Word: armaggeddon
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...second guitar ringing out sustained harmonic notes. It quickly stalls into an off-and-on backbeat and then enters a classic Priest chorus, where Ripper wails the kind of cheesy-yet-appealing lyrics that won Priest fanfare in the 80s: “He’s the man / Armaggeddon / Walking through fire / Metal Messiah!” The song also contains one of the album’s most furious solos, and even a bridge with a Middle Eastern ambiance, as guitars warble like sitars...
...Workin’ it for the pleasure of the people…All the movies coming out for the next month look terrible. Ick. (And for those who think Pearl Harbor will be see-worthy, I make a very bad face at you. I believed the positive buzz around Armaggeddon and came out of it with an excruciating headache and bad-cinematography-induced nausea.) The only thing that’s keeping me going is the possibility for Moulin Rouge to be a creative tour de force…Speaking of Moulin Rouge, the new Nicole Kidman spread in Interview...
...crux of the national service debate centers on universal abhorrence of war. The silent majority allowed minorities and the poor to bear the burden of the Vietnam War. Future Armaggeddon can be forestalled only when Americans, of all classes and races, are forced to face the same risk of sacrifice in military service...
Some pessimists are predicting just such a breakdown in New York. But even if they're wrong, the U.S. has had another little taste of the urban armaggeddon...
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