Judas Priest - '98 Live Meltdown (2CD) (1998)

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Judas Priest - '98 Live Meltdown (2CD) (1998)

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Judas Priest - '98 Live Meltdown (2CD) (1998)

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Year : 1998
Style : Heavy Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 192 mb


Bio:

Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham, England in 1969.Known for twin lead guitars, a wide operatic vocal style, and for introducing the S&M leather-and-studs look into heavy metal, they have sold over 50 million albums worldwide.The band is widely recognised as one of the finest and most original heavy metal bands of all time, with many artists within the genre having cited them as a major influence.MTV ranked them the second "Greatest Metal Band" of all time.Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the late 1970s, the band struggled with indifferently-produced records, repeated changes at the drummer position, and a lack of major commercial success or attention until 1980 when they adopted a more simplified sound on the album British Steel, which helped shoot them to rock superstar status. In 1989, they were named as defendants in an unsuccessful lawsuit alleging that subliminal messages on their albums had caused the suicide attempts of two young men.The band's membership has seen much turnover, including a revolving cast of drummers in the 1970s, and the temporary departure of singer Rob Halford in the early 1990s. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band's best-selling album is 1982's Screaming for Vengeance featuring their most commercially successful line-up, featuring Halford, Tipton, Hill, K. K. Downing (guitar), and Dave Holland (drums).They were a major influence on multiple genres of metal, including but not limited to power metal and thrash metal.Their influence, while mainly Rob Halford's operatic vocal style (widely considered as one of the most unique vocalists in the genre) and the twin guitar sound of K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton, has been adopted by many bands. Their image of leather, spikes, and other taboo articles of clothing were widely influential during the glam metal era of the 1980s.Their 1980 album, British Steel, has been referred to as the "record that, more than any other, codified what we mean by "heavy metal".Despite a decline in exposure during the mid 1990s, the band has once again seen a resurgence, including worldwide tours, being inaugural inductees into the VH1 Rock Honors in 2005, receiving a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2010, and their songs featured in video games such as Guitar Hero and the Rock Band series.

Album:

'98 Live Meltdown is a concert album by Judas Priest, recorded and released in 1998 and is the first live album to feature new lead singer Tim "Ripper" Owens, recorded during the Jugulator Tour. A second live album featuring Owens, Live in London, was released in 2003.First in a long line of non-essential Priest live albums, here’s ’98 Live Meltdown. Why did bands at certain points feel the need to add the year to the title? Warrant – ’96 Belly to Belly – Volume One. Kind of silly, right? For fans who know their metal history, 1998 falls in Judas Priest’s Ripper Owens years. Priest had just released their first album without Rob Halford, Jugulator. Live Meltdown (let’s leave out that ’98 part for simplicity’s sake) captures the tour that followed, from various uncredited dates.Fortunately the album is better than its title and awful cover art. (Shame on you Mark Wilkinson!) Ripper Owens provided fresh young lungs and with him at the mic, Priest were uber-powerful live. All the new tunes from Jugulator were better in the live setting too. “Blood Stained” is devastatingly powerful, and an enthusiastic crowd eats it up. There are a few extraneous Jugulator tunes. The world could have lived without “Death Row” and “Abductors”, and maybe the title track could have been thrown in instead. Fortunately the track list is an otherwise excellent mix of new tracks and old cuts.Priest deserve points for re-imaging their Joan Baez cover “Diamonds and Rust”. The acoustic version was completely new for Judas Priest and Ripper could easily handle the heavy and the light. Even though it’s acoustic, “Diamonds and Rust” represents Sin After Sin on a CD that gives face time to nearly every Priest album. Rocka Rolla and Ram It Down are shunned as usual, but otherwise the only albums without tracks on this are Turbo and Point of Entry. There is an emphasis on the classic material from the 70s, solid songs from the early 80s, and four tracks from Painkiller. It’s a well-rounded album, and by the next live release (2003’s Live in London) they changed it up and added “Turbo” and “Heading Out to the Highway”.Ripper was a great lead singer for this band during Rob’s absence. He took one of the hardest jobs in rock and roll and did it with class. Ripper had the goods. He could scream the notes. He added his own slant with guttural growls. He struggled with “Painkiller” proving he’s a mere mortal but still he got the job done.Live Meltdown was self-produced by Priest and Sean Lynch, but the guitars are too low in the mix. The emphasis is on Ripper, but it seems to come at the expense of the volume of the rhythm guitars. And the packaging is atrocious. While it is true that most metal bands like Priest found themselves on smaller record labels, this is worse than a 90s indy band. Fortunately the music and performance justify its existence.Curious fans are advised to pick up Live Meltdown for the best representation of the Ripper Owens years. It’s better than Jugulator and Live in London. Fans are unanimously happy that Rob Halford is back in Judas Priest today, but that shouldn’t be taken as a slight against Ripper.

Line-Up:

Tim "Ripper" Owens – vocals
K. K. Downing – guitar
Glenn Tipton – guitar
Ian Hill – bass guitar
Scott Travis – drums

Production:

Produced and mixed by Judas Priest and Sean Lynch
Engineered by Will Shapland
Mastered by Tim Burrell
Album cover by Mark Wilkinson
Photography by Ross Halfin, John McMurtrie, Babz Bell, George Chin, and John Stone

Tracklist:

CD1:

01. The Hellion - 1:09
02. Electric Eye - 3:47
03. Metal Gods - 4:09
04. Grinder - 4:26
05. Rapid Fire - 4:24
06. Blood Stained - 5:09
07. The Sentinel - 5:47
08. A Touch Of Evil - 5:51
09. Burn In Hell - 5:35
10. The Ripper - 3:52
11. Bullet Train - 5:59
12. Beyond The Realms Of Death - 7:14
13. Death Row - 4:23

CD2:

01. Metal Meltdown - 5:03
02. Night Crawler - 6:11
03. Abductors - 5:55
04. Victim Of Changes - 8:32
05. Diamonds And Rust - 3:55
06. Breaking The Law - 2:36
07. The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown) - 4:53
08. Painkiller - 6:29
09. You've Got Another Thing Comin' - 8:35
10. Hell Bent For Leather - 3:49
11. Living After Midnight - 6:02


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