 Live on the metal voice on a Thursday evening and a great news everyone I think this everybody's expecting this as Panic attack from Judas Priest is You know, it's it's out there and people are super excited So we thought we just you know give it a quick review because we were just so excited. We couldn't contain ourselves And you know what? And Wilson we're gonna talk about panic attack panic attack panic attack Thursday night after work and here we are we usually you don't usually don't get us at a Thursday night Eastern time I didn't even I'm not even wearing a metal shirt. I didn't even dress for the occasion always wear my anvil shirt All right, so this is what I'm gonna do I've actually what I've done with the song is I've kind of just broke it down into pieces and you could comment as we talk about those pieces All right, sure I've listened to it a few times Enough enough to break it down into pieces. All right. So here we go We all know the beginning right the beginning starts off with this cool techno keyboard Sound right to me. I was thinking about and I'll tell you ask you what you were thinking about when you heard this Keyboard techno sound I was thinking about Billy idle rebel yell just like at the beginning of it and that keyboard starts Well, what what what comes to your mind when you hear this? Yeah Well first, you know, we heard that snippet last weekend because that's what they released as the tease Yeah, but we want we weren't sure what it was. So now we know what is the intro to the first single I I didn't quite go to Billy idle 80s pop. I look I think I and a lot of people instantly went to Turbo and I know a lot of people were asking themselves Is this how I'm gonna be like turbo? Well, I would pause there. I I know what you're saying about turbo. It's got the keyboard element, right? Yeah, it doesn't work to get synth to me This sounds more like a techno keyboard than actually a sort of like just playing some chords, you know But I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. It's a turbo throwback Well, and it's also very I thought it was very dream theater-ish like it's it's kind of like ambient, right? Like kind of like a little bit of what Derek Sharon in used to play Kevin Moore Jordan ambient would be more of Turbo that would be more ambient. Yeah, well, that's why I kind of I Did remind me of turbo, but I mean honestly more than turbo and more than 80s techno I mean, it does sound progressive. It sounds it sounds dream theater ish There's no way around it I mean if you listen to Derek shirinian as an example who was entering theater his last couple of solo albums Kind of sounds like that kind of music Look, I like that intro. Honestly. I think it's a great intro metal maniac 1911 says the word you're looking for is synth wave. You have nailed it my friend Since the wave is exactly what we're looking at it and does have this like rave kind of techno feel to it, right? But it's not it's still metal, but I'm just saying that's sort of like the intro to the song And what a beautiful intro it is Yeah, it definitely sets the mood, right? I mean, you know, sometimes the intro is kind of makes you turn off the song And this is an intro. It's a hook, right? It definitely this is bringing you in This is like it's definitely a what's gonna happen next kind of intro Okay, so I like this Michael saying the introduction reminds me of the beginning of Nostradamus. I think Michael It's a very clever way because because It's not And it builds up it builds the song up so you are right about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, all right So these are we got some we're starting off Okay, and the production in general is a very bright production. I would say this to me didn't sound like sneak It did not sound like sneak sneak sounds more compressed Digitally compressed this sounds more bright, you know more on behind me, but it is produced It is definitely look one note I took is that it's a very produced track like this isn't look, you know, sometimes bands will be like Yeah, we recorded it live off the floor and that's what we put on the album. This isn't that this is like a lot of takes Put together and it's best possible form and that's not bad and it's not good But it's a very Paul it's polished. It was it was it's it's it sounds the way it sounds very deliberately Ambient not ambient Wow tomato tomato depends where you're from Look, you know what you know, I say Billy Idol because this is the cool thing about Billy Idol Derek sharonian was in Billy Idol actually do thing that I mentioned it before Moni Moni Moni Moni The the thing about when I think of rebel yell It's got a kick like a big kick of a song, right? It's got a I wouldn't say a punch in your face, but it's got a kick But it has this big 80s reverb sound That's what I'm hearing here in this song. It's this big bright Fat 80 sound you lost me a bit of Moni Moni. I'm still saying I'll be I'll get more specific. I'll say dream theater falling into infinity keyboard sound So I mean, I'll say Billy Idol go listen to falling to infinity and tell me what you think, you know All right, so then it has a verse, right? Of course, it kind of builds up from the keyboard and it goes into There's something before the verse. There's something before the verse that I think is very important Go ahead. So coming out of the keyboard intro because you still don't know what you're gonna get I'm not getting turbo or am I getting something else defenders of the faith or painkiller There's a pretty cool riff really good riff coming right out of the keyboard synth piece And yes, you know, and it's not a riff that's permeates through the whole song It's a riff that kicks the song off Uh, and I thought that was really really well done the way they went from the synth intro into what I think is a really Really attractive Meeting really really and that's where I see the