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Track Listings
1 | Firepower |
2 | Lightning Strike |
3 | Evil Never Dies |
4 | Never the Heroes |
5 | Necromancer |
6 | Children of the Sun |
7 | Guardians |
8 | Rising from Ruins |
9 | Flame Thrower |
10 | Spectre |
11 | Traitors Gate |
12 | No Surrender |
13 | Lone Wolf |
14 | Sea of Red |
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2018 release, the 18th album from the legendary British heavy metal band. Firepower is something these heavy-metal pioneers have never lacked-and they sound as explosive as ever on this studio album. Guitarist Glenn Tipton and bassist Ian Hill have been with Rob Halford since '74; they're joined by second guitarist Richie Faulkner and drummer Scott Travis here plus producer Tom Allom (who helmed all of the band's 1979-88 releases). Grammy-winning producer Andy Sneap joined that team for this recording, bringing a modern flair to Tom's throwback metal approach. The songs are vintage Priest, and the band recorded 'em the old way, just getting in a room together and blasting through "Firepower," "Lightning Strike," "Evil Never Dies," "Necromancer," "Flame Thrower" and more.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.93 x 5.63 x 0.39 inches; 7.84 ounces
- Manufacturer : Epic Records
- Original Release Date : 2018
- Run time : 58 minutes
- Date First Available : January 9, 2018
- Label : Epic Records
- ASIN : B078SKX6ZV
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #641 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #264 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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This 14 track, 58 minute heavy metal machine is easily the finest work that Judas Priest have released since their 1990 masterpiece known as "Painkiller". It is locked and loaded with tons of amazingly heavy, and powerhouse, dueling riffs, epic melodies, and killer solos, thunderous, beefy, heavy-duty, gut-pounding drum work, and epic vocal deliveries, all of course which you can always expect from the mighty Priest here. The album delivers an excellent mixture of classic, traditional heavy metal-style numbers combined with speed and thrash metal-style tunes that are like a pure, relentless, sonic assault to the senses, and you just can't even resist headbanging to these 14 tracks especially with the volume turned up to a 100. One thing I would like to point out here is the overall production which is just certainly squeaky clean and really heavy sounding at the same time. The guys from Priest really made the smart move by bringing in the great Andy Sneap in for production along with "Ram It Down" producer Tom Allom as well, and of course Sneap has also since substituted (touring guitarist wise) for the band's original guitarist Glenn Tipton who has since officially retired from touring due to his battle with Parkinson's Disease. The songwriting throughout this album is just amazing, and the band's musicianship is absolutely flawless and executed to sheer perfection. The band's iconic and legendary frontman Rob Halford continues to prove everyone why his is still one of heavy metal's greatest vocalists, and right here on "Firepower", he shows us all exactly that. His vocal performance here on this album is just nothing short of amazing, and he certainly does this whole album justice. From those incredibly intense, powerful, and soaring, high-octane screams and shrieks that he's always so well known for, to his more lower registered, and more melodic sung-style vocals, there is no question that Rob Halford's vocals have become even more stronger and powerful than they've even been before. The guy just keeps getting better as he ages. Meanwhile, the guitars of Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner are just absolutely 100% spot on and picture perfect throughout the album as the two both muscle their way throughout with their massive, crunching, powerhousing, heavy-duty, dueling riffs, and amazingly epic melodies, and of course those killer, shred-worthy, yet deliciously melodic solos. Plus, the drumming by Scott Travis is just downright fantastic all throughout on here, as he blends all kinds of excellent speed/thrash metal and straight forward, traditional heavy metal-style drums, and of course, the strong and tight bass rumblings of longtime bassist Ian Hill do such a solid job driving the almighty Priest's unstoppable rhythm throughout as it always does.
