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Practice What You Preach

Practice What You Preach
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 8, 1989[1]
RecordedFebruary–March 1989[2][3]
StudioFantasy Studios, Berkeley, California
GenreThrash metal
Length46:06
Label
ProducerAlex Perialas
Testament chronology
The New Order
(1988)
Practice What You Preach
(1989)
Souls of Black
(1990)
Singles from Practice What You Preach
  1. "Practice What You Preach"
    Released: 1989
  2. "Greenhouse Effect"
    Released: 1990
  3. "The Ballad"
    Released: 1990

Practice What You Preach is the third studio album by American thrash metal band Testament, released on August 8, 1989 via Atlantic/Megaforce. Propelled by the singles "Greenhouse Effect", "The Ballad" and the title track "Practice What You Preach", this album was a major breakthrough for Testament, achieving near gold status[4] and becoming the band's first album to enter the Top 100 on the Billboard 200 chart.[5]

  1. ^ "The Hard Report 1989-06-16" (PDF). American Radio History. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
  2. ^ "Gavin Report 1989-02-17" (PDF). American Radio History. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  3. ^ "Cash Box". archive.org. March 4, 1989. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
  4. ^ Brenda Herrmann (June 18, 1992). "THRASHING AROUND AT NO. 4". CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Retrieved June 11, 2020. Whether the tour and album will finally push Testament over the gold-record mark (500,000 copies sold) remains to be seen. We almost hit it with `Practice What You Preach,` says Skolnick, referring the 1989 album that sold 450,000 copies.
  5. ^ "Testament - Billboard". Billboard.com. Retrieved May 11, 2021.

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