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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:52:02 AM | |
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I started listening to Judas Priest back in late '91 when I was on the 6th grade. My friend played me the album "Painkiller" through and through for a few times on one dark early winter evening...my life was changed forever. Judas Priest and the album "Painkiller" represented the very first old school heavy metal album that I've heard in my life as an entirety, until that time I had heard various artists and songs, but that was the first whole experience. I first saw Judas Priest live back in 2005 when they performed their reunion shows here in Finland. It was pure majesty of metallic excellence. My second time was back in 2008 at the beginning of the Nostradamus tour.
For the Epitaph farewell tour I wish the following songs (a monumental catalogue of great metal songs to choose from, it's an absolute impossibility to choose a final list):
Rocka Rolla
- Never Satisfied
- Cheater
Sad Wings Of Destiny
- Victim Of Changes
- Tyrant
Sin After Sin
- Sinner
- Dissident Aggressor
Stained Class
- Better By You, Better Than Me
- Beyond The Realms Of Death
Killing Machine
- Hell Bent For Leather
- Running Wild
British Steel
- Rapid Fire
- Metal Gods
Point Of Entry
- Solar Angels
Screaming For Vengeance
- The Hellion/Electric Eye
- Bloodstone
Defenders Of The Faith
- Jawbreaker
- Rock Hard Ride Free
Turbo
- Reckless
Ram It Down
- Monsters Of Rock
Painkiller
- Painkiller
- Hell Patrol
- A Touch Of Evil
Angel Of Retribution
- Judas Rising
- Deal With The Devil
Nostradamus
- Visions
- Death
Edited at: Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:55:56 AM |
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Friday, April 17, 2009 3:26:07 PM | |
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PAINKILLER IS BACK!
The day before yesterday I started a special phase in my current "Alphabets Of Rock" theme, which started in early March by phases "Blackmore" and "Cooper". Now the current phase is "Dio & Halford". Not a matchup or comparison, but a hard-edged and heavy-hitting double assault of my personal Heavy Metal Gods. CD by CD...So I thought a visit to the forum was appropriate.
Judas Priest performing their top3 album "British Steel" in its awesome entirety with many dear classics is something we all will cherish some day in the distant future. I wish this tour would be extended to reach Finland too, it's already over 10 months since their last visit (I'm like the song I'm listening now, "Never Satisfied"!!!)...but at least a full-blown DVD is very obligatory! Not to mention the awaited and much speculated performance of their mega opus "Nostradamus" in its entirety. Now that would be the crowning achievement for Judas Priest! |
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:32:27 AM | |
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The choices are difficult and vary from time to time, since all songs made by Priest are so essential for me...
Rocka Rolla - Run Of The Mill
Sad Wings Of Destiny - Victim Of Changes
Sin After Sin - Sinner
Stained Class - Beyond The Realms Of Death
Killing Machine - Evil Fantasies
British Steel - Metal Gods
Point Of Entry - Heading Out To The Highway
Screaming For Vengeance - The Hellion & Electric Eye
Defenders Of The Faith - Rock Hard Ride Free
Turbo - Reckless
Ram It Down - Monsters Of Rock
Painkiller - A Touch Of Evil
Jugulator - Burn In Hell
Demolition - Hell Is Home
Angel Of Retribution - Lochness
No choice from the album Nostradamus, since the album is a one entirety...
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Monday, July 07, 2008 5:15:13 AM | |
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Thanks for giving your encouraging and solid view of the new album and Priest in general.
Seems to me that you are the most "metal" hip-hop enthusiast I've ever encountered anywhere! Hell, you seem to be even more "metal" than many of the people who call themselves "metal"...
