The Spitfire Collection
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The Spitfire Collection is a compilation album released in 2007 by Spitfire Records. The release consists of tracks from the Spitfire-era Testament titles Live at the Fillmore
Live at the Fillmore (Testament album)
Live at the Fillmore is a live album released by Testament in 1995. The first 14 tracks are live recordings and the last three are acoustic versions of previously released songs.-Track listing:# "The Preacher" – 4:20 # "Alone in the Dark" – 4:36...

(actually re-released by Spitfire), Demonic
Demonic (album)
Demonic is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Testament. It was released in 1997. The lyrics deal with occult themes akin to their 1980s efforts, instead of the political topics covered on more recent releases....

(also a re-release by Spitfire), The Gathering, First Strike Still Deadly
First Strike Still Deadly
First Strike Still Deadly is an album released by Testament in 2001. It consists of re-recordings of songs released on The Legacy and The New Order, 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...

, and Live in London
Live in London (Testament)
Live in London is a live Testament album that was released on November 1, 2005 on CD and DVD. It features the original Testament line up of Chuck Billy, Greg Christian, Louie Clemente, Eric Peterson, and Alex Skolnick, although John Tempesta drums from the beginning of the show up to Trial By Fire...

. Of note is the number of musicians present on this compilation; there are five different drummers (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...

, Jon Dette
Jon Dette
Jon Dette is the heavy metal drummer of Killing Machine. He has previously played for Apocalypse, Evildead, Testament and Slayer. Dette joined Slayer in 1996, when Paul Bostaph left to work on his side project, The Truth about Seafood in L.A.. Dette attended the 1996 Ozzfest to promote the band's...

, Gene Hoglan
Gene Hoglan
Eugene "Gene" Victor Hoglan II is an American drummer. He is acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including usage of odd devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms...

, Dave Lombardo
Dave Lombardo
Dave Lombardo is a Cuban American heavy metal drummer best known for his work with American thrash metal band Slayer. He has performed with Slayer on seven albums, including their groundbreaking 1986 release Reign In Blood and their 2006 release Christ Illusion, for which he received critical praise...

, 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...

), three different bassists (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:...

, 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...

, Derrick Ramirez), and four different guitarists (Glen Alvelais
Glen Alvelais
Glen Alvelais is a heavy metal lead guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Alvelais was the lead guitarist for Forbidden and has also played in Testament....

, James Murphy, Eric Peterson
Eric Peterson
Eric Neal Peterson, C.M. is a Canadian stage and television actor, known for his roles in three major Canadian series – Street Legal, Corner Gas and This is Wonderland.-Personal life:...

, 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...

), though Peterson appears on all tracks. 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...

 provides vocals on all tracks, but there is one guest vocalist: 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...

, who sang the last two tracks on the First Strike Still Deadly
First Strike Still Deadly
First Strike Still Deadly is an album released by Testament in 2001. It consists of re-recordings of songs released on The Legacy and The New Order, 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...

release. This compilation was released without the band's consent.

Track listing

  1. The New Order (Live)
  2. Souls of Black (Live)
  3. Practice What You Preach (Live)
  4. Hatreds Rise
  5. The Burning Times
  6. John Doe
  7. Careful What You Wish For
  8. Down for Life
  9. Riding the Snake
  10. Over the Wall
  11. The Preacher
  12. Into the Pit
  13. Trial by Fire (Live)
  14. Disciples of the Watch (Live)
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