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Alan Atkins does not need introductions, he's a metal legend. In case there is
any clueless I will tell you that this is the first singer who had Judas
Priest. He left the Judas Priest without getting to record any album, just some
model and precisely the result of that first experience with the Judas Priest,
after developing a solo career that began in the late eighties, quite
solid.
Al Atkins has other projects where he plays new songs, projects like
Holy Rage or Atkins / May Project. As for his solo career he has albums with new
songs such as Heavy Thoughts, Dreams of Avalon or Judgment Day. But it also has
another that pulls the legacy of Judas Priest as it is Demon Deceiver or Victim
of Changes. This work also draws on the legacy of Judas Priest basically, those
who know his discography because we appreciate this kind of issues but we have a
little something, but if you do not know Al Atkins you will be pleasantly
surprised.
These issues are very similar to the
Demon Deceiver ,
repeated almost all subjects, just as it does with guests. Kicks off the album
with
Winter, an issue with the stellar participation of Ian Hill on bass,
bassist friend of Atkins and eternal Judas Priest. I highlight the work in the
production with a touch very seventy and dark that clearly benefits the
themes.
Mind Conception is a half-time with a passage of doubled guitars
where he collaborates with his habitual guitarist, Paul May that manages to give
a touch seventy and very of the Judas Priest.
A Void to Avoid is an issue
where Stu Marshall, Tsuyoshi Ikedo, Rob Allen and Paul May
participate. It
sounds intense and gives a rocker touch quite atmospheric and with its original
point.
Just review the best tracks of his solo career, it's like a kind of
compilation but with guests.
Heavy Thoughts is an issue of Al Atkins
belonging to his early days that has a touch very similar to sin after
sin. Atkins always with his grave voice, without having a privileged voice must
be said that always sounded with a lot of personality.
Little does the
version of
Never Satisfied Atkins with Judas Priest, Atkins is much more
rock, it is a subject where it returns to participate Ian Hill safekeeping must
really enjoy doing these topics under study, subjects that Judas Priest does not
usually play live.
Money Talks is an insistent and aggressive theme with
a work very accomplished distortion in the guitars and always manages to sound
with a dark hue.
One of my favorite topics solo career Atkins was
always
Cradle to the Grave , it is the most intense of all the work
topic, but in this case, the production so dirty and seventies, does not benefit
him. Love and War is a theme that presents a guitar work oriented towards the
American Power metal to me reminds me of the early days of Metal
Church.
Victim of Changes is the fetish theme Atkins who collaborated
in the lyrics of this issue in his time with Judas Priest. A different version
of the Priest and with the participation of Ralf Scheepers, a singer who always
dreamed of singing for Judas Priest and the truth is that the subject is left to
ring, also involved Roy Z and Rob Allen.
The last gift of Al Atkins is the
subject
Mind Conception , a Judas Priest demo of 1971, a treat for the
listener. In short, it is always nice to hear from Al Atkins who knows always
surround himself with very good musicians.
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