- heavy metal, british metal, metal, speed metal
- 46 min
- 10 tracks
- Columbia
Painkiller is the twelfth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 17 September 1990 in Europe and on and 18 September in the United States. The album was released following the band's highly publicised 1990 subliminal messages trial earlier that year, in which frontman Rob Halford and the band were cleared of civil charges and found not liable for the attempted suicides of two young men in December 1985 relating to the band's music.
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Character
Grave, spare, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
- Sputnikmusic5/5
- Record Collector4/5 ★
- The Great Rock Discography8/10
- Select3/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- NME3/10
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Tracks
- 1Painkiller6:09
- 2Hell Patrol3:39
- 3All Guns Blazing3:59
- 4Leather Rebel3:37
- 5Metal Meltdown4:51
- 6Night Crawler5:47
- 7Between the Hammer & the Anvil4:52
- 8A Touch of Evil5:47
- 9Battle Hymn0:59
- 10One Shot at Glory6:49
10 tracks, 46 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Judas Priest
- Label
- Columbia
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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