Good album in a new unchartered territory for Priest. Can't get enough of it and I appreciate reading through all the Nostradamus threads because there is always something new to find in each listen. I don't listen to it very much lately because I want to keep the feeling of it fresh in my memory. I would think people want to talk about Nostradamus a little on their own terms, ask their own questions that the other threads don't ask. It doesn't bother me one bit that there are a dozen or so threads about an album Judas Priest released this year.

My opinion about the character himself, well, I think he's highly overrated. His prophecys concerned nothing but his own time and he would be risking his life over a lot less than what he said, whichever way you look at it because it was standard practice at the time to be groveling and hoping for the good favors of a ruler, catholic, protestant, buddhist or muslim. Every literate person back then walked a fine line if they wanted to have a good life. Nostradamus, in comparison to many, was a very lucky individual who had friends in the right places and who never personally suffered torture. His lifes tragedies in fact are nothing extraordinary and his life is actually not extraordinary at all. 
Judas Priest has succeeded in making interesting something I usually find rather dull. But then, Judas Priest could make a potato interesting just by the sheer power of their awesomeness...

GREAT!!! GREAT!!! BUT WE NEED MORE SONGS AS Painkiller,TO BE GREAT  

BUT THAT DOES NOT LISTEN TO OLD