Judas Priest's Reviews

Sin After Sin

Sin after sin, priest's 2nd classic album

This album was the only one to feature the session drummer Simon Phillips, replacing Alan Moore, who had apparently no idea of how great the band was going to be. Simon Phillips will later join the group Toto : you can hear his drums on the albums "Tambu" and "Mindfields".

My personnal ratings are :

Sinner - A
A classic rock song. It's good but quite fast boring at the end.
The chorus is average.

Diamonds and Rust - A
Another classic, but the chorus is just average and a little annoying.

Starbreaker - A+
This is my favorite song on the CD. Rob Halford sings all lyrics. This song has an excellent rhythm.

Last rose of summer - C- : I was looking for a good Judas Priest ballad, but this one is pretty asleeping

Let us prey... - C+
D+ for the beginning of the song which is a plain Queen imitation (not that I don't like Queen but this is annoying),
A+ for the guitar solo which is excellent.

Raw deal - A+
This one is pure enjoyment, melodic guitar, slow rhythm, best Halford's vocals.

Here come the tears - B-
This is another quite boring ballad, but better than the 'Last rose of summer'.

Dissident aggressor - D+
This song is awful, it's noisy, messy, not the Priest I like ! Though, many like it and it was included on 'Metal Works' compilation.

I should put 4 stars since I don't think this is Judas Priest's best album, but I find it excellent, and I think I still deserves 5 because this is quite inventive for heavy metal in the 70's. Though, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath had already started the movement. By the way, Deep Purple's bassist Roger Glover participated in the production of this album.

Line-up :
Glenn Tipton - Guitars
Robert Halford - Vocals
K.K. Downing - Guitars
Ian Hill - Bass
Simon Phillips - Drums.

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