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The 'Painkiller' album
is not only one of the best ever recorded by the legendary band Judas Priest
but it's also one of the best albums of international Heavy Metal. The entire
record is a demonstration of musical skill, sensational composing and
extraordinary orchestration by the musicians from one of the most respected
bands in rock music. All of the songs are regular concert crowd pleasers but
they also manage to stick out as studio songs. The record contains only fast
tempo songs, as in no ballads or such, and they can really kick life into the
listener thanks to the mastery in wich the fabulous solos, killer vocals,
superb drum beats and super riffs are perfectly combined into the ten songs of
the album, and contarily to the naivity of the typical 'metal-lyrics'.
Probably the best song of the record is 'Painkiller', wich kicks off with an
impressive drum solo and carries on with the extraordinary unusual vocals and
guitar solos, but songs like 'Between The Hammer And The Anvil', 'Night
Crawler', 'All Guns Blazing' or 'One Shot At Glory' are also really good
compositions. The 'weakest' songs of the album are probably 'Metal
Meltdown' and 'Leather Rebel' wich, althogh prove the extraordinary musical
capabilities of the band, are otherwise quite boring to listen to, not to
mention they have the worst lyrics ever written. The songs of 'Painkiller'
have a really good recording and a fantastic studio work behind them but they
were definitely written to be performed on stage. The orchestration is
fantastic, the musicians are outstanding, the vocals are also fabulous and the
songs really rock. This is definitely the best record of the band and it
deserves all the admiration and succes it got at the time of its release and
also today.
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