Judas Priest's Reviews
Demolition (Average Rating: 6.22 out of 10)
What A Letdown (Rated this album with 2 out of 10)
Reviewed by
Benjamin Brown
from Everett, Washington United States
First off let me start by saying that I have lived, loved, and rocked with this band for over 20 years. As a musician, they were one of my major influences. Sad Wings of Destiny, Unleashed In The East, Hell Bent For Leather, Screaming For Vengeance, Painkiller are all metal classics. Judas Priest influenced EVERY metal band out there and now, sadly, they themselves have become influenced by those who they influenced! On their newest release, they sound like everyone from Metallica to Linkin Park, to Pantera to Rob Zombie. The thing is, they sound hardly at all like Judas Priest. The hooks are all but gone. The glorious dualing harmony lead breaks which characterized their music for so long are gone. They do not exist on this CD. Instead, almost every song has a weird Linkin Park-like sound effects intro followed by that modern heavily muted Rob/White Zombie-like guitar sound and then a hookless tune. Judas Priest used to have interesting lyrics, but no more. They are gone too. Instead you will growling, screaming stupid lyrics and also profanity. The new singer, who sounded excellent on the live CD, apparrently wishes he was either in Metallica or Pantera and he does his best to sound like those respective singers. I tried to like this CD. I listened to it seven times and found myself not able to take it any longer and would skip to the next track which usually was as bad or worse than the previous track. In fairness, the song "Subterfuge" is a pretty good Metallica ripoff. "Lost and Found" is also pretty good and reminiscent of "Before The Dawn" from Hell Bent For Leather. "Metal Messiah" has a, dare I say white-boy hip hop Linkin Park-like feel during the versus but gets better at the choruses. The production on the CD is outstanding and bassist Ian Hill probably had more to do on this CD then ever before, but he too was probably confused by the whole thing! I'm very disappointed and I'll venture to say that this CD will probably die a deserved quick death. So many other bands do this type of thing better. This band is Judas Priest in name only. AVOID.
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