nostradamus connection because you got that keyboard Sort of transitioning to the song that mid part that that transition point um Very excited and jim harrison says a wicked riff exciting and I agree then you get into the verse Right and halford is singing half of the verse and just like just as a single vocal But also the second part of the verse It's it's more of like a harmonies like he's doing that screaming part the head voice stuff with his sort of chest voice A very nice punchy upbeat verse. What'd you think? I I also think that Rob isn't over singing and I think it's important given His age and where his voice is. I mean, I realize it's it's not live It's it's a produced track but at the end of the day I like that he's singing in his low to mid range and he's not going super high Uh, and maybe we're he's saving that for later and we'll see sort of thing But I kind of just like the range that he's singing in I really like I really like where he's singing so you know great first minute and The verse really kind of it engages you it definitely engages you that's that's then we got the chorus panic attack panic attack panic attack, right? It's a they're repeating it. I think it sounds like sort of like a mission impossible kind of soundtrack a song too Mission impossible. It's just and you know what? Okay. It's got that scorpions repeat the chorus repeat the Song title Don't you think you know, it's like, yeah, but but you know what look you're not gonna work You're not gonna forget the name of the song. You're definitely, you know, what is this again? That's pretty clearly panic attack Yeah, yeah Silverstone is saying the song is professionally written and has progressive elements that doesn't make it straightforward boring Best I heard since a long time. I would agree with you. I'm very excited about the song I do like the panic attack because that's what it is. It's a panic attack And I feel like it's a heart's beating right the strong gets a bit front when you get to the chorus It's a bit frantic, right the songs. That's a good word. I think the lyric Reflects what's going on in the song Yeah, yeah, yeah, then you of course you go back to the verse What we just talked about you go back to the chorus again panic attack panic attack And then it goes to a bridge Right, it goes just a little off tangent But the cool thing is it doesn't only go through one bridge. It goes to a second bridge where you're going yourself Holy mackerel. Is this king diamond them? But you know again staying in the priest ballpark You know, I wrote painkiller. I'm like, okay, wait a minute between you know, I feel like okay I've gone in the same song from hearing Hey, are they trying to do a bit of what they did in turbo to wait a minute? Are they kind of doing what they did in painkiller here? So kind of Wow, you know, they say you can't be all things to all people But so far, you know, it's where we are in this review of the track They kind of are being all things to all priest fans I'm doing it pretty well. I have to say, you know Yeah, yeah But I got I will point this out one more time. There is like the second bridge like there's a first bridge and the second bridge I'm kind of going this really could have come off of a king diamond album sort of that Screamy falsetto Highs as well as the way sort of the progressions of the bridge when we said progressive song This is where it gets progressive if you pay really close attention The progression of the song and it just seamlessly goes from the verse to the chorus to the bridge to the second bridge and then hang on We got iron maiden guitar harmonies happening So it goes out of the bridge into iron maiden guitar galloping and harmonies. Would you agree? I would and look, you know, say what you want about richie, but I'm listening to that and I'm here in classic KK and glenn. I'm hearing classic Dave Murray, Adrienne Smith. Look Those two bands have always been known for those, you know, those dueling leads, you know, those those harmonies those guitar harmonies And it's here like it's it's ticking that box. It's it's, you know, if you're a priest fan from just about any era Or if you're a fan of what maiden was doing as well, you're getting it here. It's it's ticking that box Yeah Here's where you just mentioned now. You're getting into solo one solo two solo three Now you're getting into electric eye guitar solo territory or or painkiller again If you weren't thinking heavier Judas Priest electric eye painkiller You know heavier moments on defenders of the faith before you're definitely thinking about them now I I just adore these good guitar solos. They're they're sort of like lightning Think of think of electric eye, right? Just that sort of speed that speed and that tone that rushed panic tone Now that the panic attack vocals are matching sort of the guitar solo in the same sense. It's frantic. It's a panic And man, oh man, Richie and glenn and Andy sneak whoever's doing these solos really capture the spirit of the the Judas Priest soloing right there I mean, I would think a lot of it is Richie and who knows what they did in the studio We could be doing both of them and layered one top of the other for all we know Uh, but but yeah, I mean, I definitely look Richie Has like made his place in the band. He's really put his stamp on what he does in Judas Priest So, you know, no one's here to comment on the way things went down all we can really judge is what they are and Richie has really carved out a place for him in this modern version of Judas Priest There's no doubt about it and his his fingerprints are all over this song I mean, if if I was transported back into the 80s, I would say this is a KK Tipton Sort of trade-offs back and forth, right? I mean, it could have definitely but more this this seems it just more fresh I there's something about the song that it has a fresh element to it Where the last album did