The album's opening title track, "Firepower" is an excellently solid, blistering, and trail-blazing speed/thrash metal style song that immediately gets things off to a rip-roaring start bolstering a savagely blazing assault to the senses with plenty of intensely heavy powered, crunching, and blistering riffs, and straight-ahead, raging, hammering, head-bang worthy, double bass drums throughout, along with some successful, screaming, fiery, ear-ripping, and shredtastic soloing, all topped off by Halford's unstoppable vocal delivery, as he sings, screams, and soars his way with absolute relentless fury, plus the song's chorus is also pure bliss too. Following the awesome title track, "Lightning Strike" which is also another awesome metal song, and a more straight forward and traditional style one at that sports a very crunchy, triplet-based heavy mid-tempo, plus more heavy, chugging, and catchy-as-hell riffing and fantastic drumming throughout, plus more great vocals from Halford are also highlighted here, along with another brilliant and anthemic chorus, and some very catchy harmony leads, and more wicked, melodic soloing intact. The third track, "Evil Never Dies" is also another one of my favorite songs here, and an excellent, heavy, powerful, mid-tempo cruncher which features blistering, crunchy, rock-steady, muscle-bound riffing by Tipton and Faulkner throughout that are strong enough to crunch your bones, and Halford also delivers more strong and solid vocals throughout as well, and he even gives out a nod to the classic Charlie Daniels Band song, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" lyrically declaring in the intro, "The Devil's moved from Georgia, his mission's still the same"!!! The song also includes more great, solid drumming from Travis, along with some more awesome solos being intact, and a great chorus that also features some nice double bass drum fillings as well. Then following that, we have track four, "Never the Heroes" which is another strong, solid, melodic, and all around amazing mid-tempo metal anthem. This song also happens to be my personal favorite song off of "Firepower" musically, lyrically, and yes, vocally too as well. It starts with a nice, catchy synth opening, and borders on plenty of wonderfully catchy, soaring, attention grabbing, and memorable, melody driven vocals and amazing lyrics from Halford throughout, plus the song is also highlighted by more of those heavy-duty, yet melodic, speaker pounding riffs, soaring melodic leads and solos from the Tipton/Faulkner combo, plus loud, heavy thumping drums and bass lines from Travis and Hill respectively all throughout, and let's not of course forget about that memorably addicting, and powerful, soaring, and melodic driven chorus which for me is the main highlight of this song. The chorus here on "Never the Heroes" for me is the absolute best chorus here on the entire album bar none. I just love it. Overall, just an incredible song.
Moving forward, the album's blazing fifth cut, "Necromancer" is an intensely blazing, powerhouse, take-no-prisoners kind of song that just hits you right in the head with it's intense, crunching, charging, heavy pounding riffs and wicked, ripping, yet melodic trade off solos, powerful, thumping drum beats, and heavy, rumbling, grinding bass lines, all that with Halford's fiercely amazing and powerful vocals relentlessly leading the charge. Another one of my favorite songs here. Next up is "Children of the Sun" which is another favorite of mine that features a very epic and powerful Dio era Black Sabbath feel and vibe throughout, drenched with an amazing display of powerful and methodical riffs that would seriously make Tony Iommi mighty proud, and brilliantly epic, powerful vocals and lyrics from Halford that will even make you want to close your eyes, and just picture the late, great Ronnie James Dio himself belting out the vocal lines. Also included here on "Children of the Sun" is an amazingly epic chorus, along with a beautiful clean, melodic guitar breakdown which later leads right into yet more excellent, melodic, wailing solos being plastered too as well. Such an amazing song this is. Next up, we have "Guardians" which is a short yet very beautiful instrumental that features a very beautiful piano and guitar melody that leads right in to the epic following cut, "Rising From Ruins" which is yet another one of my favorites on here, and probably my second favorite song next to "Never the Heroes". This song here has just got classic Judas Priest written all over it. I mean, everything from it's memorable and massive, crunchy, gut-punching guitar riffs and deliciously melodic, ascending, wailing, and soaring-through-the-sky solo flights, to Rob's always epic and amazing vocal deliveries, to the epically memorable and soaring, catchy, and anthemic choruses, trust me, this song here has got it all. Next up, "Flame Thrower" meanwhile is another classic Priest-styled headbanging track that features an almost Breaking the Law-ish vibe to it with fast, chuggy, crunchy, blood pumping riffage and thumping, beefy, pounding drums that are just heavy and furious throughout, and of course Rob's vocals are also fierce, energetic, mean, and intense throughout this song as well too, plus also being included here is an awesomely intense and catchy chorus, and a pair of successful, sizzling, and ripping back-to-back solos to boot.
