Saw them many times back in the day...they really were the real deal live.......this is a great song from a great album but to really appreciate it you need to listen to their live album Unleashed in the East. From the birthplace of metal Birmingham (England) they are as prominent as Black Sabbath for the creation of the Heavy Metal genre.
Great piece but as usual with Sad Wings of Destiny tracks, they'll be totally revitalised live. Given that I first discovered four tracks from this album on their live album in Japan, Unleashed in the East (1979), before hearing their studio counterpart, I was disappointed by these more basic and restrained versions, and this is the case here with "Genocide", which sounds much less menacing and accomplished than its live version! Justin, I know you don't listen to live albums on your channel but try to make an exception, at least for the four tracks originally on Sad Wings of Destiny ("The Ripper", "Victim of Changes", "Genocide" and "Tyrant") which have a tenfold energy on Unleashed in the East.
Thanks for the reaction, a great song. I will join the chorus that the version live on "Unleashed in the East" is far better. Live albums serve almost like a greatest hits compilation, but providing the live energy of bands and their audiences, and I would recommend anyone new to Priest to listen to Unleashed all the way through. It's metal brilliance.
I liked Judas Priest a lot when I was a kid in the 80s, but most of their stuff tends to bore me now. However, Unleashed in the East is an album I have never stopped listening to and it remains in my top 5 favorite albums of all time. I can't even listen to the studio versions of the songs on that live album.
I know a trout fisherman who has what I'd call a cosh that he calls a "priest", which he uses to kill the fish with (instead of throwing them up the bank and letting them basically suffocate, which seems to be the usual way fishermen kill their fish). So getting Priested might be a musical equivalent to being smacked lethally hard on the back of the head with a piece of hard wood wrapped in copper. As far as heaviness, it's almost "pre-metal", so I'd agree that it would be a good song to introduce someone to metal (for the reasons you mention). Departure from the piste. Whoosh, swoosh, careful not to hit the trees ... There once was a band called *An Endless Sporadic* , which appeared and disappeared rather sporadically. (The members worked full time in "IT", so didn't always have time. And then Zach Kamins went off to Berkeley). Eventually the endlessness seemed to decrease, to a point where I almost thought it had ceased, but recently, sporadically, they've briefly reappeared again. (And in other guises, too, because just the other week Joey Frevola, the other guitarist, put out an album with all sorts on it. Some of it tends to the math rock/ metal, and at other points there's almost an opera on stage, and then there's a ballad, and some pop, even. It's a bit intense to be recommending via a link, so I'll just mention its name and note that I'm enjoying listening to it. It's called *Art Supplies and Pain* (don't worry; not much pain involved). Here's *An Endless Sporadic* heading closer to the metal side of things this year, again. ua-cam.com/video/p0QjCIeztpI/v-deo.html If that sounded acceptable to you, look up "Derpulous". It's a metal song with a lot of "derp" in it that you might appreciate at a moonlit metal soiré where tea is served in the cups with the hand painted periwinkles. (Ask someone who knows about UK comedy to tell you what the end of the last sentence means. If you can't find someone who knows what he's talking about, you can ask me, too. Or just search on a combination of the following terms, "richard bucket hyacinth onslow" )
I remember when I bought this album in around 81 or 82, the "old" guy at the record shop (who was probably decades younger than I am now - LOL) said "That is the best Judas Priest album". I remember being stunned that an old guy listened to them. Taking the contrarian view here: I like Unleashed in the East, but I prefer the studio versions of the songs from that album. It's also cool that this song contains the phrase "Sin after sin" which is the title of the next album
frankly there's better production and mixing to be had on a cake stall On the other hand, try RIOT's low budget debut from 1977 or the follow up, Narita. Budgie too say how ya doin boyo?
Saw them many times back in the day...they really were the real deal live.......this is a great song from a great album but to really appreciate it you need to listen to their live album Unleashed in the East. From the birthplace of metal Birmingham (England) they are as prominent as Black Sabbath for the creation of the Heavy Metal genre.
