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Fair use rationale for Image:Judas priest - painkiller.jpg

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Thrash metal??!!

How is this thrash metal?

It isn't remotely thrash metal. This is what people originally coined as being "power" metal. Power metal was originally like a proto thrash that spanned out from American orientated NWOBHM and featured loads of screamed vocals. When the first thrash groups refined the thrash sound by down toning its scream element and went for a more chuggy hardcore influenced sound it became recognized worldwide with the newer title of "thrash metal", groups such as Manowar & Judas Priest (though British) became the heart to what then became recognised as power metal. Groups such as Helloween, Joe stump's "Speed metal messiah" and Cacophony's "Speed Metal Symphony" were always speed metal and never power metal. Notice how Metallica called their demo power metal and even James Hetfield on Kill 'em all still often screams as does Neil Turbin on Fistful of Metal. Pantera when releasing power metal was a reference to power metal as a genre (though it bordered on being thrash on some songs). Pantera at the time often referred to Judas Priest as one of their main influences. Find one reference from back then of groups like Helloween being power metal and you won't find any as everyone called them speed metal. Judas Priest and groups like Judas Priest (from the 'Ram it down' album. Prior to this they were just heavy metal)Manowar, Armored Saint etc were power metal.

power metal was about being "power!!" and speed metal was about being "fast!!". As power leveled out it was defined by JP style screamed vocals and as speed metal leveled out it tended to go for that Helloween style clean harmonic sound. Metalosaurus (talk) 11:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How is this NOT thrash metal? Do you even know what you are talking about? This sounds just like something Metallica would play. 108.81.33.59 (talk) 03:10, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thrash?

This song sounds just sounds so aggressive, more so than most Priest songs. I think this needs thrash added to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.81.33.59 (talk) 03:09, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Correction needed: ROB HALFORD DOESN'T SING IN FALSETTO!!!

To whoever wrote that part of the article, Rob Halford doesn't sing in falsetto!!! He can reach high pitched notes with his full voice, not using falsetto. This is a common mistake that I read in articles related to him, but I wasn't expecting to read it on Wikipedia. Please, correct the mistake. If I don't see the correction in a week or so, I will correct it myself. That's full voice, not falsetto!

Thanks!Funzi159 (talk) 12:24, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]