it? Okay. We're getting out of solo one. Okay. I like power We're getting out of solo one solo two and solo three. I think there's about three solos And then you think it'd go back to the vocals, but no now it's galping again You've got the gout and now you've got the twin guitar harmonies or even maybe even three guitar harmonies But it's going for at least a minute. Yeah It's not a short look. It's about a five and a half minute song, right? So they're definitely taking you on a bit of a kind of a journey on this song here It's not just three minutes wham-bam thanking man and we're done like if there's you're going on a bit of a trip here, you know Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know what I like about this song It's about time it shifted gears a little bit And it there's a sense of originality in there Like, you know what priest hasn't actually gone there before maybe because they're mixing so many of their past legacy elements And they're creating something new from that But to me it sounds like, you know, it does sound like painkiller, but it's not it sounds like turbo, but it's not And jim it sounds like firepower, but it's not but it's not here a bit of what they've been doing Like one of the notes I took was kind of like if if turbo painkiller and and firepower had a threesome This is what would come out of it, you know And I and look we're we're talking about albums. I like for different reasons, right? I like, you know, given where we were In 1990 1991, I really like what painkiller did Given what the climate was in 1986 I like what turbo did and I thought firepower was one of the better albums From a from a classic heavy metal band that we had heard in a long time. So look I don't under I couldn't see How a judas priest fan of any era Could hear this song unless you only liked kind of rock and roll us sad wings Sin after sin stained class and you got off the bus there, you know So maybe I I don't even I don't know if I can say I can really make a line between this and the early early judas priest But from the late 70s early 80s priest to the synthy priest of turbo and ram it down To painkiller and what they've been doing since the reunion This should please pretty much most priest fans and I agree. I won't compare it to anything else, you know, but I talked a lot about variety on the last show that we did Well, there's variety and diversity Just in one song here Let alone The album we're not finished. We're not finished the song. We're not finished the song. There's more to the song than this Somebody said apollo said where's king diamond? No king diamonds not on the song. It has a king diamond Vibe like on the second bridge He's kind of you think wait the music kind of sounds like king diamond them And you know those shrieking high falsetto vocals that king diamond does that's what i'm saying I'm not saying king diamond's on the song Just saying has a vibe. All right. We're coming out Of the the galloping guitar harmonies. We go back to the verse as we know We go into the chorus and then Halford rips out, you know, that's sort of like that the finale screen. Yeah money shot the money note the money note However, if you really pay attention, it's not your typical scream where it all ends and that's it It's kind of like he's he's picking this this this note where it sort of continues Because the song does continue He he's going for that that money note at the end However, it still continues to gallop the guitars and there is another solo which will probably be the fourth solo care to comment Yeah, he looked so okay. I'm only two listens in now. So you're you're kind of picking up on a lot more than I did, but Usually in a five and a half minute song Uh, you know once we've gotten through a couple of verses and a chorus a couple times and the soloing and the bridge You know, I'm kind of wishing the song was four minutes and not five and a half minutes But I don't like I didn't see the five and a half minutes go by and listening to this thing Like I couldn't believe it was over. So yeah, like as they come out of the chorus and After the last solo and we're kind of winding things down. This thing still has my attention I'm almost wondering what's going to happen next But we kind of just edited we we just we just booked I guess the end of the song book ended The the part that came after the keyboard intro very very nicely So there's a certain there's a certain symmetry to the song that I like also Well, I'm just going to end off with this The scream that big money note scream at the end Solo more galloping it goes back into the chorus panic attack panic attack And it is beautiful with ended it would be so typical to end it off on that big note scream at the end But they don't they keep it going It's just a punch at the end and then you're done. Yeah, and look Jim. I'll say this A first single is supposed to kind of leave you wanting more making you say Okay, man, I can't wait to hear the second single I you know, I wonder what the album is going to bring So if if the goal of this was to plant a seed in the fan base and kind of get them excited what was coming next They did it, you know, I mean this definitely This definitely has our interest and it's almost a shame that we the way the music business is now The album is not coming out till march of 2024. So we're still what we're november december january We're five months away from the album release now Of course in about a month. We'll probably get another single and then six weeks after that We'll probably get another single and then I mean by the time the album comes We might have already heard four of the tracks Maybe they'll be you know, six seven or eight left depending on the version of the album But all I know is we're one single in and I can't wait to hear what comes next I mean, you know, also, there's a fear every time, you know, and by the way, I'm not ignoring I'm just