• Song:

    Reign Of Terror (2001)

  • Artist:

    Testament

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                     TESTAMENT - REIGN OF TERROR 2001
                 From the Album FIRST STRIKE STILL DEADLY
                     Copyright 2001 SPITFIRE RECORDS

                        Full Version - OCTOBER 2002

Re-Transcribed/Edited by: death8699
Based On Previous Tab by: Jarle Hille Olsen

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 death8699: at ArchEnemies@aol.com

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.  - palm mute                  ph    - pinched harmonic
/  - slide up to                ah    - artificial harmonic
  - slide down to              th    - tap harmonic
~  - vibrato                    hr    - natural harmonic
h  - hammer on                  b     - bend
p  - pull off                      Suffixes for bend
t  - tap with finger                    f - full bend    h - half bend
"  - tremolo picking                    r - release      t - tap bend
X  - percussion mute                    p - pick when bent
>  - accented note                 Prefixes
() - ghost note, sustained note         p - pre-bend     w - use bar
*  - see comment                        d - don't pick start of bend

--Transcriber's Notes--

I have spent the past 6 months on these songs trying to
get them as perfect as possible.  If you think further
corrections are needed, have the updated solos, or a
better version of this song please mail me at ArchEnemies
@aol.com.  I plan on tabbing this entire album, I have
been hard at work making my previous 'FSSD' tabs better.
Enjoy!

--Miscellaneous Notes--

P.M.H. - palm mute heavy
(**)   - see comment(s)
(^)    - pause; stacatto
(<>)   - pick-up note(s)
Gtr.1  - right channel (Eric Peterson)
Gtr.2  - left  channel (Alex Skolnick)

Tune Gtr to D (D,G,C,F,A,D)

--REIGN OF TERROR--

 [Rhy.Fig.1]
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||*-9------------8--------------|------------------------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-9------------8--------------|-10-----------9---------------|
||--7------------6--------------|-10-----------9---------------|
||--7------------6--------------|-8------------7---------------|
||                                                             |
||                                                             |
||                                                             |
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||--9---------------------------|---------------5--------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||--9---------------------------|-2-------------3--------------|
||--7---------------------------|-2-------------3--------------|
||--0---------------------------|-0-------------^--------------|
    ^




|------------------------------|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|------------------------------|
|----------------3-------------|---------------5-------------*|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--2-------------1-------------|-2-------------3-------------*|
|--2-------------1-------------|-2-------------3--------------|
|--0-------------^-------------|-0-------------^--------------|


 [Rhy.Fig.1a] (w/Rhy.Fig.1)
||------------------------------|-----------------------------|
||------------------------------|-----------------------------|
||*---------3___6___3-----------|---------3___6___3-----------|[Gtr.3]
||*-----5___)-h---p-----5-------|-----5___)-h---p-----5-------|
||--7___)-------------------7---|-7___)-------------------7---|
||--Rake------------------------|--sim.-----------------------|
||                                                            |
||                                                            |
||                                                            |
||------------------------------|-----------------------------|
||----------5___8___5-----------|---------5___8___5-----------|
||*-----6___)-h---p-----6-------|-----6___)-h---p-----6-------|[Gtr.4]
||*-8___)-------------------8---|-8___)-------------------8---|
||--Rake------------------------|--sim.-----------------------|
||------------------------------|-----------------------------|




|------------------------------||
|------------------------------||
|----------3___6___3----------*||[Gtr.3]
|------5___)-h---p-----5------*||
|--7___)-----------------------||
|--Rake------------------------||
|                              ||
|                              ||
|                              ||
|------------------------------||
|----------5___8___5-----------||
|------6___)-h---p-----6------*||[Gtr.4]
|--8___)----------------------*||
|--Rake------------------------||
|------------------------------||


Repeat Rhy.Fig.1 + 1a [1x]


[Rhy.Fig.2]
|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|--9------8------|---------------|-11-----10-----|[Gtrs.1&2]

|--9------8------|-10------9-----|-11-----10-----|
|--7------6------|-10------9-----|-9------8------|
|----------------|-8-------7-----|---------------|
|                                                |
|                                                |
|                                                |
|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|-13-----12-----|---------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--12-----11-----|-13-----12-----|-14-----13-----|
|--12-----11-----|-11-----10-----|-14-----13-----|
|--10-----9------|---------------|-12-----11-----|


