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Painkiller by Judas Priest

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Painkiller 6:05 251,022
2 Hell Patrol 3:36 121,755
3 All Guns Blazing 3:57 102,596
4 Leather Rebel 3:34 98,778
5 Metal Meltdown 4:47 111,963
6 Night Crawler 5:44 132,104
7 Between The Hammer & The Anvil 4:49 72,938
8 A Touch Of Evil 5:44 129,886
9 Battle Hymn 0:56 73,808
10 One Shot At Glory 6:48 79,296
11 Living Bad Dreams 5:21 24,550
12 Leather Rebel (Live) 3:39 11,227
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About this album

Columbia (1990) 12 tracks (55:00)
Painkiller is a 1990 gold-certified album by Judas Priest, their 12th studio album. The album was recorded at Miraval Studios, Brignoles, France in early 1990, and mixed at Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, the Netherlands later that year. It was the first album with drummer Scott Travis. The original LP, cassette and CD versions were released on September 3, 1990. A re-mastered CD was released in May 2001. The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance at the February 20, 1991 33rd Annual Grammy Awards.

Following the poor sales of the album Ram It Down, which was itself an attempt at reconciling with the public over the perceived sellout, Turbo, Judas Priest returned to their classic ’70s style, while borrowing contemporary speed metal techniques, resulting in their most critically acclaimed album in a decade. The album is viewed by some as the quintessential speed metal album and the style proved highly influential to European power metal bands such as Gamma Ray and Primal Fear.

Following the tour for this album, singer Rob Halford left the band and maintained little contact with his former bandmates throughout the 1990s. The reason for this was due to growing tension in the band, although not, as popularly attributed, because of Halford’s homosexuality. Halford wanted to create his new band, Fight, and had to legally leave Judas Priest to allow his creation to be sold. Judas Priest declared that they did not exist anymore after Halford had left. However, they would record and tour a few years later, with singer Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens, on the albums Jugulator and Demolition.
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  • motorkafa

    Good memories. Their best in my opinion

    7 days ago

  • TFPhoenixNL

    I find it quite awesome that 'Painkiller' caused such an uproar between the old Priest-fans and the newly gained speed metal fans. Shows their musical diversity. Priest are true kings of heavy metal.

    9 days ago

  • maidenmetal1

    a return to form after the mediocre Ram It Down and Turbo [2] not as good as their 70's stuff and Defenders of The faith but really good

    18 days ago

  • Soundservant

    so much double bass

    24 days ago

  • ale193

    people who like this album will love the band Primal Fear. their vocalist sounds as close to halford as I've ever heard anyone get, and pretty much all o their music is in painkiller's style. its awesome.

    25 days ago

  • DarkEpitaph

    a return to form after the mediocre Ram It Down and Turbo

    25 days ago

  • whiteravenmetal

    seems legit v v

    last month

  • Peasounay

    Judas Priest is my favourite band but this album really sucks

    last month

  • Dyomaeth

    The only Priest album I still listen to regularly.

    last month

  • 666SixNine

    Their best album, definitely.

    last month

  • tumulosabertos

    the less melodic slow and operatic stuff the sharper robs highs the more I enjoy it

    last month

  • Mercenarion

    Besides the title track, this is boring.

    last month

  • deathmk2

    Best album in the history of metal

    last month

  • veyita_88

    Made for headbanging.

    last month

  • ss_undead

    best metal album ever!

    March 2012

  • Woozard

    masterpiece

    March 2012

  • Giuseppe1987

    Indeed. This is pretty much out and out speed metal, minus a few things here and there.

    March 2012

  • Ritual_Suicide

    lol @ people calling this power metal. This is almost straight speed metal.

    March 2012

  • janek976

    To najlepszy album tej kapeli - reszta płyt taka sobie.

    March 2012

  • Peasounay

    There are some good tracks on this album: "Touch of Evil", "Living Bad Dreams", "Leather Rebel". But I'm sorry, "Painkiller" is awful, not the priests style at all.

    March 2012
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