 the metal voice on part two, Judas Priest or Bruce Dickinson. Now I can show you the Bruce Dickinson album, but I haven't received my Judas Priest along yet. I just been listening to the stream for the past few weeks on the show once again, Chris Akin from classic metal show, CMS Network, correct? Yes, cmsnetwork.com or cmspn.com and all my stuff there. And Erickson, Audio Inc podcast, as well as what radio station are you on again? So it's Audio Inc radio, and then I'm also on the ref. Okay. And the other guy, Raul. Funch is here. He's just sitting around. Almost human. Subscribe to his channel. He's edgy. He's past PG-18, right? He's more of the R. All right, guys. We're here to discuss once again, Judas Priest. Their new album versus Bruce Dickinson's new album. Did you like it equally? Did you like one better than the other? And why? I'm going to start off with Ann. Ann, what did you think of Bruce? What did you think of Priest? I mean, we already know your opinions on that, but I don't know. Do you prefer one a little more than the other and why? You're going to put me in the hot seat first. That's not nice. No, it's a really tough question because I'm a huge fan of Bruce and Iron Maiden, huge Judas Priest fan, and I really think both these records are fantastic. I like the fact I can pronounce the Judas Priest record a lot easier than the Bruce Dickinson one, but in all seriousness, they're very, very even to me. I would say that they're a tie, but if you gun in my head, absolutely had to choose, I would give a slight edge to Judas Priest. Okay, well, Ralph, a gun to your head. Which one would you pick? Judas Priest or Bruce Dickinson? Well, I don't know if you know this. I'm a diano guy. I'm not a... I'm a diano guy too. Though I do love the first three up to Power Slave, I absolutely love Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding. I think this new one is as good as Chemical Wedding. I'm floored how good it is. Yeah. Judas Priest, I love as you watched that episode before, but I gotta say, I mean, the Bruce Dickinson, I didn't think one song on there wasn't good. I liked every single song. I can't say that about the new priest. So I'm gonna say Dickinson. All right, Chris. The diano guy says Dickinson. Well, there's two diano guys here, even though I'm a big Bruce fan, but I'm more of a diano guy, but Chris, go ahead. Well, let me just break this in half because I really don't like the Bruce Dickinson record much at all. It's boring to me. And it's not even Bruce. It's kind of Roy Z. Like the guitar playing is kind of meh. But let me ask you, what were you expecting though? I was, with all the hype that was coming on it, I was expecting Chemical Wedding, Accident of Birth, or Balls de Picasso, something in that realm and did not get that. That's for sure got more, I don't know, kind of like the last few Iron Maiden records really, just kind of that mid-tempo-y, maybe not as gallopy, but so yeah, to answer your question though, Judas Priest by about 9,000 miles. I think I'm Warren Ralph's side here. I love the Judas Priest and I love Bruce's album, but if I had to pick one or the other, I was on an island and someone's gonna throw me off into the water with the sharks, I would have to choose Bruce Dickinson because I just think it's a little better production. It sounds like the drums are a lot better, the mix is a lot better. I think his singing is great, even though of course Rob's singing is great, but I just, I kind of like boring Chris. I don't know man, I don't know. Maybe it was about expectations, like I'm not expecting Flight of Icarus, I'm not expecting Rothschild, I'm just expecting more of a diverse, him going off into different directions and that's what he's doing. I was expecting it to suck. Really? Yeah, you know, I got a leaked copy and I was like, okay, I'll review it for my channel and I wouldn't take notes and I was like, damn, I thought this was really gonna suck and it didn't to me man, I loved it. And the slow songs, a lot of people have been commenting about this, the last three songs on Bruce's album, they're slower tracks and a lot of Maiden fans are saying, what on earth is going on here, man? There's no galloping in the last three songs. But if they would have been galloping and they would have been fast, then people would have complained anyways because oh, this sounds too much like Iron Maiden. Yeah, I mean, I think it has to sound a little different from Iron Maiden, right? I found that refreshing. I think one thing for me that maybe would put Judas Priest a little over the edge of liking a little bit more is that it's a little more commercial friendly and I tend to like that sort of thing so it's purely a preference thing, but the slower songs, I think that was great, get creative, do something different. And I get it, don't worry, I get it that you still like the Bruce album, I'm not saying you're knocking