Bay Area thrash legends Testament are currently on the road for their “An Evening With Testament” tour, a special trek celebrating the 35th anniversary of their influential third album, 1989’s Practice What You Preach. The band recently performed at The Machine Shop in Flint, Michigan, on May 7, 2025, delivering a set packed with classics and fan favorites.
Upon its release, Practice What You Preach became a significant milestone for Testament, achieving near-gold status in the United States and marking their first entry into the Top 100 on the Billboard 200 chart. The ongoing tour pays homage to this landmark album by featuring many of its iconic tracks.
The setlist for Testament‘s May 7th concert in Flint, Michigan, included a deep dive into Practice What You Preach, alongside other career-spanning anthems (according to Setlist.fm):
- “Practice What You Preach”
- “Perilous Nation”
- “Envy Life”
- “Time Is Coming”
- “Blessed In Contempt”
- “Greenhouse Effect”
- “Sins Of Omission”
- “The Ballad”
- “Nightmare (Coming Back To You)”
- “Confusion Fusion”
- “Musical Death (A Dirge)” (Acoustic)
- “The Legacy” (Acoustic)
- “Rise Up”
- “Native Bl*od”
- “Trail Of Tears”
- “Low”
- “City Of Angels”
- Drum Solo
- “First Strike Is Deadly”
- “Return To Serenity”
- “Into The Pit”
Fan-filmed video footage from the Flint performance has since surfaced online, capturing the band’s enduring live energy.
Testament‘s influential career has been marked by numerous critically acclaimed albums. Early releases like The Legacy (1987) and The New Order (1988) have been inducted into Decibel magazine’s Hall Of Fame, placing them alongside metal titans such as Metallica, Black Sabbath, and Motörhead. Subsequent albums like Souls Of Black (1990) and The Ritual (1992) continued their chart success, while later works such as Low (1994), Demonic (1997), and The Gathering (1999) saw the band explore new levels of intensity. Their 2008 album, The Formation Of Damnation, even won “Best Album” at Metal Hammer‘s Golden Gods Awards, and 2012’s Dark Roots Of Earth became their highest-charting U.S. album at the time.
Reinforcing their classic catalog, Testament released remastered versions of their seminal first two albums, The Legacy and The New Order, in July 2024 via Nuclear Blast Records, making these foundational thrash masterpieces available digitally and on vinyl for a new generation of fans.
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