JUDAS PRIEST — Nostradamus (review)

JUDAS PRIEST — Nostradamus album cover Album · 2008 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
dtguitarfan
"Ahhiiiieeeee am NOSTRADAMUS!!!" What a way to start an album off with a bang! This album seems to have had a lackluster reception from the fans, and I've never understood why. Perhaps the reason I adore this and can't understand why so many of their fans don't is because I did not grow up listening to Judas Priest, but instead had only heard their hits, and worked my way backwards through their catalog after this album came out. Or perhaps one of the reasons this is the album that "got me into" Judas Priest is the fact that I was coming at it with the perspective of a Progressive Metal fan. But whatever the reasons, I simply adore this album because it is truly a Metal Opera. Not just in the sense that the entire album tells a story, but as I listen to the music I can tell that the writing was influenced by classical music in a lot of ways. The style of singing is pure metal, but the melodies are very similar to something you'd hear from an opera. This album tells the story of Nostradamus and his visions quite well, and the dramatic dark harmonies of the band compliment the subject material quite nicely. I would encourage new listeners to go into the album with no preconceptions of it being the next classic Judas Priest album, but rather take it for what it is - they had an idea to go in a somewhat new direction, and went for it.
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