one over the other, you're just saying that there's just a slight little hair of an edge with Judas Priest. But apparently Chris, there is no hair there, this we're talking about a whole head, you know. This is a brawn hitting a head bald. It's just, what did you? You're gonna get notes on that one, Chris, more than the a nine score on the Priest album. I probably will. What would you want, maybe I asked this question already, but what would you have preferred to hear on Bruce's album? A gallop? Not necessarily a gallop, because like chemical wedding and, you know, especially chemical weddings, my all-time favorite. So I know I'm comparing it to the best he's ever done, but I just love that bigger sound that they had. Again, I'm not even saying it's Bruce, I'm saying that it's kind of Roy Z. I don't like the guitar sound and maybe I'm getting too old for this, but I don't like long songs as much anymore either. And there's what, four or five of them that are like six or seven minutes long or longer. The last one I think is 10 minutes long. It's like, all right, I'm, you know, same reason I don't listen to Dream Theater, it's too long, it's too stretched out for me. You know, I'll go to Ann's point with the Judas Priest. It's commercial, four minutes in, out, bang. Got it, and love it. You know, just not sold on this one. Ralph or Bruce's Topics, did you follow the story of the lyrics on the Magic Project? No, no. Did you see his movie on chemical wedding? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, that was brutal. Yeah, has anybody seen the chemical wedding movie? It was the Alistair Crowley. After I saw the chemical wedding movie, I don't want to know about Bruce's stories anymore. But man, what a great album that was. It is a great album. On that note, okay, is there any last words, Ann, you want to say about this discussion? It's a quick little in and out discussion, in and out. So your preference, once again, is a slight edge to Judas Priest. Any last closing comments? Yeah, I mean, basically again, I love both records. So it's just very, very close. And this is so fun. So I just want to thank you for having me on. But yeah, it's a great time to be a metalhead. I think that this is some fantastic new music we got. Chris, who would have thought? Bruce has been around, he's 60 years old, Bob Halford's 70 something. And it's the older guys who are cranking out, who are leading the charge in a way, right? It's not the young bucks coming up who are leading the charge. Well, you know what? The ones that, it's some of the older guys, because then there's other guys, and there's the, you know, the Dawkins of the world that are not bringing up the charge. But, you know, I don't know. It just, I'm happy that they're still doing it and doing it at a high level. And as much as I'm saying, I don't like the Mandrake project. I don't want anybody to think that I hate it, hate it. I was giving it a number. I would put it right in the middle, like a five, you know. That sounds like a hate to me. Well, it's not. There's some ones that Judas Priest, if you gave me Nostradamus or the Mandrake project, I'll listen to the Mandrake project backwards before I'll listen to Judas Priest's Nostradamus. You know, I just, there's albums I don't like a lot worse than this, but whatever. It's 2024, we're getting good music from guys that have been doing it for 50 years. So I really am not complaining that much. Ralph, this is probably the last five to 10 years we're gonna hear our favorite artists, or at least we'll call it the Golden Era artists. Any closing, any remarks on that? You know, this is the last kick at the can. How long could people be doing this for? 80, 90, right? Hey man, look. And I don't mean no disrespect by this, but this is how I feel. Judas Priest ended when KK and Glenn weren't there no more. They need to be there. KK and Glenn is Judas Priest to me. Faulkner's awesome, but it's KK and Glenn. And I would love to see KK and Faulkner. That would be lethal. But I think the time has passed, man. I mean, Iron Maiden still has a piece of mind lying out with the ballerina. Yeah. But I think our time, I mean, come on, how many original bands are there out there with all original members? I don't really think so. I don't wanna put everybody on the downer as we close off, but pick up both albums. Before that, everybody would say, oh, CZ Top and Aerosmith got the original lineup. Now they don't. Those are the two last ones, you know? All right, guys. Hey, but let's enjoy it. I mean, That's what I'm getting at. Let's enjoy it. You call it Judas Priest. I call it Rob Hoffer's band featuring Ian Hill. On that note, pick up the new album by Judas Priest, pick up the new album by Bruce Dickinson. I guess it's a tie too, too. Guys, the Metal All Star podcast folks. Thank you so much for being on. A pleasure. We'll do it again. Guys, have yourself a wonderful day.