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Ettersom jeg blei veldig glad i AOR-plata - og siden Lochness er en utrolig bra låt! (tonedøve nisser som ikke kan skjønne såpass! ) - så ser jeg i aller høyeste grad fram til denne plata! Jeg regner med Priest er inne i et godt sig nå, og er i stand til å gjøre noe stort ut av et slikt prosjekt.

Håper bare det ikke blir for episk, noe det godt kan bli iom at det er snakk om ett konseptalbum.

Dette har jeg faktisk litt troen på. Ikke fordi jeg tror historien kommer til å bli spesielt god, men fordi jeg tror bandet er nødt til å prøve litt nye ting for å unngå å stagnere akkurat nå. Kan bli bra.

Gladøks wrote:... - og siden Lochness er en utrolig bra låt! (tonedøve nisser som ikke kan skjønne såpass! )...

Hør på den gale professor Tankeløs!

Neida, "Loch Ness" er egentlig en bra låt, men refrenget kunne vært bedre, og låta kunne vært noe kortet ned.

Lochness er da absolutt en godkjent låt.

Det forskjell på "utrolig bra" og "godkjent"!

Refrenget er helt forferdelig, og det ødelegger resten av låta. Den kunne vært "godkjent" med annet refreng og streng kutting på lengden.

Jepp! Overlat sjømannsvise-refrengene til Erik Bye. Det var mann som kunne de greiene!

Steve-Peck wrote:Ach, spannend!!! Det høres artig ut. Får bare håpe de klarer å sette sammen noe sprekere enn den noe tamme Angel Of Retribution...

tamme angel of retribution tam? er jo en kanonskive! er 2-3 låter der som er tamme, men resten sparker rævv!! et fantastisk comeback etter den tamme tia med ripper bak mikrofonen

JUDAS PRIEST Talk About The Making Of 'Nostradamus' - May 29, 2006

JUDAS PRIEST have revealed more details about their upcoming first conceptual album, which is based upon the life and predictions of the 16th century French prophet Nostradamus. In a May 24, 2006 appearance on the "Rockline" syndicated radio show, PRIEST frontman Rob Halford and guitarist Glenn Tipton spoke about the songwriting process for the CD and their touring plans, which are expected to include a performance of the entire album from beginning to end at each show on the trek. A couple of excerpts from the "Rockline" appearance follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):

On the songwriting process for "Nostradamus":

Tipton: "We've been considering a concept album for quite a while now, and our manager actually brought up the subject of Nostradamus, which we're all interested in. There's so many moods. The actual album is based upon his life as opposed to his predictions and things like that. It's all about his life, which is really interesting — full of incident and drama. We all felt very strongly there were so many moods there to tackle that it would make a great subject matter for a concept album."

Halford: "It's gonna be great, because, as Glenn was saying, he's [Nostradamus] a very mysterious character. We're gonna convey that kind of atmosphere in the music. Glenn, K.K. [Downing, guitar] and myself have already been writing back in England, and the early roots of 'Nostradamus' — they just sound incredible. We are doing some things differently. It will be a metal/rock opera-type production, so it will be strong. It will be everything you love about PRIEST. We're looking forward to it."

Tipton: "We're well on the way [in the songwriting department]. We've got a large portion of it completed on the writing side. I can safely say it's probably the most unique thing we've done. We've got an abundance of material, and we'll paste it all together and we'll shortly go into the studio and begin putting it all down."

Halford: "It's great. We're stoked. I can hear the songs in my head right now. It's gonna be incredible. The thing about Nostradamus is that, as difficult as it will be [to write a concept album based on his life], and it's a joy to face that challenge, it's a little easier in some sense [than writing a regular album], because you've got your plot. You've got your whole thing there laid out for you — you've got this real living, breathing person, who's now dead. But you've got the whole story of his life. And you just explore that and you try and find a way to kind of bring that about in a musical presentation. So the writing process is still the much the same. The three of us get together in a room, and we're talking about each particular moment in Nostradamus' life and we're trying to fit in the moods and emotions to those particular chapters."