kind of looking at the chat here. I just everybody thinks I'm ignoring them But I'm not I'm just paying attention. There's just things coming off, you know Um Here's my biggest fear My biggest fear is they always fire off on all cylinders on that first single on the second single And then it's kind of like, okay. I heard the rest of the album before a thousand times Yeah, but I'll say this about firepower You know, I say this about a lot of albums these days I feel like bands do a funny thing with the singles and like I actually liked the non singles on firepower better than I like the singles I I kind of didn't mind No surrender the song kind of about glen tipton But the song firepower itself didn't do a ton for me And I liked songs like necromancer that wasn't a single and specters that wasn't a single and traitors gates That might have been like a late single while after the it was released much better on fire I like the deeper cuts on firepower better than I like what they released is a single so Maybe this is the opposite I don't know but all I know is if if I'm gonna like the non singles better than the single I just heard this is gonna be a pretty great album Let's just say this based on what we've heard This has the potential Only the potential to be the best Judas Priest album that they've released Since reuniting in 2004 so We'll see and I mean we still have uh, you know, this is only one single But if I'm gonna, you know base an opinion on the lead single, this is definitely the best First track we've heard. Yeah, it's better than the first track they released from firepower It's better than the first track they released from ostradamus Uh, it's better than the first track they released from Redeemer of souls And it's probably better than the first track they released from angel of retribution Yeah, and I like the angel of retribution and I like firepower. All right, let's go let's go to the comments here Okay, melissa says can he pull this off live? You know what? I guess I don't know. It's gonna be hard. But you know what who cares? I mean, I would think you know what there's nothing wrong with overextending yourself in a studio and making something wonderful Yep, right. There's nothing wrong with that. And if you can't pull it off live Well, you just look for other notes to hit I don't need life to sound look I I don't want again We you know, I don't want to ban live to sound exactly like the studio otherwise. I'll listen to the record I don't want it to be a piss poor rendition either. So look if you look at the clips of power trip from this past weekend, you know Rob definitely in some places he's getting some help and in some places He's just doing his best and it's his best isn't what he used to In some cases he's not going for the high like he used to go for the high because he knows his limitations I appreciate a singer who knows his limitations I'd rather you give me, you know Something better in a lower register than trying to hit a high note. You can't hit anymore Well, I mean also the beautiful thing about rob alford and his voice He has always known when to overdo things and when not to overdo things if you listen throughout his That's why he's one of the greatest vocalists of all time in metal at least He knows that you can't do painkiller on every album on every song You got to go down you got to go up you got to go all around your range And you got to fit your voice to the melody of the song and not trying to prove You could hit the highest note on every song and that's probably the biggest A trap of all upcoming vocalists They can hit these high notes and what happens is they want to prove themselves over and over again And I get it usually the first album is like that But after a while you have to sort of Sell your voice not your notes You know, you know While you're looking for the next comment one thing I wanted to say that was in my notes that we ever There's tons of comment I love the way scott travis's drum sound on this on this song. I really love the way they recorded scott travis You know pause pause melissa. I says I don't want it to sound the same But I just want him to know his limits and not try to recreate the studio version Melissa go look at your sent you a text message. You want to jump on Go ahead Yeah, so what did you think of the drum sound? So you were asking the questions. I'll ask it because I I was really impressed by the way they captured scott travis's powerful playing but tasteful and Again, the sound sounds a little bit one way In that in in the turwish intro, but then it sounds a little bit different when it kicks in So I just really love what they what they did of scott travis's drum sound. So I paid attention. Yes I think I think on fire. Here's my here's my analysis of firepower It sounds like a circle everything is kind of all the music is all sort of compressed together This song is a little more spacey. You hear everything. You hear everything well Whereas firepower the drums and the bass they're all in one little tight little circle This one's more spread out And you could actually when you put on headphones you can hear everything properly The drums are really good if you pay attention to the drums He's keeping the same tempo, but at the same time he's playing a different drum pattern Check that out right at the end of the song if you want to be impressed Um, let's see some comments here The metal block. Sorry guys. Am I losing my voice here worked all day? I like how don docan sounds the same on you. So don docan wait a second. Where are we going here? Maybe i'm missing a part of the chat here. Hold on Jim harrison the best is yet to come john is saying judas effin priest Johnny pierce says easier to sing than painkiller. I'd say Not all highs Technology will help him pull it off live Uh It doesn't need to sound like painkiller for me Look, I've got on record that I know for a lot