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 ... Read More

---

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.

Judas Priest was already one the better and more successful metal bands ... Read More

---

Rating: - The Last Good Album from Priest?
After "Turbo" and "Ram It Down" Priest finally made a good album since "Defenders of the Faith" - it was this - "Painkiller". This is much different from other great albums and classic albums. It is much nearer speed metal than the earlier works. The first track "Painkiller" is very fast and catchy, a little bit too long though. Other great tracks are "All Guns Blazing", "Leather Rebel", "Night Crawler" and "A Touch of Evil". The only bad things are the short instrumental "Battle Hymn" and the next "One ... Read More

---

Rating: - Bone-crushing, head-blowing, chest-cracking METAL!
This is simply the finest album Judas Priest ever made. If you're sitting there wanting to hear the best that Metal has had to offer in the past 30 years then buy this album immediately. The title track will not only stomp on your toes, but rip your head off, spit down your neck, and throw your lifeless body 300 yards across the parking lot. Unbelievable. In the dictionary, where it has the entry for "Heavy metal", there is a picture of Painkiller. Quite simply a masterpiece.

Nothing beats ... Read More

---

Rating: - THIS IS...THE, PAINKILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Painkiller Is The Ultimate Extreme Quintessential (Thrash) Metal Album, It Is Indestructible and Will Annihilate Your Ears With Total Ear Candy!!!!!!!!!!!

I Hate How This Album Is Never Given What It Deserves Due To It Being Overshadowed By It's Predecessors: "British Steel" and "Screaming For Vengeance"..."Painkiller" Destroys Them, No Offense To The Other Priest Albums, Because Priest Always Rocks In My Book...But, Painkiller Is The Ultimate Judas Priest Album!!!

Buy It Immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... Read More