Following that, we have track ten, "Spectre" which is a very powerful and very melodic, slow/mid-tempo pounder of a metal anthem that adopts plenty of slow, yet very heavy, punchy, and glorious riffs and melodic leads, and epic, soaring, and nail-biting, melodic vocals abound, plus the song does tend to pick the tempo up a bit with more mid-paced drums later as it progresses on, and we're also treated to a very glorious, very epic, and melodically delicious guitar solo that really adds the icing on the cake to this song, plus the chorus here is also very epic and fantastic too as well. Moving on, we have "Traitors Gate", and it's also another classic Priest sounding song, and even reminds me a bit of Accept at times too, especially with that chanting during the song's chorus, and the song also boasts more vicious, razor-sharp, heavy metal-style riffing, and deep, intense, blood pumping, yet melodic vocal attacks, along with more heavy, meaty, heart thumping drum beats and nice double bass kicking, and mean, pounding bass lines, and is also topped off with some more extremely successful, soaring, and delicious harmonies and soloing intact as well. Another great song this is. I love it. Next up is "No Surrender" which is yet another vintage sounding number highlighted by very catchy and memorable vocals from Rob throughout, plus more excellent riffs and solos, heavy, driving bass lines and drums, and an addicting and memorable, anthemic chorus to boot as well, and elsewhere, track thirteen, "Lone Wolf" is a more slower, bluesy, and doomy sounding anthem that sounds inspired by of course Black Sabbath, being heavily bolstered by some mammoth, bluesy, and doom-ish style riffing that just crunch down hard on your senses, and Rob's vocals are also very top notch, fierce, and just downright powerful here on this song. The song of course also features an awesomely catchy chorus, along with some sweet and killer, bluesy sounding guitar solos and harmonies being peppered on for great measure too, and plus, drummer Scott Travis also tends to shine as well with some massive, pounding drum beats and heavy, crashing, and bashing cymbals throughout as well. All in all, just an awesomely heavy song, and another one of my favorites. Then finally, Halford and co. close out "Firepower" with the beautifully amazing and epic finale, "Sea of Red" which begins with some moving and beautifully splendid acoustic guitar strumming, and then after around 2 1/2 minutes, the song shifts gears, upping the pace a bit, and surging into more heavier territory, adopting more harder and edgier sounding guitars, and pounding drums and cymbal crashes, and it's also home to yet more amazingly melodic and epic, soaring soloing, and of course Halford vocals here are just passionate and unforgettable on so many levels. Such an epic closer all in all.
