Songs like 'Metal Gods' and 'Electric Eye' were years ahead of the times. And they predicted what is to come with A.I. and government surveillance.

Little did we knew at that time that Judas was about to release one of their very best and most complete album of all time INVINCIBLE SHIELD

@grogueQ

Ай бұрын

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Beyond the Realms of Death is also my favourite song from my favourite band from my favourite album of that band

Priest is THE quintessential Heavy Metal band! Of all time! Ever!

Personal top 5: 1) Unleashed in the East (with the specification that it’s the remastered release that includes more tracks supporting then current album Hell Bent for Leather) 2) Stained Class 3) Defenders of the Faith 4) Hellbent for Leather 5) Screaming for Vengeance (big fan of the Les Binks-era on drums) Runner ups are Sin After Sin, Painkiller, and Sad Wings of Destiny. Glad to see y’all back for this guys.

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

That live album gets a lot of love! Great list too. Cheers and thanks.

@rach4carlos

3 ай бұрын

Great video guys! I’m 50 years old and didn’t realize it, until I watched this video, that I’ve misread Stained Class for about 40 years. This whole time I thought it was “Stained Glass”! I didn’t get to see Priest live until the Nostradamus tour, but I did get to see Fight once and Rob Halford, on the Maiden/Halford/Queensryche tour. While I’m not the biggest Priest fan, I do enjoy a large chunk of their discography and have a deep admiration and respect for their contribution to music.

Great to see you guys again!

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

Bring back Moonskin! Dude great to see you and love the new goth stuff!

What a fantastic show on one of the greatest metal bands. Here is my list: 1. Screaming for Vengeance- 10 2. Stained Class- 10 3. Painkiller- 10 4. Sad Wings of Destiny- 10 5. Killing Machine/ Hell Bent for Leather- 10 6. Defenders of the Faith- 10 7. Sin After Sin- 10 8. British Steel- 9.5 9. Angel of Retribution- 9.5 10. Nostradamus- 9 11. Point of Entry- 8 12. Rocka Rolla- 8 13. Firepower- 7 14. Turbo- 6 15. Redeemer of Souls- 6 16. Ram It Down- 5 17. Demolition- 4 18. Jugulator- 4

Great conversation. I agree more with Grimby. I feel like if Priest is your favorite band , their albums can be ranked differently because their catalogue is so varied. Personal favorite - Defenders Best album - Stained Class I do think their best albums are the early creative ones. Sad Wings/Sin after Sin/Stained Class.

great video guys, I missed this! - agree about 'Firepower' - its so good!

@benedictdonald4338

2 күн бұрын

It’s one of their weaker albums, imo.

My 10+/10 1. JP- Nostradamus - JP 2008 2. JP- Firepower - JP 2018 3. Halford- Resurrection -2000 My 10/10 4. JP- Screaming for Vengeance JP 1982 5. JP- Painkiller - JP 1990 6. JP- Stained Class 9.8/10 7. JP- Sad Wings of Destiny 9.75/10 8. JP- Angel of Retribution 9.75/10 9. JP- Defenders of the Faith 9.75/10 My 9.5/10 10. Fight- War of Words Remixed 9.7/10 11. JP- British Steel 9.6/10 12. JP- Sin after Sin 9.6/10 13. JP- Killing Machine 9.6/10 14. Halford- Crucible 9.5/10 15. Fight- A Small Deadly Space - Remixed 9.4/10 16. JP- Turbo 9.3/10 My 9/10 17. Redeemer of souls- JP 2014 18. Point of Entry - JP 1981 20. Jugulator - JP 1996 21. Made of Metal - Halford 2009 22. Ram it Down - JP 1988 My 8.5.10 22. Demolition - JP 2002 23. Baptism of Fire - Tipton 1997 My 8/10 24. Rocka Rolla - JP 1974 My 7/10 25. The Sinner Rides again- KK- 2023 26. Winter Songs 2009 and Celestial 2019- Rob 27. Voyeurs - Two- 1998 28. Edge of the World - Tipton 2006 29. Elegant Weapons- Richie Falkner 2023 My 6.5/10 30. Sermons of Sinner - KK 2021

