Review by Adam M on October 17, 2025.

This is a great introduction to the new era of sound for Priest after their seventies time period.  It shows a classic sound coming to fruition in fine fashion.  There is the feeling that the band has found it’s cuurent time period sound and this is shown in the classic sheen of the songs.  The music is gleaming and has a nice tendency to be heroid and epic sounding.

The musicianship is strong  as with any Priest album and has an epic overarching  quality to it.  There is a great classic sound to the guuitars that makes them prominent.  The sining performances is one of the outfit’s finest and shows itself to be a strong point of the album.  There is very little to dislike in tems of musicianship.

The flaw to the album is that it really doesn’t have the same magic as their early albums in some manners.  It is not quite as memorable as a couple pof their early albums although the classic sound of the album does give it some weight.  This is not as revolutionary as sime of their early albums, but still essential and well performed. 

In conclusion, this is a stellar effot and one of the band;s best.  It is a display iof metal might that is very solid and shows the band executing at their maximu capacity.  There is a very little to dislike abou these heroic anthems as they become ingrained in your brain.

Rating: 8.3 out of 10