The Latest work by JUDAS PRIEST is superb in terms of the vocals, the music, and the packaging.It is clearly a concept album that in my view has only one similar album that you can compare it with, which was done by a band in a different genre ( YES, the album I have in mind is TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS).The points in common are that you have Unique vocalists, and musicians who are masters at what they play. Anyway, jettison the comparison.
JUDAS PRIEST stand alone in the Hard rock world as being brilliant musicians, and consistently hard workers who have fans that stick to the PRIEST like few band fans do. In my view there are few bands that can deserve that kind of loyalty in hard rock. And JUDAS PRIEST have produced a work that shows they can play extremely, extraordinarily well.There is not a weak track on the album.
The Package I bought was the the "middle" edition, where the Book has the CDs in the front ( disc 1 ) and in the back ( disc 2). The Book is very well done. Just a word of caution, if you have either sweaty hands at the time you look at the book, or someone who wants to look at this book with any kind of gunk on their hands, try and avoid it: this is a collectors book that needs careful handling. If you can afford the Vinyl edition ( as in Vinyl record version) then you should buy that. Whilst I am tremendously happy with the NOSTRADAMUS work, I am also happy with the edition I bought. This is a great year for Rock releases, and I do mean in the classic, best quality sense.