If I were commanded by an extraterrestrial visitor to planet Earth, "Give me one song that best exemplifies this thing you call heavy metal, and I shall decide if thou speaketh true" with the fate of civilization and all we hold dear hanging in the balance, I might have to pick "The Sentinel."
This fucking song man. It's ridiculous. I'll take any singer you've got, and put him or her against Rob Halford in his peak, as we see in this video, and I'm coming out on top.
And the guitars! The tone! The way Rob orchestrates KK Downing and Glenn Tipton like a maestro, playing one off the other and drawing them out to ever greater heights of intensity.
The subject matter of the lyrics, combined with the feel of the music, transports you to some far-flung Blade Runner-esque postapocalyptic future. Where I don't want to be ... unless Judas Priest is the soundtrack.
It's an absolutely 10/10 performance.
Crank this one up on this Metal Friday, and glory in it, Defenders of the Faith.
3 comments:
One of my Priest favorites, hands down. I still remember where I was when I heard it for the first time. Priest in their prime (except for the drumming).
Nice Deuce. Yeah, easily one of their best songs.
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