Nostradamus - Judas Priest

After the last Judas Priest album and tour was over, talk turned to the next album. I remember hearing shortly after the last tour was done that the next album would be a concept album about the famed prophesier, Nostradamus. My immediate thought upon hearing that is "What kind of crap is that?" After the final track of the last album was a 10 minute, mostly unlistenable song about the Loch Ness Monster, I feared for what an entire album would sound like, since I heard something that Loch Ness was a "good intro for what we are thinking of doing with Nostradamus. My thoughts lept to this image:

Still, I'm not the kind of fan who will immediately go "OK, this will be crap" and prejudge it 16 months before it came out. So I kind of forgot about it until about a month before it came out. Started hearing them on things like Eddie Trunk's shows, in advertisments, etc. OK, it's coming out - and it's a double album. I listened to it with an open mind, and the only review I can think of to give it is this image: