Judas Priest's Reviews

Defenders Of The Faith

what went worng here?

First, the bonus tracks:
To put the worst track of the album (HEAVY DUTY) as a live bonus must only be a joke.
THen, in the brief text written by the band in the booklet, they say that they did not understand why the tune TURN ON YOUR LIGHT was kept out of the original album. It was left out because it's a sugary, faceless ballad reminiscent of Poison, that's all!!

As for the original album, it starts pretty well and goes all the way greatly until SOME HEADS ARE GONNA ROLL. Then everything crumbles miserably, with some of the worst Priest tracks ever: HEAVY DUTY, OUT IN THE COLD and NIGHT COMES DOWN, all unashamed pop-metal tunes with lousy drums. Anyway you look at it, you see DEFENDER is a good album, but pointed the way for terrible things to come (TURBO and RAM IT DOWN).

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