Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance (Exp)
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Artist: Judas PriestEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-05-29
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- The Hellion
- Electric Eye
- Riding The Wind
- Bloodstone
- Chains
- Pain & Pleasure
- Screaming For Vengeance
- Another Thing Coming
- Fever
- Devil's Child
- Prisoner Of Your Eyes
- Devil's Child (live)
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Free Music Review: Legendary Heavy Metal Power And Art
Hit: 5 Stars
Having most of the Remastered Judas Priest albums now, it's clear that "Screaming For Vengeance" was the one that most Needed the Remastering process; the original CD issue was more toned down, with more tape hiss, than earlier albums like "Stained Class" - I would guess that "Screaming...." was the first Priest album pressed onto CD format, back when the technology was in its infancy.
With the Remastering, "Screaming For Vengeance" is a more ferocious, intense album than ever, which is saying something considering the punch it always packed before, even on tape on a relatively cheap system. There is a lyrical theme to it, as there is with most Priest albums, although as always it's done in a loose way: the theme helps tie the album together without being so rigid as to limit individual songs, or to prevent the band from veering off course for a track of a different vibe every here and there. I guess it could be said that the songs and their lyrical content guide the album's course instead of the album strictly guiding and controlling the songs. With this album, that theme involves oppression - from societal authoritarianism, from loneliness or self-doubt, etc.; the desire to overcome it and break free; and often the success or lack thereof of those objectives. "Electric Eye" - with its magnificent "The Hellion" intro, one of the most famous intros in all of metal - typifies the Priest staple of fear of totalitarian intervention into every aspect of life, with a concept that becomes more and more plausible year after year, and then is followed by "Riding On The Wind" a song that in every beat and note just bursts forth with the sensation of shattering boundries and accepting no defeat. The drums throughout have a pounding jungle-type vibe and are perhaps best represented in "You've Got Another Thing Coming" and "Riding On The Wind"; unheralded alltime classic "Bloodstone" features possibly the single Best use of the guitar twin harmonies/double solos/whatever you want to call it that the Priest has used to such great effect all over their career. "(Take These) Chains" and "Fever" each showcase a different facet of Rob Halford's amazing vocal range. As an album, it doesn't focus nearly so much on the bloody retribution theme as its title would suggest, opting more often for a 'living well is the best revenge' vibe (i.e. "..Another Thing Coming") and passionately sung lamentations about the sorrier aspects of the world's state (i.e. "Bloodstone"). Powerful, often hopeful and at times furious, the disc runs the gamut. Every original track a great, the only one falling short of perfection being "Pain And Pleasure" which is still a soild all-around track with perfect vocals for the material.
On to the bonus tracks: the main reason I and probably most other Priest fans were so excited by the whole re-issue project when they came out a few years ago. Like most of the reissues, there's one previously unreleased studio track, one previously unreleased live track, usually a song from the same album originally. The studio cut, "Prisoner Of Your Eyes", was already available in a different, re-recorded version with somewhat differing lyrics, as one of 3 new studio tracks on Halford's 2001 "Live Insurrection" epic. Upon first hearing the "Screaming.." version I was impressed but considered it a clear second to the "Insurrection" version; but on subsequent listens it quickly grew enormously on me until I now consider it every bit the equal of its counterpart. A very different feel to the song, sort of "Turbo"-ish, with the partially different lyrics adding to its distinctiveness. Incredibly emotional vocal performance, just as on "Insurrection". The disc is capped off with a live take on "Devil's Child", a wilder and even more energetic version of its studio conterpart highlighted by a great, completely over-the-top vocal performance by Halford.
Extremely recommended whether or not you own the previous non-remastered, no-bonuses edition. Like Accept's "Balls To The Wall", Rammstein's "Sehnsucht", Iron Maiden's "Piece Of Mind" and The Gathering's "Mandylion" (to name a quick few) this is as essential as it gets for a heavy metal collection.
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