whats the best Judas Priest cover

So what exactly does a copy cover by a far less talented band inspire in you? Most covers are inherently uninspired ("We need one more track to round out this album, so lets just play another band's song and be done with it!")
 
HamburgerBoy said:
So what exactly does a copy cover by a far less talented band inspire in you? Most covers are inherently uninspired ("We need one more track to round out this album, so lets just play another band's song and be done with it!")
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I would it explain it, but it occurs at a level of consciousness that you are not attuned to. Higher level beings only. It would be like explaining Heidegger to my dog.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
It's an uninspired near-note-for-note rehash of Judas Priest's greatest and heaviest song. It even had the crazy, whammy-bar-raping lead guitar all prepared for them. They couldn't have picked an easier cover for them.
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That's what I like about it tbh. It's like JP wrote it for Slayer. And Halford's screams in the chorus are annoying anyway.
 
South of Heaven is a great album. I'm not to big on cover songs randomly thrown on albums at all.
 
Death's Painkiller of course. That's the only one I can think of right now, and if you ask me it's not only the best Judas Priest cover but probably one of the best metal covers I've ever listened to.
 
These are my two fav covers.

 
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SoundMaster said:
agreed. it's awful (as is their cover of Kiss' God of Thunder).
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Not liking something is one thing and calling something awful because you don't like it is another thing. I mean you wouldn't even need to be a musician to tell that their cover of the song is a decent piece of work. Even just considering the vocals alone, being a vocalist myself, I'm quite sure no other vocalist (that I know of) would get anywhere near that singing style and performance before coughing up blood.
 
Satanstoenail said:
You dissed my favourite Slayer album. It is I who was gutted first.
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I guess I did. It's really not bad on a whole at all and is probably one of their most inspired, but I just think it's a parts > sum album, unlike Reign in Blood which is the opposite or Hell Awaits which is awesome any way you slice it.
 
Hell Awaits is a transitional metal album imo. Into faster,darker,heavier, realms.
 
I still think Show No Mercy is their best and basically they're kind of dumb guys, as evidenced by their dissing of Forbidden and failure to genuinely innovate for decades.
 
SentinelSlain said:
I still think Show No Mercy is their best and basically they're kind of dumb guys, as evidenced by their dissing of Forbidden and failure to genuinely innovate for decades.
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Even if they killed kittens and raped aryan virgins they'd still be excused by the existence of the first three albums. Who gives a shit about what they do now.
 
SentinelSlain said:
I still think Show No Mercy is their best and basically they're kind of dumb guys, as evidenced by their dissing of Forbidden and failure to genuinely innovate for decades.
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In what way did they diss Forbidden? I know King talks a lot of crap (he also dissed Destruction) so if it was just him that doesn't mean much.
 
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