Every Judas Priest Albums Ranked Worst To Best
4. Firepower
Placing the most recent Judas Priest album so highly may annoy a few long-time fans, but for your writer's money, this 2015 record is an incredible lesson on how to age gracefully. We’ve already covered the dizzying vocal range of Rob Halford ad nauseam but it can’t be overstated how instrumental (no pun intended) his vocal stylings were to the sound and success of the band.
With that in mind, what’s a man to do when age begins to bring you down a couple of octaves and take away the raucous screaming? The answer is Firepower. What age had stolen, experience has gifted the band in a complete battery of songwriting expertise and nowhere is this more apparent than on this record.
From the opening gambit of namesake song Firepower, through to Lone Wolf and Traitor’s Gate, Judas Priest proves they’re still more than capable of stupendous riffs, epic soundscapes and powerful timbres. Firepower feels like a worthy ode to the greatest Priest albums of the past, whilst also standing apart. The literal high notes may be gone but the band’s famous leather-clad largesse remains.