of people painkillers They're favorite like the ultimate judo priest record and I've said for me It's only like maybe my eighth or ninth or tenth favorite judo priest record because I feel like painkiller at times There's two over the top and again. I like variety. I like diversity I like an album where you know, give me some really over the top stuff But give me some mid tempo stuff and yeah even give me a ballad or two So, you know, again, I feel like within this song we got Rob doing so many different things No, so how would you rate it? And I'll ask everybody out there if you want to rate it out of 10 on your if you've heard it Maybe you haven't heard it, but if you have heard it, what would you rate out of 10? What would you rate out of 10 burn? We're gonna bring the list on she's gonna give her input here Man, I gotta go eight and a half or nine like honestly, I'm really really I'm really impressed I'm like, you know, we're talking about, you know, not Richie obviously and not Scott But and we're talking about like Ian Rob. You know, we're talking about, you know, Glenn We're talking about guys in their 70s And honestly, it's it's good. It's heavy and you know what it's creative It's like there's it's original and how how nice is that how fresh is that? Like it, you know, again, it doesn't alienate any part of the fan base Like I said, if you came on board of turbo, then you like it If you came on board of painkiller, you like it, you know, if you love defenders, I think you like this. So Really well done. So I got to give it an eight and a half or nine again I've only listened to it twice, but I'm probably gonna listen to this thing like 10 more times like tonight and tomorrow Okay, let's let's bring on somebody else's opinion here. All right, here we go Can producer Jimmy get this right? Well, we see your head. We got the top of Melissa's head. Got a top on my head Yeah, all right. There we are I look like a hag, but thanks for having me on We didn't we didn't have time to get into hair and makeup either. So, you know, we just had to kind of get on there and do this Teaser when you lose hair, you don't have time for hair. Anyways, so anyways Yeah, so I've heard snippets of it. I didn't I haven't heard the entire song to be perfectly honest All right, it's a good way to start the review But here's my thing. But here's my thing is here's my thing is I just want to make sure that I mean I do I want this album to reflect The Judas Priest up today. Do you know what I mean? Yeah I don't I don't want them to try to do another screaming for vengeance because they can't or I should say they can't Rob can't And that's okay I agree. I agree. So but so do you think from from the snippets you heard Do you think they're doing that? Do you think they are Being the best Judas Priest they can be in 2023 or do you feel like they're trying to kind of Like I'm saying it's a good thing that this sounds a little turbo. This sounds a little painkiller But do you think they're kind of trying to copy themselves or do you think that this is naturally what's coming out of them? I think that you know, it's it's It's natural to be inspired by yourself, right to take All your your back catalog and kind of put it in a blender And maybe modernize it a little bit and see what you can come up with And I know that that Richie has breathed life into this band And I know the guitar work is going to be excellent Right, we know that. I mean, I think that I I'm excited about this. I've already pre-ordered it Okay, I'm excited to hear this. I'm excited to hear this album, you know, I just like I said I just I don't want it to be over produced. I don't want it to sound like an Aussie record Do you know what I mean? Well, I think that's how I think of firepower actually I think of it as so overproduced that it kind of loses something In terms of I like the album and I guess I don't want anybody to think I don't like this album I really do like firepower. I think just some great tracks there But I just found that because it was so overproduced it kind of lost something I know you you don't put it on the same pedestal Like I know myself Orlando other people really love firepower and you're more lukewarm about it You know, you don't put it on the same album. It's a great album. Don't get me wrong I just thought it could have been better. The material is great on that record I think it's great material You know the production you can kind of take or leave It kind of depends on your taste when it comes to what kind of a production you like But I thought the material on that record was better than we had seen on the two records before Okay, let's get back to this rating here. Sam is saying 8.72. That's very precise. Yeah One tenth over one hundredth or whatever that is 10 out of 10 mad max Johnny says 11 out of 10 and michael says 8 out of 10 And Perrin you said I said eight and a half nine eight and a half nine and I would go with nine I would lean a little towards nine because I just love the The freshness of the production like I said, I like the progression Of the all the sort of the whole song. It's very proggy kind of type song, but still metal And even though it has keyboards, it's still metal Yeah, the keyboards are excellent. The keyboards are good. I like the keyboard. It adds to it. It really adds Billy idle meets painkiller Okay, I I'm still in the dream theater I agree with I agree with Perrin on the dream theater. I think it's some more dream thirder-ish than uh, Where's it be so scared of billy idle? I don't understand Don't be scared of him. Just don't I've seen billy idle live Geez with gerek shorin and dream theater on key on that note on that note. Thank you for joining us Thank you for putting your input Listen to the whole thing In different parts of the world it's being released as we speak. So there you go. All right Everybody have yourself a wonderful night. Okay. Bye