Screaming For Vengeance

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Product Details

Artist : Judas Priest
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0696998543522
Label : Columbia, Legacy
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2001-06-05
UPC : 696998543522

ASIN : B00005K9LK

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. The Hellion
2. Electric Eye
3. Riding The Wind
4. Bloodstone
5. Chains
6. Pain & Pleasure
7. Screaming For Vengeance
8. Another Thing Coming
9. Fever
10. Devil's Child
11. Prisoner Of Your Eyes
12. Devil's Child (live)

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Editorial Reviews

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After releasing Screaming for Vengeance in 1982, Judas Priest began a creative slide from which they've never recovered. However, if you're going to be remembered for something, it might as well be a record as heavy, incisive, and melodic as Screaming. The disc features the band's biggest hit, "You've Got Another Thing Coming," a sonic inferno that is as hook-laden as it is heavy. But the album also contains uncompromising turbo-blasts such as the title track and the steely "Electric Eye." Throughout, Rob Halford growls and sings in a voice that could at high volumes kill rodents and small dogs, and guitarists K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton unleash their arsenal of inspired and engaging riffs. Classic. The 2001 remastered reissue includes two bonus tracks--a previously unavailable studio extra called "Prisoner of Your Eyes" and a live take on "Devil's Child." --Jon Wiederhorn

Customer Reviews

"Thunderbolt from Hell shattering aloud" (2004-07-16)

After much pondering, I've decided that Screaming for Vengeance is my favorite Judas Priest album-edging out Stained Class, Defenders of the Faith, and British Steel. This 1982 release is one of their most solid albums and the best tracks on this album are also THE best Priest tracks of all time.

"Hellion/Electric Eye" (the first track being a short instrumental introduction to the second) is classic Priest. "Electric Eye" is my all-time favorite Judas Priest song! The haunting lyrics, the verses that build up to the chorus, the killer guitar solos; I can't write enough about it! "Riding on the Wind" is a catchy rocker. It begins with a furious drum intro by Dave Holland (now in prison for a sexual assault conviction). It bugs me a little because parts of it sound like another Priest song but I can never figure out which. Maybe "Heading Out to the Highway." Still, it is one of the better tracks on Screaming. "Bloodstone" is awesome! It is another favorite of mine. It is a driving rocker and the guitar riffs are unbelievable! "(Take These) Chains" (written by R. Halligan Jr.) is a slower, catchy track. I'm sure a lot of fans find themselves singing the chorus. The line "Take them off of my heart" I've always thought was a little sappy but I like Halford's vocals in the line "I can't sleep at night." "Pain and Pleasure" is a monster track. I don't like it quite as well as the others, but a below average song off Screaming is better than most average tracks elsewhere.

The title track is the most furious song Judas Priest has ever done before or since. It kicks so much butt, words cannot do it justice. The fast and screeching "Freewheel Burning" off Defenders of the Faith has nothing on this track! "You've Got Another Thing Coming" is classic Priest. Next to "Living After Midnight," it is probably their most played single. Unlike "Living...," it is not commercial rock 'n roll, but powerful metal. "Fever" is an interesting track. It is slow in parts and then rocks. It has a beauty to it and is very catchy with excellent guitar at the bridge. "Devil's Child" is another rocker with killer, screeching vocals at the bridge. As for the bonus track "Prisoner of Your Eyes," I have a 1988 article from Blast! magazine that states that Glenn Tipton called the ballad one of the best songs Priest has ever done. "Devil's Child" as the live track is a bit disappointing as it is not nearly the best song off Screaming and it plays so close to the studio version. Still, with or without the bonus tracks, Screaming for Vengeance is awesome (it also sports the best Priest album cover). If you own only one Judas Priest album; this should be the one!

A Metal Masterpiece (2004-06-22)

You have to OWN "Screaming for Vengeance". This album showcases one of the greatest bands of the 70's & 80's (and hopefully with the newly reunited Priest of the 2000's?!) I see other reviewers have tried to do a song by song rundown of the tracks on this disk, I won't even attempt that. The entire album is a guitar driven dream, Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing are truly Metal Gods! And the fantastic vocals by Rob Halford make "Vengeance" on of the greatest rock albums of all time! This was the golden age of metal for Priest and if you have been hesitant in buying this disk because you thought that maybe the music wouldn't hold up after twenty years, think again! "Vengeance" is still as exciting and fresh as when it first arrived. If you are only vaguely familiar with Priest or plan on seeing them for the first time this year as Ozzfest, then start your Priest collection here!

Priest's finest hour (2004-06-21)

In the Summer of 1982, English hard rockers Judas Priest released their most successful album entitled Screaming for Vengeance. This album was produced by Tom Allom(whom had produced their previous two offerings, 1980's British Steel and 1981's Point of Entry) and was recorded in Spain and Florida. This album still sounds great today(in 2004) especially Rob Halford's singing, which was just smoking on this album. From the classic opening The Hellion/Electric Eye medley(which had one of Rob Halford's best lead vocal performances ever as he sings in a lower octave then going to snarl) to the classics Bloodstone and Take These Chains(which was the only track not penned by frontman Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing whom penned the rest of the tracks on this classic album) to the hard rocking title track(with Rob's classic falsetto screaming vocal which would make Linkin Park's lead singer runaway after being assaulted in a fight) to the classic rock radio staple You've Got Another Thing Coming. The latter track was the reason why this album became Judas Priest's first Top 20 album in the States and their first Multi-Platinum album and their most successful. At a time when fluff like Duran Duran, Human League, Kajagoogoo and A Flock of Seagulls were big, this album and Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast were a breath of fresh air saying that NEW WAVE was fluff and METAL was going to be king! This album is still a classic. Highly recommended!

Best Priest Album (2004-05-31)

Well, this, in my opinion, must be JP's greatest LP. The awesome intro to the album with Hellion leading right into Electric Eye is dominating at first, but then you drive right into some equally massive tunes. After riding on the wind, a mediocre song, you are blown away by Bloodstone, with a super intro riff and a great chorus, thanks to rob, but that is just the beginning. (Take These)Chains is a great song, as is Pain and Pleasure (awesome guitar), but then the cd climaxes with such great tunes as the MTV favorite You've Got Another Thing Comin, the title song Screaming for Vengeance, and then my favorite song on the album, the AC/DC reminiscent Devil's Child. Album version is simple but insanely awesome, and the live version lives up to the studio in every aspect.

All in all, Screaming for Vengeance is the best non-compilation album... such great songs as were mentioned cannot be compared.

(Most people disagree with my opinion, but I do not think that Priest went downhill from here. They did experience a time of synthisizers and all that stuff (turbo), but they were just victims of changes. I think Ripper did a great job while he was here, and their later albums were better than some of their earlier LPs.)

SCREAMING, SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE! (2004-05-28)

Another hard-whacker from Priest! Now, we all know that Judas Priest are the Metal Gods, and are one of the best bands out there. But on this they are THE best band out there. Sheer, sheer heaviness is exhibited on this album. Everything fits perfectly. Rob's vocal talents lay perfectly on top of KK and Glenn's guitars. Also, the bass and drums are some of the best in rock, let alone metal history. Like somebody wrote on a list, Electric Eye is probably the album's standout track. With that guitar intro, how could you go wrong? This is definitely one of the most essential albums to be released ever.

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