@spice_krispies

2 ай бұрын

Biased much??........LOL

Rocka Rolla (6.5/10) Sad Wings of Destiny (10/10) Sin After Sin (10/10) Stained Class (10/10) Hell Bent for Leather (9/10) British Steel (9.5/10) Point of Entry (6/10) Screaming for Vengeance (8.5/10) Defenders of The Faith (10/10) Turbo (7/10) Ram it Down (7.5/10) Painkiller (10/10) Jugulator (7.5/10) Demolition (4/10) Angel of Retribution (8/10) Nostradamus (7/10) Redeemer of Souls (7.5/10) Firepower (8.5/10)

@Metalhead_Coaster_Fan

15 күн бұрын

Time to update this comment, we got Invincible Shield now.

Judas Priest is my favorite all time band. I saw them live every tour from Turbo til Redeemer but stopped because I wanted to remember them at there best. The 91 ram it down tour was the best I ever heard Rob sing, the Painkiller tour was just insane but the Turbo tour was by far the most amazing concert I’ve ever seen. Stage, lighting, performance and energy was simply off the charts. Long live Judas Priest!!! I’ve seen them live more the 2 dozen times and they are one of the best live bands ever. I am a singer, guitarist and songwriter who all my early inspiration came from Priest and I did a 1 man tribute to them where I played all instruments and all vocals and yes I am not Rob, K.K. or Glenn but I sure did have a blast doing these songs! kzread.info/head/PLy56_RJXJR1wOXqmZ0VYppl22ClzAdZCg&si=1d5Skr-8sRw2r5G7

Thank you for doing this! Raising BOTH horns up in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada! \m/\>.

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

Right on man cheers from Dieppe and Moncton!

Savage is a great song on Stained Class, specifically Halfords vocals

Glad you're back! Hope you'll do more metal discography reviews in the future!

Defenders of the Faith for me. I was in high school when that dropped. It was the first album I bought from Priest and I loved it. It was so great to hear when the world was filled with all this WHAM and Micheal Jackon crud.

Stained Class is the 1st Priest album with a foreign language (french). Check the lyrics to Saints in Hell.

@Gate2Mankind

2 ай бұрын

Abattoir, abattoir, mon dieu quelle horreur (Slaughter house, slaughter house what a horror)

amazing video!

LOVING this! Keep it going!! I m discovering their discography this very year!! And this is a great companion video for that!

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Judas Priest is my favourite Metal band ever since 1981. My favourite album is Sad wings...My introduction was British steel.Imo they never made a bad album. Rob is the best vocalist of all time. Great video guys a true pleasure. Thank you for the great information.

So good! Took me a week to finish in installments. Learned a lot and going back to check out some albums I may not have given enough attention. Looking forward to your Invisible Shield review!

@MetalbyteMedia

Ай бұрын

Thanks for doing the marathon with us! Haha. We will do a Shield review for sure.

If you look at the cover of point of entry album it’s actually a illusion it’s a pair of legs (the black asphalt )with the point of entry words being the crotch area (the blue centre line of road)) and the horizon being the waist area Favourite band been following them for 43 years

Unleashed in the East is a masterpiece

Thank you for this! It was fun watching and listening to your opinions. Please, do Anthrax! That would be interesting too! Persistence of Time is their best for me but they've done a lot great stuff. Even the 90s stuff is great, I think :)

Welcome back to the interweb. Great to see y’all again. For me, “Stained Class,” “Defenders,” and “Painkiller” are all solid 10s. I like the first three albums quite a bit, but the ballads detract from their greatness for me. And Grimby is 100% correct that “Persistence” is Anthrax’s best album. Not even close.

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

Thanks duude! Some cool points and my knee jerk reaction here is ATL is Anthrax #1 but truly Peristence is great. Would be fun to do that discog, Ive always followed them closely. Hails!

Great video and good album picks my favorites from priest are sin after sin defenders of the faith and painkiller

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

All great pics and thanks!

I love alot of the songs on Nostradamus. I think I like it better because now I can just pick out the 7-8 songs I love and throw them on a playlist. So, I haven't listen to the full album in years. So, I agree to long with too many interludes, but I still view it fondly.