Great piece but as usual with Sad Wings of Destiny tracks, they'll be totally revitalised live. Given that I first discovered four tracks from this album on their live album in Japan, Unleashed in the East (1979), before hearing their studio counterpart, I was disappointed by these more basic and restrained versions, and this is the case here with "Genocide", which sounds much less menacing and accomplished than its live version! Justin, I know you don't listen to live albums on your channel but try to make an exception, at least for the four tracks originally on Sad Wings of Destiny ("The Ripper", "Victim of Changes", "Genocide" and "Tyrant") which have a tenfold energy on Unleashed in the East.
Agree 💯 %
I Second, Third, And Forth the motion to listen to Unleashed In The East. 😎 Sonic Perfection... And MUCH heavier!
Thanks for the reaction, a great song. I will join the chorus that the version live on "Unleashed in the East" is far better. Live albums serve almost like a greatest hits compilation, but providing the live energy of bands and their audiences, and I would recommend anyone new to Priest to listen to Unleashed all the way through. It's metal brilliance.
My favorite album.
I liked Judas Priest a lot when I was a kid in the 80s, but most of their stuff tends to bore me now. However, Unleashed in the East is an album I have never stopped listening to and it remains in my top 5 favorite albums of all time. I can't even listen to the studio versions of the songs on that live album.
The best version of this is off their Unleashed in the east live album.
Classic Priest!! 🤘
I know a trout fisherman who has what I'd call a cosh that he calls a "priest", which he uses to kill the fish with (instead of throwing them up the bank and letting them basically suffocate, which seems to be the usual way fishermen kill their fish). So getting Priested might be a musical equivalent to being smacked lethally hard on the back of the head with a piece of hard wood wrapped in copper.
As far as heaviness, it's almost "pre-metal", so I'd agree that it would be a good song to introduce someone to metal (for the reasons you mention).
Departure from the piste.
Whoosh, swoosh, careful not to hit the trees ...
There once was a band called *An Endless Sporadic* , which appeared and disappeared rather sporadically. (The members worked full time in "IT", so didn't always have time. And then Zach Kamins went off to Berkeley). Eventually the endlessness seemed to decrease, to a point where I almost thought it had ceased, but recently, sporadically, they've briefly reappeared again. (And in other guises, too, because just the other week Joey Frevola, the other guitarist, put out an album with all sorts on it. Some of it tends to the math rock/ metal, and at other points there's almost an opera on stage, and then there's a ballad, and some pop, even. It's a bit intense to be recommending via a link, so I'll just mention its name and note that I'm enjoying listening to it. It's called *Art Supplies and Pain* (don't worry; not much pain involved).
Here's *An Endless Sporadic* heading closer to the metal side of things this year, again. ua-cam.com/video/p0QjCIeztpI/v-deo.html
If that sounded acceptable to you, look up "Derpulous". It's a metal song with a lot of "derp" in it that you might appreciate at a moonlit metal soiré where tea is served in the cups with the hand painted periwinkles.
(Ask someone who knows about UK comedy to tell you what the end of the last sentence means. If you can't find someone who knows what he's talking about, you can ask me, too. Or just search on a combination of the following terms, "richard bucket hyacinth onslow" )
I remember when I bought this album in around 81 or 82, the "old" guy at the record shop (who was probably decades younger than I am now - LOL) said "That is the best Judas Priest album". I remember being stunned that an old guy listened to them.
Taking the contrarian view here: I like Unleashed in the East, but I prefer the studio versions of the songs from that album.
It's also cool that this song contains the phrase "Sin after sin" which is the title of the next album
This song always reminds me of the Cossacks riding down the protestors in Dr Zhivago
you should react to the pink opaque album by cocteau twins especially the song millimillenary
The same goes for a lot of stuff!
Totally agree with everything that @a.k. has to say, but still a welcome blast of early Priest nonetheless!
👍Thanks mate!
frankly there's better production and mixing to be had on a cake stall
On the other hand, try RIOT's low budget debut from 1977 or the follow up, Narita.
Budgie too say how ya doin boyo?