[Fill 1]
|----------------|---------------|---------------|
|-->-------------|---------------|---------------|
|--9-------------|-(9)-----------|-------%-------|[Gtr.1]
|--9-------------|-(9)-----------|---------------|
|--7-------------|-(7)-----------|---------------|
|--0-------------|-(0)-----------|---------------|
|                                                |
|                                                |
|                                                |
|----------------|-12"-----------|---------------|
|-->-------------|-12"-----------|---------------|
|--9-------------|--9"-----------|-------%-------|[Gtr.2]
|--9-------------|---------------|---------------|
|--7-------------|---------------|---------------|
|--0-------------|---------------|---------------|


 [Rhy.Fig.3]
||---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||*-109---------|-109----------|-109----------|-109---10-----|[Gtr.1]
||*--------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||---87---------|--87----------|--87----------|--87---8------|
||----sl---0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----------|
||         . . .           . . .           . . .                 |
||                                                               |
||                                                               |
||--------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||--------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||------%-------|---------------|---------------|---------------|[Gtr.2]
||------------sl-|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|




|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|---109---------|-109----------|-109----------|-7------7"-----|[Gtr.1]
|----------------|---------------|---------------|-5------5"-----|
|----87---------|--87----------|--87----------|---------------|
|-----sl---0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----0"----|---------------|
|          . . .           . . .           .                     |
|                                                                |
|                                                                |
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|---------------|---------------|-7------7"-----|[Gtr.2]
|----------------|---------------|---------------|-5------5"-----|
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|




|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|---109---------|-109----------|-109----------|-109---10-----||[Gtrs.1&2]
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|----87---------|--87----------|--87----------|--87---8------||
|-----sl---0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----------||
|          . . .           . . .           . . .                 ||
|                                                                ||
|                                                                ||
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|---109---------|-109----------|------>--------|->------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|----------------|---------------|------5--------|-4------------*||
|----87---------|--87----------|------5--------|-4-------------||
|-----sl---0-0-0-|---sl----0"----|-X---3--------|-2------0-0-0--||
           . . .           .        sl                    . . .


 [Rhy.Fig.3a]
||---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||*-109---------|-109----------|-109----------|-109---10-----|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*--------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||---87---------|--87----------|--87----------|--87---8------|
||----sl---0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----------|
||         . . .           . . .           . . .                 |
||                                                               |
||                                                               |
||---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
||--109---------|-109----------|-109----------|-7------7"-----|[Gtrs.1&2]
||---------------|---------------|---------------|-5------5"-----|
||---87---------|--87----------|--87----------|---------------|
||----sl---0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----0"----|---------------|
           . . .           . . .           .



|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|---109---------|-109----------|-109----------|-109---10-----||[Gtrs.1&2]
|---109---------|-109----------|-109----------|-109---10-----||
|----87---------|--87----------|--87----------|--87---8------||
|-----sl---0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----0-0-0-|---sl----------||
|          . . .           . . .           . . .                 ||
|                                                                ||
|                                                                ||
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|---109---------|-109----------|----->---------|->------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|---109---------|-109----------|-----5---------|-4------------*||
|----87---------|--87----------|-----5---------|-4-------------||
|-----sl---0-0-0-|---sl---0-0-0--|-X--3---------|-2------0-0-0--||
           . . .          . . .     sl                    . . .


Repeat Rhy.Fig.3 + 3a [1x]


 [Rhy.Fig.4]
||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||
||-------------------|-------------------|--------------<----||
||*->----------------|-------------------|--------------3----||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-2----------------|-------------------|--------------3----||
||--2----------------|-------------------|--------------1----||
||--0----0--0-0-0--0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0--0-0-0-0-0------||
|| (**)  .  . . .  .   . . . . . . . . .   .  . . . . .      ||
||                                                           ||
||                                                           ||
||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||
||-------------------|-------------------|--------------<----||
||-------------------|-------------------|--------------3"--*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||-------------------|-------------------|--------------3"--*||
||--1--1-1-1--1--1---|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-|-1-1-1-1-1----1"---||
||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||
    .  . . .  .  .     . . . . . . . . .   . . . . .


(**) = 2nd time sub E5II chord.


CHORD NOTATION
--------------

--E5II--
|-------|
|-------|
|--<9>--|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--<9>--|
|--<7>--|
|--<0>--|


 [Rhy.Fig.4a]
||----------------------|----------------------|----------------------||
||----------------------|----------------------|----------------------||
||*->-------------------|->------------------>-|----------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-2-------------------|-2------------------2-|-----------2"----%----||
||--2-------------------|-2------------------2-|-----------2"----%----||
||--0---0---0-0-0---0---|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0"----%----||
||      .   . . .   .       . . . . . . . .      . . . . .            ||
||                                                                    ||
||                                                                    ||
||----------------------|----------------------|----------------------||
||-->-------------------|->----------------->--|----------->----------||
||--3-------------------|-3-----------------3--|-----------3"-__/__-*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--3-------------------|-3-----------------3--|-----------3"-__/__-*||
||--1---1--1-1-1--1-----|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1--|-1-1-1-1-1-1"-__/__--||
||----------------------|----------------------|--------------Slides--||
        .  . . .  .         . . . . . . . .      . . . . .


