[J.D. DIAMOND] Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:52:00 PM
Absolutely....I belive K.K. decided to quit the band in late November,and they probably found Faulkner and worked with him through December and waited this long to break the news slowly for the fans. Regardless of what member Hellrider will say ( by the way you rock Hellrider! ) in my mind I can't see the new album topping 8 studio albums:
Sad Wings Of Destiny
Stained Class
Hell Bent For Leather
British Steel
Screaming For Vengeance
Defenders Of The Faith
Painkiller
Angel Of Retribution
The albums in my personal opinion it could top or draw equal to would be:
Rocka Rolla
Sin After Sin
Point Of Entry
Turbo
Ram It Down
Jugulator
Demolition
Nostradamus
This would rate the new album at # 9 out of 17 studio albums.....but thats just speculation,it may be better but I doubt it. I really think K.K. wanted another LP like Nostradamus,not a copy because no 2 Priest albums are the same ect..but in the ball-park of Nostradamus and I think Rob and Glenn tried to talk him out of it and he probably quit. Thats my guess,he was soooooo into "Nostradamus" and was soooo disappointed that us fans(the majority) didn't like it.
I honestly disagree with all this of KK leaving priest, but I think that it's been a long time since all those decisions were made...this never happens from one day through the other, obviously they needed to make it public once they were sure who would replace KK, if it was possible...and of course they needed to decide if it was correct to keep on with the tour, but somehow I have the strange feeling that the farewell tour was probably anounced because KK had already made the decision of leaving the band by that time and they did not want another Ripper era with some other guitar player...
metalgodess wrote:
If it's been confirmed that K.K. is not ill, then it's OK to rant - the press release says "...Richie Faulkner has blended into the band perfectly, blah blah blah..." so exactly how long have they been sitting on this information?
