Gosh.
As an artist, it truly must be a difficult thing to keep coming up with songs that not only satisfy your own tastes and need to evolve, but to satisfy your fans and not disillusion them.
I came into this after Halford's brilliant Resurrection album, one that got him back to his true metal roots, and tore apart the world. Here, Rob and his collaborators have gone down a side track, and tried to do something a little bit different, perhaps to satisfy their own bents.
What gets me about this release is that it seems like history is repeating itself. When he left Priest, and formed Fight, the first album was a corker, the second a piece of mishmash that tried to get too clever and experimental. Then he went into Two, which was just worse.
That is how Crucible sounds to me. They had a winning formula, but just decided to chuck it out the window and go in another direction.
Rating : A very difficult album to like, despite still being a heavy metal record. 2/5.
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