GMD Poll: Testament's Discography Ranked

[Slammed]

1.Practice What You Preach (1989)
2.The Ritual (1992)
3.Souls Of Black (1990)
4.The Legacy (1987)
5.Brotherhood Of The Snake (2016)
6.The New Order (1988)
7.Dark Roots Of Earth (2012)
8.The Gathering (1999)
9.The Formation Of The Damnation (2008)
10.Demonic (1997)
11.Low (1994)

 

[The Ozzman]

1.Practice What You Preach (1989)
2.The Ritual (1992)
3.Souls Of Black (1990)
4.The Legacy (1987)
5.Brotherhood Of The Snake (2016)
6.The New Order (1988)
7.Dark Roots Of Earth (2012)
8.The Gathering (1999)
9.The Formation Of The Damnation (2008)
10.Demonic (1997)
11.Low (1994)

This will be bound to trigger most

 

[Slammed]

This will be bound to trigger most

If that's what gets them off then I'm glad I can be of service.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Chuck Billy has a modest singing range at best. Particularly obvious with all those paddycake vocal melodies on The Legacy.

Chuck Billy
Sung range: G1-A5
Total range :F#1-A5
Voice type:baritone
Vocal octave:4

Significant high notes:

• A5 ("Burnt Offerings")
  
• G♯5 ("First Strike is Deadly", "The Burning Times", "The Haunting" re-recorded, "The Preacher" re-recorded)
  
• G5 ("First Strike is Deadly" re-recorded, "Over the Wall")
  
• F♯5 ("Apocalyptic City", "Burnt Offerings", "C.O.T.L.O.D.", "First Strike is Deadly", "Raging Waters", "The Haunting")
  
• F5 ("Do or Die", "The Haunting")
  
• E5 ("Do or Die", "Eerie Inhabitants", "First Strike is Deadly", "Over the Wall", "Seven Days in May", "The New Order", "The Preacher", "Trial by Fire")
  
• E♭5 ("Agony", "The Preacher")
  
• D5 ("Deadline", "Seven Days in May", "No One Can Tell You")
  
• C♯5 ("As the Seasons Grey", "Eyes of Wrath", "Hail Mary", "Troubled Dreams")
  
• C5 ("New Eyes of Old", "Nobody's Fault")
  
• B4 ("Nobody's Fault", "Nostrovia")
  
• B♭4 ("As the Seasons Grey", "Malpractice")
  
• A4 ("A Day of Reckoning", "Alone in the Dark", "Disciples of the Watch", "Falling Fast", "Let Go of My World", "Malpractice", "One Man's Fate", "The Sermon")
  
• G♯4 ("A Day of Reckoning", "All I Could Bleed", "As the Seasons Grey", "Cold Embrace", "Deadline", "Eerie Inhabitants", "Electric Crown", "Face in the Sky", "Love to Hate", "Man Kills Mankind", "Raging Waters", "Return to Serenity", "Seven Days in May", "The New Order", "The Sermon", "Trail of Tears", "Troubled Dreams")
  
• G4 ("A Day of Reckoning", "Absence of Light", "Apocalyptic City", "Burnt Offerings", "C.O.T.L.O.D.", "Disciples of the Watch", "Do or Die", "Down for Life", "Eerie Inhabitants", "Into the Pit", "One Man's Fate", "Over the Wall", "Shades of War", "Souls of Black", "The Ballad", "The Haunting", "The Legacy", "The New Order", "The Preacher", "Trial by Fire")
  
• F♯4 ("Agony", "Can't Kill the Devil", "Cold Embrace", "Dark Roots of Earth", "Disciples of the Watch", "D.N.R. (Do Not Resuscitate)", "First Strike is Deadly", "Let Go of My World", "Native Blood", "Return to Serenity", "So Many Lies", "The Ritual")
  
• F4 ("Burnt Offerings", "Cold Embrace", "Down for Life", "Electric Crown", "Eyes of Wrath", "No One Can Tell You", "Raging Waters", "The Ritual")

Significant low notes:

• C♯3 ("As the Seasons Grey", "Down for Life", "John Doe", "Let Go of My World", "So Many Lies", "Trail of Tears", "Troubled Dreams")
  
• B2 ("The Legacy")
  
