{"id":559,"date":"2001-10-11T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-11T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2024-03-26T01:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T01:39:05","slug":"judas-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Judas Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/9064-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rock Star<\/em>\u00a0could have been Judas Priest\u2019s meal ticket. The band was offered a generous, undisclosed sum for rights to Ripper Owens\u2019 story as its replacement for Rob Halford. If Owens\u2019 Halford-esque screams didn\u2019t seem genuine on Priest\u2019s last effort, wait \u2019til you hear\u00a0<em>Demolition<\/em>, easily the band\u2019s worst to date. Owens\u2019 vocal gymnastics are feigned and stale, which is a state they\u2019ll likely remain in as long as he\u2019s an active member of this band. Drummer Scott Travis, who belongs in Racer X, puts in a fine performance, and bassist Ian Hill holds the crumbling foundation together somehow. Were it not for a great love of K.K. Downing\u2019s and Glen Tipton\u2019s dual-guitar wizardry, I would have demolished, pun intended, this album on arrival. Ripper was and remains a tribute-band frontman, at least as long as Rob Halford walks the earth. Kiss and make up, boys. We need our metal gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock Star\u00a0could have been Judas Priest\u2019s meal ticket. The band was offered a generous, undisclosed sum for rights to Ripper Owens\u2019 story as its replacement for Rob Halford. If Owens\u2019 Halford-esque screams didn\u2019t seem genuine on Priest\u2019s last effort, wait \u2019til you hear\u00a0Demolition, easily the band\u2019s worst to date. Owens\u2019 vocal gymnastics are feigned and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}