Judas Priest's Reviews

Turbo

Now I enjoy it.

Let's see: Judas Priest never, ever, released two albums that sound just the same, in terms of production or musical difference. We have the simpistic ROCKA ROLLA, the masterfull SAD WINGS OF DESTINY, the first one for a major company, SIN AFTER SIN; them the classic STAINED CLASS, featuring the new logo; them the first step to shorter songs and commercial acceptance, KILLING MACHINE, them the band stabilizing with drummer Dave Holland and releasing their big breakthrough, BRITISH STEEL..... We have also the hyper-aggressive PAINKILLER and, then, the Tipton-Priest albums JUGULATOR and DEMOLITION.

SO, it's no surprise that Priest went along the hair metal wave to stay afloat in the middle-eighties. What annoyed most people (myself included), was not the music itself, altough it was clearly extremely polished and cheesy: it was the new silly lyric subject (party and girls) and the astonishingly bad tasted visual, copying hair-metal bands like Poison and Motley Crue. Of course, old fans wente outraged.

Now, almost twenty years later, I can listen to it and enjoy it by what it is, forgetting about the makeup. It's A PRIEST record, strong as always.

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