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                    TESTAMENT - TRIAL BY FIRE 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

For Questions, Comments, Newest Version, or Corrections contact
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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)

--TRIAL BY FIRE--

[Intro] (Clean)
|--0--------0----------0-----0-----0--|---0-----0-----0------0-----0--------|
|-----2-------2----------2-----2------|-----2-----2------------2-----2------|
|--------3-(3)--3----3-----3-----3----|-3-----3-----3------------0----------|[Gtr.1]
|-------------------------------------|--------------------4----------------|
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|                                                                           |
|                                                                           |
|                                                                           |
|--0--------0----------0-----0-----0--|---0-----0-----0------0-----0--------|
|--2----------2------2---2-----2------|-----2-----2------------2-----2------|
|-----3---3-----3----3-----3-----3----|-3-----3-----3------------0----------|[Gtr.2]
|-------------------------------------|--------------------4----------------|
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|




|-----0----------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--------------------0------0------|----------------------------------|
|-------------------------0-----------|----1-----1-----------------------|[Gtr.1]
|--4--------------------------------2-|------0-----0---------------------|
|--------------------3------2----0----|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|-4------4-----43---3----------------|
|                                                     sl                    |
|                                                                           |
|                                                                           |
|-----0----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|--------------------0------0------|---------------------------------|
|-------------------------0-----------|----1-----1--p-------------------|[Gtr.2]
|--4--------------------------------2-|------0-----10-------------------|
|--------------------3------2----0----|------------------------(Harm)-------|
|-------------------------------------|-4------4-----43---3----------------|
                                                      sl


 [Rhy.Fig.1]
||----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-|-------------------------------------|
||------2-----2-----------2-----2-----|-0---0-----0-------------------------|
||*-3-----3-----3-----------0---------|-------0--------------1-----1--------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-------------------4-----------4---|----------------2-------0-----0------|
||------------------------------------|---3-----2---0-----------------------|
||------------------------------------|--------------------4-----4-----43--|
||                                                                      sl
||
||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||-------------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||-------------------------------*||
||-----(Harm)-------------------------||
||--3---------------------------------||


Repeat Rhy.Fig.1 [2x]


[Guitar Solo 1]               p                          h
|---------------------------18-14----------------------14-18-X------18--|
|-----------------------------------p---------------14-----------19-----|
|---------------------------------18-15----------15--------------18-----|[Gtr.3]
|---------------------------------------------16------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------X---------------------------|
|---------------------------------------14------------------------------|




|--19_b21_r18---------16-18-19------------------------------------------|
|-------------19_b21--16-------19_b20------17_b19---r_17~---------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------15-16-18--|[Gtr.3]
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|




|---------------------------------------------------15-------15-18-15---|
|-----------15---------15-17----15-17-19-15---17-19----17-19------------|
|--15-16-18----16---18-------18-----------------------------------------|[Gtr.3]
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|




|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--19-17-15------------------------h--------------------------------p---|
|-----------18-16-15------------15--16---------9_b11---r_9~b11----11-9--|[Gtr.3]
|--------------------18~----18---------17~-----------------------------|
|--------------------------sl-------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|




|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------8------8-11-8---------------|
|------------7--------7-9----7-9-11-7--9-11---9-11---------11-9-7-------|[Gtr.3]
|--11-8-9-11---9---11-----11--------------------------------------11-9--|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|




|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------h----------------(Blank for spacing purposes)----------|[Gtr.3]
|--8-----------8--9-----------------------------------------------------|
|----11~---11-------10~------------------------------------------------|
|---------sl------------------------------------------------------------|


[Fill 1] (Electric)
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|[Gtr.3]
|-----------------|
|--/-X--------|
|--/15--------|
(Hand/Pick Slides)


