Defenders Of The Faith

This album has been added to 3 public lists:

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  The Music Slut Committee

  Steve

  "This has Everything an album needs: Songs about Sex, Motorcycles, sci fi stories of avenging someone against a gang in an unreal epic bloodbath that sends shivers down your spine and Rock and Roll

  Tom Allom’s production really pulls the best performances out of each member. Even changing up the sounds on a song like Love Bites, where it is not a traditional metal sound, or even a sound the have done in the past. The fast bridge vocals in Freewheel Burning is so impressive to me to get all those ideas to make them work. The way that Glenn and Kk’s guitars just mesh so well and don’t step over each other when both players are truly metal master. He reeled them in so well.

  Obviously our stand out performer is Rob Halford who’s runs are absolutely insane and earn him the title of “The Metal God” how his voice sound great in every register on every song. His ability to sound so good so high is jaw dropping. He was at his peak. And this was 6 years before Painkiller. They say your early/ mid 30s is a vocalist peak. He was around 33 at this time. Some of the lyrical content features so very Heavy handed innuendos. I’m sure we all gathered that Jawbreaker is about a Penis (something the band didn’t even know until after Rob came out) and Eat Me Alive being as they say “tongue in cheek”. (Read up on The Filthy 15, satanic panic bullshit) In today’s music, especially with the superstars, it seems trendy to have all your songs be autobiographical and you can just make up crazy stories just write about motorcycles and Cock.

  This album is one of my favorites of their career. I would consider it their last great album. All Theo pieces really came together. Making something off the heels of another fantastic record adds pressure and they really cooked well under it for this one." - Zach

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