So there you have it my friends, there is most certainly no question that "Firepower" is an amazingly fantastic heavy metal masterpiece and an all around monumental triumph from beginning to end. This eighteenth studio release from the legendary Metal Gods is just chock filled with timeless and classic Priest anthems that every fan of Judas Priest, young or old will be cranking the volume up to 100 and headbanging mighty proudly. As a huge fan of Judas Priest myself, I certainly must say that this album here is easily the best album that the band has released in years especially since their 1990 masterpiece, "Painkiller" in my humble opinion too I might add. I just love how these guys have proven that they have still have tons of ammunition left in them, and "Firepower" here is indeed proof of that statement. From it's slick, crystal clear and heavy, modern production and sound, to the always amazing songwriting and right-on-target musicianship, from every vocal note and lyric, to every riff and solo, to every drum beat, you name it, this album is definitely the real deal, and I am very proud to consider it to be not only one of Priest's best albums in their long storied career, but also my undisputed choice for metal album of 2018 hands down. Buy this album now!!! HAIL JUDAS PRIEST!!! \m/ \m/
Jeremy
These songs are succinct and to the point – the longest song just short of 6 minutes – most 3 to 4 minutes in duration. There is a catchiness to the melodies and choruses that hasn’t been present since 1990, and the production this time around is just stinking clean – no muddy compression. There is plenty of guitar muscle, in both the leads and the solos, yet it doesn’t seem overdone. I love how this doesn’t try to run at 200bpm the whole way through, and the band enjoys being a bit more expressive and theatrical again. That said, the first 4 songs throw it down pretty hard and heavy (the title track and “Lightning Strikes” released well in advance). “Never The Heroes” may just be my favorite song, both lyrically and musically, because it has the classic metal riffage that is just so irresistible. But how cool is it to have the piano instrumental “Guardians” as a prelude to the almost Maiden-like “Rising From Ruins?” The guitar solo in this song alone is so classic Priest that you would swear you’ve stepped back 25 years in time. This song carries the spirit of British Steel (“United”) with a sound that is essentially timeless. And tell me that “Flamethrower” doesn’t have that British Steel vibe as well? The diversity here is quite noteworthy (an aspect that does indeed hearken back to 70’s Priest) with the theatrical “Spectre” re-introducing a side of the band we haven’t been privy to in nearly 3 decades. “Traitors Gate” is another song that has that classic metal vibe (with even a bit of Accept-like chanting), yet doesn’t sound dated in 2018. “No Surrender” is yet another anthemic song reminiscent of days gone by … this one will inspire. “Lone Wolf” is the only song that seems a bit out of place – not bad, just pales in comparison to everything else. “Sea Of Red” is a great closer, a tribute both musically and lyrically to years gone past.
Lyrically, I think Halford and company did a great job this time around. These songs have a quality that makes them more widely accessible (no sex rock, no party rock, no fantasy illusions). In this regard, these songs are more grounded in the sober-sad reality of our world than anything they’ve previously penned. It’s still Priest, just more mature than anything we’ve heard previously.
Let’s face it, we live in a digital download era where “records” don’t enjoy the same impact they once had. It is unlikely that Firepower, as a whole, will have the same impact on the scene as Stained Glass, British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance or Defenders of the Faith … or even Sad Wings for that matter. But there is no denying the power in these songs, nor the perseverance of a band that was foundational in forging the way for so many others, for playing their integral part in the evolution of heavy metal. This is heavy metal – defined.
Rock on!
I AM OF COURSE A BIG FAN OF THE MUSIC JP HAS BROUGHT US OVER THE YEARS AND THEY SEEM LIKE VERY LIKEABLE LADS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY BELEIVE ABOUT ETERNITY AND THE HEARAFTER, ALTHOUGH THOSE TOPICS DO COME UP ALOT LYRICALLY IN METAL AND CERTAINLY WITH JUDAS PRIEST. LIKE JUDAS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, I ALSO PUT JESUS ON THE CROSS, IN THAT BECAUSE OF ME HE WENT, WILLINGLY, TO THE CROSS. UNLIKE JUDAS, HOWEVER, I REACHED OUT TO THIS JESUS OF NAZARETH, AND HE IS NOW MY KING AND SAVIOR. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THE SAME. GOD IS WORTHY OF YOUR LOVE AND IT'S THE DECISION THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT & ETERNAL!
"All Hail The Lion of Judah...…...and Live!"
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Sobald man die CD startet, wird man weggeblasen. Der Titelsong kommt gleich mit 12 Beaufort daher. So geht es dann auch munter weiter. Alles heftig, alles treibend. Und jede Menge Mitsing/-schrei/-gröhl-Momente (Firepower, Evil Never Dies, Children Of The Sun, Rising From Ruins). Obwohl ich eigentlich eher Thrash- als NWOBHM-Konsument bin, haben mich die Geschwindigkeit, Sound und somit Härte dieser Scheibe schwer (also heavy :-) beeindruckt.
Ich kann demnach nur zu zwei Sachen raten: Kaufen und wegblasen lassen.