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Nikitah Imani from Monday, July 07, 2008 3:40:50 AM)| |  | Nikitah Imani wrote: | | Greetings, Priest FANS..I emphasize that, since it is apparent that some who identify themselves as such are fairweather friends who are only fans "when" and "if" and under certain conditions. As a musician (hip-hop) artist, I find this album to be spectacular, not just because it is Priest but because we are in a culture right now that is anti-creativity. Musicians are fashioned and buttonholed to keep doing the same thing. Especially older bands who are invited to rest on their laurels. If anything, this album shows that Priest are still "hungry" for new vista. I especially invite naysayers to go back to Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings and you find the harmonicas, the keyboards, the orchestrated string arrangements and some Priest guitar techniques that even Glenn and KK described as "experiments." These almost all of us hold near and dear to our hearts as the Priest definitive catalog and this was long before the 30 and under crowd discovered Priest in Vengeance. This all looks conspiratorial to me. If Priest does the same thing, they are seen as standing in place. If they change, they are not appealing to the base. Part of this is that a lot of the defining in the mainstream record market is being done by people that were not part of the historical metal culture who only joined it in the commercial period. Priest has never been about commercial, even though from time to time, they had a "hit." I didn't get Point of Entry, but it was Priest and I took it as evolution. Turbo I liked except for the synthesized guitars which were new and again evolution as they were used more effectively as time went on. But the core of the things that made me a Prest fan are present in the new record. History is filled with records like this that were masterpieces that had zero commercial success and then suddenly everybody realized later that something was going on. It's funny to me because I remember Vengeance when YGATC came out and a lot of "true believers" said Priest has sold out. It went triple platinum but took a decade or so to do it. Priest is about artistry. Real metal is about that to. The minute metal or any form of music becomes what the masses are into today, its doomed. I watched my intellectual, socially conscious hip-hop turn into stupid, juvenile drug-laced rants and fake gangsters. From Rakim Allah to whoop dere it is. I could have bought in, but I committed to my music. 20 years later, I'm still here as that mess slowly fades. Priest is an inspiration to me for that reason. In 2009 I will release my 15th album MiddleMan, a Biblical concept album with lots of symphony and metal elements. It won't be commercial and it's different from my typical style, but it's the best I've ever done as an artist. I respect Priest across genres for coming out "all guns blazing." And as hard as they try, they will never take away the title Judas Priest have earned anymore than those of us in hip-hop no matter how "hard-core" can forget a group from New York rapping to a Chic remix. Without them, I would not be here. I might do a different style, but my hats are off to the masters. Priest isn't about making a hit or even one mega-album, but the catalog, the discography, the duration. I'm heading out to the highway in August to see them at Verizon and I'll be there if I'm all by myself singing along with my favorite "artists."
DP Da Reapa Priest FAN..4eva. |
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:37:02 PM | |
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Judas Priest the Metal Gods have truly made a spectacular and fiercely powerful album, "Nostradamus"...With this album they, once again, show us all something they haven't done before...but this time we're not talking about just a new kind of metal music or new metal album with some new riffs etc, we're talking about the magnum opus of Judas Priest.
They have always been very humble about themselves, in the beginning they learned their lesson of how to appreciate and respect. And most of all, work hard with commitment to their cause and fans that fuel their fire. Now, when their career spans 5 decades and 16 studio albums, Judas Priest are still going strong, but are now even more majestic and forceful than ever before. The new album testifies and confirms their godhood in the heavy metal world. There's absolutely no band on this earth that can ever exceed the prowess of Judas Priest. Only one currently recording band line-up can reach the same level of authority, but even they can't go beyond and above this excellence...
This album is very big, sadly too big for those who don't like/appreciate/understand this. That's too bad.
"Nostradamus" is the finest hour of Judas Priest, the crown of their already superior career. I'm so proud to have been and to continue to be their ardent fan.
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:04:41 AM | |
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I couldn't wait until the evening, I had to take the rest of the day off and unleash "Nostradamus" right away...I just finished my first session, so here's what I have in my mind right now...
First of all, people who...
- have an attitude problem against concept albums and conceptual art works in general...
- like to listen only simple, basic, guitars&drums heavy metal...
- have problems to concentrate on focused listening or any other activity that demands non-stop attention for a certain prolonged period of time...
- tend to listen music only as a background music while they do something else...
- don't appreciate classically influenced, flavored and executed music...
- don't appreciate orchestrations, classically arranged & anthemic vocal melodies...
- don't appreciate music made by using electronic keyboard and guitar synthesizers, electronic piano and B3 Hammond organ...
- have lost or never even found their faith in the old school heavy metal of Judas Priest and in general...
- keep comparing albums with each other...
- keep measuring the worth and status of an individual album by the "standards" set by some previous album(s)...
- don't appreciate the limitless possibilities of combining heavy metal with classical music...
...DON'T BOTHER. This album is way too majestic, powerful, multi-dimensional and generally too big for you to even start trying to digest.
I knew beforehand that this new concept would definitely divide people to those who understand, appreciate and enjoy this and to those who more or less loathe this and decry it's worth and excellence. This album is definitely a landmark in the history of Judas Priest and heavy metal - just as I thought it would be. Once again Judas Priest goes far and wide towards new, brave, intriguing and extremely demanding horizons of heavy metal and music in general. I would say that only Judas Priest have the vision, the ability, the strength and balls to make an album of this magnitude. No matter how powerful albums bands usually make, they seem to be just regular heavy metal - excellent and unique as they may be. This is not just old school heavy metal, this is Judas Priest going higher & beyond the boundaries of heavy metal traditions. This time Judas Priest made not just another brilliant heavy metal album in the long line of their discography but a true masterpiece, a work of beautiful, mind-exploding and career-crowning art.
