Track Listing

1. Heavy Thoughts
2. Turn Around
3. Price Of Love
4. When Love Steals The Night
5. Void To Avoid
6. Deepest Blue
7. Little Wild Child
8. Caviar And Meths
9. Cradle To The Grave
10. Sentenced

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #353973 in Music
• Released on: 2007-01-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

WONDROUS STORIES
"… quite simply superb … brimming throughout with superb brutal Metal"

CHAOS REALM
"Massive study in 70s style hard rock. Awesome."

MORE THAN MUSIC MAGAZINE
"Al proves with this record what a great musician, songwriter and singer he is."

Customer Reviews

Former Priest vocalist/writer keeps his hand in ...
Revisiting former glories can be a dangerous move in the fickle fast-changing world of rock and even more so when you're revisiting a time before the glories cut in.

Yet that's what the ex-vocalist and writer with Judas Priest has done - and to good effect. Birmingham-born Atkins was a paid-up member of the Midlands Music Mafia of the late 60s and 70s - the well-spring for Priest, Sabbath and, well, you know the rest.

But he bailed out in 1973 to handle family matters and his position was swiftly filled with Rob Halford as the band raced to Gull Records to cut 'Rocka Rolla' and then on to that elusive state of glory that Al clearly hankers for.

This album is licensed from Gull so clearly they still have regard for their old mate.

He pays back with some hard-edged material, self-penned in the main but for a very commercial cover of the Everly Brothers' 'Price Of Love' that sounds a litle lost amidst the hard rock/metal unleashed here by Al and his band. Given Atkins wrote the nascent Priest's material, this album echoes those early days - in fact it's got Priest all over it.

Perhaps Al is in a time-warp of his own here but what of it? It's an innocent enough pleasure, he delivers the goods and he's got a good band together with old mate Pete Emmz, Mick Hales and Budgie's Simon Lees.

Al's web site says he has another album - 'Demon Deceiver' - ready for to go. Not a man to give up, and on the strength of this, with no need to.