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Judas Priest

Великобритания

Heavy Metal
Hard 'n' Heavy

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2 сен 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST's SCOTT TRAVIS On 'Nostradamus' Album: 'I Don't Think It Was Our Strongest Release'
27 авг 2025 :	ROB HALFORD Looks Back On JUDAS PRIEST's 'Turbo': 'When That Album Came Out, Everybody Wanted To Throw It In The Bin'
24 авг 2025 :	SCOTT TRAVIS On TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS-Era JUDAS PRIEST Albums Not Being Available On Streaming Services: 'It's Probably A Delicate Situation'
22 авг 2025 :	SCOTT TRAVIS Says JUDAS PRIEST Will Release A Version Of 'War Pigs' With Vocals From Both OZZY OSBOURNE And ROB HALFORD
28 июл 2025 :	Watch: GLENN TIPTON Rejoins JUDAS PRIEST On Stage In London During Summer 2025 European Tour
25 июл 2025 :	Watch: JUDAS PRIEST Pays Tribute To OZZY OSBOURNE During Scarborough, U.K. Concert
18 июл 2025 :
14 июл 2025 :	Watch: JUDAS PRIEST Celebrates 35th Anniversary Of 'Painkiller' Album In Poland
4 июл 2025 :	Watch: JUDAS PRIEST Celebrates 35th Anniversary Of 'Painkiller' Album At Italy's FERRARA SUMMER FESTIVAL
2 июл 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST Releases Cover Version Of BLACK SABBATH's 'War Pigs': 'We Are Honored To Show Our Love'
13 июн 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST Launches 'Shield Of Pain' Tour Celebrating 35th Anniversary Of 'Painkiller' Album
22 май 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST Documentary, Co-Directed by TOM MORELLO, Coming From SONY MUSIC VISION
18 май 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST's RICHIE FAULKNER Reveals He Suffered Stroke That Left Him With Permanent Brain Damage
3 май 2025 :	ROB HALFORD Still Loves 'The Writing Experience' With JUDAS PRIEST: 'It's So Exciting'
26 апр 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST's SCOTT TRAVIS Says 'It's A Great Honor' To Be Considered One Of Best Heavy Metal Drummers Of All Time
24 апр 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST’s Entire Latin American Tour 2025 São Paulo Show; Fan-Filmed Video
21 апр 2025 :	ROB HALFORD Says K.K. DOWNING's 'Place In JUDAS PRIEST Is Permanent': 'I Wish Him All The Best'
20 апр 2025 :	SCOTT TRAVIS: JUDAS PRIEST Hopes To Work On Next Album In 2026
18 апр 2025 :	SCOTT TRAVIS: Why JUDAS PRIEST Doesn't Perform Any TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS-Era Songs
16 апр 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST's RICHIE FAULKNER On GLENN TIPTON: 'He's Doing What He Can To Keep Going'
15 апр 2025 :	Former JUDAS PRIEST Drummer LES BINKS Dies; Band Issues Statement
13 апр 2025 :	IAN HILL Says Most Of JUDAS PRIEST's Concerts Are Professionally Recorded: 'We'll See Where It Leads'
3 апр 2025 :	RICHIE FAULKNER Says JUDAS PRIEST Has Already Talked About Follow-Up To 'Invincible Shield': 'We'll Have To Wait And See'
22 мар 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST's RICHIE FAULKNER: 'You Can Never Replace Someone Like K.K. DOWNING'
4 фев 2025 :	ROB HALFORD On JUDAS PRIEST's Musical Evolution: 'We Have Always Had An Eye On What's Happening Around Us'
19 янв 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST's IAN HILL On His Longtime Bandmates: 'We're Still Tremendous Friends And We Always Will Be'

2 сен 2025

JUDAS PRIEST's SCOTT TRAVIS On 'Nostradamus' Album: 'I Don't Think It Was Our Strongest Release'

In a new interview with Chris Akin of The Classic Metal Show, JUDAS PRIEST drummer Scott Travis was asked if he and his bandmates still look back fondly on their controversial symphonic heavy metal concept double album about Nostradamus, which came out more than a decade and a half ago. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I think it would depend on who you talk to in the band. [Laughs] For me personally, yeah, I don't think it was our strongest release, and it was meant to mimic — not mimic, but it was meant to go after the sort of, not the crowd, 'cause it was definitely for the PRIEST fans, but the… What am I trying to say? It was trying to go after something that could be made more than just a rock band doing a rock album and releasing it and doing a tour. In other words, it was meant to be something that maybe could have been turned into some kind of theater show or could have gone on to be a bigger production. I'm not really sure. I just remember hearing the talk about the idea initially to do an album based around Nostradamus's life and things like that."

Referencing the fact that "Nostradamus" arrived three years before the departure of founding PRIEST guitarist Kenneth "K.K." Downing and a decade before the retirement from the road of fellow PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton, Travis added: "Thinking back on it, it was also near the end of the K.K.- Glenn relationship. Do you know what I mean? 'Cause they were still in the band, but there was a lot of fracture there. And again, I was witness to it. And I could tell things probably weren't gonna last. I didn't know what would happen or that K.K. would actually leave the band — I certainly didn't predict that — but I could just tell that they weren't getting along and everybody as a group was kind of just spreading out and living in different parts of the world."

