Album Rating: 3.5
Tastes are definitely at play also. 4.5 avg. is still baffling for me
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Album Rating: 5.0
it definitely gets huge sentimental points as the "resurrection" album of a legendary band whose career was on the ropes. Priest was about to go down in flames like most other glam bands once grunge hit, and they overhauled their approach to show they could stand the test of time -- and Painkiller was so good that it carried them across a 15-year gap until Angel caught the end of the rope.
so like, it's purely enjoyable as a pillar of heavy metal / speed metal, but just as importantly, it's become mythologized as the coronation of everything "heavy metal" is supposed to stand for: endurance through hardship (the trial, Rob's crash, metal losing popularity), technical excellence (Tipton and Downing learned sweep-picking and recruited a drummer with proper double-bass chops instead of Ram It Down's machine), and blue-collar humility (their willingness to assess the landscape and adapt) in a genre that lives for those sentiments.
Painkiller isn't a 4.5 to everyone's tastes, and that's 100% fair, but it has come to represent the heavy-metal dream and is a neat total-package album with just enough wide appeal for fans to plant their flag and say "this is the greatest because it's what I believe in."
and that's how an RBMK reactor exp -- I mean, how you end up with a mountain of 5's on an album that's not necessarily artistically leaps and bounds above the 4.0 crowd.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I definitely hear what you are saying Sevengill! well thought out and explained points!
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Album Rating: 5.0
thank you for attending my TED talk
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Album Rating: 3.5
Namaste!
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well said seven, luv u
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When you think about it, few bands release an album this good so late in their career. At times I have considered it overrated, last time I ranked Priest it was 7th.
I need to recheck Redeemer, but it's possible none of the Faulkner albums can touch this.
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definitely not Dan, but they have their own merits. Haven't listened to Redeemer since release tbh
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Album Rating: 5.0
No other rating possible honestly
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Album Rating: 5.0
Finally reassessed this one as a true to life 5.0 (Sad Wings Still my fav tho).
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Album Rating: 5.0
Cattle Cry and Balls of Valhalla are the only Redeemer tracks that stuck in my playlists.
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Night Crawler" is a belter
Hoping this grows because I wish I loved this as much as the rest of y'all :-/ I respect the hell out of it though - objectively it is an extremely impressive album, for more reasons than the talent on display
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what's got you down about it m8^
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Time to jam this again 🤘
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Album Rating: 3.5
@RunOfTheMill I can see why Halford's considered one of the greats, those high notes are insane... but I can recognize someone's technical skill and acknowledge the results as not quite being for me, and unfortunately I'm finding his vocals just that teensy bit grating from time to time. The lyrics are perhaps a bigger issue for me, I can dig cheese but I'm just not connecting with these as of yet.
I'll keep trying, though. Instrumentally this is straight goddamn fire. And as someone who considers himself a metalhead to an extent, I needed to get on this album (and band) ages ago.
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Album Rating: 5.0
“4.5 avg. is still baffling for me“ brother this is the best metal album ever made fym
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Album Rating: 3.5
Lmao no, it isnt.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Ok then smart guy, what is
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Album Rating: 3.5
Bolt Thrower’s Those Once Loyal, of course.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Sometimes the instrumentation wank and Halford's screams can cause ear fatigue for me as well, and in recent years my overall appreciation for this album has dropped off, but no one can deny that this record made everyone in the 90's want to grab a guitar and learn how to shred
This is as 🤘 as it gets, for better or worse...
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