Painkiller - Judas Priest [HQ]

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Judas Priest - Painkiller
[Lyrics]

Faster than a bullet
Terrifying scream
Enraged and full of anger
He's half man and half machine

Rides the Metal Monster
Breathing smoke and fire
Closing in with vengeance soaring high

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller

Planets devastated
Mankind's on its knees
A saviour comes from out the skies
In answer to their pleas

Through boiling clouds of thunder
Blasting bolts of steel
Evils going under deadly wheels

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller

Faster than a lazer bullet
Louder than an atom bomb
Chromium plated boiling metal
Brighter than a thousand suns

Flying high on rapture
Stronger free and brave
Nevermore encaptured
They've been brought back from the grave

With mankind ressurrected
Forever to survive
Returns from Armageddon to the skies

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller
Wings of steel Painkiller
Deadly wheels Painkiller

He is the painkiller
This is the painkiller (2x)

Pain
Pain
Killer
Killer (2x)

Can't stop the Painkiller
Pain

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• Rob Halford - Vocal
• K. K. Downing - Guitar
• Glenn Tipton - Guitar
• Ian Hill - Bass
• Scott Travis - Drums

[rustykuntz]

Remember kids, this album came out just weeks after the band was in the trial of their lives for the ridiculous accusation of having one of their songs be the cause of 2 teens suicides. They were rightfully acquitted & this masterpiece dropped on us. ALL killer, NO filler album. What a response!

[SuperStrik]

Priest's heaviest, most brutal and best song.

[estacadugan]

All definitions entries about heavy metal at wikipedia should be deleted and include just a link to this song.

[TheKane]

When your children ask you what Heavy Metal is, you play them this song and tell them if they can't handle this they can't handle anything else. This is Metal at it's absolute purest. 

[keenanbartlome]

Now this is good metal. It’s hard as hell, quite complex, and you can actually hear the separate instruments as well as discern the vocals.

[keithcambra]

I was a huge Iron Maiden fan growing up and never got into Judas Priest because I thought of them as competition. Having grown up and matured I can now say without a shadow of a doubt that this might be the greatest heavy metal song ever written.

[michealbithi]

HE
IS
I-BU-PRO-FEN
THIS
IS
I-BU-PRO-FEN

[mitchfandnoahg]

Put this song on and my 2 year old started going nuts running around and throwing things and laughing I was so proud

[edalder]

What makes this song great is that Scott Travis really gave Priest a kick in the ass. He's a great drummer.

[JessSoShutUp]

My step dad was in a priest tribute band, and played Glenn's solos and the other dude did KK'S. They played from Maine to Texas, and it was really fucking awesome for a few years. He practiced this song for fucking hours, everyday until it was on point.

[MrDeadhead]

The Big Four: Look at us. We're making the most thrashing, heaviest music ever!

Judas Priest: Hold my beer.

[thomallom]

Slayer: Reign in Blood
Metallica: Master of Puppets
Priest: That's cute

[lylesargent]

Songs like this never get old or go out of date

[logicalfallacy]

It still blows my mind that this was on fucking NFL Madden 10. That game had an OUTSTANDING heavy metal/rock soundtrack for no good reason.

[tammymayeaux]

2:41 sends goosebumps down my back every time!

[MorbidSatan]

Rob's voice makes this song show it's true power.

[derekmann]

I got into Iron Maiden a couple years ago, which was sort of my "gateway drug", if you will, into heavy metal.



And for a while, if I'm honest, I still didn't really "get into" heavy metal. I don't know why. I wouldn't have called myself a heavy metal fan. I just kind of liked Iron Maiden and maybe a couple Motorhead songs. I think I even tried to get into Priest, but I think I ended up clicking on one of their less-great songs for whatever reason. I forget which. So I wasn't impressed.



And then, one day earlier this year, I saw Painkiller in my recommended. And I thought, meh, might as well check it out.



I was half asleep when I clicked it. As soon as I heard that absolutely insane drumming, I was no longer half asleep.



The guitar riffs, the drumming, Halford's absolutely incredible vocal range. Everything about this song was fucking incredible.



I think that week, I probably listened to it on repeat a few hundred times.



This was the one song that truly got me into heavy metal. Haven't looked back since. \m/

[Antonypancake]

This is the most metal song of alltime!

[snakeywakey]

1:40
"Faster than a lazer bullet
Louder than an atom bomb

Chromium plated boiling metal

Brighter than a thousand suns"
Words cannot describe how great that sounds.

[JazKW]

For some odd reason this always reminded me of Power Rangers