Painkiller

This was the last Rob halford album with the band before he left for over a decade due to a misunderstanding and for me it’s one of the best.Every track is quality and the music and vocals are powerful.If you like Judas Priest this album is a must have.

2017 re issue of this awesome album originally released in 1990. Pure Metal, no holds barred. Just awesome and ever moving forward, high energy album from one of Metals true legends Judas Priest

Well I stopped listening to Priest when I felt they became a little. Then I heard Invincible shield..WOW! If you're going to make a current Heavy Metal album (in your bloody 70s too) that's the way to do it...credit to Ritchie Faulkner's addition to the song writing. So then I started an expensive discovery of the back catalogue that I'd missed and I came across this gem. What a full on piece of quality rock and it doesn't let up. Kicking myself that I missed it. I hope that I get to see them next year when they tour it for it's anniversary. Superb stuff.

No scratches fully works and cover is not damaged. I love it so much I love touch of evil by Judas preist plus nightcrawler.(I could say the same for everything song.)Worth it and it fits in my vinyl recorder so🫀❣️💽

Painkiller was my first experience of Priest back in 1990 and my pretty worn out cassette stands testament to how much I loved the album at the time. Some 24 and a bit years on, I still love this album and rate it as a Priest classic. It's decidedly more aggressive than anything they had put out previously with the band seemingly fired up and bursting out the speakers with a new lease of life. Maybe it can attributed to Scott Travis' harder drumming which features more prominent use of the double bass pedal or maybe the band wanted to compete with fresher heavier bands at time. Either way, they came out all guns blazing and this album is a barnstormer. Lyrically it's not their finest hour, it's typical, silly OTT metal but who cares when it's this enjoyable. I don't think I could ever tire of 'Nightcrawler' and 'Between the Hammer and the Anvil' back to back and 'One Shot at Glory' is a great end piece. The 'Import' CD I have ordered here is actually the older version prior to the 2001 remastered editions with the bonus tracks. I wanted this one simply because the mastering is so much better - the remastered version is a very harsh sounding, dynamic range compressed disc. This is much more listenable, just a bit quieter. Crank it up and it sounds much better.

Just like I remembered it. I spent a great deal of time listening to them in my late teens and still enjoy their music today, this album brought back the memories. In my opinion it's one of their best albums, not that the others aren't any good.

Judas Priest's Painkiller album was released in 1990 and has since went on to become a classic album, hugely respected and often included in lists of `best-ever-metal-albums.' For a Judas Priest record, Painkiller is very fast and heavy. Drummer Scott Travis brought a new injection of energy to the band and the material is very hard, fast and Thrash Metal influenced. Painkiller as an album is full of thundering double kicks, buzzsaw riffs and of course the highest standard of guitar solos. Along with the renewed energy from the band, singer Rob Halford pushes himself to his very limits on this album. At points it seems as if he is trying to win some sort of world record with his high-pitched screams. The quality of songwriting is excellent and there is no filler or weaker tracks. Songs like `Metal Meltdown,' `One Shot At Glory,' and `All Guns Blazing,' are all furiously energetic; Priest really delivered a supremely strong and exciting record with Painkiller. `A Touch Of Evil,' slows the pace a little and adds some variety to the proceedings, with keyboards from Dio/Ozzy/Deep Purple's Don Airey. The track is really powerful and when all the music climaxes and Rob delivers the line `You're Possessing Me,' I never fail to break out in a big grin. Overall, Painkiller is a fantastic album from start to finish. Atypical of the usual Judas Priest style, but utterly essential to anyone who likes metal nonetheless.

Great early Priest album