"It's more about his life, because everybody knows him more about his prophecies. He's never really gone out of the news in hundreds and hundreds of years, and there are some that believe in his prophecies and some that don't. His life was a difficult life. He went through a lot of rough times. He was a brilliant doctor of medicine — he partly cured the great plague of Europe, he was able to save thousands of people, but couldn't save his wife and kids, which is tragic. And he was chased all over the country by the Roman Catholic Church. There's a ton of stories that you can really investigate musically."

On touring plans:

Halford: "Well, as ever, when 'Nostradamus' is completed, we're gonna go out and tour with that. It will be kind of unique, because we're intending and hoping that we'll be able to perform the complete 'Nostradamus' piece from front to back, which is something that PRIEST has never done. We were saying earlier today to our friends at VH1 that we're always looking for some new adventures and this will be one of them. So when we do go out with 'Nostradamus', that's what you'll experience — you'll have the whole recording from front to end. So it'll be that, and I dare say after that there'll be some more PRIEST touring covering all of our extensive back catalog of songs."

Tipton: "We wanna go out next time and do a completely different set, 'cause there's so many songs that people want us to play, and obviously there's only so much time we can play on stage. So we've got really a great setlist — potential setlist. We're going back to the real early days to draw songs from there. So we've got a lot of interesting projects ready to go."

Trenger jeg å si at jeg gleder meg noe j****g?

Thefaithlesspriest wrote:Trenger jeg å si at jeg gleder meg noe j****g?

Du er vel ikke akkurat alene!

Æ e reidd!

Angel of Retribution er topp 5 i Priest-sammenheng, noe jeg fikk sånn bakoversveis av etter en del år med utter crap fra den kanten at nå er jeg skikkelig engstelig for at de ikke skal klare å følge opp!!! Fyttejesus! Men klarer de å holde det på Hellrider/Demonizer/Loch Ness-nivå musikalsk (noe som vil kle et Nostradamus-prosjekt) så er vi sikret ei stjerneskive. Tør vi håpe?

Syns Priest skal slutte å prøve å kopiere den kjedelige Painkiller skiva. Likte AOR i starten, men ble fort lei. Føler nesten like liten trang til å høre den som Painkiller nå, dvs at den og støver ned. Hadde vært kult om de kom opp med ei skive på Turbo nivå igjen...

Affen wrote:Syns Priest skal slutte å prøve å kopiere den kjedelige Painkiller skiva. Likte AOR i starten, men ble fort lei. Føler nesten like liten trang til å høre den som Painkiller nå, dvs at den og støver ned. Hadde vært kult om de kom opp med ei skive på Turbo nivå igjen...

Delvis enig, bortsett fra at de burde gått enda lengre bakover i tid. Synes forsåvidt Painkiller har noen bra låter, men bandet har ikke utgitt en helhetlig höydare siden '84...

Jeg fikk ikke helt taket på "Angel of Retribution", men skal gi den en sjanse til. Uansett så må denne høres før den kjøpes.

torjo wrote:

Laraque27 wrote:Men følgjer dei opp Angel of Retribution reint kvalitetsmessig, så har eg trua.

Om de makter å unngå svulstigheter som refrenget i "Loch Ness" kan det bli bra.

Du har helt rett angående refrenget. Pinlig å høre på det, men ellers er det en helt OK sang.

Skjønner egentlig ikke hvordan folk kan være så til de grader positiv til dette! Gjør de et konsept album vil det sannsynligvis være mye i "Lochness" gata, noe jeg egentlig synes er greit. Tekster har derimot aldri vært den sterkeste siden i Priest sammenheng og jeg tror de tar seg vann over hodet her. Blir ikke mye "metal, steel, og leather" av dette.

Breaking the what?!
-Flopp!

Breaking the what?!!
-FLOPP!!

BREAKING THE WHAT?!!
-F-L-O-P-P-

Håper selvfølgelig de greier det, men vi trenger da for guds skyld ikke ENDA en "metal-opera?!"

Optimist og skeptiker på en gang. AoR var knallbra (med unntak av det mange har påpekt; det LATTERLIGE refrenget i ellers meget bra Loch Ness). Når det gjelder tekster har jo heller ikke Priest alltid vært på høyden, men karrieren har rommet både topper og bunner. The Sentinel er fantastisk til sitt bruk, mens Love Bites ikke er det. Beregner sannsynligheten til 75% for at det blir en meget bra plate.

Jaja.......