If you think these heavy metal dinosaurs have had it, you’ve got another thing coming.
“Firepower,” the fast-paced title track from the British steel merchants’ latest album, is the best song Judas Priest has recorded in nearly three decades, kicking off a strong album that stands with any they’ve done before.
Though not intended as a concept album, “Firepower” has a common thread running through much of it, songs from the viewpoint of soldiers or warriors in battle, whether it’s the unnamed foes in the title track, the devil in “Evil Never Dies,” or mortal opponents in “No Surrender.” The album ends with “Sea of Red,” an ode to those who died in battle so that others might live.
