bassist for the American thrash metal band Testament. He left the band in 1996, but rejoined in 2004.-Testament:...
  
   - Bass
• Louie Clemente
  Louie Clemente
  Louie Clemente, is a former drummer for the Bay Area thrash metal band Testament. He is known for being a part of Testament's original line-up.-Testament:Clemente joined Testament when they were still called Legacy...
  
  - Drums
• Tom Coyne - Mastering
• Robert Hunter - Assistant engineer
• Alex Perialas - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Jon Zazula - Executive producer
• Marsha Zazula - Executive producer
• Andy Meyn - Photography
• William Benson - Artwork

Charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
The Billboard 200	136

"Trial By Fire" and "The Preacher" were released as singles.