Tag: Judas Priest
Battle Royal: Judas Priest vs. Iron Maiden – Two Bands Enter, One Band Leaves
Battle Royal is back and more unfair than ever! In the first installment, we cruelly pitted Metallica against Slayer based ONLY on their 80s output. The result was a dirty tie amongst the LR crew …
Judas Priest – Redeemer Of Souls Review
Redeemer Of Souls is Judas Priest’s best album in nearly 25 years. Reeling from the near-universal disdain for the ambitious Nostradamus, Redeemer is straightforward, the sound of Priest returning to form, cherry-picking stylistic highlights from …
80s Essentials – Volume Four
Welcome to the fourth installment of The 100 Most Essential Albums of the 80s. If you need to catch up, you can do so here. This week’s edition is another testament to the diversity of …
A Devil’s Dozen – Judas Priest – Volume 2
As mentioned in our first installment, Judas Priest’s catalog is so large and so full of timeless metal that 13 tracks would barely scratch the surface, so we doubled down. Part Two features thirteen more …
A Devil’s Dozen – Judas Priest – Volume 1
When it comes to bands that should need no introduction to metal fans, Judas Priest is near the top of the list. In terms of shaping the sound — and indeed, the image — of …
90s Essentials – Volume Nine
This is almost the end, my friends. Almost the end. We’ve come through eight installments of Last Rites’ 100 Most Essential Albums Of The Nineties, through eighty records, and here we are with ten more: A …
Cover Ups – 12 Tunes Improved By Metal
Ah, the cover song, that most mixed of bags… Broadly, cover tunes fall into three categories — 1) re-recordings of influential numbers, sometimes largely unimaginative in their faithfulness to the source material, but as often …
Judas Priest – Nostradamus Review
Andrew Edmunds’ take: May the Metal Gods forgive me for what I’m about to write… Many a press-release has been issued over the past few years about Judas Priest‘s Nostradamus project, a double-length concept record …