• B♭2 ("Cold Embrace", "Dark Roots of Earth")
  
• A2 ("The Legacy")
  
• G♯2 ("The Ritual")
  
• F♯2 ("John Doe", "Let Go of My World", "True Believer")
  
• E2 ("3 Days in Darkness", "P.C.", "True Believer")
  
• D2 ("No One Can Tell You", "Shades of War", "Ten Thousand Thrones", "The Burning Times")
  
• C♯2 ("Allegiance", "Distorted Lives", "Eyes of Wrath", "Hail Mary", "John Doe", "Jun Jun", "Legions (In Hiding)", "Low", "Murky Waters", "Native Blood", "P.C.", "Riding the Snake", "Throne of Thorns")
  
• B1 ("Demonic Refusal", "Distorted Lives", "Murky Waters", "Throne of Thorns")
  
• B♭1 ("Hatreds Rise")
  
• A1 ("New Eyes of Old")
  
• G1 ("Murky Waters")
  
• F♯1 ("Hatreds Rise")

 

[Omni]

Be wary about copying and pasting from The Range Place. A lot of their vocalist pages are riddled with errors.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... the same numbers/songs from plenty of other sources. And it was also copied and pasted form two different places.

Do you have better sources i should be aware of? No? ok thanks. If so please let me know.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

He doesn't sing in most of those. He sings in a narrow range, then does some shieking and guttural stuff (or just talking) on occasion. No one that knows anything would say he has a four octave singing range.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

the numbers for his singing range is up there, along with the numbers for his vocal range. Anyway, its irrefutable that he has a wide vocal range for a thrash metal vocalist, which is what i initially said. And again, let me guess ... you are the one "who knows things"?

And yes, he does indeed sing in most of those.

@Omni: i would love to see all those pages that are riddled with errors. Can you link me to one?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

No he doesn't. In all of the first octave examples he's talking, not singing. You obviously haven't listened to any of those Testament songs before. Hilarious that a guy that would seem to have been exposed to Orthodox choir music would think to compare Chuck Billy's range to that of a bass signer.

 

[Omni]

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with Chuck Billy's singing to make a definitive statement on his singing range, but the sung vocal range shown above is under 3.5 octaves and is a pretty decent but not exceptional vocal range.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with Chuck Billy's singing to make a definitive statement on his singing range, but the sung vocal range shown above is under 3.5 octaves and is a pretty decent but not exceptional vocal range.

His vocal range is much wider than most thrash vocalists. Which is what i initially said, word for word. Can you prove otherwise?

 

[Omni]

His vocal range is much wider than most thrash vocalists. Which is what i initially said, word for word. Can you prove otherwise?

You've arrived at the conclusion that I'm arguing with you about that statement, which I am not doing because I don't know enough of his performances to actually assess the statement.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

You've arrived at the conclusion that I'm arguing with you about that statement, which I am not doing because I don't know enough of his performances to actually assess the statement.

Not at all, im just wondering why you would question their validity. You said there were "pages littered with errors" and i asked for them since i'm not too familiar with that place myself

 

[Omni]

@TechnicalBarbarity

You quoted my post and asked me if I could prove you wrong about your claim that he doesn't have a wide range among thrash singers. Did you mean to quote someone else?

 

[CiG]

Robert Palmer > Chuck Billy

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Robert Palmer > Chuck Billy

Is that the alias Antti Boman goes by these days?

 

[CiG]

Is that the alias Antti Boman goes by these days?

"...you're gonna have to face it you're addicted to absorbing flesh in order to achieve divinity and immortality..."

 

[The Ozzman]

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"...you're gonna have to face it you're addicted to absorbing flesh in order to achieve divinity and immortality..."

I'm glad someone used that song to segue into a joke

 

[Krow]

Might listen to the rest at some point.

1. The Legacy
2. The New Order
3. Dark Roots of Earth
4. The Ritual
5. Souls of Black
6. Brotherhood of the Snake
7. Practice What You Preach

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Might listen to the rest at some point.

1. The Legacy
2. The New Order
3. Dark Roots of Earth
4. The Ritual
5. Souls of Black
6. Brotherhood of the Snake
7. Practice What You Preach

i'd love to hear your thoughts on Demonic. I honestly think your head will blow up trying to listen to that one.