 [Rhy.Fig.5]
||-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------||
||-->--------|-----------|----->-----|-->--------||
||*-9--------|------>----|-<9>-9-----|/15--------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-9--------|-<8>--8----|-<9>-9-----|/15--------||
||--7--------|-<8>--8----|-<7>-7-----|/13--------||
||--0--------|-<6>--6----|-<0>-0-----|sl---------||
||                                               ||
||                                               ||
||                                               ||
||-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------||
||-->--------|------->---|----->-----|-->--------||
||--9--------|-<15>-15---|-<9>-9-----|/15-------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--9--------|-<15>-15---|-<9>-9-----|/15-------*||
||--7--------|-<13>-13---|-<7>-7-----|/13--------||
||--0--------|-----------|-<0>-0-----|sl-----X--||
                                             sl


 [Rhy.Fig.6]
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
||*-->------------------------------|---------------/9----------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*--2------------------------------|---------------/9-------87------*||
||---2------------------------------|---------------/7-------87-------||
||---0----0---0-0-0---0---0-0-0-0---|-0--0-0-0--0--sl----0---65-------||
          .   . . .   .   . . . .     .  . . .  .        .    sl


Repeat Rhy.Fig.6 3 times, then follow the riff below.


|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-->--------------->----------------|----------------------------------|
|--9---------------8----------------|-->------------->-----------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--9---------------8----------------|-10-------------9-----------------|
|--7---------------6----------------|-10-------------9-----------------|
|--7---------------6----------------|-8--------------7-----------------|


Repeat Rhy.Fig.3  [2x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.4a [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.5  [1x]


 [Rhy.Fig.7]
||------------------|------------------|------------------||
||------->----------|------>-----------|------->----------||
||*-<2>--2------(2}-|-<5>--5-------(5}-|-<10>-10--<9>-9--||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-<2>--2------(2}-|-<3>--3-------(3}-|-<8>--8---<7>-7--||
||--<0>--0-X/--(0)-|------------------|---------------sl-||
||---------X/------|------------------|------------------||
||    (Pick slides)                                       ||
||                                                        ||
||                                                        ||
||------------------|------------------|------------------||
||------->----------|------>------->---|---------->-------||
||--<2>--2------(2)-|-<5>--5--<5>--5---|-(5)-<4>--4-(4)--*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--<2>--2------(2)-|-<3>--3--<5>--5---|-(5)-<4>--4-(4)--*||
||--<0>--0------(0)-|---------<3>--3---|-(3)-<2>--2-(2)---||
||------------------|------------------|------------------||


Repeat Rhy.Fig.7 [1x]


 [Rhy.Fig.8]
||--------------------------|--------------------------||
||--------------------------|--------------------------||
||*--------------------->---|--------------------->----||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*->-------------------5---|->-------------------4----||
||--4-------------------3---|-4-------------------2----||
||--2--2-2-2--2--0--2---3---|-2--2-2-2--2--0--2---2----||
||     . . .  .  .  .            . . .  .  .  .        ||
||                                                     ||
||                                                     ||
||--------------------------|--------------------------||
||--------------------------|--------------------------||
||---------------------->---|--------------------->---*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||-->-------------------3---|->-------------------3---*||
||--4-------------------1---|-4-------------------3----||
||--2--2-2-2--2--0--2---1---|-2--2-2-2--2--0--2---1----||
       . . .  .  .  .            . . .  .  .  .


Repeat Rhy.Fig.7 [1x]


 [Rhy.Fig.7a]
||-------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------|->---------------------------------|
||*->----------------------------------|-5---------------------------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-4----------------------------------|-5---------------------------------|
||--4----------------------------------|-3--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--|
||--2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-----------------------------------|
       . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .




|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
|-->-----------------------------------|->---------------------------------||
|--4-----------------------------------|-3---------------------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--4-----------------------------------|-3---------------------------------||
|--2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|-1--1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1--||
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
|     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .       .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .  ||
|                                                                          ||
|                                                                          ||
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------|->---------------->---------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------------------------------------|-4----------------3---------------*||
|--------------------------------------|-4----------------3----------------||
|---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2------|-2----------------1----------------||
    .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


Repeat Rhy.Fig.7 [1x]


