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Firepower is the eighteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It is the first studio album since 1988's Ram It Down to be produced by Tom Allom and the first one with Andy Sneap as co-producer. The album sold around 49,000 copies in the United States within its first week of release, debuting at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it the band's highest-charting album in the US. Music videos were made for "Lightning Strike", "Spectre" and "No Surrender".

Firepower, and its fourteen tracks which span fifty-eight minutes, is Judas Priest’s finest work since reclaiming their sound on the sonic wrecking ball that was Painkiller. It establishes a familiar riffing ethos immediately with the title track opener, working in leads to accent the rhythmic barrage. This is his best work since the 2002 Halford album Crucible. The Metal God’s enunciation is pristine (you can almost hear the spit spray out of his mouth and onto the mic) and there’s a raging confidence behind his delivery with more gusto than the competent but fairly safe Redeemer of Souls.

Firepower ‎(2xLP, Album, Ltd, Ora + CD, Album, Dlx, Ltd, S/Edi). Columbia, Sony Music. Firepower delivers more good ol', no bull tunes one would expect from 'em. Probably as good as Redeemer of Souls but is made better with the production by the retuning Tom Allom (aided by Andy Sneap). Reply Notify me 1 Helpful.

Judas Priest announced Firepower, their 18th studio album, by releasing a short promo video which features a sample of the titletrack. The album was in the making since 2016, as stated by singer Rob Halford in an interview with loudwire. com: I’ll be there hanging out with Glenn and Richie. You’ll be in a room with some amps and hey guys, have a cup of tea, whatever.

Firepower, the band’s 18th studio LP, bears all the hallmarks of a classic Priest album – aggressive riffs, driving rhythms and Halford’s eardrum-piercing shrieks about evil, voodoo, necromancy and specters – but there’s an urgency to tracks like Lightning Strike and the title track that sounds like a younger band still proving its mettle. The band members’ goal with the album was to make something that sounded both classic and modern and they say that enlisting two producers – Tom Allom, who helmed the band’s Eighties success, and Andy Sneap, who’s worked with younger bands like Arch Enemy and Devil Driver – helped achieve that balance.