Stained Class is the cream of the crop. But I love pretty much all of their albums. And Invincable Shield is gonna end up near the top. It’s killer

The main difference between stained and hell bent for leather was. If you listened to the previous 3. Halford was screaming with a high pitch , than came delivering the goods was low voice halford . 😮

the beauty of being a Priest fan is that you see the progression of the band. Listen to the solo on Tyrant on sad wings then listen to it on unleashed. then a decade or 2 later listen to Glenn tapping and sweep picking on Painkiller

Necromancer and children of the sun may be my 2 favs off firepower give them another chance!

A note of reference for you guys from the UK. When Sad Wings was originally released as an LP, Side 1 is the segment that starts with Prelude/Tyrant and ends with Island Of Domination. Side 2 starts with Victim Of Changes and ends with Deceiver. The CD releases have the entirely wrong sequencing.

@MetalbyteMedia

2 ай бұрын

Dude I knew something was off! Cause I had this on cassette and that was the order. Awesome to hear that cause thats how I prefer it.

@atavachronwemberley1744

2 ай бұрын

@@MetalbyteMedia Yep and somehow all subsequent - eg Remastered - versions from the original CD release have repeated that same sequencing error. That may have something to do with the fact that- stemming from their original release back in the day on Gull Records - that Priest and their management don’t have ownership of either Sad Wings or the the debut Rocka-Rolla. Interestingly I saw them on Thursday night in London and whilst it truly was a night for the Ages (with Saxon and Uriah Heep supporting) it was - for my first time in 45 years of seeing Priest live, that they did NOT play anything from Sad Wings. No Victim, no Ripper. I only realised that after the gig. You guys over the pond have a TREAT though waiting for you this Spring/Summer. Enjoy! 😁👍

Nice analysis. Hey what is that beautiful audio piece / player on the shelf?

@MetalbyteMedia

2 ай бұрын

Yo! Thanks and it's a KEiiD CD player. Got it new on ebay but its also on Amazon and I really really like it.

@bcardamone

2 ай бұрын

@@MetalbyteMedia yea thanks. I did some internet research and found it. I love the wood case. I’m one of these guys that has way more audio stuff than I can use …. It always, always looking. Enjoying your content.

I think sometimes people don't put the right number for how they feel about an album. The one guy gave Redeemer an 8 but when he explained how he felt about the songs it would indicate a 6 at most.

I feel bad for Glenn, nobody talked about his solo album which I think is really good. I know you're reviewing priest but at least you gave Rob credit for a couple of his solo projects.

A fan since 1981 and Nostradamus is my favorite Album

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@iancocks9408

2 ай бұрын

No it’s not

I like how you do it! Jugulator and Nostradamus are underrated. My list: ROCKA ROLLA - 16 - 7,5/10 SAD WINGS OF DESTINY - 2 - 10/10 SIN AFTER SIN - 7 - 9/10 STAINED CLASS - 1 - 10/10 KILLING MACHINE - 4 - 9,5/10 BRITISH STEEL - 6 - 9/10 POINT OF ENTRY - 15 - 7,5/10 SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE - 9 - 8,5(10 DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH - 5 - 9,5/10 TURBO - 17 - 6/10 RAM IN DOWN - 10 - 8/10 PAINKILLER - 3 - 10/10 JUGULATOR - 11 - 8/10 DEMOLITION - 18 - 5,5/10 ANGEL OF RETRUBITION - 12 - 8/10 NOSTRADAMUS - 14 - 7,5/10 REEDEMER OF SOULS - 13 - 7,5/10 FIREPOWER - 8 - 8,5/10

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

Great list dude, well thought out!

I love Rocka Rolla. It was the early 70s..It was badass

Hellbent for Leather is a saying/phrase.

Metal Gods is NOT bad it is SUBLIME!!!!.

