This over one-and-a-half-hour recording captures a full live show by Testament in Osaka, Japan, on May 12, 1991, likely during the Souls of Black tour — a period when the band was solidly in thrash mode but already experimenting with directions that would appear on The Ritual (1992).
The video quality is very much bootleg-style, reminiscent of typical VHS recordings of the time, with grainy visuals and audio that isn’t perfectly clean — but it’s fully audible, especially for fans of the band and the genre.
The performance represents an important phase in Testament’s career. In 1990–1991, the band took part in the legendary Clash of the Titans tour alongside acts such as Slayer, Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies, Anthrax, and Alice in Chains. By May 1991, they were promoting the Souls of Black album with a series of shows in Japan, including Osaka.
This video is a valuable document that offers an immersive experience of Testament’s raw and intense sound in the early ’90s — a time when the Bay Area scene was still thriving on the global stage.
Setlist
- Eerie Inhabitants
- Raging Waters
- Malpractice
- Sins of Omission
- Practice What You Preach
- Envy Life
- The Ballad
- Falling Fast
- Greenhouse Effect
- Guitar Solo
- Perilous Nation
- Absence of Light (Live Debut)
- Souls of Black
- The Legacy
- Into the Pit
- Nightmare (Coming Back to You)
- Trial by Fire
- Face in the Sky
- Disciples of the Watch
- Burnt Offerings
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- Length: 1:35:24
- Channel: Testament
- Categories: Live recordings
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