(Rated this album with 10 out of 10) Reviewed by
James Geoffrey Parfitt Conrad
from New Haven, CT United States
I have always loved Priest since I was about eight, and I finally bought this album last year. The reason why this album is one of my two favorites is because this album is proof that Judas Priest were stylistically AHEAD of ANY and EVERY heavy metal band from the 1980s. Granted, they had other musical aspects to explore in the coming years, but this is their second to last album with a vaguely "progressive" feel to it, and the song to song flow is the best of any Judas Priest album. So much so, that I'd say that you'd be cheating yourself if you just listened to "Victim of Changes" or "Tyrant." On that note, there aren't many Priest albums in which you'd cheat yourself by not listening to them in their entirety. Whoever says this album is not classic is blaspheming. Period. Thus spoke Zarathustra. Rock over London, Rock on Chicago! Diet Pepsi, uh huh!
