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Based loosely on the life and prophecies of Nostradamus, it's a double CD. A lot of it sounds like your typical Judas Priest material, but a lot of it is far from it. There are many pieces of music that 'link' the main songs, and these contain things you would not normally associate with ... Read review
Disc 1 Dawn Of Creation Prophecy Awaking Revelations The Four Horseman War Sands Of Time ... more
Pestilence And Plague Death Peace Conquest Lost Love Persecution Disc 2 Solitude Exiled Along Shadows IN The Flame Visions Hope New Beginning Calm Before The Storm...
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Music Poster: Formed in Birmingham in 1969, heavy metal band Judas Priest have achieved ... more
huge success, releasing more than fifteen studio albums and selling over 35 million albums around the world. Perfect for any fan this striking poster features artwork inspired by the band's popular 2008 offering, Nostradamus, which was drawn by Mark Wilkinson, an illustrator known for dramatic, surrealist images such as is seen here.
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Advantages: It's different to anything else released by the band, therefore deserves a listen Disadvantages: maybe alienate a few fans
This is a very difficult album to review for me... the Priest were one of the first metal bands I became a fan of back in my teen days in 1978, so I've been with them every step of the way for the last 30 years now. Over that time they've released several classic albums... Stained Class, Killing Machine, British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance, Painkiller, and even the last album 'Angel Of Retribution'. They've also stuck out a couple of average albums... ... ...new one... heck, this one had me stumped from the day they announced the concept (what were they thinking of?), until I actually bought it and gave it a few listens.
Based loosely on the life and prophecies of Nostradamus, it's a double CD. A lot of it sounds like your typical Judas Priest material, but a lot of it is far from it. There are many pieces of music that 'link' the main songs, and these contain things you would not normally ... more
This is a very difficult album to review for me... the Priest were one of the first metal bands I became a fan of back in my teen days in 1978, so I've been with them every step of the way for the last 30 years now. Over that time they've released several classic albums... Stained Class, Killing Machine, British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance, Painkiller, and even the last album 'Angel Of Retribution'. They've also stuck out a couple of average albums... Turbo, and Ram It Down come to mind... but this new one... heck, this one had me stumped from the day they announced the concept (what were they thinking of?), until I actually bought it and gave it a few listens.
Based loosely on the life and prophecies of Nostradamus, it's a double CD. A lot of it sounds like your typical Judas Priest material, but a lot of it is far from it. There are many pieces of music that 'link' the main songs, and these contain things you would not normally associate with Judas Priest... keyboards, synths, choral arrangements, strings, piano pieces... more than anything this was a very very brave move for a band who have been at the forefront of the heavy metal scene for so many years now, time will tell if it has paid off - I think it should.
A reviewer elsewhere suggested you could make a great Priest metal album by removing the linking music and leaving the more 'metallic' songs. That's wrong, it's not what this whole concept is about. This is a band that is supremely comfortable with it's place in heavy metal history, it's a band that doesn't want to rest on it's past glories and produce another 'metal-by-numbers' sort of album. This band, even after 35 years+, has a bright future, and is prepared to go out on a limb and try something just a bit different. Many bands have tried this sort of thing in the past and failed to take their core audience with them, more or less costing them their careers. Judas Priest won't fall into that trap - there may be a few dissenters, but those of us who know class will still be there at the gigs to hopefully see this album being performed in full.
This is a very very good album. It is interesting, challenging listeners to take time to actually listen to the album as a whole. It isn't an album to dip into for a track or 2, it's a full on 2 hour rock opera experience. The elements that made Priest great are still all there - the super-tight pounding rhythm section, the fiery twin lead and rhythm guitars of Downing and Tipton, and of course that incredible, unique once in a lifetime instrument that is Rob Halford's voice. Age has mellowed it very little - there are perhaps a few less ear piercing screams than in the past, but that's more than made up for by the fact he still sings as well as he has ever done. All that Priest have done here is take those classic ingredients and embellish them with something new. It works, and it works extremely well.
Advantages: A nicely diverse album of early material. Disadvantages: Poor production and bad decisions.
piece of this trio doesn't live up to the first, attempting the kind of proggy soft song that would be perfected later in the album but coming off as somehow unconvincing, Halford's voice sounding less impressive in a more downbeat style. It was still an interesting experiment overall, but perhaps explains why the band hasn't attempted anything similarly conceptual since (at least, not until next year's highly anticipated Nostradamus album).
'Cheater' is the first song that really sounds like classic JudasPriest, with a fantastically simple and violent subject matter - a man finds his wife in bed with another man, and shoots them both in primal vengeance - and it's hard to resist joining in with the chorus towards the end, and thereby clearly condoning the speaker's actions. This is stupid and fun heavy metal the way it was supposed to be ...
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Product details
Title
Nostradamus
Performer
Judas Priest
Genre
Heavy Metal
Release Date
16/06/2008
Original Release Year
2008
Label / Distributor
Columbia / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Pieces in Set
2
Studio / Live
Studio
Format
Performer
EAN
886973155929
Catalogue Number
88697315592
Additional notes
Album Notes
One of the most influential heavy metal bands in the world return with a concept album that is unlike anything they have produced since their formation in the mid 1970s. 'Nostradamus' is a rock opera of epic proportions and follows up 2005's 'Angel Of Retribution'. Based around the drama and tragedies of the 16th century prophet of the same name, the album takes the listener on a journey via heavy guitar riffs, orchestrial strings, keyboards and frontman Rob Halford's unmistakable vocal range.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Dawn Of Creation
2.
Prophecy
3.
Awakening
4.
Revelations
5.
Four Horsemen
6.
War
7.
Sands Of Time
8.
Pestilence And Plague
9.
Death
10.
Peace
11.
Conquest
12.
Lost Love
13.
Persecution
Titles on disc 2
1.
Solitude
2.
Exiled
3.
Alone
4.
Shadows In The Flame
5.
Visions
6.
Hope
7.
New Beginnings
8.
Calm Before The Storm
9.
Nostradamus
10.
Future Of Mankind
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