Judas Priest – Defenders Of The Faith

You know I heard nothing of the 3 CD set ... That Long Beach show wasn't that bootleged like mad is it from the multittrack I'm here cause I just played my G1 G2 copy from 1984 and wow the Georgia plant even records from the 60's and 70's are like... State of the art plant Carlloton HELL YES what did they have inside that what does the building even look like or the inside. I heard a few records where this record plant G1 G2 SAVED the recording killing the original .... I rather not say what... But BELIEVE ME sonic miracles happened in there... And now 3 stars 70 copies all sealed no one cares about the Priest... The 3 CD set looks great... How many left are new 150 right ... I saw that tour the album great like a sequel to Screaming borderling Turbo... Why Ratt Motley Crue Poison .. You seen the the Turbo video right ... The Priest didn't sell out Columbia made them sell out... Then PAINKILLER with Travis was the revenge... And Rob funny was like ok 1 album JOB ACCOMPLISHED... Who do we like or hate more Guns and Roses ( yes ) or Nirvana KILLER BAND and they're meodicre entourage... Never liked Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains STP were good and you know that got submerged again with those SilverChair and who else sucke................oh Dave Mathews and who else Hanson and who else suck suck suck suck suck suck and then The Soft Bulletin WOW ... Where the and on the female end even better until well Alanis great 1996 record but where did Britney and Spice Girls ... WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED... NOW COVID 19 ... IT WAS LIKE STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP.....

what an awesome piece of artwork there, still looking so fresh!

Ok so there is a 30th Anniv. edition double CD but no vinyl? What gives? At least let Mofi or MOV have a crack at it or release it as a 24/192!!! Nobody wants a meager 16/44!!!

Although the sleevework on this album was obviously intended to continue from 'Screaming For Vengeance' and maybe 'Hero Hero' in its style and imagery, it is sadly... the worst, and spoils an otherwise excellent album. Again we have the guitar-wielding, melody-rich and highly-hummable numbers like 'Rock Hard Ride Free', 'The Sentinel', and 'Some Heads Are Gonna Roll', with fine performances all round and Rob Halford delivering some of his best vocals to date. Ballad-esque moment comes courtesy of 'Night Comes Down', and Mr. Halford gives it his all to deliver an emotional and effective vocal that really communicates the pain and sadness of the track, tinged with its glimmer of faint hope. Anthemic moments come with 'Heavy Duty'/'Defenders Of The Faith' and 'Love Bites' (nice use of delays and layers on the vocals on this track), pretty simple and a bit drum-machine-driven, but all the better for it, somehow. And there's the heads-down, super-fast sequel to the 'Exciter' of 'Stained Class', 'Freewheel Burning', which in itself has its own sequel in 'Eat Me Alive' (no prizes for guessing the sub-text there, then ;-). Guitars and vocals are very much to the forefront of the arrangements and the mixes of these tracks, which was pretty much the style that was established with 'Killing Machine' and was evidently a formula that worked for this band that never let its distinctive style and sound collapse into formula. This LP is pretty much on a par with 'Screaming For Vengeance', and these two albums are very much a pair in of their style, sound, production and general feel overall. A highly productive time for the band, no doubt, representing a stage of maturity, experience and intelligence in their songwriting, and although there's plenty of guitar acrobatics, scorching solos, and arrangement development, the band never lose sight of the importance of just laying down good solid rockin' songs with an epic angle. Which was what they were really good at. And this was the last Priest album, with metal in its heyday, of what could be termed their 'mid'-period before 'Turbo' in 1986, although the sleeve art on that LP is obviously intended to indicate a continuity across the three albums.