Let's discuss "Angel of Retribution," the new Judas Priest record

Who's on drums?

more details please! is it like Painkiller or older Priest?

I saw the video for the first single on Headbangers' Ball Saturday night. Aside from one brief moment of old-school Priestly riffing, the song kinda sounds like their take on any of the heavier tunes from Led Zeppelin II. Which ain't necessarily a bad thing. I'm gonna wind up spending money on this album.

Older Priest. Well, early '80s Priest. Drums are Scott Travis, the guy who's been playing drums for a while. Lots of steady double bass stuff, as oppossed to the chunky grind of much contemporary metal.

cool...I just read some fansite writeups....sounds very promising!

Loch Ness! that's cool....such a very "Maiden" song idea...

Oddly enough this thread makes me want to go buy the last Iron Maiden album.

(I guess it's not that odd, since I've always been a Maiden > Priest guy)

I have heard half of it and liked it, but that half I've hear struck me as kind of a cooks tour of specific songs from the back catalogues of both Priest and Halford. I was shocked to find myself thinking, 'hmmm, Rob should get the Halford band back together again, cos this sounds a mite polished and overly thought-out, at the expense of raw energy, not like the Halford band'. Then I thought to myself 'but hang on moley, you go through this with every JP album - it's part of the JP experience. Persist, my friend, persist! Don't settle for a Mastodon album, what do American critics know anyway?' And then I thought, 'I will decide when I hear Loch Ness. If Loch Ness is not as ridiculous as people say, then I will not buy the album'.