JUDAS PRIEST — Firepower (review)

JUDAS PRIEST — Firepower album cover Album · 2018 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Redeemer of Souls, the first Judas Priest album to feature Richie Faulkner in the guitar post vacated by K.K. Downing, was very much a back-to-basics album, complete with fairly lo-fi production, and managed to be pretty good precisely because of its no-frills approach. Firepower, its followup, has better production and even tighter material, combining a very traditional Judas Priest approach with a few extra flourishes here and there.

It's not an album to radically change the way you see Priest - the last time they did that was Painkiller - but it is consistently good. Despite being nearly an hour long, I found there was very little filler - perhaps it would be a tighter listen if you trimmed a few pieces, but how would you ever choose which to lose when it all sounds so great?
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