Having left Priest to pursue other musical adventures (namely Fight, a very Pantera influenced groove metal combo, and 2wo an electronic industrial unit), Uncle Rob thought it was the right time to comeback as the saviour of heavy metal with Halford.
This is the first fruit of those labours, Resurrection released in 2000. To be fair, it’s a really good album and it’s Priest 2.0. I’m sure if he’d have sat down with the Priest guys and said, “do you mind if I did some side projects and stayed the singer of the band?” I’m sure that would have been a goer. Instead, it all got weird and ugly.
There is not a bad song on the record – it’s an old school metal record on steroids. From killer uptempo monsters like the title track, Made In Hell, Cyberworld, and Drive, to the more traditional head groovers like Locked And Loaded, The One You Love To Hate, and stompers like Temptation – this is the best Judas Priest album they never made – it was only a matter of time before the inevitable reunion happened.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