 [Rhy.Fig.2]
||-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
||--->--------------------->--------->-|-------------------------------------|
||*-11--------------------11--------12-|------->--------->--------5----------|[Gtr.1]
||*-11--------------------11--------12-|-------4---------5--------5----------|
||--9---------------------9---------10-|-------4---------5--------3----------|
||------0--0--0--0--0--0------0--0-----|-0--0------0--0-----0--0-------------|
||      .  .  .  .  .  .      .  .       .  .      .  .     .  .             |
||                                                                           |
||                                                                           |
||-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
||-->--------------------->--------->--|------->--------->--------5----------|[Gtr.2]
||--4---------------------4---------5--|-------4---------5--------5----------|
||--4---------------------4---------5--|-------4---------5--------3----------|
||--2---0--0--0--0--0--0--2---0--0--3--|-0--0--2---0--0--3--0--0-------------|
        .  .  .  .  .  .      .  .       .  .      .  .     .  .




|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||
|-----4------>-------------->----------|-------------->--->-----------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|-----4------6-(6)----------5-(5)------|--------------5---5-----------------*||
|-----2-0----6-(6)----------5-(5)------|-5-5-5--------5---5------------------||
|--0---p-----4-(4)----0--4--3-(3)----0-|-3-3-3--0--0--3---3------------------||
   .                                 .   . . .  .  .     (**)


(**) = Second time stacatto this chord, in other words abruptly stop after you
       strike it.


Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 [1x]



 [Next]        [2x]
||----------------||----------------||-----------------||
||----------------||----------------||-----------------||
||*--------------*||----------------||-11-(11)--------*||[Gtr.1]
||*-------2------*||-----2-----2----||-11-(11)--------*||
||--2-2-2-2-------||-X--2--X--2----||-9--(9)----------||
||--0-0-0-0-------||-X--0--X--0----||-*---------------||
||  . . . ^           sl       ^     (Fade in w/volume)||
||                                   (switch.         )||
||                                                     ||
||(Tacet 2 bars)                                       ||
||------15/19-----||-(19)-----------||-----------------||
||--17---sl-------||----------------||-----------------||
||*---------------||----------------||----------------*||[Gtr.2]
||*---------------||----------------||-4--(4)---------*||
||----------------||----------------||-4--(4)----------||
||----------------||----------------||-2--(2)----------||
         (Tremolo bar dive.)           *


 [Fill 2]
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||--4--3-----------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--4--3--4--3--5--4-----||
||--2--1--4--3--5--4-----||
||--------2--1--3--2-----||
    ----P.M.H.---- ^


 [Rhy.Fig.3]                   1st Ending
||----------------------------|----------------------------||
||----------------------------|----------------------------||
||*---------------------------|-43------------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*---------------------------|-43-------54-------3/4----||
||-----3--44-3-------3--4444--|-21-------54-------3/4----||
||--0--1--22-1---0---1--2222--|-21---0---32---0---1/2----||
||  .  .  .. .   .   .  ....     sl   .    sl   .   sl     ||
||                                                         ||
||                                                         ||
|| 2nd & 3rd Endings           4th Ending                  ||
||----------------------------|----------------------------||
||----------------------------|----------------------------||
||--43-----------------------|-4--3----------->----------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--43-------43-------54---|-4--3--4--3--5--4----------*||
||--21-------43-------54---|-2--1--4--3--5--4-----------||
||--21---0---21---0---32---|-------2--1--3--2-----------||
     sl   .    sl   .    sl     ----P.M.H.----


 [Rhy.Fig.2a]
||----------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------->--------->-------------------------------|
||*-11---11--11--11--11--11--11--------12-------->--------->--------5---|[Gtr.1]
||*-11---11--11--11--11--11--11--------12--------4---------5--------5---|
||--9----9---9---9---9---9---9---------10--------4---------5--------3---|
||-------------------------------0--0------0--0------0--0-----0--0------|
||                               .  .      .  .      .  .     .  .      |
||                                                                      |
||                                                                      |
||----------------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------------|
||*-------------------------->--------->--------->--------->--------5---|[Gtr.2]
||*-4----4---4---4---4---4---4---------5---------4---------5--------5---|
||--4----4---4---4---4---4---4---------5---------4---------5--------3---|
||--2----2---2---2---2---2---2---0--0--3---0--0--2---0--0--3--0--0------|
                                 .  .      .  .      .  .     .  .




