Released: 1990
Tracks: Painkiller; Hell Patrol; All Guns Blazing; Leather Rebel; Metal Meltdown; Night Crawler; Between the Hammer & the Anvil; A Touch of Evil; Battle Hymn; One Shot at Glory
Best track: Painkiller
Tracks to skip: There’s no need to listen to this so I’d skip all the rest
I’m just over this stuff. It doesn’t do anything for me anymore. I like some the music on this album, but nothing besides Painkiller excites me. When I was a kid I really dug this, but now I’m just over it. Obviously teenagers have no taste in music. Sometimes they can get something right, but I think in general we all listened to horrible stuff back then. I never really noticed how bad these lyrics are. True I’ve pretty much avoided this cassette of mine for about a decade. I pulled it out once about two years ago and couldn’t listen to even half of it. Halford’s lyrics are so absolutely awful here. They’re almost as bad as Manowar on this album. You know, singing songs about the Heavy Metal Cause and fighting battles (for Metal) and all that heroic stuff. Heroic Metal? Something like that. I can listen to selected songs from Priest’s cannon, but a full album is difficult to handle. And also, I really can’t support any band with a bassist who is as pathetic as Ian Hill. Of bassists that I specifically know about in hard rock/heavy metal, he’s probably second worst to ACDC’s Cliff Williams who is THE most boring bassist ever. Ian Hill is right beside him. Stick to any number of Judas Priest’s greatest hits CDs if you’re at all interested.
Rating: 62
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