Judas Priest's Reviews
Hell Bent For Leather (Average Rating: 8.06 out of 10)
Sad Wings of Leather- Remastered Priest. (Rated this album with 4 out of 10)
Reviewed by
cd-heaven
from Poontang Heaven
WOW! Let me first start off by saying that each Judas Priest studio effort is a distinguishable classic. The Judas Priest Remaster series is both good and bad. Good because each studio release sounds sonically superior to the old versions. All of them sound clean, crisp sounding from Sin After Sin through Painkiller. Also good on some of the reissues are the studio bonus tracks. I will review each bonus track as I review each reissue, some are better than others. The bad part about the studio ablum remasters series is the live bonus tracks (do not be confused, the live bonus tracks on both live reissues are great, and I include those bonus tracks in the reviews). ALL the live bonus tracks are lousy. The sound quality is good, just the performances are uninspried, and lame. From Sin After Sin's Jawbreaker (Halford sounds weak here) to ainkiller's Leather Rebel (which is made worse because it's rpobably the weakest song on Painkiller). If you are a fan who has all the studio albums already and are looking to wet your ears with the live tracks, forget about it, they will let you down. Seriously, the songs off of the Halford-less 98 Live Meltdown are more inspirational than these live bonus songs. Well that sums up the Remaster Series as a whole,
now on with the individual review...Hell Bent for Leather is delivered in 1979. After 3 POWERFUL studio albums and well on their way to becoming the MEtal Gods, Priest deliver the goods in a mixed bag. Some of this rocks (Running Wild, Hell Bent, Deliverin' the Goods, Green Manilishi) and the rest is a dud (all the rest of the songs). The 2 bonus tracks are really really pathetic. The live Riding the Wind is just horrific sounding (Halford needs a rest, his vocals show).
Just avoid this one at all costs, truly their worst studio effort of the Halford era.
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