|-----------------------------------------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------||
|------4------>-------------->-----------------------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|------4------6-(6)----------5-(5)--------------------5---5------------*||
|------2-0----6-(6)----------5-(5)-------5-5-5--------5---5-------------||
|---0---p-----4-(4)----0--4--3-(3)----0--3-3-3--0--0--3---3-------------||
    .                                 .  . . .  .  .  .   ^


Repeat Rhy.Fig.3 [1x]


 [Rhy.Fig.2b]
||----------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------->--------->-------------------------------|
||*-11---11--11--11--11--11--11--------12-------->--------->--------5---|[Gtr.1]
||*-11---11--11--11--11--11--11--------12--------4---------5--------5---|
||--9----9---9---9---9---9---9---------10--------4---------5--------3---|
||-------------------------------0--0------0--0------0--0-----0--0------|
||                               .  .      .  .      .  .     .  .      |
||                                                                      |
||                                                                      |
||----------------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------->--------->--------->--------->--------5---|[Gtr.2]
||--4----4---4---4---4---4---4---------5---------4---------5--------5---|
||--4----4---4---4---4---4---4---------5---------4---------5--------3---|
||--2----2---2---2---2---2---2---0--0--3---0--0--2---0--0--3--0--0------|
                                 .  .      .  .      .  .     .  .



|-----------------------------------------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------||
|------4------>-------------->-----------------------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|------4------6-(6)----------5-(5)--------------------5----------------*||
|------2-0----6-(6)----------5-(5)-------5-5-5--------5-----------------||
|---0---p-----4-(4)----0--4--3-(3)----0--3-3-3--0--0--3-----------------||
    .                                 .  . . .  .  .  ^



Repeat Fill 2                 [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.3              [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 + Rhy.Fig.2a [1x]


 [Rhy.Fig.4]
||------------------------------|------------------------------||
||------------------------------|------------------>-----------||
||*-6----5--6--7--8--9----------|-6----7--8--9--6--5-(5)------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-6----5--6--7--8--9----------|-6----7--8--9--6--5-(5)------*||
||--4----3--4--5--6--7----------|-4----5--6--7--4--3-(3)-------||
||--4----3--4--5--6--7----------|-4----5--6--7--4--3-(3)-------||
         .  .  .  .  ^                 .  .  .  .


Repeat Rhy.Fig.4 [3x]


[Lead] (w/Rhy.Fig.4)
||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||*-13-139---9/13-----1312-12------|-13-139---98-----8/9-9-----------||[Gtr.3]
||*----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||--11-117---7/11-----1110-10------|-11-117---76-----6/7-7-----------||
||-------sl---sl---------sl----------|------sl----sl-----sl--------------||
||                                                                       ||
||                                                                       ||
||                                                                       ||
||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||*-13-139---9/13-----1312-12------|-13-139--98--8/9-9--13--12-(12)-*||[Gtr.3]
||*----------------------------------|----------------------------------*||
||--11-117---7/11-----1110-10------|-11-117--76--6/7-7--11--10-(10)--||
||-------sl---sl---------sl----------|------sl---sl--sl------------------||


Repeat Fill 1 [1x]


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


Repeat Rhy.Fig.5 [2x]


 [Rhy.Fig.6]
||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||-->------------------>---->--------|------------------->----->---------||
||*-5------>---->----X-2----5----X->-|--------->---->----5---X-2---------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-5----X-4----2----X-2----5----X-4-|--4--4---4----4----5---X-2---------||
||--3----X-4----3----X-0----3----X-4-|--4--4---4----4----3---X-0---------||
||-------X-2-----------------------2-|--2--2---2----2--------------------||
||                                      .  .
||
||
||-----------------------------------||
||-->--------------------------------||
||--2--------(For spacing purposes)-*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--2-------------------------------*||
||--0--------------------------------||
||-------3~--------------------------||


 [Rhy.Fig.7]
||-------------------------|-------------------------||
||-------------------------|-------------------------||
||*------------------------|------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*------------------------|------------------------*||
||--------44-3-------33-2--|-------3-----------3-----||
||--0--0--22-1-0--0--11-0--|-0--0--1--0--0--0--1--0--||
    .  .  .. . .  .  .. .    .  .     .  .  .     .


