I saw Halford supporting Iron Maiden in 2000 and bought this shortly after based on "Cyberworld" being awesome. Not disappointed with the rest, epic epic album.

This was a monumental comeback to metal from Rob, after his dabblings in more alternative styles since he left Priest. Whilst it's not quite as great as his best works with Priest, it's still a fantastic album with mostly great songs which are prime cuts of pure heavy metal. I remember being floored by the storming title track when I first heard it, and thinking "wow, the Metal God is back!" And indeed he was!

Great, great album, and definitely the best album under the Halford band name. It's also better than a few Priest albums, and is arguably better than anything Priest have done since "Painkiller".

Written by Angelic Storm on 01.02.2012 at 11:56

This was a monumental comeback to metal from Rob, after his dabblings in more alternative styles since he left Priest. Whilst it's not quite as great as his best works with Priest, it's still a fantastic album with mostly great songs which are prime cuts of pure heavy metal. I remember being floored by the storming title track when I first heard it, and thinking "wow, the Metal God is back!" And indeed he was!

Great, great album, and definitely the best album under the Halford band name. It's also better than a few Priest albums, and is arguably better than anything Priest have done since "Painkiller".

This should've been the real Priest comeback album but it was actually Halford rejoining the metal movement. There are some tracks that are not as inspired as others (i.e. "Temptation", "Slow Down", "Twist" or "Locked And Loaded") but some songs could've been on Painkiller without much hassle ("Resurrection", "Made In Hell", "Hell's Last Survivor" or fucking "Fetish" which is arguably one of the heaviest tracks Halford has ever done). Brilliant album.

Why am I learning about this just now? Some of the stuff in this is goddamn heavy and awesome, especially the ones on the remastered edition.

The opening duo "Resurrection" and "Made in Hell" feels like a hammer to the head. Heavy metal at it's best! I also like in the second part of the album when we get some more mid-tempo songs, especially Slow Down is a great memorable song.

If your gonna try and find this album, try to get one of the versions that contains at least the bonus tracks "Hell's Last Survivor" and "Sad Wings", those are great metal tunes.

Albums like this essentially define the bare-bones traditions of heavy metal. As corny as that sounds, I can't really pick fault with this record when considering the heavy metal sub-genre itself, because Halford has done everything on this record to lay down the best solo album he could have done. That's practically it. Musicianship is excellent, vocal delivery is menacing and at times versatile, and despite the album threatening to overstay its welcome at times ("God Bringer of Death" may be the shortest song on the record, but it's still completely filler), it delivers an otherwise consistent barrage of the music we (as in metalheads) all appreciate.

Speed, fast album, but nothing better as JP , all big members solo carear are a bit let down as whit original , maybe Bruce solo was a bit outsadming.

Phenomenal album. Up there with the Priest albums.

Great album! My favorite tracks are Nightfall (super heavy riffs!), Slow Down, The One You Love to Hate (feat Bruce Dickinson!), and Silent Screams. The opening track has also impressive vocals and Cyberworld is kind of a sequel to Electric Eye!
Made in Hell and Locked and Loaded are kind of weak in my opinion. Overall, a 8.4/10 for me

A modern classic, up there with the best of Priest. Halford's Live Insurrection is even better, the high quality live perfomance breathes whole new life to this already kickass stuff of his.

I don't have the japanese edition so this album is 12 tracks ( no Hell's Last Survivor, God, Bringer Of Death, Fetish, Sad Wings) for me. It's for me a strange album . I like so-so the 2 first tracks, not really fan of lock/nightfall. But from silent screams to the end i think tracks are great. So as an album i'll put a 7 or 8 maybe. It's at least a good album for sure and compared to the JP of the same period (jugulator/demolition) i prefer this one by far^^