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MojoThe piano-led 'New Beginnings' is one of several sombre mood pieces on what is the most ambitious work of the band's 40-year career. But fear not, headbangers: 'Revelation,' all chugging rifferama and panto villany, prove that Priest are still mad for it. Metal, that is. [July 2008, p.100]
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Q MagazineThe Brummie veterans' 16th studio album is every bit as gloriously over-the-top and ludicrous as you might imagine. [Aug 2008, p.135]
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The songs themselves are hit or miss, with the emphasis falling on the latter, due mostly to an over-reliance on three-chord, midtempo filler, but as is the case with nearly every Priest offering, when they're on they're dead on.
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Nostradamus isn't likely to surprise you--this is softcore for the hardcore.
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Some of the music is brilliant, some is numbingly indulgent.
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It all makes for a bewildering package, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes middling, and sometimes astonishingly bad, and while a good 45 minutes’ worth of Nostradamus is fully deserving of high praise, on a 100-minute double album, that’s nowhere near enough.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 74 out of 86
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Mixed: 10 out of 86
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Negative: 2 out of 86
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Dec 31, 2016
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Jul 31, 2014
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Jul 12, 2014