The Priest is back, baby!

[cragginshred]

Call me the oddball but how many Halford screams like this until you've heard enough? I did not make it thru the entire song and I go back to sad wings of destiny and my all time fav was 'Unleashed in the East'! Diamonds and rust!!! This new stuff has no real vocal hooks or melody as they want to be accepted by the nu metal crowd I guess

 

[la szum]

This new song is pure fire! Been listening to it every day since it first came out.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Call me the oddball but how many Halford screams like this until you've heard enough? I did not make it thru the entire song and I go back to sad wings of destiny and my all time fav was 'Unleashed in the East'! Diamonds and rust!!! This new stuff has no real vocal hooks or melody as they want to be accepted by the nu metal crowd I guess

Nu Metal

 

[JiveTurkey]

It is a bold move to try to follow up Firepower. Excellent album and a ton of work to measure up to. All the new songs I've heard have been good. Not quite Firepower good but damn good nonetheless.

 

[la szum]

Your comments about Firepower had me go back and listen to the entire album. I just didn't get
hit by it in the same way as the 2 songs I have heard from the forthcoming new album.

I kind of feel like Richie is still finding himself as a writer. Like he still has growth, and is showing
it in the past year or two.

 

[la szum]

 

[la szum]

Been looking forward to this day for Moooooooooooonths! Why?

Official Album Dropped today. I am up at 5:30AM this morning, just so I can listen
to the Full Album before starting my day. So f'ing good.

Long live The Priest!!

Full Album Playlist below. :bana

 

[JiveTurkey]

They released a video for every song on the album

I'm gonna dig in when I can. Blabbermouth link

JUDAS PRIEST Releases Lyric Videos For All 14 Songs From 'Invincible Shield'

British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST have released lyric videos for all 14 songs from the band's latest metal masterpiece, "Invincible Shield". You can check them out below. "Invincible Shield" is being released today (Friday, March 8) via Sony Music. The release date for PRIEST's follow-up...

blabbermouth.net

 

[Lysander]

This new song is pure fire! Been listening to it every day since it first came out.

That's a effin' banger and a half.

 

[la szum]

I made my way through the Album once. Starting a second sesh while cooking dinner
and cleaning up the place in 3.... 2..... and....

 

[la szum]

The Album comes out of the gates slammin'!!!

Heaviest first 3 to 4 tracks I have heard on a Priest Album in years, if not decades.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Going through the tracks after the singles now. Good stuff so far

 

[JiveTurkey]

Richie Faulkner is such a killer soloist \m/

 

[GTR37]

This is a great song even out of the gates from the intro the effects are classic
Its almost like Sneap has a “Bloodstone” preset he just pulls up

 

[la szum]

3rd time through the Album. Solid to exceptional. No duds or fillers. For me.

Those first 4 songs, though, are

 

[JiveTurkey]

Listening through this album on and off over the weekend. KILLER production. Sounds are sublime while being very modern.

Only minor quibble I can maybe make is the vocals are a hair too produced and effected here and there? That's nitpicking on my end really.

Songwriting is catchy. Which is very welcome. It is definitely a natural evolution of the post Downing-Tipton-Halford era, writing-wise (for obvious reasons) and it is a shift. Just as Firepower was.

As far as oranges to oranges goes; I'll take this x infinity over the last 10 boring-ass Maiden albums where they "do their own thing" and go down plodding 'progressive' pathways leading to nowhere.

 

[la szum]

I listened to it again today. The guitar tones are just

No idea how Halford does it at his age, and given what
he tasks himself with singing. Dude is not human.

 

[la szum]

This Album is killer. The Priest is on fire.

Current fave, Track 7.

 

[la szum]

This will go down as one of the best Priest Albums ever. To think they are
capable of something this good at this stage of their careers is kind of
awe-inspiring. They've put all the 20 and 30 somethings in Metal on notice.

 

[laxu]

Killer album. Listened to it on the way home from work. Need to blast this on my studio monitors on the weekend.