Rating: - More fast, more furious, but not quite as fun as past Priest efforts.
Sure, the Painkiller album is very loud, aggressive and fast, and Halford wails like a Banshee, and the rest of the team give it their usual shredding and pounding best, but, the album just feels a little too forced and spiritless in spots. It just seems to be missing that certain special kind of Heavy Metal Magic quality that made past Judas Priest efforts such as Sin After Sin, British Steel and Defenders of the Faith so much more enjoyable to me to listen to.

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Rating: - Gulf War Era Nostalgia
This album has Gulf War nostalgia for vets. I also listened to Megadeth and Venom during that time. When I hear this album I can (again)hear the explosions late at night!

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Rating: - judas priest's best album!
Im not too crazy about judas priest but this is one of the best albums they have put out. My favorite song was pain killers and it sounded awesome and the rest were kick @$$ from start to finish. Many great metal bands were pretty much influenced by this bands music with all the metal rifferage and the high noted rob halford wannabe's (AKA king diamond/ mercyful fate).

If your new to judas priest then this is one of the best albums to start! \m/ \m/

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Rating: - speed metal priest.
To me the best hard rock is the melodic type, this was priest leaving my favorite type that they do so well from 1974-1989 and delving into speed metal. Priest does speed metal fantastically. But it is the older style of music that is more accessible and fun for me; and it was that music that could appeal accross boundries unlike the barely listened to types of thrash/growl metal that is programmed today on the few channels left playing hard rock. Speed metal is better than the growl metal in my ... Read More

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Rating: - The Definition of Metal
I had to rethink what I knew about metal when I heard this CD, because it was easily as metal as anything Metallica, or Iron Maiden had done up to that point, and still remains as one of the greatest if not the greatest metal offering from any band. If you say Master of Puppets, I say hell ya, If you say 666, or Appetite, or Reign in Blood, I say amen, but Painkiller is just as good, maybe better than any of them.

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