Last October, JUDAS PRIEST bassist Ian Hill told Chris Akin Presents about "Nostradamus": "It was probably something we needed to get out of our system. But it's one of those albums — it's very long, very complicated as well, and it is designed to be listened to in one sitting, which is one of the reasons that we don't play any songs from that record. It's great — I mean, it is, at heart, a great heavy metal record; it really is — but it's picking out the songs that would fit into the set at the moment. And there's not anything there that would enhance the set. But for the sake of it, we could do that — [play a song] from 'Nostradamus' — but it wouldn't have helped the set in any other way. And it is difficult to do, when you're getting a setlist together, because you have to find that blend of new material, obviously old favorites that you'd get lynched if you didn't play, and then you've got a whole melting pot there of stuff that we can pick out of. And it gets more difficult with each album, because every time you put a new song in, you've got to drop someone's potential favorite. But we do our best, and I think we've got it pretty much right up until now anyway."

Released in 2008, "Nostradamus" was criticized by fans for not sounding like classic PRIEST and for consisting almost entirely of slow, doomy, operatic, keyboard-heavy anthems, apart from a token couple of mid-tempo songs.

The two-CD, 23-track journey through the life of the controversial, 16th-century prophet "Nostradamus" shifted 42,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 11. At the time, this was the band's highest-ever chart position in the U.S. In Canada, the CD opened at position No. 9 after moving close to 4,000 units.

In a 2020 interview with The Flying V Documentary TV Channel, Downing said about "Nostradamus": "A lot of people probably don't understand or quite get 'Nostradamus', but it was great for us — it was great for us to express and to exhibit what we could actually do as musicians. And also it was something original. And I love it. The downfall of 'Nostradamus' was probably the one thing that I actually thought, naively, was gonna be the best thing about 'Nostradamus', and that is the fact that I wanted to take people back to how it used to be," he continued.

"Years ago, when you had a big concept album, like when I first got [THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE's] 'Electric Ladyland', for example, we used to go in our bedroom, close the curtains, put the headphones on and just disappear into our world for however long it took to get through the album and just absorb it and just be at one with it. And I wanted people to experience 'Nostradamus' like that."

Back in 2018, Downing described "Nostradamus" as "our chance to create something different in the music place that we don't always go to. We have lots of great musicals, and we go into great, prestigious venues, like the Royal Albert Hall or Carnegie Hall — great theaters around the place," he said. "To create something and not let everyone else have all of the spoils — 'Phantom Of The Opera' and 'Cats' and all of these musicals and stuff like that. Why can't we, JUDAS PRIEST, put something that's rock and metal into that musical and entertainment place?

"Okay, we might have been going off on a tangent, getting on the wrong track as far as everybody wanting a [classic-sounding] JUDAS PRIEST record, but looking at the bigger picture of broadening the scope and the horizons of what a rock and metal band can do, it's an opportunity kind of missed through no fault of anyone's except our own record company and management, or whatever, decisions," he continued. "It wasn't to be, and probably it was a good decision. But it's a dream — it's a dream for me. I often think about it."

In a 2009 interview with PyroMusic.net, PRIEST singer Rob Halford also defended "Nostradamus", saying: "For us in the band, it was just a wonderful opportunity to complete an idea that we'd had and we'd talked about for many, many years. Growing up as we did, there were a lot of those types of concept records around in the '70s and we always wondered how we would tackle that kind of endeavor. So 'Nostradamus' turned out to be a real satisfying experience for us all."

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3 сен 2025

Gleb Monster

К сожалению, ещё одно подтверждение того, что переругались именно КК и Типтон.
Теперь ясно, почему КК так удивлялся, что его не позвали назад, когда Гленн, как казалось, сошёл с дистанции.

3 сен 2025

RomV

*всё ещё ждёт обещанного выступления с исполнением всего альбома целиком от начала, до конца и выпуск DVD*
Ну а если серьёзно, то для меня как-то психологически этот релиз так и остался "последним альбомом" пристов. Да есть песни которые мне ну очень нравятся с последующих уже трёх альбомов, но ничего не могу поделать, Нострадамус - это последний. И вот иногда думаю, а какое бы это было грандиозное завершение карьеры. Уйти на самой высокой точке. Записать двойной концептуальный альбом. Крайне крутой, вобравший в себя всё, что делала группа за годы и при этом представивший наследие в новом свете, в том чего парни ещё не делали никогда. Для меня Нострадамус это пристовский шедевр.

Шикарный альбом!

А ведь и правда, после Нострадамуса альбомы у них перестали быть интересными. Обычный проходняк делают.

3 сен 2025

Klawd Air

Сложный для восприятия альбом. Прослушал раз, без вникания в текст - почти нихрена не понял и в музыкальном смысле тоже. Только после перевода текста до меня дошла и музыкальная составляющая. Хорошо когда группы решаются сделать нечто подобное.

3 сен 2025

Jackk

недавно, кстати, прослушал его и еще раз убедился, что он и не плохой, и не хороший...такой где-то сам по-себе. Ну уж намного лучше пенсионного Редимера, которы полностью послушал может 2-3 раза, ну не тянет он мне вообще )))
а вот Файерпавер отличный и один из любимых, Шилд также хорош!!!

3 сен 2025

ElectricRetard

Все еще считаю, что он был бы лучше в однодисковом варианте.