Having spent over half the year with at least one Midnight Priest song stuck in my head at any given moment, it only seems right to pass the joy on to you.

With no duds and subtly brilliant sequencing, Aggressive Hauntings is truly great fun for people who want energetic heavy metal with no ballads or ten-minute epics. The wonderful guitar interplay in the РІР‚СљHoly FleshРІР‚Сњ midsection is the stuff great metal is made of.Р”Р„ggressive Hauntings is the type of album that sneaks up on you in quality and longevity-the twentieth listen is exponentially better than the first. РІР‚СљIron HeartРІР‚Сњ would be a Firepower highlight if Judas Priest played it-and thatРІР‚в„ўs my favorite Priest record since Painkiller. РІР‚СљBlack LeatherРІР‚Сњ is a triumphant closer that has some Visigoth muscle to it, ending the record strong and making a replay nearly inevitable. While other bands sometimes fade songs out for the last 15 seconds, on РІР‚СљFuneralРІР‚Сњ Midnight Priest decide to transition out of the climax of the song with one more guitar solo and end right after it. It also achieved success in the United Kingdom, peaking at No. It was one of only a few songs to get much radio airplay in the United States, thus peaking at No. It was released as the second single on 20 June 1983 from the bands fourth studio album, Piece of Mind (1983). РІР‚СљOn Your Knees for MetalРІР‚Сњ is one of those mandatory songs about how great the genre is, and the music sells it convincingly. 'The Trooper' is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Thankfully Midnight Priest knows their limitations hooks are centered around the actual range of the vocals as to not strain them into places they canРІР‚в„ўt reach. The theatrical vocals arenРІР‚в„ўt at the level of Halford or the King, but theyРІР‚в„ўre a lot of fun nonetheless with an oft-used falsetto and a decent midrange clean. Apart from a wonderfully campy super-spooky haunted house organ intro, this whole record is made of catchy metal tracks that rarely breach the four-minute mark and overstuff themselves with cool riffs in the vein of Judas Priest and classic Mercyful Fate with the focus on their simpler, catchier stuff and standout soaring guitar solos. This year the ground decided to scream РІР‚Сљ Midnight PriestРІР‚Сњ at me-a bit rude, but I canРІР‚в„ўt argue with the results.Р”Р„ggressive Hauntings is the type of record which wants to take the length and punch of Judas PriestРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚СљElectric Eye,РІР‚Сњ Mercyful FateРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚СљGypsy,РІР‚Сњ and Iron MaidenРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚СљPurgatoryРІР‚Сњ and make a whole record of it. I like focus and consistency, so a whole record of quick and quality heavy metal songs is always something I keep an ear to the ground for. Wanting more songs like РІР‚СљProwlerРІР‚Сњ doesnРІР‚в„ўt take away from the greatness of РІР‚СљAlexander the GreatРІР‚Сњ-theyРІР‚в„ўre just doing different things, and itРІР‚в„ўs not a zero-sum game anyhow. While I have a soft spot for the epic and possess the attention span to love a long record if it justifies the quantity with quality (like TyrРІР‚в„ўs Hel), sometimes brevity in heavy metal is refreshing.

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