Why is Painkiller the best metal album ever made.

not even the best meatloaf

They realized every song should sound like Freewheel Burning

Because you're gay

But classic Metallica has aged so much better

>>69711816
>Comparing Metallica to Priest

Jesus fucking wept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDPCUgDJPyE

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>>69711791
More like not even the best Prodigy. Link realted, it's better than anything on that album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw

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FASTER THAN A BULLET
TERRIFYING SCREAM

>>69711867
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4kANqnH0Go

>>69711834
>they are within the same genre
Metalfags are so fucking prissy about their loud obnoxious music that's meant to be fun

>>69711918
Yeah, only Metallica are shit and Priest aren't

>>69711933
but Kill em All exists anon

>>69711943
Metallica have one good song and it's ride the lightning. The rest is shit.

>>69711953
I'd take venom over Metallica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO3Z6wzVds0

Painkiller isn't honestly that good; the lyrics approach a new level of cheese and Rob's singing had deteriorated noticeably by 1990. The best part is Tipton and Downing's guitars.

>>69712033
Different strokes for different folks.

>>69712033
Can we both agree at least that paranoid is top tier shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq42HUUJFzU

The solo in Painkiller is a bastard to play, however I seem to remember hearing that it was made out of studio overdubs and Tipton couldn't actually play it live.

>>69712182
It's a dual guitar solo is it not?

>>69712182
How much do you wish you could play it that well

>>69712182
Not unusual. Priest did sometimes do studio overdubs like that, for example the SFV title track.

TBCF, Judas Priest peaked as a studio band on Sad Wings through Hell Bent.

Not even the best Priest album. Sad Wings, Stained Class, and Defenders are better.

Hell, Crimson Glory preempts that album by like 4 years.

Painkiller kind of comes off as more of a desperation "Oh no, Metallica and Slayer are making our washed up 40 year old asses look bad we gotta do something about this." move.

>>69712870
Metallica wouldn't exist without Judas Priest.

Most American metal is complete dog shit to be fair.

>>69711777
>Kek's sacred digits
Confirmed.

The reason is that the riffs are perfect, the solos are face-melting, the vox are insane, it's the logical conclusion of metal's extremity.

>>69712662
>Crimson Glory
>remotely comparable to Painkiller
Kek. The Crimson Glory S/T is good, but it's just a second-rate USPM album, and on the softer side. Painkiller is pure ravaging steel.

>>69712662
If I had to compare Painkiller with an older American album I'd compare it with Thundersteel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lxc-zIQJQE

>>69711777
Painkiller was a return to form after several meh-tier 80's albums

Halford got a second wind in the 90s, this song kicks all kinds of ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YukG7HYa_g0

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Wow you guys sure know shit about metal

>>69714561
Being a fan of Painkiller is the ultimate sign of musical maturity

It was the pinnacle of their entire discography with Halford on vocals. Everything that came after that was dogshit. Every Judas Priest album before painkiller is fucking fantastic, and they kinda put the icing on the cake with this album. Seriously, there isn't one bad song on the album. It might not be the BEST metal album of all time, but it's deferentially one of the most groundbreaking metal albums of all time.

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Judas Priest:

[Meltdown, 1970s]

[Everything Rocks and Nothing Ever Dies, 1990s]

Painkiller will never be the pinnacle of metal simply because Halford et al had forgotten how to write decent lyrics by that point. They sure weren't coming up with anymore Beyond The Realms of Deaths.

>>69716075
Why is this hack still alive?

>>69711794
This. Why even do something faggy and retarded like make a cover of a chick song like diamonds and rust.

>inb4 actual fag
doesn't mean you gotta act like one

>>69716155
>Why even do something faggy and retarded like make a cover of a chick song like diamonds and rust

That was very early when Priest were still finding themselves, besides the D&R cover was primarily intended as a token radio-friendly song.

"We were always recording lots of covers because CBS asked us to. We ended up not using most of them because we didn't like how they came out or else we thought the song didn't 'fit' us. Some of them like 'Better By You, Better Than Me' and 'The Green Manalishi' came out really good."

-- Rob Halford

The studio version of D&R is ass (love that roller disco sound), but they did lots of excellent live versions.

>>69716254
Most of Priest's songs are better live than in the studio, especially the early stuff like Victim of Changes and Sinner.

>>69716075
There's a couple of different columns/reviews where he insults Judas Priest without actually mentioning them by name. Eg.

No Remorse [Bronze, 1984]

The critics who used to call Motorhead the worst band in the world had a point, which may be why Lemmy's high-speed metal has now turned into the thinking person's headbang. The stuff is so pure it's almost rarefied: no operatic declamations, no schlocky guitaristics, no satanism or medievalism or sci-fi or sexist s&m. Just aggression, violence, noise. Lemmy doesn't even bellow--his voice is more a hoarse, loud, one-note roar. This tasteful two-disc best-of-plus-four (new and definitive: "Killed By Death") is the first Motorhead product praised by Headheads since No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, eight of whose eleven songs it includes (the eight best, too). Unless you've got an extra Y chromosome or beat your meat till it bleeds, you likely don't need it on a regular basis. But it'll sure come in handy at those precious moments when you want nothing so much as to smash somebody's face. A-

>>69711777
Checkd
Also, this album isn't even that good. Master of Puppets is probably the bestt metal album in any way

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>implying

>>69716978
Only Yuropoors care about Manowar.

>>69717912
>implying anyone cares about Manowar

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