 [Rhy.Fig.8]
||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||*-----------------------------------|------------------------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-9---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7-|-7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7------7--7~--||
||--0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--5_6-^-p.h.-||
||      .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   h         ||
||                                                                         ||
||                                                                         ||
||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||------------------------------>-----|->---------------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||------------------------------8-----|-8------7-------------------------*||
||--7--7--7--7--7-7-7--7-7-7----6-----|-8------7--------------------------||
||--0--0--0--0--0-0-0--0-0-0----6-----|-6------5--------------------------||
    .  .  .  .  . . .  . . .                    sl


 [Rhy.Fig.8a]
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||*-------------------------------|--------------------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*---------------------------87-|---------------------------87--||
||--7--7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7--7--65-|-7--7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7--7--87--||
||--0--0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0--0--65-|-0--0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0--0--65--||
||  .  .  . . .  . . .  .  .   sl   .  .  . . .  . . .  .  .   sl  ||
||                                                                 ||
||                                                                 ||
||                                                                 ||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--->------>--------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||----------------------------8--|---8------8------7------------*||
||--7--7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7--7--6--|---6------8------7-------------||
||--0--0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0--0--6--|---6------6------5-------------||
    .  .  . . .  . . .  .  .   sl                    sl


                                 __________________________
 [Rhy.Fig.6a]                   |1.                        |
||------------------------------|--------------------------||
||------------------------------|--------------------------||
||*->---------------------------|--------------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-2---------------------------|----------7_8-----87-----||
||--2---------------------------|----8_7_8--h------87-----||
||--0--000000000000000000000000-|-0---p-h-------0--65-----||
||     ........................   .             .   sl     ||
||                                                         ||
||                                                         ||
||_________________________________________________________||
|2nd ->End                                                 ||
||------------------------------|--------------------------||
||------------------------------|--------------------------||
||------------------------------|-------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||------------------------------|-------------7_8-----87-*||
||------------------------------|-------8_7_8--h------87--||
||--0--0--00000000000--0--0--00-|-0"-0---p-h-------0--65--||
    .  .  ...........  .  .  ..   .  .             .   sl


Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 [1x]


[Outro]                    Begin rit. . . . . . . . . .
|------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------->------>------>------>------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------------------------2------2------2------2------|
|--2---2-2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2-2------2------2------2------|
|--0---0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0------0------0------0------|
|  .   . . . . .   . . . .                             |
|                                                      |
| sim.                                                 |
|------------------------------------------------------|
|-->---------------------------------------------------|
|--9----(9)----"---------------------------------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--9----(9)----"----[[[[[[[[[[[[[ Noise ]]]]]]]]]]]]]--|
|--7----(7)----"---------------------------------------|
|--0----(0)----"---------------------------------------|



[Ending]
|-------------|-------------|------------|-------------|
|-------------|------->-----|-------->---|-------------|
|-------->----|-------9-----|-------12--|------%------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------2----|-------9-----|-------12--|-------------|
|--------2----|-------7-----|-------10--|-------------|
|--0"----0----|-0"----0-----|-0"------sl-|-------------|
                                                  (End!)

--'REIGN OF TERROR' LYRICS--

(Peterson/Ramirez)

Marching their way through the crypts of the dead
Taking the storm by command
Killing the victims and taking them slaves
Hitler's violent 3rd Reich
The victims are worried
The warheads have passed
The fires claim your fate
Hell leads his armies to march and defy
Lucifer takes his way

Obey this despot the victims wail
Victims have taken the toll
The cold winds of winter are prison forever
Fires claim your fate
Your fate!

Fighting the way though the mists of the night
Taking the life from young souls
Marching, our armies, they prepare to fight
The city's finally destroyed

Machine guns are firing, that takes our robot
Finding our way through hell
Generals, smiling, teach us to fight
Our armies have done well

Obey this despot the victims wail
Victims have taken the toll
The cold winds of winter are prison forever
Fires claim your fate
...Your fate!

Though... the dead... have trapped... us in
We'll break.. the back... of torture and pain
Fashioned... hammers... wielded... weight
Cursing... the black path... to hell's... gate

The magic's lost, and taking its course
The world lives in fear, death gods are near

Awake in the dust, the battle now lost
We watched you defy, now it's time for you to die

Marching their way through the crypts of the dead
Taking the storm by command
Killing the victims and taking them slaves
Hitler's violent 3rd Reich
The victims are worried
The warheads have passed
The fires claim your fate
Hell leads his armies to march and defy
Lucifer takes his way

Obey this despot the victims wail
Victims have taken the toll
The cold winds of winter are prison forever
Fires claim your fate
Your fate!

No! No! No! No!
Die!

Your Fate!

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