actually this album got album of the year 👍 when it was released in 1990, and it deserves to be!!! this is one of the best metal albums of its time 🤘and the guitar work is incredible!!!! I've been playing metal on guitar for 33 years, and this album's guitar work is awesome 🤘it shows how amazing and talented Judas priest are!!! 🤘 METAL FOR LIFE 🤘
The magic of Painkiller album lies on the fact that it's songs doesn't sound like any other songs. Back then it felt like a true Metal Revolution. And that's why it is still being loved so much from the fans.
Huh? For a 1990 release, I'd say they sound more like they were catching up with the rest of the metal world. Mind you, it's still a Priest record, so no complaints here
@@aleflippy1997 Sure; by 1990, Judas Priest was experimenting with a new extremity - or rather, new for them, as even Power Metal had developed something about as raw five years prior (Helloween - Walls of Jericho). Overall I think Stained Class is my favorite Judas Priest album, nobody has _anything_ on Beyond The Realms Of Death
@@izd4 eh... I wouldn't call Painkiller "power metal" at all. It's common for Heavy to delve into classical music to produce complex bridges. It's not merely a Power Metal thing, if anything, they took from it. Rob's vocals have also been high-pitched since the beginning, only softening up in recent years due to how physical it is. Sure, you might say that they rode that speed metal wave. But not only was it still early into the genre's lifespan back in 1990, but one could say that Judas actually invented it. You mentioned Stained Class... That's funny because Exciter is often cited as the first proto-speed metal song. So honestly, I don't really feel like Judas was copying anyone or merely following the trends. They've stuck to their guns, and always did at least until the Nostradamus fiasco... Then they went back to a more tried-and-true heavy formula.
Storm warning But there's no fear Lies forming The sacrament lays bare The sinner Will testify They'll suffer When sacrificed on high The burning sermons purge their evil words Between the Hammer and the Anvil Force rises
Our union Their fall from grace Confession (confess your sins) Will seal them to their fate The burning sermons will survive their curse Between the Hammer and the Anvil Transgression They prey on grief Our mission To purify belief This altar Gives power and light They'll falter While we are shining bright The burning sermons consecrate their sin Between the Hammer and the Anvil
I do not understand why people say that it is an underrated song. It is one of the best riffs ever written and one of the most famous songs in metal music
Top quality, Priest at their best, really slamming production on this, unique smooth but heavy sound. Personally think this is one one their best & been a big fan since when Sad Wings was first released . Thank you.
That intro riff is so evocative. It makes me picture a hammer swinging like a pendulum, and then a second hammer behind it swinging in the opposite direction... and then rows of hammers behind each of them swinging in synchronicity.
Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, two of the greatest bands ever to grace the sound of Metal 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎤🎤🎤🎸🎸🎸. Dio is also undeniably most definitely included in that as well 🤘🤘🤘🤘
I love metal wether it be black metal, thrash, death, whatever. But this song is the heaviest thing ever to be written. In my opinion it's heavier than the title track by far. This is straight dom/top energy condensed into a musical format, and it certainly tops and dominates all music in it's beastly wake and makes all others it's literal bitch.
Perhaps it makes me an unforgivable nerd but in my head I always see this as a song for Warhammer 40k. But it's a great song no matter what goes on in your head when you listen.
The beginning of this song sounds very similar to black metal, lol, you were pioneers of this too?. Please Release Run Of The Mill of the Rocka Rolla Album too. Keep Rocking! :D
