Judas Priest - Painkiller Live, Sauna Open Air, Tampere, Finland 11.06.2011

[Agonizer666]

Oh dear, mr Travis.. :)

[ShinjiKanagawa]

And I disagree about Rob losing his stage presence. That look he gives at 5:19 gave me chills down my spine. He knows people have been critical of him losing his voice, and he knows he just did his entire career justice in those few seconds. \m/

[ShinjiKanagawa]

@megapurify Honestly I was at Metal Masters exclusively for Black Sabbath and Judas Priest kicked their ass in almost every single way.

[TheHuntercry]

Its just so awesome that Rob can still do it :)

[metalboto]

Great voice ! but stage presence SUCKS , also reading the lyrics !!!!! common Rob ,W.T.F.

[TheHuntercry]

@metalboto Did you know that hes gettin old -.-

[megapurify]

@metalboto he's not reading the words. he has to be like that to get the notes. no lie. his health must be so bad. =/

[metalmaniac2493]

@megapurify He's just bending over like that to push as much air as possible out of his lungs, it's a pretty common technique for this kind of vocal.

[megapurify]

@metalmaniac2493 i know but use your brain. that's too extreme!

[metalmaniac2493]

@megapurify What do you mean? He has to try to hard to hit the high notes?

[megapurify]

@metalmaniac2493 damn hard at that. you can tell when a singer struggles and he is struggling mightily. Least he doesn't sound bad but the fact that his stage persona is all but gone it's so disappointing. least i still have the albums to listen to.

[metalmaniac2493]

@megapurify What? So it isn't good enough that he sings an incredibly hard song, he has to do it with ease or it's just not good enough?

[megapurify]

@metalmaniac2493 No it isn't. If you can't do your incredible body of work the justice they deserve, don't do them. This is a simple money making scheme which doesn't sit too well with me. Dio was able to perform like he did in the old days with ease and was almost a decade older than halford. When I saw them in 2008 on the metal masters tour dio blew this guy out of the water, no comparison.

[kranen1]

@megapurify The thing is that when you sing like Dio does, it's much easier to conserve your voice. Halford has a much more high pitched style, with alot more difficult songs. Rinabow in the dark and Heaven and hell are no easy songs, but Painkiller, the Sentinel, Freewheel burning etc. are much more difficult to sing. Dio would't have been able to sing any of them, even in his prime. I love Dio, he's one best, but they have very different styles.

[naasbi69]

I was there.

[TommysFish]

Rob is on his shit

[AndruPacu]

JODER ke Final......... Ke cojones le hecha el Halford con la de kilometros que lleva el tio ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[MrSammyr63]

before any negative comments start about halfords voice go to bar with karaoke and listen to some meathead try and pull this off and you will be running full sprints to a judas priest concert to get the real thing.

[Corrosive1]

@MrSammyr63 what? Are you serious? This is one of the best Painkiller-performances by Rob. I think only album is better. There are some 20 year old live's where he sings a lot worse

[MrSammyr63]

@Corrosive1 read the whole comment please and you will realize that i,m a huge fan of judas priest but there appears to be alot of halford critics in youtube land that dont seem to care that halfords sixty years old of course he,s not going to have the pipes he had in 1983 as far as this performance it is his best in alot of years and maybe his best ever.

[sonnic1995]

i expected a better setlist :/

[gojira931]

for anyone who doesn't think rob's still got it: take a look at 5:05

[RocktheStageNYC]

Rob still has is extreme high range and distortion but his upper chest voice is shot. Thats why he sound awesome on this song, its mostly all upper range. But get Rob in his middle range and he struggles. Rob is one of the few metal singers of his era that knowns how to conserve notes in other songs to leave enough energy to do Painkiller. The problem with Rob is he's inconsistent. I saw back to back shows on the last tour and he was great one night, bad the next.

[The147350]

@gojira931 I saw Priest 3 times. '86 Turbo, '04 Ozzfest & '11 Epitaph. Rob has actually sounded better each and everytime. \m/ Metal Gods \m/

[judas1013]

ROB HALFORD LA MEJOR VOZ DEL METAL¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[rcalvocruz1008]

the metal god sounds better than i expected for this song!! sounds fucking awesome!!! :)

[luigi1456]

PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIII­N! see ya rofl!