Tribute to Judas Priest

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 1997)
• Original Release Date: January 28, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B000005HMN
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,500 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hellion/Electric Eye

2. Rapid Fire

3. Saints in Hell

4. The Ripper

5. Exciter

6. Burnin' Up

7. Love Bites

8. Tyrant

9. Grinder

10. The Ripper

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the best tribute album I have heard in a while, February 27, 2005

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Sam Allen "A zealous individual" (Newburyport Mass.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tribute to Judas Priest (Audio CD)

With one exception, all the songs on this record are worthy covers of another of the great gods of metal: the mighty Judas Priest! Let's take a look. We have everything from black metal to extreme thrash.

1. Helloween-"Hellion/Electric Eye": I have actually heard this in full on one of their fansites, though Andi is not near as good a singer as Rob Halford, he still has a powerful range, and this is a great way to begin.

2. Testament-"Rapid Fire": Chuck can't wail like Halford either (but then again, who can?!) However, this extreme thrash addition to the collection (with death metal growls in place of the falsetto wails) is teriffic, I've actually heard it in full once or twice on Music Choice-Metal.

3. Fate's Warning-"Saints In Hell": The singer of this talented prog-metal band can really scream! One of the best.

4. Mercyful Fate-"The Ripper": This black metal addition to the collection is perfect! King Diamond can wail just as well as Halford, and even with a bit of a gothic ovetone, this is pretty faithful to the original.

5. Strapping Young Lad-"Exciter": Well, whodathunkit? Devin Townsend has a perfect voice to cover this!

6. Doom Squad-"Burning Up": Is that John Bush on vocals? This is not the best, but it still is decent, unlike the next track...

7. Nevermore-"Love Bites": Something is seriously wrong here. I definetely am not in any way denying that Nevermore is awesome. But this cover is about twice as heavy as the original, yet half as fast. Bad.

8. Overkill-"Tyrant": This is not exactly the best on the album, but it certainly beats that awful Nevermore cover. A bit slow though.

9. Kreator-"Grinder": Surprisingly awesome, it's detuned, and the vocals are completely different, but it still works great!

10. Iced Earth-"The Ripper": Don't know why they put the same song on twice (though they are by different artists). Overall, this is pretty good, but of the two versions of this on here, Mercyful Fate's version is better.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good tribute album, November 29, 1999

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"exposurslf2kds" (starkville, ms usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tribute to Judas Priest (Audio CD)

i generally hate tribute albums. at least the form that they have taken in recent years: unsigned or unknown bands putting together a terrible version of a great song for free just to garner some claim to fame. but this one caught my eye when i saw the bands listed-this would certainly be no dwell records garbage tribute-and it lived up to my expectations. i can't help but love fate's take on the ripper and the same goes for almost everysong on here. i could have done without nevermore's love bites, but that has more to do with the fact that i, personally, do not like the song and less to do with the version contained on this disc. i truly hope that century media can continue to get top-shelf talent to appear on their future tributes(although i have heard that there was already trouble with the dio album). i guess that this is a definite must for all priest fans, certainly better than hell-bent for metal. anyway get this it is pretty cheap and well worth the money.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wake the Dead!, June 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Tribute to Judas Priest (Audio CD)

As far as cover albums go, this is great. Testaments version of "Rapid Fire" is unbelievable. For that alone you should buy this album. The other great one is Mercyful Fates' "Ripper" cover. There are a few other decent cover's as well, but if for nothing else, buy it for the thundering version of Rapid Fire.