Pounding Decibels- A Hard and Heavy History

Unknown Soldier · 08-12-2013, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

I recently managed to get a bootleg of Judas Priest on the Sin After Sin tour after years of looking for one just because back then they would open the show with Let Us Prey / Call For The Priest back then & I always wanted to hear them play it live.
It didn't disappoint either, shame they never bought it back.

The first thing I noticed is that "Call for the Priest" actually sounds even faster than the studio version!

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Let There Be Rock is all about the guitar sound, It has the dirtiest sounding guitars this side of The Stooges.

I'd agree with that.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

So that's why the production sounds so much like Machine Head. Deep Purple were a kind of stonery, laid back style of metal band, so the fuzzy production worked. Judas Priest are not a stonery, laid back metal band, so the production just makes that album sound weak and dated. I dig plenty of songs on Sinner, but as a whole it just feels obsolete by modern standards.
And "Last Rose of Summer" is ass.

Now this is what I won't agree with or at least part of it. Whenever I've read reviews about Sin After Sin the majority are negative, BUT nearly all of those negative reviews come from staunch metalheads (you can tell they are by the way they talk on the review

Whereas the more positive reviews tend to come from rock music listeners in general. Also the criticism tends to be focused around the song choices rather than the production. In hindsight Roger Glover wouldn't be the right person to produce that album and you've summed him and his laid back approach very well, but I do think his influence on the band encouraged them to branch out and for that reason it's probably the richest sounding album in the band's discography, most won't agree with me there, but there you have it. Also I think Sin After Sin is also a metal album for non-metalheads and more for a listener of rock in general.