[QUOTE=Saxon Priest]You take my life but I'll take yours too, you fire your musket but I'll run you through. :thumb:
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Muskets or cybernetic snipers? I know what I'd prefer. :)

So im thinking of getting 'rocka rolla' as my next priest album only becasue the title track is so god dam catchy! Any objections or any albums i should get before that? I only have painkiller and british steel.

Big objection here. I haven't heard it yet, but I have heard it's a bad representation of Judas Priest. They were still finding their sound then and it's not even really metal. If I may make a suggestion, go with Unleashed in the East.

^^ I downloaded the one you uploaded for the DU. Just forgot to mention it.
Im always a sucker for live albums though.

Well, in that case I would say Stained Class (which I uploaded yesterday), Screaming for Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith or Sad Wings of Destiny.

I think Rocka Rolla is a great album. Sure, it isn't Priest's best, but it's still a good buy/download.

I think i might go sad wings of destiny then. Or maybe both :)

Take Sad Wings instead of Rocka Rolla, if you have to choose... Rocka Rolla can hardly be called metal, but it's still a good album. Just don't expect any metal on it.

But a lot of their early albums were focussed on hard rock. It wasn't until the late '60s/early '70s that the metal side began to emerge.

[QUOTE=Riva]But a lot of their early albums were focussed on hard rock. It wasn't until the late '60s/early '70s that the metal side began to emerge.[/QUOTE]

Please listen to 'Tyrant' and say that again? :p

Tyrant \m/

Or The Ripper for that matter.

Sad Wings came out in '76 though, so he's right.

Haha. I win again!

Did you mean the late '60s and early '70s, or late '70s and early '80s? They didn't give out any albums in the late '60s, so that doesn't make any sense to say. Priest [b]started[/b] in the late '60s, and played Metal tracks in the early '70s, like for example The Ripper and Victim of Changes. And in the late '70s and early '80s, they definately played Metal.

So, I "win".

Hehe, I lost because of typos.

[QUOTE=Riva]But a lot of their early albums were focussed on hard rock. It wasn't until the late '60s/early '70s that the metal side began to emerge.[/QUOTE]



Essentially Hard Rock is Heavy Metal, if you look all the way back to when it started it was Rock music played with heavy distortion, so in essence it could be seen as the same thing. By the NWOBHM that's when things began to change into a different style, it was faster and louder (mainly due to advances in technology). :thumb:



I sound like a music boffin and that has prompted me to shut up for the time being.

[QUOTE=Saxon Priest]Essentially Hard Rock is Heavy Metal, if you look all the way back to when it started it was Rock music played with heavy distortion, so in essence it could be seen as the same thing. By the NWOBHM that's when things began to change into a different style, it was faster and louder (mainly due to advances in technology). :thumb:



I sound like a music boffin and that has prompted me to shut up for the time being.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know. :)

So chaps.

Anybody got the live Halford album? the tracklisting looks pretty interesting, but I'm wondering how the other band members would handle the Tipton/KK guitar work... especially on Beyond The Realms of Death.

On another note, the song Resurrection canes. Halford goes all out falsetto on the whole thing.

NP: Judas Priest - Island of Domination

[QUOTE=ThrashMaster27]So chaps.

Anybody got the live Halford album? the tracklisting looks pretty interesting, but I'm wondering how the other band members would handle the Tipton/KK guitar work... especially on Beyond The Realms of Death.

On another note, the song Resurrection canes. Halford goes all out falsetto on the whole thing.

NP: Judas Priest - Island of Domination[/QUOTE]

I have it and the Priest songs that they play are all ace, you know Halford wouldn't settle for a lineup that couldn't meet the challenge...

NP Halford - Stained Class

[QUOTE=metaloz]I have it and the Priest songs that they play are all ace, you know Halford wouldn't settle for a lineup that couldn't meet the challenge...

NP Halford - Stained Class[/QUOTE]

Badass. I'll be picking that up next time I'm down buying CD's.

Funny to think that Patrick Lachman was in Damageplan as a singer... I'm sure he would have been better as a rhythm/lead guitarist.

I still need to check out Halford's solo stuff.

I only have Resurrection, but there are some ultra-generic songs on it. The good songs are really strong, but about a third of the album is hella lame.

I've only ever seen a real copy of Halford at a secondhand store, but it was scratched. :-/

I listened to the Hell Bent for Leather album today, and I must say Burnin' Up is a much better song than I initially thought! That slower bridge section (or whatever it's called), is too damn catchy!

Heh, I really, really like [I]Hell Bent For Leather[/I]. It's very solid, I think.

Yeah, [I]Hell Bent[/I] is a great one, but I still prefer [I]Sin After Sin[/I] out of all of their 70s stuff

I got [I]Live Vengeance '82[/I] from the library today :D

It's great so far.

Halford has a whip during Electric Eye :cool:

And yet we didn't know he was gay...

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[QUOTE]And yet we didn't know he was gay...[/QUOTE]
hahaha yeah. Some of his stage antics are hilarious.

Ah, Judas Priest, another brilliant band. I own Killing Machine, British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance, Defenders Of The Faith, Ram It Down and Painkiller. DOTF is definitily my favourite. It has so many killer songs like Freewheel Burning, Jawbreaker, The Sentinel (!), Eat Me Alive and Night Comes Down. Too bad I missed them last year on their tour.

Has anyone here seen the [i]Rising In The East[/i] DVD? I just remembered that I saw it cheap in a store last week and I was going to buy it, but then decided that I'd ask you lot if it was any good. Then I forgot, and now I'm just getting around to asking. So basically, is it any good?

If it's still there I might pick it up on Wednesday.