Painkiller - Judas Priest

The final album that Judas Priest did with Rob Halford, and it's a doozie. This is by far the heaviest and loudest album that Priest did with Halford as vocalist. The opening track just shreds, and it doesn't really let up at all. If you like metal or hard rock at all, then you should check this out.

I did buy the studio albums between Defenders and this one, but never upgraded them to CD. Turbo was mostly weak, although I loved the title track, Ram it Down was harder than the weak Turbo, but not terribly spectacular (and had an atrocious cover of Johnny B Goode), and a live album in there I just passed on.

But about Painkiller - it's spectacular, something that should have directly followed Defenders, I think.