Rocka Rolla (5/10) Sad Wings of Destiny (10/10) Sin After Sin (9/10) Stained Class (9.5/10) Hell Bent for Leather (9/10) British Steel (10/10) Point of Entry (7/10) Screaming for Vengeance (8.5/10) Defenders of The Faith (9.5/10) Turbo (8/10) Ram it Down (7.5/10) Painkiller (10/10) Angel of Retribution (6.5/10) Nostradamus (7.5/10) Redeemer of Souls (7.5/10) Firepower (8/10) Been a fan for many, many years. Still have yet to listen to the Tim Owens albums. I dunno, he's just not my thing. I started with Painkiller, and then went all the way back to the 70s albums. Sad Wings is forever my favorite, but British Steel is so good. Defenders is amazing and I like Turbo more than most seem to. I'm not huge on their most recent albums, but when they're good, they're really good (like Nostradamus, Visions, Judas Rising, Lochness, Redeemer of Souls, Spectre etc). Haven't fully listened to Invincible Shield yet, but Panic Attack, Serpent and the King and some of the other tracks are the best they've done since Painkiller. Like, they've absolutely recaptured the magic, and I already thought they were great on Firepower.

Wait till you hear invincible shield 🛡️

Worth fighting for is a great song. Angel is a great song. Redeemer of Souls is a masterpiece. Rising from ruins is the best Priest song of all time. Never the hero is a great anti-war song.

When was this video made? You must have known that Invincible Shield was coming out?!!

@MetalbyteMedia

2 ай бұрын

It was made before the new album was even announced. I shelved it, waited, edited it in Jan 2024.

@Iainmaclennan70

2 ай бұрын

@@MetalbyteMedia OK thanks for the clarification!

King Diamond or Black Sabbath discography review?

Nostradamus is an amazing album imho

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

Dude I was literally waiting for you to say this! Awesome.

3 ай бұрын

Guys put a lot of efforts into this album and narrow minded people who literally did not hear a bit off this album smash this album. Imho this album has its flaws of course (length, lack of guitars at times, fakt orchestration) but the musicianship is there, some songs are very deep and emotional (Alone, Exiled, Future of Mankind...) for me its 6,5/10 album easily

They played Never Satisfied from Rocka Rolla many times in concert. I heard Dave Holland went to jail for child molestation.

Ripper Owen "SUCKED" Metal Messiah is a great song.

The Metal monster that is depicted on the cover of DOTF is the Metallion That album is their best album they ever made.....if there was no DOTF Painkiller would never have existed. I was at the MSG concert where they were banned for life....best show and Halford was at the top of his prime singing....The vocals on Painkiller are good but not better than that album.

The review of the Nostradamus from the younger guy is simple horrible..:-D Dude, but why not, also opinion..The best priest album..

HBFL- 10/10

Why does redeemer of souls get a bad rating . It kicks ass . I count the 5 extra songs. And everyone loves firepower. I don't get it. There both great .

@tonk82

2 ай бұрын

I think firepower is better but... i dont get it either. I really like most of those songs and it has a lot of energy. I mean... on metal archives is the second worst album, What?

Ataboy Grimby YES TURBO is awesome huge classic in its time and it’s lives on real strong when playing the album. A great album loaded with positiveness considering what Rob was going through at that time, a real “Tour de force”

You know why Rob sounds so good on Firepower? Because of multitracking and various production tricks. Listen to it on good headphones.

@MetalbyteMedia

3 ай бұрын

Yeah man great point on production and here's an Andy Sneap quote: "they're playing in E flat now, so they are semitone down" blabbermouth.net/news/judas-priests-new-album-contains-some-real-classic-moments-says-producer-andy-sneap

3 ай бұрын

You say its time abandon this band? Fine enough

Jugulator and Nostradamus are great Albums (9). The younger guy just don't know nothing about music. The albums 3 and 4 there are not 10.

@LarryFleetwood8675

3 ай бұрын

lol

I must be the only person that likes demolition way more than jugulator. Listen to them again !!!!

@LarryFleetwood8675

3 ай бұрын

I do too it has more melody to it, none of them are great of course but Demolition is compared to Jugulator.

These guys throw perfect 10's to WAY too many albums across different videos. There's no way all these albums given a 10 each had no filler and was perfect beginning to end. Come on already. Turbo a 9 too??......

@MetalbyteMedia

2 ай бұрын

I agree and solid comment. 10/10!