(Rated this album with 6 out of 10) Reviewed by
Daniel Pinto
from Brooklyn, NY USA
Here is the deal with Rocka Rolla; it was mastered wrong. The recording is low, there is a lot of hiss and it sounds like your listening to the album as if your best friend taped it by holding his boombox up to the speakers of his grandmothers recordplayer. Roger Bain, the producer of Rocka Rolla, remixed and remasterd this album and it subsiquently appeared as HERO HERO. Gull records repackaged it with a bunch of Sad Wings Tracks and one oddball track (Diamonds and Rust)not the Sin after Sin version but possibly a Sad Wings out-take. The result is ROCkA ROLLA the way its supposed to sound: HEAVY! Yes folks you heard it right, Hero Hero lets it be known that the guys in the band were not on lithium when recording this album. The difference is night and day. Every ROCKA ROLLA song on HERO HERO is not only 1000 times better but also actually listenable! If your a long time Priest fan and you didnt know this, your in for a BIG treat. Buy Hero Hero and listen to the REAL ROCKA ROLLA!
