“Practice What You Preach” by Testament

The title track of Practice What You Preach, the third album American thrashers Testament released through Atlantic/Megaforce on August 8, 1989, was one of three singles, alongside "Greenhouse Effect" and "The Ballad", that made the record the band's breakthrough. Like "Blessed in Contempt", it deals with religion, part of an album that swapped the occult themes of the first two records for politics and society.

The music is credited to the whole band and the words to Chuck Billy, Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick. Billy sings lead with a gang of four extra voices behind him, and Alex Perialas produced, recorded and mixed it. The thrash stayed, but the album also borrowed from jazz fusion, progressive music and old-school heavy metal, a change that won a bigger audience and cost them some early fans.

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