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Halford - Crucible



7.8 | 154 votes |
Release date: 21 June 2002
Style: Heavy metal

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01. Park Manor
02. Crucible
03. One Will
04. Betrayal
05. Handing Out Bullets
06. Hearts Of Darkness
07. Crystal
08. Heretic
09. Golgotha
10. Wrath Of God
11. Weaving Sorrow
12. Sun
13. Trail Of Tears
14. She [Limited edition bonus]
15. Fugitive [Limited edition bonus]
16. Rock The World Forever [Japanese bonus]
17. In The Morning [Japanese bonus]

Additional info
A remastered & remixed version of the album is available from
www.halfordmusic.com and features the songs "She" and "Fugitive" from the limited edition and "Rock The World Forever" and "In The Morning" from the Japanese edition in a slightly different tracklist order.

Staff review by
Pierre Tombale
Rating:
6.6
Taking Heavy Metal into new extremes Halford shows up with his 2002 album 'Crucible' the successor to the major successful Resurrection. With elements of nu-metal, a nightmare of distorted sounds, furious drumming parts and from time to time antihormonic singing or his famous high-pitched screams, Halford takes us right before the gates of hell and beyond. This album is very far away from what we heard on 'Resurrection', yet you can hear some muscial type of allusions to Pantera maybe Slayer and Korn, or maybe nothing of those and let's say it's just another inventive or innovative type of heavy metal. Is it still heavy metal, or may it already be something else?

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published 15.02.2004 | Comments (6)

Guest review by
Bas
Rating:
5.8
Let me throw down the facts on the table at the very beginning of this review. This album is mainly bullshit. It has some great moments, which are really great actually, but 70% of it is crap.

Anyway, despite having already said the most essential I'll dig a bit more into the details. At its core this is mainly a Heavy Metal album, yet?it's kind of strange and quite hard to describe. I think you'll have to listen for yourself if you want to know for sure. Here's my try at explaining what this album is exactly. Next to Heavy Metal which this album mainly is, there are also some traces of more "modern" genres. I might even go so far as to say it sometimes has a Melodic Death Metal sound to it. I mean, seriously, try listening to "Hearts Of Darkness" and telling me that the beginning doesn't sound almost exactly like Amon Amarth! Furthermore, there are a few minor metalcorish elements, some Thrash Metal and maybe even some tiny traces of grunge. You decide if this is something good or bad, for me personally, it isn't.

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published 29.12.2006 | Comments (1)

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02.03.2013 - 13:17
Rating: 8
Aristarchos

Never been a fan of Priest but love this album, probably beause it is darker. Better than any Priest album.
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10.05.2013 - 23:38
Rating: 9
Pierre Tombale

In retrospect I disagree with my old review
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18.07.2013 - 00:16
Rating: 9
Mountain King
K i K o
Amazing album by all means...
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30.07.2016 - 15:16
Rating: 8
musicalkaratekid

Every bit as good as "Resurrection" in my opinion, just in different ways. It's a generally heavier, darker sound at play here and the classic metal influences on Halford's debut are eschewed in favour of a more modernized sound, but the songwriting and Halford's versatile vocal skills are ultimately solid as always. My personal highlights are 'Betrayal' and 'Handing Out Bullets'.
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25.10.2017 - 22:12
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Tage Westerlund
Something is wrong even Rob is metalgod, this is good metal album but I have a feeling something was missing.
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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30.09.2023 - 07:47
Rating: 9
majormalfunction

I was a bit letdown when I bought it 15 years or so ago but after repeated listens I absolutely love this album and think it's a more diverse and exiting record than Resurrection. While often mean and aggressive it also offers some great melodic and emotional moments. It's one of those albums that offer a distinct mood and tone all the way through.

This is the first time I listened to the remixed and remastered version available on spotify. I prefer the tracklist order and mixing on the original version, it's not mastered to death and the flow of the album is better. I however appreciate the added lead guitar licks and there's also some nice synth added at places.
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