I won't analyze the soundscape of this album too much or try to convince any slammers otherwise, because it's useless. The sounds of all insruments feel perfect, just as they are. The heavy guitar riffs & head-splitting leads, the smashing drums...100 % heavy metal!!! And I would also say that this album shows Rob Halford at his very best, this album demanded his best and he gave it his best. I think Rob Halford is a better overall vocalist than he ever was.
Is this the final album of Judas Priest as it has been rumoured? It may well be and I would not be amazed at all. Sad as it may be, I would accept it. The grandness, the power, the multi-dimensionality, the general finality of the concept and the message in the lyrics all suggest that this album could be the ultimate album of Judas Priest, their magnum opus. Time will tell.
In short: "Nostradamus" testifies that Judas Priest have always been and will always be the METAL GODS!!! |
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:27:36 AM | |
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Oh my God...few minutes ago the Deluxe 2CD edition came through my mail slot...
The package itself is like a bible of metal: a DVD package-sized, matte-surfaced hard-bound book, shining raised-relief band and album titles, CDs in cardboard sleeves, awesome painting-like pages with calligraphic text...absolutely fantastic!
The mere package demands complete focus and listening in a one sitting...
...and, with a sudden bang, I start to wonder that maybe this is not only, in a sense, the ultimate Judas Priest album but maybe this is also the last Judas Priest album. Who knows? Right now the magnitude of the album feels so overwhelming and final...
Tonight I will journey through time with Judas Priest the Metal Gods!!!
Edited at: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:29:36 AM |
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Saturday, June 14, 2008 4:41:15 AM | |
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The title song, "Visions", "Dawn Of Creation/Prophecy" and "Death" have been my only acquaintances of the new album thus far (great old school metal songs, out at last!), but next week I'll get my copy of the 2CD Deluxe book edition, only then I will dive deep into the conceptual realm of Judas Priest's "Nostradamus" mega opus. The band themselves have emphasized the conceptual entirety of the album and I strongly believe this album will really come alive to it's full glory and power when listened to from the beginning to the end. Of course one can detach many separate songs and enjoy them, but in my mind the very best way to experience this album is to take it full-on as an entirety. That's the reason I haven't listened to these sample songs too much, I want the whole thing as the band offers & recommends it.
Some people may say that the album "is too long" or "there are too many intros" or "there are too many songs" etc. I say WHERE IS YOUR ABILITY TO FOCUS? Can't you listen a 2 disc album on a one take? Can't you listen 2 other Judas Priest albums in a row? Art is something to really put your mind within, especially a work like this. "Nostradamus" is not your choice for background music and it's not just another album, we're talking about a 2-part conceptual theatre show of heavy metal.
I believe this album will be one of the landmarks of heavy metal.
Edited at: Saturday, June 14, 2008 4:49:05 AM |
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:10:49 AM | |
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Judas Priest - Live In Hellsinki June 3rd...
Now that was an awesome show indeed! Judas Priest really showed us all again that what heavy metal is all about, how it should sound and be played. Sharp, punchy drum firepower, roaring bass within, crushing and ear-shattering guitars --> very balanced and VERY powerful sound, the way it should be! Rob's performance was, again, stellar. The very highest screams (70's to 90's) are not there anymore, but still Rob can scream like hell, his overall singing capabilities and technique are actually much better than they used to be. Rob is THE METAL GOD, 57 this year. Both guitarists were at the top notch, "new" classics were played very precisely and solos were executed very faithfully, some songs were played with a bit slower tempo, but that made them all the heavier. The setlist was full of fantastic surprises! I had actually wished for many of them to be played live just a day before the show. But I won't tell, I want people to get surprised like I did...definitely renewed setlist, many staple classics, but many "new" classics people wouldn't expect but would wish for...
THANK YOU METAL GODS!!! Birmingham steel is still hot and heavy!!!
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| [P.A.I.N.K.I.L.L.E.R.] Monday, June 02, 2008 5:05:17 AM | |
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Tomorrow...
THE PRIEST...IS...BACK!!!
We will have the priviledge of experiencing the unleashing of the Priest metal beast machine, the ignition of the new world tour! Luckily there are no setlists littering the forums in advance, it's gonna be all new and we will be the first!!!
My last moment wishes:
One For The Road
Never Satisfied
Genocide
Tyrant
Sinner
Dissident Aggressor
Better By You, Better Than Me
Stained Class
Delivering The Goods
Running Wild
Rapid Fire
Metal Gods
Grinder
The Rage
Heading Out To The Highway
The Hellion/Electric Eye
Bloodstone
Fever
Freewheel Burning
Jawbreaker
Rock Hard Ride Free
Reckless
Monsters Of Rock
Hell Patrol
Nightcrawler
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