Repeat Rhy.Fig.7 [3.5x]


[Guitar Solo 2]
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------12_b13-r_13~-----------|
|-----------------------------------------7-9-10------------------------|[Gtr.3]
|--9_b10-r_10~----7-9-10-9-10-12-10-12-14-------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|



                             p
|-------------------------/20-15----------------------------------------|
|------------------------sl------17---------------------15---------p----|
|-----------------h-----------------16------------------14_b16---r--12--|[Gtr.3]
|----------17---14-15-17---------------17---p---------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------19-14-------------------------|
|--12--13---------------------------------------12~---------------------|




|------12-------12-------12-------12-------12-------12-------12-15___r--|
|---------15_b17---15_b17---15_b17---15_b17---15_b17---15_b17-----------|
|--14~------------------------------------------------------------------|[Gtr.3]
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|



   p
|---12---------------------12-14-14_b15----12---p-----------------------|
|------15_b17----------/12--------------------15-12---------------------|
|---------------------sl----------------------------14------------------|[Gtr.3]
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|


Repeat Fill 2                 [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.3              [2x]
Repeat Fill 2                 [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.3              [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 + Rhy.Fig.2a [2x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.3              [1x]
End!

--'TRIAL BY FIRE' LYRICS--

(Peterson, Skolnick, Billy)

Accuse you of a crime
Sentenced to endless time
The price you have to pay
Won't get away!
Sworn in by the stand
Your rights are gone
The system's banned
They think you are a liar
A trial by fire

Hey!
This is what the people say,
A new way
A trial by fire!

Locked in an empty cell
Your life becomes a living hell
The river of fire flows
Time only knows!
Trapped by flames of fury
Ordered unto by the jury
Death is their desire
Thrown in the fire!

Hey!
This is what the people say,
A new way
A trial by fire!

Quiver by the fiery light
Cringing as your soul ignites
The book of law's been thrown away
Starting today!
The system before the war
Is gone for now and evermore
There is no sentence higher
A trial by fire!

Hey!
This is what the people say,
A new way
A trial by fire!

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Matt Lead Player	#1 by Matt Cromwell at Dec 9, 1980 at 4:31 AM EST
	Could be the predictions of Nostradamus...

No Picture Sam Average	#2 by Sam at Oct 22, 1991 at 8:29 PM EST
	Actually, I really think that this song is about the great wall of Berlin. The damn commies put people in jail if they disagreed with their facist rule. The wall of Berlin was 11 ft. tall, and it was rounded at the top so that if someone tried climbing it, they couldn't grab ahold of anything. Over the wall however were watch towers with armed guards, and sand pits. The sand pits were used to track someones foot prints if they did manage to climb the wall. I think this is what the song was about.

No Picture Dark Lead Player	#3 by Dark Avenger at May 14, 1996 at 4:28 AM EST
	I'm pretty convinced that this song is pretty much a "Carpe Diem" vibe.. Chucky's (or whomever the lyricist is) has got a fire under his ass after being beat down or missing out on life.. and wants to grab life by the balls and live a life of little or no compromise... and no one can stop him from reaching his goals. If its not about that, it would be a huge irony because its the perfect analogy. "Restart my life or self desctruction."

No Picture Zac Wanna Be	#4 by Zac Fielder at Jul 2, 2003 at 8:51 AM EST
	A prisoner escapes from prison. If this is referring to any particular prison, it's probably Alcatraz, because that's the one they show in the music video.

No Picture Jeremy Rhythm Player	#5 by Jeremy Dosser at Aug 11, 2004 at 2:34 AM EST
	cmon no one has commented on this? it seems to be about a preacher who is predicting things but no one cares about what he says. it talks about how the city will crumble to the bay in 1906 and a war in 1941. i think its talking about the san francisco earthquake(1906) and when the U.S. entered WWII(1941). i dont know just some thoughts

No Picture Mistress Cheyen Rhythm Player	#6 by Mistress Cheyenne at Dec 5, 2004 at 6:46 AM EST
	cmon no one has commented on this? it seems to be about a preacher who is predicting things but no one cares about what he says. it talks about how the city will crumble to the bay in 1906 and a war in 1941. i think its talking about the san francisco earthquake(1906) and when the U.S. entered WWII(1941). i dont know just some thoughts