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  1. Was holding off on tickets to see them next week depending how much I enjoyed the album. Suffice to say, I've booked it now. First time seeing the Priest despite getting into them a good 15yrs ago. Can't wait!
  2. Gotta say, after some more listens, it's definitely grown on me. I really tried with Firepower but something about it always left me cold. I'm enjoying Invincible Shield much more.
  3. Okay, I've given it 3 listens too. Here's my take: Panic Attack - Completely agree with everything you said. The best opening track on a Priest album since Painkiller - it's really that good. 10 The Serpent & The King - Solid track #2. I don't see it as weaker than Panic Attack, as it's a totally different kind of track. I wasn't a huge Firepower fan except for 2-3 tracks, but Panic Attack and TS&TK alone are better than anything on that album imo. 9 Invincible Shield - One of the best on the album - sounds like a cousin to Panic Attack. Chorus reminds me a bit of Redeemer of Souls, but overall this song has way more bite to it. And yes, the outro is classic Priest. Great track. 9 Devil In Disguise - Sounds very 80s Priest to me. I especially like the riffing on the pre-chorus. The chorus isn't the best, but kinda fun if a little throwaway. 5 Gates of Hell - Fans seem to really dig this from what I've read so far, but it hasn't really grabbed me tbh. Chorus is good I suppose, but it doesn't move me much. 6 Crown Of Horns - This has been a grower for me. I wasn't keen at first, but it sounds better with repeated listens. A bit MOR, but not everything has to be Panic Attack. 7 As God Is My Witness - Very Painkiller-esque. Great energy, cool solo, I like this. 7 Trial By Fire - An obvious single choice, very catchy. A bit "safe", but hard not to enjoy. 7 Escape From Reality - This is good. Great main riff. The middle-eight section sounds just like Ozzy Osbourne - seriously if you'd have played me just that part, I would've said it was Ozzy singing, not Rob. 8 Sons of Thunder - Has a good energy. Verses sound like they have potential but the chorus isn't great. 5 Giants In The Sky - I like the sentiment and Rob's big powerful vocals at the end are cool. Love the Spanish guitar licks and Rob's melody lines throughout. 8 Fight of Your Life - I like this, it isn't amazing or anything, but I love Rob's vocal delivery in the verses - I love it when he uses that tone. Reminds me a bit of the way he sings Deal With The Devil from Angel of Retribution. Solid chorus too. 6.5 Vicious Circle - Sound very "bonus track" quality to me. Unremarkable. 3 The Lodger - I really like this, if only for the fact that it sounds totally different to anything they've done recently. I also like it when Priest embrace storytelling in their songs, but then I was one of the few fans who thought Nostradamus was a masterpiece.... 8 Overall - Decent, but it'd be stronger as a 10 track album as the second half really doesn't live up to the first half. If only the rest of the album lived up to the opening three tracks. I gotta say, I miss KK. I may be in the minority here, but albums like Angel of Retribution and the criminally-underrated Nostradamus pack far more of a punch to my ears than any of the post-KK albums have. Having said that, I do prefer Invincible Shield quite significantly to Firepower. I would put it perhaps on a level with Redeemers - 3 or so fantastic songs, a bunch of solid ones and a few duds. For me, Firepower was just middling beginning to end, not bad, but nothing spectacular (Traitors Gate raised a pulse, but that was the only one, really). My main gripe is that it all sounds very "safe" to me - I feel like they really pushed themselves on Nostradamus to do something different and progressive and because some narrow-minded 80s metalheads wet their panties, the band have been playing it safe ever since. I know they never will, but they really should give KK a call.
  4. Anyone else digging the sound of Ron's other band Whom God Destroys?
  5. Crown of Horns and Trial By Fire are quite average. Panic Attack is a great one and Serpent & The King is quite good.
  6. I loved the Weiland album, although I know what you mean about the more metal tracks. But stuff like Get On Down, Till The Dust Is Gone and Aqualung are some of my favourite rock tracks of the 00s. The Stapp album was decent, but a tad generic radio-rock. The new album really feels like they've found their forever singer. It really pays to give it multiple listens as the songs just get better and better.
  7. New album is a real grower. Rivals sounds like something I could imagine Contraband-era Velvet Revolver doing:
  8. Each to their own - the Scott Stapp album was actually my least favourite of their three releases. Something about Stapp's voice just irks me. Weiland's album with AOA was a masterpiece imo.
  9. ART OF ANARCHY – ROCKS MOST UNDERRATED BAND RISE FROM THE ASHES WITH STUNNING NEW RECORD Review by M. Dodwell Rock titans Art of Anarchy are back with their third album “Let There Be Anarchy”, released yesterday via Pavement Music. Featuring the talents of former Guns N Roses/Sons of Apollo guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal and ex-Yngwie Malmsteen/Sons of Apollo vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, the band have defied all odds and shown their resilience as a creative unit with this stunning collection of hard rock/metal tracks with an apocalyptic twist. Much has been said about the drama surrounding the rock supergroup and their troubled history with big-name rock frontmen, and frankly, it’s all been said before ad nauseam and there are far more interesting things to discuss when it comes to this band. Lead single “Vilified” dropped out of the blue in September 2023 and for those familiar with the bands signature sound established on 2015’s self-titled debut and 2017’s “The Madness”, it was clearly apparent the line-up change had only invigorated the five-piece, managing to sound both hauntingly melodic and progressive at the same time. The record opens in typically-dramatic fashion with the epic “Die Hard” firing on all cylinders. Featuring perhaps the most straight-forward metal riffage in their canon, it is clear from the offset that the band aren’t interested in resting on their hard-rock laurels. “Echo Your Madness” is next, and is an obvious choice for third single, perhaps being the most radio-friendly of the bunch, which is not to say it doesn’t rock hard. Siren-esque guitar wails open the track, followed by an understated verse, before launching into not one, but two memorable choruses. New vocalist Jeff Scott Soto fits the band like a glove and it’s hard not to feel excited by the prospect that these talented musicans may have found their forever-frontman in Soto. His knack for infectious, hook-laden choruses can be found all over this album, as can be heard on “Rivals”, which is perhaps the most reminiscent of the hard-rock stylings from 2017’s Scott Stapp-fronted “The Madness”. Other highlights include dark-power ballad “Writing On The Wall”, the anthemic stadium-rock of “Dying Days”, the surprisingly unrelenting “Blind Man’s Victory” and the Sabbath-esque album closer “Disarray.” There are few bands in 2024 who rock as hard and enthusiastically as Art of Anarchy and with the release of “Let There Be Anarchy”, it is high time we paid these virtuosic rockers their flowers.
  10. The debut with Weiland is a fantastic record, front to back. The Votta twins are really underrated songwriters imo. The second album was a bit of a let down, but this ones far stronger.
  11. C'mon now, you know Better belongs in that top 5 too!
  12. 1. Better 2. Catcher In The Rye 3. Shacklers Revenge 4. TWAT 5. Oh My God 6. This I Love 7. Prostitute 8. The General 9. ABSURD 10. Perhaps 11. Street of Dreams 12. Chinese Democracy 13. Hard Skool 14. Madagascar 15. Riad & The Bedouins 16. IRS 17. If The World 18. Scraped 19. Sorry
  13. This dropped yesterday. Jeff Scott Sotto seems like a good fit - hopefully these guys have found their forever singer.
  14. You seriously think Scraped and If The World are better songs than The General? They're really really not.
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